Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 251 146
Rank change year-on-year +60 -105 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 229 161 489
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 1.25% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.38% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 172 113 409
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,900 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £102,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -8.40%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 17,537 11,698 21,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 90.65% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,755 7,546 16,654
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,322 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.51% -9.51%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in London

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in London

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in London over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in London

Full-Stack Developer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. 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
Central London +33 61 £80,000 +12.28% 8
South London +15 5 £70,000 - 1
West London -18 3 - - 4
Full-Stack Developer
England

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 April 2026, Full-Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 229 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 109 (47.60%) React
3 77 (33.62%) Java
3 77 (33.62%) TypeScript
4 62 (27.07%) AI
5 61 (26.64%) Python
6 60 (26.20%) JavaScript
7 55 (24.02%) AWS
8 49 (21.40%) Node.js
9 47 (20.52%) CI/CD
10 46 (20.09%) Agile
11 41 (17.90%) Security Cleared
11 41 (17.90%) Vue
12 39 (17.03%) Software Engineering
13 38 (16.59%) AngularJS
14 37 (16.16%) Microservices
15 35 (15.28%) DevOps
15 35 (15.28%) SC Cleared
16 34 (14.85%) Docker
17 32 (13.97%) Azure
18 30 (13.10%) .NET
19 29 (12.66%) CSS
20 28 (12.23%) Git
20 28 (12.23%) HTML
21 27 (11.79%) C#
21 27 (11.79%) RESTful
22 26 (11.35%) Next.js
22 26 (11.35%) SaaS
23 25 (10.92%) SQL
24 23 (10.04%) REST

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.62%) Confluence
2 3 (1.31%) Liferay
2 3 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.87%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.31%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (24.02%) AWS
2 32 (13.97%) Azure
3 26 (11.35%) SaaS
4 20 (8.73%) Serverless
5 19 (8.30%) GitHub
6 16 (6.99%) GCP
7 13 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.49%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.62%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (2.62%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.75%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (1.31%) Amazon Cognito
13 3 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.31%) Figma
13 3 (1.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) AMQP
1 2 (0.87%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) DNS
2 1 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.30%) NoSQL
1 19 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.11%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.93%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.49%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.49%) MySQL
5 6 (2.62%) DB2
6 5 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.18%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.18%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.75%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.31%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.87%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.44%) Power BI
10 1 (0.44%) Redis
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (12.23%) Git
2 15 (6.55%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.06%) JIRA
4 6 (2.62%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.62%) Selenium
4 6 (2.62%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.18%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.18%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.75%) webpack
7 3 (1.31%) ESLint
7 3 (1.31%) GitLab
8 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.87%) JMeter
8 2 (0.87%) JUnit
8 2 (0.87%) Mocha
8 2 (0.87%) Mockito
8 2 (0.87%) Storybook
9 1 (0.44%) Maven
9 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (16.16%) Finance
2 35 (15.28%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.04%) Banking
4 15 (6.55%) Investment Banking
5 13 (5.68%) Front Office
6 11 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.37%) Retail
8 9 (3.93%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.31%) Law
10 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Back Office
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (47.60%) React
2 49 (21.40%) Node.js
3 41 (17.90%) Vue
4 38 (16.59%) AngularJS
5 30 (13.10%) .NET
6 29 (12.66%) CSS
7 28 (12.23%) HTML
8 27 (11.79%) RESTful
9 26 (11.35%) Next.js
10 23 (10.04%) REST
11 21 (9.17%) GraphQL
11 21 (9.17%) Spring
12 17 (7.42%) Kafka
12 17 (7.42%) WebSockets
13 16 (6.99%) Laravel
14 15 (6.55%) Spring Boot
15 13 (5.68%) Django
16 9 (3.93%) React Native
16 9 (3.93%) Redux
17 8 (3.49%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.55%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.80%) Fixed Income
4 9 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.62%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.75%) PropTech
8 3 (1.31%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.87%) Animation
9 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.87%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.44%) Equities
10 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.31%) Android
1 3 (1.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 62 (27.07%) AI
3 47 (20.52%) CI/CD
4 46 (20.09%) Agile
5 39 (17.03%) Software Engineering
6 37 (16.16%) Microservices
7 35 (15.28%) DevOps
8 21 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (8.73%) User Experience
10 17 (7.42%) Test Automation
11 16 (6.99%) SDLC
12 15 (6.55%) Containerisation
13 14 (6.11%) Computer Science
13 14 (6.11%) Generative AI
13 14 (6.11%) Scrum
14 13 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (5.68%) Mentoring
15 12 (5.24%) Front End Development
16 11 (4.80%) Decision-Making
16 11 (4.80%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 77 (33.62%) Java
1 77 (33.62%) TypeScript
2 61 (26.64%) Python
3 60 (26.20%) JavaScript
4 27 (11.79%) C#
5 25 (10.92%) SQL
6 17 (7.42%) PHP
7 8 (3.49%) Go
8 4 (1.75%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.87%) RPG
11 1 (0.44%) Bash
11 1 (0.44%) Bicep
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.55%) Degree
4 14 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.31%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.18%) QA
2 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (14.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (9.61%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.49%) Terraform
3 2 (0.87%) Ansible
3 2 (0.87%) Kibana
3 2 (0.87%) Podman
4 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (3.93%) Microsoft
1 9 (3.93%) OpenAI
2 4 (1.75%) Dynatrace
2 4 (1.75%) Google
3 3 (1.31%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.31%) WooCommerce
4 2 (0.87%) Aderant
4 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.87%) IBM
4 2 (0.87%) iManage
4 2 (0.87%) Intapp
4 2 (0.87%) SendGrid
4 2 (0.87%) Splunk
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe
5 1 (0.44%) Databricks
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle