Senior Full Stack Engineer Jobs

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £63,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 796 841 534
Rank change year-on-year +45 -307 +219
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer 111 106 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.12% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 94 74 101
10th Percentile £45,000 £64,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.03% +3.13% +10.34%
75th Percentile £85,313 £100,000 £97,500
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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 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 1 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 +32 94 £70,000 -15.15% 45
UK excluding London -3 71 £60,000 -17.24% 17
London +89 39 £82,500 -13.16% 29
Work from Home +39 38 £65,000 -21.21% 26
North of England +50 31 £60,000 -22.58% 3
North West - 21 £60,000 - 3
Wales - 16 £47,500 - 1
South East -7 12 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Yorkshire +54 5 £45,000 -41.94%
South West -30 5 £60,000 -17.24% 1
North East - 5 £65,000 -
East of England 0 4 £70,000 - 5
Midlands -12 2 £66,250 -
East Midlands -17 2 £66,250 -
Northern Ireland +21 1 £47,500 -20.83% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 58 (52.25%) JavaScript
3 52 (46.85%) Software Engineering
4 51 (45.95%) React
5 40 (36.04%) TypeScript
6 37 (33.33%) Agile
7 36 (32.43%) SQL
7 36 (32.43%) Finance
8 32 (28.83%) CSS
9 31 (27.93%) Python
9 31 (27.93%) Java
10 30 (27.03%) AWS
11 25 (22.52%) DevOps
11 25 (22.52%) Azure
12 23 (20.72%) Node.js
13 22 (19.82%) Docker
13 22 (19.82%) HTML
14 21 (18.92%) Microservices
15 20 (18.02%) CI/CD
16 19 (17.12%) C#
16 19 (17.12%) Linux
17 18 (16.22%) Fintech
18 17 (15.32%) Kubernetes
18 17 (15.32%) Kafka
18 17 (15.32%) .NET
18 17 (15.32%) Test Automation
18 17 (15.32%) Continuous Integration
19 16 (14.41%) Design Patterns
20 15 (13.51%) RESTful
20 15 (13.51%) AngularJS

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 (2.70%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.90%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.90%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.03%) AWS
2 25 (22.52%) Azure
3 10 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.31%) SaaS
5 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (4.50%) Serverless
6 4 (3.60%) GCP
7 3 (2.70%) GitHub
7 3 (2.70%) IaaS
8 2 (1.80%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) HTTP
1 3 (2.70%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.21%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.80%) MySQL
4 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.80%) Power BI
5 1 (0.90%) Redis
5 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) GitLab
2 13 (11.71%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.81%) Git
4 5 (4.50%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.60%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.60%) IntelliJ
5 4 (3.60%) JIRA
5 4 (3.60%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.70%) Gradle
6 3 (2.70%) Maven
7 2 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.90%) Jasmine
General
1 36 (32.43%) Finance
2 14 (12.61%) Law
2 14 (12.61%) Retail
2 14 (12.61%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.50%) Games
3 5 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (4.50%) Retail Finance
4 4 (3.60%) Health Technology
4 4 (3.60%) Marketing
4 4 (3.60%) Military
4 4 (3.60%) Tech for Good
5 3 (2.70%) Legal
6 2 (1.80%) Electronics
6 2 (1.80%) Wearables
7 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (45.95%) React
2 32 (28.83%) CSS
3 23 (20.72%) Node.js
4 22 (19.82%) HTML
5 17 (15.32%) .NET
5 17 (15.32%) Kafka
6 15 (13.51%) AngularJS
6 15 (13.51%) RESTful
7 13 (11.71%) Vue
8 11 (9.91%) Django
9 10 (9.01%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (9.01%) Spring
10 8 (7.21%) REST
10 8 (7.21%) Svelte
11 7 (6.31%) Laravel
11 7 (6.31%) Symfony
12 6 (5.41%) Apache Camel
12 6 (5.41%) LAPP Stack
13 5 (4.50%) Lambda Expressions
13 5 (4.50%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.60%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.60%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.60%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.70%) IoT
7 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.80%) NHS
8 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.90%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.90%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.12%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) AIX
2 4 (3.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 52 (46.85%) Software Engineering
3 37 (33.33%) Agile
4 25 (22.52%) DevOps
5 21 (18.92%) Microservices
6 20 (18.02%) CI/CD
7 18 (16.22%) Fintech
8 17 (15.32%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (15.32%) Test Automation
9 16 (14.41%) Design Patterns
10 15 (13.51%) SDLC
11 14 (12.61%) Mentoring
11 14 (12.61%) Wireframes
12 12 (10.81%) Roadmaps
13 11 (9.91%) Integration Testing
14 10 (9.01%) API Development
14 10 (9.01%) Data Modelling
14 10 (9.01%) Line Management
14 10 (9.01%) Refactoring
14 10 (9.01%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 58 (52.25%) JavaScript
2 40 (36.04%) TypeScript
3 36 (32.43%) SQL
4 31 (27.93%) Java
4 31 (27.93%) Python
5 19 (17.12%) C#
6 9 (8.11%) C
6 9 (8.11%) PHP
7 6 (5.41%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.60%) Go
9 3 (2.70%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.80%) C++
10 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (5.41%) DBS Check
2 5 (4.50%) Degree
3 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.80%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.60%) QA
2 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.80%) IEC 62304
3 2 (1.80%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 22 (19.82%) Docker
2 5 (4.50%) Firmware
3 2 (1.80%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (15.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.41%) Terraform
3 3 (2.70%) logstash
4 1 (0.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (5.41%) Oracle
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.70%) Sitecore
3 2 (1.80%) VMware
4 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.90%) SAP