Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 487 252
Rank change year-on-year +157 -235 +207
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Engineer 861 622 2,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.60% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.65% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 348 332 379
10th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,938 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +3.23% +24.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,351 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.19% +4.56% +25.00%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Full Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
UK excluding London +214 681 £60,000 -8.19% 55
England +63 487 £70,000 -12.50% 148
Scotland +123 352 £65,000 -0.54% 2
London +24 170 £90,000 -2.35% 95
Work from Home -125 137 £62,500 -21.88% 72
North of England +76 100 £60,000 -22.58% 18
Midlands +79 94 £58,500 +11.43% 14
North West +60 87 £60,000 -7.69% 10
East Midlands +61 81 £55,000 - 9
South East +24 78 £60,000 -14.29% 6
South West -39 27 £50,000 -23.08% 8
Wales +9 14 £60,000 - 3
East of England +8 14 £62,500 -9.09% 4
West Midlands +15 13 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Yorkshire +51 7 £45,000 -43.75% 6
North East -4 6 £65,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +9 2 £90,000 +56.52%

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Full Stack 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 Full Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 861 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 563 (65.39%) Software Engineering
3 556 (64.58%) Agile
4 533 (61.90%) React
5 484 (56.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 455 (52.85%) Artificial Intelligence
7 433 (50.29%) Finance
8 421 (48.90%) Java
9 419 (48.66%) SQL
10 397 (46.11%) JavaScript
11 368 (42.74%) SDLC
12 365 (42.39%) AngularJS
13 337 (39.14%) Law
14 319 (37.05%) CI/CD
15 290 (33.68%) Machine Learning
16 284 (32.98%) Operational Stability
17 261 (30.31%) NoSQL
18 258 (29.97%) AWS
18 258 (29.97%) TypeScript
19 257 (29.85%) Algorithms
20 244 (28.34%) CSS
21 239 (27.76%) Spring
22 235 (27.29%) HTML
23 228 (26.48%) Azure
24 223 (25.90%) MongoDB
25 201 (23.34%) Python
26 192 (22.30%) Node.js
27 186 (21.60%) C#
28 182 (21.14%) PostgreSQL
29 181 (21.02%) Mentoring

Full Stack 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:

