Full Stack Software Engineer Jobs

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 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 463 719 627
Rank change year-on-year +256 -92 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Software Engineer 505 260 783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.29% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 163 153 145
10th Percentile £42,750 £52,414 £40,300
25th Percentile £49,375 £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +17.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £115,000 £113,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £135,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +10.00%

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 94,627 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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Software Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full Stack Software Engineer 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
UK excluding London +223 424 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Scotland +132 347 £55,000 +37.50%
England +13 152 £80,000 -3.03% 23
London +62 75 £110,000 +10.00% 17
Work from Home -62 64 £60,000 -27.27% 19
North of England +23 27 £52,500 -32.26% 2
South East +5 23 £60,000 +4.35% 6
North West +2 19 £56,250 -13.46% 1
Midlands -2 14 £60,000 +18.81% 1
West Midlands +16 8 £60,000 +18.81% 1
East of England +2 7 £48,500 -
East Midlands -16 6 £57,500 -
Yorkshire +69 5 £45,000 -41.94% 1
South West -34 4 £50,000 -23.08% 1
North East -4 3 £60,000 -
Wales +7 2 £68,750 +14.58%

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Full Stack Software 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 Full Stack Software Engineer in the job title.

1 505 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 505 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 398 (78.81%) Agile
3 394 (78.02%) Finance
4 338 (66.93%) Java
5 334 (66.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 323 (63.96%) Law
7 314 (62.18%) SDLC
8 293 (58.02%) Artificial Intelligence
9 288 (57.03%) Machine Learning
10 284 (56.24%) Operational Stability
11 283 (56.04%) CI/CD
12 272 (53.86%) React
13 239 (47.33%) SQL
14 222 (43.96%) Spring
15 213 (42.18%) AngularJS
16 195 (38.61%) AWS
17 169 (33.47%) TypeScript
18 151 (29.90%) Risk Management
19 150 (29.70%) JavaScript
20 147 (29.11%) Microservices
21 143 (28.32%) Python
22 138 (27.33%) Algorithms
22 138 (27.33%) Kafka
23 136 (26.93%) Community of Practice
24 133 (26.34%) Legal
25 132 (26.14%) Continuous Improvement
26 129 (25.54%) Decision-Making
27 128 (25.35%) Visualisation
28 122 (24.16%) NoSQL

Full Stack Software 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 55 (10.89%) FileNet
2 46 (9.11%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (8.51%) Apache
4 18 (3.56%) Cloud Foundry
5 16 (3.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Simulink
2 3 (0.59%) Sketch
3 2 (0.40%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.20%) UXPin
4 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 195 (38.61%) AWS
2 75 (14.85%) Azure
3 72 (14.26%) GCP
4 55 (10.89%) Amazon S3
5 26 (5.15%) GitHub
6 18 (3.56%) BlazeMeter
7 11 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.58%) Serverless
10 6 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (0.99%) SaaS
12 3 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.59%) IaaS
13 2 (0.40%) Figma
13 2 (0.40%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.20%) Amazon Cognito
14 1 (0.20%) AWS CodePipeline
14 1 (0.20%) AWS Fargate
14 1 (0.20%) AWS IoT
14 1 (0.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (24.16%) NoSQL
2 76 (15.05%) Elasticsearch
3 56 (11.09%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (10.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 53 (10.50%) MongoDB
6 43 (8.51%) Apache Ignite
7 39 (7.72%) Relational Database
8 17 (3.37%) MySQL
9 16 (3.17%) Apache Hive
10 14 (2.77%) RDBMS
11 13 (2.57%) Big Data
12 6 (1.19%) Redis
12 6 (1.19%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.59%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.59%) HBase
13 3 (0.59%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (14.65%) JUnit
2 41 (8.12%) Cypress.io
3 30 (5.94%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.15%) Git
5 22 (4.36%) Jasmine
6 21 (4.16%) Mockito
7 18 (3.56%) JMeter
8 15 (2.97%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.39%) JIRA
10 5 (0.99%) GitLab
10 5 (0.99%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.59%) Gradle
11 3 (0.59%) Maven
12 2 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.40%) webpack
13 1 (0.20%) Mocha
General
1 394 (78.02%) Finance
2 334 (66.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 323 (63.96%) Law
4 133 (26.34%) Legal
5 116 (22.97%) Marketing
6 113 (22.38%) Banking
7 77 (15.25%) Front Office
8 40 (7.92%) Private Banking
9 28 (5.54%) Investment Banking
10 16 (3.17%) Social Skills
11 14 (2.77%) Aviation
12 13 (2.57%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
14 6 (1.19%) Automotive
14 6 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.99%) Retail
15 5 (0.99%) Retail Finance
16 4 (0.79%) Public Sector
17 2 (0.40%) Aeronautics
17 2 (0.40%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (53.86%) React
2 222 (43.96%) Spring
3 213 (42.18%) AngularJS
4 138 (27.33%) Kafka
5 118 (23.37%) J2EE
6 94 (18.61%) CSS
6 94 (18.61%) HTML
7 93 (18.42%) Node.js
8 92 (18.22%) JMS
9 91 (18.02%) Hibernate
10 87 (17.23%) Spring Boot
11 83 (16.44%) GraphQL
12 64 (12.67%) JSON
13 61 (12.08%) Redux
14 59 (11.68%) Material-UI
14 59 (11.68%) RESTful
15 58 (11.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 55 (10.89%) jQuery
16 55 (10.89%) Spring Integration
16 55 (10.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 138 (27.33%) Algorithms
2 102 (20.20%) Cloud Native
3 59 (11.68%) Fixed Income
4 48 (9.50%) Reference Data
5 43 (8.51%) Hedge funds
6 39 (7.72%) Onboarding
6 39 (7.72%) Public Cloud
7 33 (6.53%) Data Structures
8 26 (5.15%) Equities
9 20 (3.96%) Private Cloud
10 18 (3.56%) Market Risk
11 15 (2.97%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.19%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.79%) CAN bus
14 4 (0.79%) IoT
15 2 (0.40%) Credit Risk
15 2 (0.40%) Educational Technology
16 1 (0.20%) Renewable Energy
16 1 (0.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.19%) Unix
2 4 (0.79%) Linux
3 3 (0.59%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 505 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 398 (78.81%) Agile
3 314 (62.18%) SDLC
4 293 (58.02%) Artificial Intelligence
5 288 (57.03%) Machine Learning
6 284 (56.24%) Operational Stability
7 283 (56.04%) CI/CD
8 151 (29.90%) Risk Management
9 147 (29.11%) Microservices
10 136 (26.93%) Community of Practice
11 132 (26.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (25.54%) Decision-Making
13 128 (25.35%) Visualisation
14 112 (22.18%) Asset Management
15 99 (19.60%) Investment Management
16 62 (12.28%) Computer Science
17 55 (10.89%) AOP
17 55 (10.89%) Document Management
18 47 (9.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 338 (66.93%) Java
2 239 (47.33%) SQL
3 169 (33.47%) TypeScript
4 150 (29.70%) JavaScript
5 143 (28.32%) Python
6 41 (8.12%) C#
7 19 (3.76%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.58%) C++
8 8 (1.58%) PHP
9 4 (0.79%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.59%) Ruby
11 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.40%) Rust
11 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.20%) Bash
12 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (7.72%) Degree
2 18 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (1.58%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.15%) SLA
2 15 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.59%) ISO 13485
4 2 (0.40%) GDPR
4 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.40%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 35 (6.93%) Docker
2 3 (0.59%) HDFS
3 2 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.40%) Firmware
3 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 81 (16.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.98%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 109 (21.58%) Oracle
2 51 (10.10%) Google
3 3 (0.59%) Cloudera
3 3 (0.59%) Databricks
3 3 (0.59%) Dynatrace
3 3 (0.59%) Splunk
4 2 (0.40%) Adobe
4 2 (0.40%) VMware
4 2 (0.40%) YouTube
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft