Senior Full Stack Engineer Jobs

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 807 841 538
Rank change year-on-year +34 -303 +208
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer 115 104 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.12% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 98 72 94
10th Percentile £45,000 £67,500 £45,400
25th Percentile £53,750 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,938 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -17.24% - +7.41%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Full Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Full Stack Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +29 98 £70,000 -15.15% 37
UK excluding London -28 74 £60,000 -17.24% 15
London +42 40 £83,750 -11.84% 24
Work from Home +50 38 £65,000 -21.21% 18
North of England +42 31 £60,000 -22.58% 3
North West - 21 £60,000 - 3
Wales - 16 £47,500 - 1
South East -8 11 £60,000 -7.69% 6
East of England -6 8 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire +55 5 £45,000 -41.94%
South West -31 5 £60,000 -17.24% 1
North East - 5 £65,000 -
Midlands -30 2 £66,250 -
East Midlands -32 2 £66,250 -
Northern Ireland +18 1 £47,500 -20.83% 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Full Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 115 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 58 (50.43%) JavaScript
3 56 (48.70%) Software Engineering
4 52 (45.22%) React
5 43 (37.39%) TypeScript
6 37 (32.17%) Agile
6 37 (32.17%) Finance
7 36 (31.30%) SQL
8 34 (29.57%) Python
9 33 (28.70%) CSS
10 31 (26.96%) Java
10 31 (26.96%) AWS
11 27 (23.48%) Azure
12 26 (22.61%) DevOps
13 23 (20.00%) Node.js
13 23 (20.00%) HTML
14 22 (19.13%) Docker
15 21 (18.26%) Microservices
16 20 (17.39%) Linux
16 20 (17.39%) CI/CD
17 19 (16.52%) C#
18 18 (15.65%) Continuous Integration
18 18 (15.65%) Kubernetes
18 18 (15.65%) Fintech
19 17 (14.78%) Kafka
19 17 (14.78%) Design Patterns
20 16 (13.91%) Test Automation
20 16 (13.91%) .NET
21 15 (13.04%) RESTful
21 15 (13.04%) Retail

Senior 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 3 (2.61%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.87%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.87%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 31 (26.96%) AWS
2 27 (23.48%) Azure
3 11 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.09%) SaaS
5 5 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (4.35%) Serverless
6 4 (3.48%) GCP
7 3 (2.61%) GitHub
7 3 (2.61%) IaaS
8 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) HTTP
1 3 (2.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.96%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.74%) MySQL
4 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.74%) Power BI
5 1 (0.87%) Redis
5 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.17%) GitLab
2 13 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.43%) Git
4 5 (4.35%) Eclipse
4 5 (4.35%) IntelliJ
4 5 (4.35%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (3.48%) JIRA
6 3 (2.61%) Gradle
6 3 (2.61%) Maven
7 2 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.87%) Jasmine
General
1 37 (32.17%) Finance
2 15 (13.04%) Retail
3 14 (12.17%) Law
3 14 (12.17%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Legal
5 5 (4.35%) Games
5 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.35%) Retail Finance
6 4 (3.48%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.48%) Marketing
6 4 (3.48%) Military
6 4 (3.48%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.74%) Electronics
7 2 (1.74%) Wearables
8 1 (0.87%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (45.22%) React
2 33 (28.70%) CSS
3 23 (20.00%) HTML
3 23 (20.00%) Node.js
4 17 (14.78%) Kafka
5 16 (13.91%) .NET
6 15 (13.04%) AngularJS
6 15 (13.04%) RESTful
7 13 (11.30%) Vue
8 11 (9.57%) Django
8 11 (9.57%) Spring
9 10 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (7.83%) REST
11 8 (6.96%) Svelte
12 7 (6.09%) Laravel
12 7 (6.09%) Symfony
13 6 (5.22%) Apache Camel
13 6 (5.22%) LAPP Stack
14 5 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
14 5 (4.35%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.35%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.48%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.48%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.61%) IoT
7 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.74%) NHS
8 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.87%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.87%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.87%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.39%) Linux
2 5 (4.35%) AIX
2 5 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 56 (48.70%) Software Engineering
3 37 (32.17%) Agile
4 26 (22.61%) DevOps
5 21 (18.26%) Microservices
6 20 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 18 (15.65%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (15.65%) Fintech
8 17 (14.78%) Design Patterns
9 16 (13.91%) Test Automation
10 15 (13.04%) Mentoring
11 14 (12.17%) SDLC
11 14 (12.17%) Wireframes
12 13 (11.30%) Roadmaps
13 11 (9.57%) Integration Testing
14 10 (8.70%) API Development
14 10 (8.70%) Data Modelling
14 10 (8.70%) Line Management
14 10 (8.70%) User Experience
15 9 (7.83%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 58 (50.43%) JavaScript
2 43 (37.39%) TypeScript
3 36 (31.30%) SQL
4 34 (29.57%) Python
5 31 (26.96%) Java
6 19 (16.52%) C#
7 9 (7.83%) C
7 9 (7.83%) PHP
8 6 (5.22%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.48%) Go
10 3 (2.61%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.74%) C++
11 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.35%) DBS Check
1 5 (4.35%) Degree
2 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.61%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.74%) GDPR
3 2 (1.74%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.74%) IEC 62304
3 2 (1.74%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 22 (19.13%) Docker
2 5 (4.35%) Firmware
3 2 (1.74%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (15.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.22%) Terraform
3 3 (2.61%) logstash
4 1 (0.87%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (5.22%) Oracle
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.61%) Sitecore
3 2 (1.74%) VMware
4 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.87%) SAP