Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer Jobs

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer salary in the UK is £79,569 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 676 875 947
Rank change year-on-year +199 +72 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer 15 27 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.027% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.029% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 11 22 31
10th Percentile £61,250 - £55,000
25th Percentile £61,875 £45,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,569 £57,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.38% -25.81% -
75th Percentile £85,253 £66,563 £86,250
90th Percentile £91,991 £90,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% -25.81% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,967 93,227 95,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,330 66,890 59,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +202 12 £67,500 +17.39% 16
England +154 10 £73,750 +28.26% 33
Work from Home +176 8 £79,569 +38.38% 27
Scotland - 5 £79,569 -
London +106 3 £88,805 +4.48% 24
North of England +79 2 £80,000 +39.13% 7
Yorkshire +71 2 £80,000 +77.78% 1
Midlands +65 2 £63,750 -1.92% 1
South West - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £63,750 -
South East +110 1 £65,000 +8.33% 5

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 15 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 13 (86.67%) React
3 12 (80.00%) Agile
4 11 (73.33%) Kubernetes
4 11 (73.33%) Azure
5 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
5 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (60.00%) DevOps
7 8 (53.33%) C#
7 8 (53.33%) .NET
7 8 (53.33%) Java
7 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
8 7 (46.67%) Microservices
8 7 (46.67%) Go
9 6 (40.00%) AWS
9 6 (40.00%) TDD
9 6 (40.00%) Pair Programming
10 5 (33.33%) Banking
10 5 (33.33%) Spring
10 5 (33.33%) CSS
10 5 (33.33%) HTML
10 5 (33.33%) Finance
10 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (33.33%) BDD
10 5 (33.33%) GCP
10 5 (33.33%) webpack
10 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
10 5 (33.33%) SDLC
10 5 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) GCP
4 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) Azure API Management
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) Supabase
6 1 (6.67%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) webpack
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Banking
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) React
2 8 (53.33%) .NET
3 5 (33.33%) CSS
3 5 (33.33%) HTML
3 5 (33.33%) Redux
3 5 (33.33%) Spring
3 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (26.67%) .NET Core
5 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (13.33%) Blazor
6 2 (13.33%) Flutter
6 2 (13.33%) Next.js
6 2 (13.33%) RESTful
7 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
7 1 (6.67%) Kendo UI
7 1 (6.67%) Middleware
7 1 (6.67%) NestJS
7 1 (6.67%) Node.js
7 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Lidar
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 15 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (80.00%) Agile
3 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (60.00%) DevOps
5 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
6 7 (46.67%) Microservices
7 6 (40.00%) Pair Programming
7 6 (40.00%) TDD
8 5 (33.33%) BDD
8 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (33.33%) Customer Experience
8 5 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (33.33%) SDLC
8 5 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
9 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
10 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
11 2 (13.33%) Application Security
11 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
11 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 8 (53.33%) C#
2 8 (53.33%) Java
3 7 (46.67%) Go
4 4 (26.67%) Python
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Databricks
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Telerik