Lead Full Stack Developer Jobs

Lead Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Lead Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 822 886 1099
Rank change year-on-year +64 +213 -273
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Full Stack Developer 85 74 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.074% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.081% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 80 69 41
10th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +8.00%

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 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

Lead Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Full Stack Developer in the UK

Lead Full Stack Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Full Stack Developer in the UK

Lead Full Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Full Stack Developer in the UK

Lead Full Stack Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Full Stack Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +71 71 £76,250 +1.67% 19
Work from Home +80 49 £80,000 +6.67% 14
UK excluding London +26 47 £75,000 - 9
London +72 25 £85,000 +5.59% 16
North of England - 17 £87,500 - 1
South West +3 14 £60,000 -
North West - 10 £90,000 -
Midlands +7 9 £67,500 +8.00% 1
West Midlands - 8 £67,500 - 1
South East -13 5 £75,000 - 7
North East - 4 £71,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £75,000 -
East Midlands -13 1 £75,000 +20.00%
Wales - 1 £75,000 -
East of England - 1 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 85 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 52 (61.18%) JavaScript
3 36 (42.35%) React
3 36 (42.35%) AWS
4 34 (40.00%) TypeScript
5 28 (32.94%) Azure
6 26 (30.59%) Laravel
7 24 (28.24%) C#
8 23 (27.06%) .NET
8 23 (27.06%) Agile
8 23 (27.06%) AngularJS
9 20 (23.53%) Node.js
9 20 (23.53%) Vue
10 19 (22.35%) Python
11 18 (21.18%) Java
11 18 (21.18%) SQL
12 16 (18.82%) Mentoring
12 16 (18.82%) Serverless
13 15 (17.65%) Docker
13 15 (17.65%) MySQL
14 14 (16.47%) Fintech
15 13 (15.29%) Code Quality
15 13 (15.29%) HTML
16 12 (14.12%) PHP
16 12 (14.12%) CSS
17 11 (12.94%) Symfony
17 11 (12.94%) Microservices
17 11 (12.94%) DynamoDB
17 11 (12.94%) Redis
17 11 (12.94%) Public Sector

Lead 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 5 (5.88%) WordPress
2 2 (2.35%) Ethereum
2 2 (2.35%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.18%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (2.35%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 36 (42.35%) AWS
2 28 (32.94%) Azure
3 16 (18.82%) Serverless
4 7 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.71%) SaaS
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (3.53%) GitHub
7 1 (1.18%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.18%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) HTTP
1 3 (3.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.65%) MySQL
2 11 (12.94%) DynamoDB
2 11 (12.94%) Redis
3 4 (4.71%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) GitLab
2 4 (4.71%) Git
2 4 (4.71%) MSTest
2 4 (4.71%) NUnit
3 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.53%) Subversion
3 3 (3.53%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.18%) Maven
4 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (12.94%) Public Sector
2 9 (10.59%) Telecoms
3 5 (5.88%) Finance
4 3 (3.53%) Games
5 2 (2.35%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Automotive
6 1 (1.18%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (42.35%) React
2 26 (30.59%) Laravel
3 23 (27.06%) .NET
3 23 (27.06%) AngularJS
4 20 (23.53%) Node.js
4 20 (23.53%) Vue
5 13 (15.29%) HTML
6 12 (14.12%) CSS
7 11 (12.94%) GraphQL
7 11 (12.94%) Symfony
8 9 (10.59%) .NET Core
8 9 (10.59%) Alpine.js
8 9 (10.59%) Tailwind CSS
9 6 (7.06%) Next.js
9 6 (7.06%) Svelte
10 5 (5.88%) Kafka
10 5 (5.88%) RESTful
10 5 (5.88%) Spring
11 4 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (4.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Blog
2 8 (9.41%) Private Cloud
3 6 (7.06%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.71%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.53%) Derivative
5 3 (3.53%) IoT
5 3 (3.53%) Online Games
6 2 (2.35%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 23 (27.06%) Agile
3 16 (18.82%) Mentoring
4 14 (16.47%) Fintech
5 13 (15.29%) Code Quality
6 11 (12.94%) Microservices
7 10 (11.76%) Scrum
8 8 (9.41%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (9.41%) E-Commerce
8 8 (9.41%) Open Source
8 8 (9.41%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (9.41%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.24%) Front End Development
9 7 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (7.06%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (7.06%) Conversational UI
10 6 (7.06%) People Management
10 6 (7.06%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (7.06%) SEO
10 6 (7.06%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (61.18%) JavaScript
2 34 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 24 (28.24%) C#
4 19 (22.35%) Python
5 18 (21.18%) Java
5 18 (21.18%) SQL
6 12 (14.12%) PHP
7 6 (7.06%) Go
7 6 (7.06%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.53%) Ruby
9 2 (2.35%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.88%) Degree
3 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 15 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (1.18%) Ansible
2 1 (1.18%) Kiali
2 1 (1.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft