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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 180 155
Rank change year-on-year +4 -25 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 1,633 2,105 4,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.63% 2.12% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.31% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 1,388 1,976
10th Percentile £39,100 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
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 £70,750 £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 20 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 20 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 +8 1,477 £60,000 -11.11% 267
UK excluding London -20 1,032 £52,500 -4.55% 171
Work from Home -17 600 £60,000 -7.69% 173
London -2 513 £80,000 +10.34% 138
North of England +31 270 £55,000 +10.00% 37
South East -32 270 £55,000 -15.38% 52
Midlands -20 186 £50,000 -9.09% 32
North West +29 173 £55,000 +4.76% 30
South West -12 152 £52,500 +5.00% 25
West Midlands +31 113 £55,000 +10.00% 15
East of England +47 85 £45,000 -14.29% 12
East Midlands -45 73 £50,000 -9.09% 17
Yorkshire +32 67 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Scotland -90 49 £52,500 -16.00% 7
North East -6 30 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Wales -8 19 £50,000 -4.76% 9
Northern Ireland +4 1 £45,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 1,633 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 937 (57.38%) JavaScript
3 804 (49.23%) React
4 642 (39.31%) C#
5 638 (39.07%) .NET
6 555 (33.99%) Azure
7 548 (33.56%) HTML
8 524 (32.09%) CSS
9 501 (30.68%) SQL
10 480 (29.39%) AngularJS
11 477 (29.21%) Agile
12 457 (27.99%) AWS
13 427 (26.15%) Node.js
14 403 (24.68%) TypeScript
15 394 (24.13%) Java
16 393 (24.07%) DevOps
17 372 (22.78%) Vue
18 366 (22.41%) Python
19 314 (19.23%) MVC
20 296 (18.13%) ASP.NET
21 279 (17.09%) Web Development
22 275 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
23 261 (15.98%) jQuery
24 259 (15.86%) User Experience
25 256 (15.68%) Social Skills
26 249 (15.25%) Git
27 246 (15.06%) Web Services
28 243 (14.88%) PHP
28 243 (14.88%) Finance
29 241 (14.76%) 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 65 (3.98%) CMS
2 57 (3.49%) Apache
3 43 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (2.14%) 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%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 32 (1.96%) 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
1 555 (33.99%) Azure
2 457 (27.99%) AWS
3 225 (13.78%) Serverless
4 212 (12.98%) 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 (7.04%) SaaS
10 109 (6.67%) GCP
11 73 (4.47%) GitHub
12 45 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (1.78%) Power Platform
15 27 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (0.98%) Amazon S3
18 16 (0.98%) NuGet
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
1 275 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
2 204 (12.49%) Relational Database
3 202 (12.37%) SQL Server
4 186 (11.39%) NoSQL
5 185 (11.33%) MongoDB
6 171 (10.47%) MySQL
7 135 (8.27%) DB2
8 43 (2.63%) Apache Ignite
9 24 (1.47%) Redis
10 22 (1.35%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (0.80%) Apache Hive
12 13 (0.80%) Big Data
12 13 (0.80%) Power BI
12 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (0.61%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 249 (15.25%) Git
2 98 (6.00%) JIRA
3 65 (3.98%) Visual Studio
4 59 (3.61%) GitLab
5 53 (3.25%) NUnit
6 48 (2.94%) TeamCity
7 42 (2.57%) Jenkins
8 38 (2.33%) Moq
9 36 (2.20%) 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
1 256 (15.68%) Social Skills
2 243 (14.88%) Finance
3 215 (13.17%) Public Sector
4 112 (6.86%) Banking
5 77 (4.72%) Marketing
6 63 (3.86%) Front Office
7 62 (3.80%) Retail
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
13 19 (1.16%) Legal
14 18 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.92%) Advertising
15 15 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.80%) Automotive
16 13 (0.80%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 804 (49.23%) React
2 638 (39.07%) .NET
3 548 (33.56%) HTML
4 524 (32.09%) CSS
5 480 (29.39%) AngularJS
6 427 (26.15%) Node.js
7 372 (22.78%) Vue
8 296 (18.13%) ASP.NET
9 261 (15.98%) jQuery
10 246 (15.06%) Web Services
11 210 (12.86%) REST
12 195 (11.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 192 (11.76%) Laravel
14 166 (10.17%) RESTful
15 153 (9.37%) .NET Framework
16 150 (9.19%) ASP.NET Core
17 132 (8.08%) .NET Core
18 128 (7.84%) Ember.js
19 125 (7.65%) Backbone.js
20 112 (6.86%) Entity Framework
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 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (3.61%) Fixed Income
7 57 (3.49%) Hedge funds
8 54 (3.31%) Mobile App
9 39 (2.39%) Private Cloud
10 36 (2.20%) Legacy Code
11 29 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.59%) Cloud Native
12 26 (1.59%) Equities
13 24 (1.47%) Product Ownership
14 23 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 23 (1.41%) Onboarding
15 19 (1.16%) IoT
16 18 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (0.86%) Blog
17 14 (0.86%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 185 (11.33%) Linux
2 145 (8.88%) Windows
3 130 (7.96%) Android
3 130 (7.96%) 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 1,633 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 477 (29.21%) Agile
3 393 (24.07%) DevOps
4 314 (19.23%) MVC
5 279 (17.09%) Web Development
6 259 (15.86%) User Experience
7 241 (14.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 227 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
9 226 (13.84%) Software Engineering
10 207 (12.68%) Design Patterns
11 203 (12.43%) CI/CD
11 203 (12.43%) OOP
12 189 (11.57%) OO
13 173 (10.59%) SOLID
14 165 (10.10%) Responsive Web Design
15 156 (9.55%) TDD
16 138 (8.45%) Computer Science
17 131 (8.02%) Generative AI
18 128 (7.84%) Scrum
19 125 (7.65%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 937 (57.38%) JavaScript
2 642 (39.31%) C#
3 501 (30.68%) SQL
4 403 (24.68%) TypeScript
5 394 (24.13%) Java
6 366 (22.41%) Python
7 243 (14.88%) PHP
8 69 (4.23%) T-SQL
9 45 (2.76%) 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%) R
17 5 (0.31%) Bash
Qualifications
1 165 (10.10%) Degree
2 101 (6.18%) Security Cleared
3 71 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 71 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 26 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 11 (0.67%) Postgraduate
8 7 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.24%) HND
9 4 (0.24%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.12%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.061%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.061%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 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 (0.24%) 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 (6.49%) 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
1 127 (7.78%) IBM
2 126 (7.72%) Red Hat
3 82 (5.02%) Microsoft
4 63 (3.86%) Google
5 27 (1.65%) Adobe
6 26 (1.59%) Oracle
7 17 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 16 (0.98%) Cognizant
8 16 (0.98%) Sitecore
9 15 (0.92%) 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