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 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 259 145
Rank change year-on-year +64 -114 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 212 163 466
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.31% 1.15% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.27% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 150 110 422
10th Percentile £59,500 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £98,750 £94,375
90th Percentile £136,250 £105,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%

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 14,818 12,861 20,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 91.12% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,859 7,652 16,273
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +51 57 £80,000 +23.08% 10
South London +35 9 £70,000 - 2
West London -9 3 - - 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 March 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.

1 212 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 110 (51.89%) React
3 88 (41.51%) Java
4 72 (33.96%) TypeScript
5 68 (32.08%) JavaScript
6 62 (29.25%) Python
7 59 (27.83%) AWS
8 56 (26.42%) AI
9 51 (24.06%) Agile
10 48 (22.64%) CI/CD
11 45 (21.23%) Node.js
12 40 (18.87%) Azure
13 39 (18.40%) Microservices
14 38 (17.92%) Security Cleared
15 37 (17.45%) AngularJS
15 37 (17.45%) Docker
16 35 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (15.09%) DevOps
17 32 (15.09%) HTML
17 32 (15.09%) REST
17 32 (15.09%) Vue
18 31 (14.62%) .NET
19 29 (13.68%) Kubernetes
19 29 (13.68%) Software Engineering
20 28 (13.21%) CSS
20 28 (13.21%) Spring
21 27 (12.74%) Git
22 26 (12.26%) C#
22 26 (12.26%) SQL
23 25 (11.79%) PostgreSQL

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 (2.83%) Confluence
2 3 (1.42%) Liferay
2 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.94%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (27.83%) AWS
2 40 (18.87%) Azure
3 21 (9.91%) GitHub
3 21 (9.91%) Serverless
4 20 (9.43%) GCP
5 18 (8.49%) SaaS
6 15 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (2.83%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (2.36%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.89%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.42%) Figma
12 3 (1.42%) npm
12 3 (1.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.94%) AMQP
2 1 (0.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.79%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.96%) NoSQL
2 19 (8.96%) SQL Server
3 17 (8.02%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.60%) RDBMS
5 8 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.30%) DB2
7 6 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.89%) MySQL
9 3 (1.42%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.94%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.94%) Redis
11 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.47%) Power BI
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (12.74%) Git
2 20 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.77%) JMeter
3 8 (3.77%) JUnit
3 8 (3.77%) Mockito
4 7 (3.30%) Cucumber
4 7 (3.30%) JIRA
4 7 (3.30%) Selenium
4 7 (3.30%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.36%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.36%) webpack
6 3 (1.42%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.42%) ESLint
6 3 (1.42%) Mocha
7 2 (0.94%) Storybook
8 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.47%) GitLab
8 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.47%) Vite
General
1 41 (19.34%) Finance
2 37 (17.45%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.21%) Banking
4 20 (9.43%) Investment Banking
5 17 (8.02%) Front Office
6 15 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.19%) Retail
8 10 (4.72%) Law
9 9 (4.25%) Legal
9 9 (4.25%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Back Office
13 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.47%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (51.89%) React
2 45 (21.23%) Node.js
3 37 (17.45%) AngularJS
4 32 (15.09%) HTML
4 32 (15.09%) REST
4 32 (15.09%) Vue
5 31 (14.62%) .NET
6 28 (13.21%) CSS
6 28 (13.21%) Spring
7 23 (10.85%) Next.js
8 22 (10.38%) WebSockets
9 20 (9.43%) Kafka
9 20 (9.43%) RESTful
10 19 (8.96%) GraphQL
11 16 (7.55%) Spring Boot
12 15 (7.08%) Django
13 11 (5.19%) FastAPI
14 10 (4.72%) Flask
14 10 (4.72%) Laravel
15 9 (4.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.02%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.19%) Fixed Income
5 9 (4.25%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.30%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.30%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.83%) Reference Data
8 5 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.42%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.94%) Animation
10 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.47%) Equities
11 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.42%) Android
1 3 (1.42%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 56 (26.42%) AI
3 51 (24.06%) Agile
4 48 (22.64%) CI/CD
5 39 (18.40%) Microservices
6 35 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (15.09%) DevOps
8 29 (13.68%) Software Engineering
9 25 (11.79%) User Experience
10 20 (9.43%) SDLC
11 18 (8.49%) Test Automation
12 16 (7.55%) Containerisation
12 16 (7.55%) TDD
13 14 (6.60%) BDD
13 14 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (6.13%) Computer Science
14 13 (6.13%) Front End Development
14 13 (6.13%) Machine Learning
14 13 (6.13%) UX Design
15 12 (5.66%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 88 (41.51%) Java
2 72 (33.96%) TypeScript
3 68 (32.08%) JavaScript
4 62 (29.25%) Python
5 26 (12.26%) C#
5 26 (12.26%) SQL
6 15 (7.08%) PHP
7 10 (4.72%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.77%) Go
9 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.94%) RPG
11 1 (0.47%) Bicep
11 1 (0.47%) R
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.79%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.13%) Degree
4 12 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.83%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.36%) QA
3 4 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (17.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (13.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.77%) Kibana
3 6 (2.83%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (4.25%) Microsoft
1 9 (4.25%) OpenAI
2 8 (3.77%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.77%) Splunk
3 4 (1.89%) Google
4 3 (1.42%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.42%) iManage
4 3 (1.42%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.94%) Aderant
5 2 (0.94%) IBM
5 2 (0.94%) Intapp
5 2 (0.94%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat