Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 177 155
Rank change year-on-year -3 -22 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 1,632 2,100 4,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 2.12% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.31% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,302 1,384 1,956
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,029
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer.

Salary trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
England +9 1,476 £60,000 -11.11% 218
UK excluding London -20 1,031 £52,500 -4.55% 129
Work from Home -23 605 £60,000 -7.69% 142
London +9 512 £80,000 +10.34% 96
North of England +36 270 £55,000 +10.00% 35
South East -41 270 £55,000 -12.00% 18
Midlands -14 186 £50,000 -9.09% 29
North West +31 173 £55,000 +4.76% 29
South West -6 150 £52,500 +5.00% 27
West Midlands +34 113 £55,000 +12.82% 15
East of England +53 86 £45,000 -14.29% 9
East Midlands -36 73 £50,000 -9.09% 14
Yorkshire +22 67 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Scotland -85 49 £52,500 -16.00% 8
North East -8 30 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Wales -2 19 £50,000 -2.44% 6
Northern Ireland -5 1 £45,000 -10.89% 1

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Full Stack Developer 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 Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 1,632 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 938 (57.48%) JavaScript
3 803 (49.20%) React
4 640 (39.22%) C#
5 634 (38.85%) .NET
6 552 (33.82%) Azure
7 546 (33.46%) HTML
8 522 (31.99%) CSS
9 502 (30.76%) SQL
10 484 (29.66%) AngularJS
11 468 (28.68%) Agile
12 455 (27.88%) AWS
13 429 (26.29%) Node.js
14 401 (24.57%) TypeScript
15 396 (24.26%) Java
16 390 (23.90%) DevOps
17 372 (22.79%) Vue
18 364 (22.30%) Python
19 310 (19.00%) MVC
20 293 (17.95%) ASP.NET
21 282 (17.28%) Web Development
22 273 (16.73%) PostgreSQL
23 260 (15.93%) User Experience
24 257 (15.75%) jQuery
25 256 (15.69%) Social Skills
26 244 (14.95%) Git
26 244 (14.95%) PHP
26 244 (14.95%) Finance
27 241 (14.77%) Web Services
28 238 (14.58%) Artificial Intelligence

Full Stack Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 61 (3.74%) CMS
2 55 (3.37%) Apache
3 41 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (2.21%) WordPress
5 20 (1.23%) Umbraco
6 18 (1.10%) nginx
7 14 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 13 (0.80%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.80%) Confluence
8 13 (0.80%) IIS
9 12 (0.74%) Tomcat
10 11 (0.67%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.31%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.18%) Orchard CMS
14 2 (0.12%) Ethereum
14 2 (0.12%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.12%) JBoss
14 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 19 (1.16%) Photoshop
2 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 28 (1.72%) SDL Web 8
2 19 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
3 10 (0.61%) Shopify
4 9 (0.55%) Magento
5 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.12%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.12%) nopCommerce
6 2 (0.12%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 552 (33.82%) Azure
2 455 (27.88%) AWS
3 224 (13.73%) Serverless
4 212 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (8.39%) Azure Functions
6 136 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 128 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 126 (7.72%) Azure API Management
8 126 (7.72%) IBM Cloud
9 115 (7.05%) SaaS
10 107 (6.56%) GCP
11 73 (4.47%) GitHub
12 45 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (1.78%) Power Platform
14 26 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (0.98%) Amazon S3
17 16 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.74%) MQTT
2 11 (0.67%) HTTP
3 5 (0.31%) Internet
3 5 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (0.31%) VPN
4 4 (0.25%) DNS
5 2 (0.12%) SSH
5 2 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.061%) Firewall
6 1 (0.061%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (16.73%) PostgreSQL
2 204 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 197 (12.07%) SQL Server
4 187 (11.46%) NoSQL
5 186 (11.40%) MongoDB
6 172 (10.54%) MySQL
7 135 (8.27%) DB2
8 41 (2.51%) Apache Ignite
9 24 (1.47%) Redis
10 22 (1.35%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.80%) Apache Hive
13 13 (0.80%) Big Data
13 13 (0.80%) Power BI
13 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (0.61%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 244 (14.95%) Git
2 94 (5.76%) JIRA
3 65 (3.98%) Visual Studio
4 55 (3.37%) GitLab
5 49 (3.00%) NUnit
6 44 (2.70%) TeamCity
7 42 (2.57%) Jenkins
8 34 (2.08%) Cypress.io
8 34 (2.08%) Moq
9 20 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
10 18 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
11 17 (1.04%) MSTest
11 17 (1.04%) SpecFlow
12 15 (0.92%) git-flow
12 15 (0.92%) Sourcetree
13 14 (0.86%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.86%) JUnit
14 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
15 11 (0.67%) webpack
16 9 (0.55%) Cucumber
General
1 256 (15.69%) Social Skills
2 244 (14.95%) Finance
3 215 (13.17%) Public Sector
4 110 (6.74%) Banking
5 73 (4.47%) Marketing
6 63 (3.86%) Retail
7 61 (3.74%) Front Office
8 40 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
9 38 (2.33%) Games
10 32 (1.96%) Tech for Good
11 31 (1.90%) Law
12 23 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.41%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.16%) Health Technology
14 18 (1.10%) Legal
15 17 (1.04%) Manufacturing
16 16 (0.98%) Advertising
17 15 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.80%) Automotive
18 13 (0.80%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 803 (49.20%) React
2 634 (38.85%) .NET
3 546 (33.46%) HTML
4 522 (31.99%) CSS
5 484 (29.66%) AngularJS
6 429 (26.29%) Node.js
7 372 (22.79%) Vue
8 293 (17.95%) ASP.NET
9 257 (15.75%) jQuery
10 241 (14.77%) Web Services
11 209 (12.81%) REST
12 195 (11.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 192 (11.76%) Laravel
14 162 (9.93%) RESTful
15 150 (9.19%) ASP.NET Core
16 149 (9.13%) .NET Framework
17 132 (8.09%) .NET Core
18 128 (7.84%) Ember.js
19 125 (7.66%) Backbone.js
20 109 (6.68%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.31%) Data Structures
2 144 (8.82%) Algorithms
3 136 (8.33%) Blockchain
4 126 (7.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 100 (6.13%) Greenfield Project
6 57 (3.49%) Fixed Income
7 55 (3.37%) Hedge funds
8 54 (3.31%) Mobile App
9 38 (2.33%) Private Cloud
10 32 (1.96%) Legacy Code
11 28 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.53%) Cloud Native
13 24 (1.47%) Equities
13 24 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 23 (1.41%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.41%) Product Ownership
15 20 (1.23%) IoT
16 18 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (0.86%) Blog
17 14 (0.86%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 185 (11.34%) Linux
2 145 (8.88%) Windows
3 130 (7.97%) Android
3 130 (7.97%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 5 (0.31%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.061%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.061%) Solaris
7 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,632 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 468 (28.68%) Agile
3 390 (23.90%) DevOps
4 310 (19.00%) MVC
5 282 (17.28%) Web Development
6 260 (15.93%) User Experience
7 238 (14.58%) Artificial Intelligence
8 226 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
9 224 (13.73%) Software Engineering
10 207 (12.68%) Design Patterns
11 203 (12.44%) OOP
12 201 (12.32%) CI/CD
13 188 (11.52%) OO
14 172 (10.54%) SOLID
15 161 (9.87%) Responsive Web Design
16 152 (9.31%) TDD
17 135 (8.27%) Computer Science
18 131 (8.03%) Generative AI
19 125 (7.66%) API Management
19 125 (7.66%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 938 (57.48%) JavaScript
2 640 (39.22%) C#
3 502 (30.76%) SQL
4 401 (24.57%) TypeScript
5 396 (24.26%) Java
6 364 (22.30%) Python
7 244 (14.95%) PHP
8 65 (3.98%) T-SQL
9 45 (2.76%) Go
10 26 (1.59%) Ruby
11 20 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 16 (0.98%) XPath
13 15 (0.92%) Delphi
13 15 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.49%) C++
14 8 (0.49%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.43%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.43%) VBA
16 6 (0.37%) Bash
16 6 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 162 (9.93%) Degree
2 99 (6.07%) Security Cleared
3 72 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 70 (4.29%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.67%) Postgraduate
9 7 (0.43%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.25%) HND
10 4 (0.25%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.12%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.061%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.061%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.061%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.06%) QA
2 35 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.80%) GDPR
4 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.18%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.18%) PMO
6 2 (0.12%) HL7
6 2 (0.12%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.061%) SLA
7 1 (0.061%) WAI
System Software
1 184 (11.27%) Docker
2 9 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.31%) Firmware
4 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.18%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.061%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 105 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.55%) Terraform
3 21 (1.29%) Ansible
4 7 (0.43%) Grafana
4 7 (0.43%) Kibana
5 4 (0.25%) Rancher
6 3 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.061%) Consul
7 1 (0.061%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.061%) Kiali
7 1 (0.061%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.061%) Packer
Vendors
1 128 (7.84%) IBM
2 126 (7.72%) Red Hat
3 82 (5.02%) Microsoft
4 61 (3.74%) Google
5 27 (1.65%) Adobe
6 26 (1.59%) Oracle
7 16 (0.98%) OpenAI
7 16 (0.98%) Sitecore
8 15 (0.92%) Cognizant
9 14 (0.86%) WSO2
10 10 (0.61%) SAP
11 9 (0.55%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.55%) Xamarin
12 7 (0.43%) F5
13 6 (0.37%) UiPath
13 6 (0.37%) VMware
14 5 (0.31%) Facebook
14 5 (0.31%) PayPal
14 5 (0.31%) WorldPay
14 5 (0.31%) Zend