Application Platforms
1 55 (6.39%) FileNet
2 38 (4.41%) nginx
3 37 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (4.18%) Camunda
5 34 (3.95%) Apache
6 18 (2.09%) Cloud Foundry
7 16 (1.86%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.35%) Confluence
9 2 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Simulink
2 3 (0.35%) Sketch
3 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) UXPin
4 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 258 (29.97%) AWS
2 228 (26.48%) Azure
3 149 (17.31%) IBM Cloud
4 93 (10.80%) GCP
5 55 (6.39%) Amazon S3
6 36 (4.18%) OpenShift
7 29 (3.37%) GitHub
8 24 (2.79%) SaaS
9 20 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.09%) BlazeMeter
11 14 (1.63%) Serverless
12 10 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.35%) DigitalOcean
14 3 (0.35%) Figma
14 3 (0.35%) IaaS
15 2 (0.23%) Amazon Cognito
15 2 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (0.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.70%) MQTT
2 3 (0.35%) HTTP
2 3 (0.35%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (30.31%) NoSQL
2 223 (25.90%) MongoDB
3 182 (21.14%) PostgreSQL
4 113 (13.12%) DB2
5 81 (9.41%) Elasticsearch
6 55 (6.39%) Apache Cassandra
7 47 (5.46%) Relational Database
8 39 (4.53%) Oracle Database
9 37 (4.30%) MySQL
10 34 (3.95%) Apache Ignite
11 18 (2.09%) Redis
12 17 (1.97%) RDBMS
13 16 (1.86%) Apache Hive
14 13 (1.51%) Big Data
15 8 (0.93%) SQL Server
16 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (0.35%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.35%) HBase
17 2 (0.23%) Power BI
18 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 75 (8.71%) JUnit
2 41 (4.76%) Git
3 40 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 37 (4.30%) Cypress.io
5 23 (2.67%) Jasmine
6 22 (2.56%) Mockito
7 18 (2.09%) JMeter
8 16 (1.86%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.86%) GitLab
9 15 (1.74%) JIRA
10 7 (0.81%) Maven
11 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.58%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.46%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.46%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.46%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.35%) Gradle
15 2 (0.23%) Mocha
15 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 484 (56.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 433 (50.29%) Finance
3 337 (39.14%) Law
4 154 (17.89%) Public Sector
5 142 (16.49%) Legal
6 127 (14.75%) Marketing
7 112 (13.01%) Banking
8 70 (8.13%) Front Office
9 58 (6.74%) Social Skills
10 40 (4.65%) Private Banking
11 28 (3.25%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.63%) Aviation
12 14 (1.63%) Retail
13 13 (1.51%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.51%) Health Technology
14 12 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
15 11 (1.28%) Tech for Good
16 7 (0.81%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.70%) Automotive
17 6 (0.70%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (61.90%) React
2 365 (42.39%) AngularJS
3 244 (28.34%) CSS
4 239 (27.76%) Spring
5 235 (27.29%) HTML
6 192 (22.30%) Node.js
7 173 (20.09%) .NET
8 171 (19.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 169 (19.63%) Web Services
10 168 (19.51%) jQuery
11 161 (18.70%) Vue
12 153 (17.77%) REST
13 149 (17.31%) Kafka
14 125 (14.52%) ASP.NET
15 118 (13.70%) J2EE
16 115 (13.36%) Ember.js
17 114 (13.24%) ASP.NET Core
18 113 (13.12%) Backbone.js
19 98 (11.38%) Spring Boot
20 95 (11.03%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 257 (29.85%) Algorithms
2 152 (17.65%) Data Structures
3 149 (17.31%) Blockchain
3 149 (17.31%) e-Learning
3 149 (17.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 118 (13.70%) Cloud Native
5 52 (6.04%) Fixed Income
6 48 (5.57%) Reference Data
7 45 (5.23%) Public Cloud
8 39 (4.53%) Onboarding
9 34 (3.95%) Hedge funds
10 22 (2.56%) Market Risk
10 22 (2.56%) Private Cloud
11 18 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (2.09%) Equities
12 16 (1.86%) Legacy Code
12 16 (1.86%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.63%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.63%) Product Ownership
14 12 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 154 (17.89%) Linux
2 120 (13.94%) Windows
3 115 (13.36%) Android
4 113 (13.12%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.81%) Unix
6 4 (0.46%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 861 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 563 (65.39%) Software Engineering
3 556 (64.58%) Agile
4 455 (52.85%) Artificial Intelligence
5 368 (42.74%) SDLC
6 319 (37.05%) CI/CD
7 290 (33.68%) Machine Learning
8 284 (32.98%) Operational Stability
9 181 (21.02%) Mentoring
10 177 (20.56%) Microservices
11 176 (20.44%) Coaching
12 160 (18.58%) OO
13 155 (18.00%) Risk Management
14 154 (17.89%) Design Patterns
15 139 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 136 (15.80%) Community of Practice
17 134 (15.56%) User Experience
18 130 (15.10%) Visualisation
19 129 (14.98%) Decision-Making
19 129 (14.98%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 421 (48.90%) Java
2 419 (48.66%) SQL
3 397 (46.11%) JavaScript
4 258 (29.97%) TypeScript
5 201 (23.34%) Python
6 186 (21.60%) C#
7 36 (4.18%) Lua
8 34 (3.95%) PHP
9 25 (2.90%) Kotlin
10 21 (2.44%) Go
11 9 (1.05%) C
11 9 (1.05%) C++
12 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.46%) Ruby
15 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.35%) VBA
16 2 (0.23%) Bash
16 2 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (7.08%) Degree
2 33 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (1.63%) Security Cleared
4 8 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.46%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.23%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.12%) OCP
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.02%) SLA
2 19 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.70%) QA
4 3 (0.35%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.23%) GDPR
5 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.23%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 106 (12.31%) Docker
2 5 (0.58%) Firmware
3 3 (0.35%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.28%) Terraform
3 5 (0.58%) Ansible
4 3 (0.35%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 152 (17.65%) Oracle
2 149 (17.31%) IBM
2 149 (17.31%) Red Hat
3 56 (6.50%) Google
4 9 (1.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.46%) ION Trading
5 4 (0.46%) Rackspace
5 4 (0.46%) Zend
6 3 (0.35%) Cloudera
6 3 (0.35%) Databricks
6 3 (0.35%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.35%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.35%) Splunk
6 3 (0.35%) Telerik
7 2 (0.23%) Adobe
7 2 (0.23%) VMware
7 2 (0.23%) YouTube
8 1 (0.12%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.12%) SAP