Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in Wales

Full-Stack Developer
UK > Wales

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in Wales is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 48 73
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 14 32 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.62% 2.51% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 2.57% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 14 23 25
10th Percentile £53,250 - -
25th Percentile - £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £75,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £63,500 £77,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 735 1,243 932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.97% 97.41% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 543 791 735
10th Percentile £25,438 £28,125 £27,920
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -2.62% -7.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in Wales

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in Wales.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in Wales

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in Wales over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in Wales

Full-Stack Developer
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Developer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
South Wales -6 14 £60,000 +26.32% 1
Full-Stack Developer
UK

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, Full-Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (64.29%) Mentoring
2 9 (64.29%) Web Development
3 7 (50.00%) HTML
3 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (42.86%) Git
4 6 (42.86%) Vue
5 5 (35.71%) MySQL
5 5 (35.71%) Sass
5 5 (35.71%) Symfony
6 2 (14.29%) API Development
6 2 (14.29%) Azure
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) CMS
6 2 (14.29%) CRM
6 2 (14.29%) CSS
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 2 (14.29%) REST
6 2 (14.29%) SaaS
6 2 (14.29%) SQL
7 1 (7.14%) Agile
7 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 1 (7.14%) API Integration
7 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
7 1 (7.14%) AWS
7 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
7 1 (7.14%) C
7 1 (7.14%) C#
7 1 (7.14%) C++

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) ColdFusion
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Contentful
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) npm
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) HTML
2 6 (42.86%) Vue
3 5 (35.71%) Sass
3 5 (35.71%) Symfony
4 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 2 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
5 1 (7.14%) CSS3
5 1 (7.14%) Express.js
5 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
5 1 (7.14%) hapi
5 1 (7.14%) HTML5
5 1 (7.14%) Laravel
5 1 (7.14%) NestJS
5 1 (7.14%) Node.js
5 1 (7.14%) OpenLayers
5 1 (7.14%) React
5 1 (7.14%) React Native
5 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Legacy Code
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (64.29%) Mentoring
2 9 (64.29%) Web Development
3 2 (14.29%) API Development
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) CRM
4 1 (7.14%) Agile
4 1 (7.14%) API Integration
4 1 (7.14%) Coaching
4 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.14%) Decarbonisation
4 1 (7.14%) ERP
4 1 (7.14%) Front End Development
4 1 (7.14%) Microservices
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (7.14%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (7.14%) TDD
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) PHP
3 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle