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 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 178 179 156
Rank change year-on-year +1 -23 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 1,635 2,107 4,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 2.12% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.31% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,302 1,390 1,949
10th Percentile £39,325 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £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 94,634 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%

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 19 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 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 +9 1,479 £60,000 -11.11% 258
UK excluding London -20 1,032 £52,500 -4.55% 164
Work from Home -23 604 £60,000 -7.69% 161
London -4 515 £80,000 +10.34% 131
South East -40 271 £55,000 -15.38% 46
North of England +27 270 £55,000 +10.00% 37
Midlands -11 186 £50,000 -9.09% 32
North West +32 173 £55,000 +4.76% 30
South West 0 151 £52,500 +5.00% 25
West Midlands +31 113 £55,000 +10.00% 16
East of England +41 85 £45,000 -14.29% 12
East Midlands -37 73 £50,000 -9.09% 16
Yorkshire +32 67 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Scotland -98 49 £52,500 -16.00% 7
North East -7 30 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Wales -12 19 £50,000 -4.76% 8
Northern Ireland -4 1 £45,000 -10.89% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 1,635 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 941 (57.55%) JavaScript
3 804 (49.17%) React
4 641 (39.20%) C#
5 635 (38.84%) .NET
6 552 (33.76%) Azure
7 548 (33.52%) HTML
8 524 (32.05%) CSS
9 504 (30.83%) SQL
10 485 (29.66%) AngularJS
11 471 (28.81%) Agile
12 456 (27.89%) AWS
13 430 (26.30%) Node.js
14 401 (24.53%) TypeScript
15 397 (24.28%) Java
16 392 (23.98%) DevOps
17 372 (22.75%) Vue
18 364 (22.26%) Python
19 312 (19.08%) MVC
20 295 (18.04%) ASP.NET
21 281 (17.19%) Web Development
22 274 (16.76%) PostgreSQL
23 260 (15.90%) User Experience
24 259 (15.84%) jQuery
25 257 (15.72%) Social Skills
26 247 (15.11%) Git
27 244 (14.92%) Web Services
27 244 (14.92%) PHP
27 244 (14.92%) Finance
28 238 (14.56%) 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 63 (3.85%) CMS
2 55 (3.36%) Apache
3 41 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (2.20%) WordPress
5 20 (1.22%) Umbraco
6 18 (1.10%) nginx
7 15 (0.92%) OpenStack
8 13 (0.80%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.80%) Confluence
8 13 (0.80%) IIS
9 12 (0.73%) Tomcat
10 11 (0.67%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.31%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.18%) JBoss
13 3 (0.18%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
14 2 (0.12%) Ethereum
14 2 (0.12%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 20 (1.22%) Photoshop
2 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 30 (1.83%) SDL Web 8
2 18 (1.10%) 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 (33.76%) Azure
2 456 (27.89%) AWS
3 225 (13.76%) Serverless
4 212 (12.97%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (8.38%) Azure Functions
6 136 (8.32%) Azure Service Bus
7 128 (7.83%) Azure Logic Apps
8 126 (7.71%) Azure API Management
8 126 (7.71%) IBM Cloud
9 115 (7.03%) SaaS
10 107 (6.54%) GCP
11 73 (4.46%) GitHub
12 45 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (1.77%) Power Platform
15 27 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 16 (0.98%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.73%) MQTT
2 11 (0.67%) HTTP
3 5 (0.31%) Internet
3 5 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (0.31%) VPN
4 4 (0.24%) DNS
5 2 (0.12%) SSH
5 2 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.061%) Firewall
6 1 (0.061%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (16.76%) PostgreSQL
2 205 (12.54%) Relational Database
3 199 (12.17%) SQL Server
4 187 (11.44%) NoSQL
5 186 (11.38%) MongoDB
6 172 (10.52%) MySQL
7 135 (8.26%) 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 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (0.61%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 247 (15.11%) Git
2 96 (5.87%) JIRA
3 65 (3.98%) Visual Studio
4 56 (3.43%) GitLab
5 51 (3.12%) NUnit
6 46 (2.81%) TeamCity
7 43 (2.63%) Jenkins
8 36 (2.20%) Moq
9 34 (2.08%) Cypress.io
10 20 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
12 18 (1.10%) SpecFlow
13 17 (1.04%) MSTest
14 16 (0.98%) git-flow
14 16 (0.98%) Sourcetree
15 15 (0.92%) JUnit
16 14 (0.86%) Bitbucket
17 12 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
18 11 (0.67%) webpack
19 9 (0.55%) Cucumber
General
1 257 (15.72%) Social Skills
2 244 (14.92%) Finance
3 215 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 110 (6.73%) Banking
5 75 (4.59%) Marketing
6 62 (3.79%) Retail
7 61 (3.73%) Front Office
8 40 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
9 38 (2.32%) 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
14 18 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 16 (0.98%) Advertising
16 15 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.80%) Automotive
17 13 (0.80%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 804 (49.17%) React
2 635 (38.84%) .NET
3 548 (33.52%) HTML
4 524 (32.05%) CSS
5 485 (29.66%) AngularJS
6 430 (26.30%) Node.js
7 372 (22.75%) Vue
8 295 (18.04%) ASP.NET
9 259 (15.84%) jQuery
10 244 (14.92%) Web Services
11 210 (12.84%) REST
12 195 (11.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 192 (11.74%) Laravel
14 164 (10.03%) RESTful
15 151 (9.24%) .NET Framework
16 150 (9.17%) ASP.NET Core
17 132 (8.07%) .NET Core
18 128 (7.83%) Ember.js
19 125 (7.65%) Backbone.js
20 110 (6.73%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.30%) Data Structures
2 144 (8.81%) Algorithms
3 136 (8.32%) Blockchain
4 126 (7.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 100 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
6 57 (3.49%) Fixed Income
7 55 (3.36%) Hedge funds
8 54 (3.30%) Mobile App
9 38 (2.32%) Private Cloud
10 34 (2.08%) Legacy Code
11 29 (1.77%) 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 (1.22%) IoT
16 18 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (0.86%) Blog
17 14 (0.86%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 185 (11.31%) Linux
2 145 (8.87%) Windows
3 130 (7.95%) Android
3 130 (7.95%) 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 1,635 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 471 (28.81%) Agile
3 392 (23.98%) DevOps
4 312 (19.08%) MVC
5 281 (17.19%) Web Development
6 260 (15.90%) User Experience
7 238 (14.56%) Artificial Intelligence
8 227 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
9 224 (13.70%) Software Engineering
10 207 (12.66%) Design Patterns
11 203 (12.42%) OOP
12 201 (12.29%) CI/CD
13 189 (11.56%) OO
14 173 (10.58%) SOLID
15 163 (9.97%) Responsive Web Design
16 154 (9.42%) TDD
17 137 (8.38%) Computer Science
18 131 (8.01%) Generative AI
19 127 (7.77%) Scrum
20 125 (7.65%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 941 (57.55%) JavaScript
2 641 (39.20%) C#
3 504 (30.83%) SQL
4 401 (24.53%) TypeScript
5 397 (24.28%) Java
6 364 (22.26%) Python
7 244 (14.92%) PHP
8 67 (4.10%) T-SQL
9 45 (2.75%) Go
10 26 (1.59%) Ruby
11 20 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.04%) 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
1 164 (10.03%) Degree
2 100 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 72 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 70 (4.28%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.67%) Postgraduate
9 7 (0.43%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.24%) HND
10 4 (0.24%) 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
1 185 (11.31%) Docker
2 9 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.31%) Firmware
4 4 (0.24%) 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
1 106 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.55%) Terraform
3 22 (1.35%) Ansible
4 7 (0.43%) Grafana
4 7 (0.43%) Kibana
5 4 (0.24%) 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 (7.83%) IBM
2 126 (7.71%) Red Hat
3 82 (5.02%) Microsoft
4 61 (3.73%) Google
5 28 (1.71%) Adobe
6 26 (1.59%) Oracle
7 16 (0.98%) Cognizant
7 16 (0.98%) OpenAI
7 16 (0.98%) Sitecore
8 15 (0.92%) WSO2
9 10 (0.61%) SAP
10 9 (0.55%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.55%) Xamarin
11 7 (0.43%) F5
12 6 (0.37%) UiPath
12 6 (0.37%) VMware
13 5 (0.31%) Facebook
13 5 (0.31%) PayPal
13 5 (0.31%) WorldPay
13 5 (0.31%) Zend