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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 253 142
Rank change year-on-year +44 -111 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 221 150 525
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.06% 1.25% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.39% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 176 109 399
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £102,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%

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 19,327 10,788 22,650
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 90.07% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,205 6,862 16,939
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,508 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

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 June 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 June 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 +25 61 £80,000 +12.28% 8
South London +7 5 £70,000 -
West London -23 3 £55,000 -13.39% 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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.

1 221 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 96 (43.44%) React
3 78 (35.29%) TypeScript
4 63 (28.51%) AI
5 56 (25.34%) AWS
5 56 (25.34%) JavaScript
6 55 (24.89%) Python
7 54 (24.43%) Java
8 51 (23.08%) Software Engineering
9 46 (20.81%) .NET
9 46 (20.81%) Agile
10 45 (20.36%) Microservices
11 43 (19.46%) C#
12 42 (19.00%) CI/CD
13 40 (18.10%) Node.js
14 39 (17.65%) Security Cleared
14 39 (17.65%) Vue
15 38 (17.19%) SC Cleared
16 36 (16.29%) AngularJS
16 36 (16.29%) Azure
17 34 (15.38%) DevOps
18 33 (14.93%) Docker
19 32 (14.48%) RESTful
20 31 (14.03%) Git
21 29 (13.12%) CSS
22 28 (12.67%) HTML
22 28 (12.67%) SaaS
23 25 (11.31%) Next.js
24 23 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
25 22 (9.95%) Mentoring

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 4 (1.81%) Confluence
2 3 (1.36%) Liferay
2 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.34%) AWS
2 36 (16.29%) Azure
3 28 (12.67%) SaaS
4 18 (8.14%) Serverless
5 15 (6.79%) GitHub
6 12 (5.43%) GCP
7 11 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (4.07%) GitHub Copilot
9 8 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (2.71%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.26%) Amazon EventBridge
11 5 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.26%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (1.81%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (1.81%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.36%) Amazon Cognito
13 3 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.81%) DNS
1 4 (1.81%) HTTP
2 2 (0.90%) Broadband
2 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.43%) MySQL
2 12 (5.43%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.98%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.07%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.62%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.81%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.36%) DB2
7 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.90%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.45%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (14.03%) Git
2 11 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.71%) JIRA
4 5 (2.26%) Claude Code
5 4 (1.81%) GitLab
6 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.36%) ESLint
6 3 (1.36%) Maven
6 3 (1.36%) Selenium
6 3 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.90%) JMeter
7 2 (0.90%) JUnit
7 2 (0.90%) Mockito
7 2 (0.90%) Storybook
8 1 (0.45%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 39 (17.65%) Finance
2 37 (16.74%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.98%) Front Office
4 10 (4.52%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.07%) Banking
6 4 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.36%) Law
7 3 (1.36%) Retail
8 2 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Advertising
9 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (43.44%) React
2 46 (20.81%) .NET
3 40 (18.10%) Node.js
4 39 (17.65%) Vue
5 36 (16.29%) AngularJS
6 32 (14.48%) RESTful
7 29 (13.12%) CSS
8 28 (12.67%) HTML
9 25 (11.31%) Next.js
10 22 (9.95%) Spring
11 21 (9.50%) GraphQL
11 21 (9.50%) Spring Boot
12 16 (7.24%) REST
13 15 (6.79%) Blazor
14 14 (6.33%) Kafka
15 12 (5.43%) Laravel
16 11 (4.98%) Django
17 10 (4.52%) CSS3
17 10 (4.52%) HTML5
17 10 (4.52%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.22%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.98%) Fixed Income
3 8 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.17%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.81%) PropTech
7 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.90%) Animation
8 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.45%) Equities
9 1 (0.45%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.90%) Android
1 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 63 (28.51%) AI
3 51 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 46 (20.81%) Agile
5 45 (20.36%) Microservices
6 42 (19.00%) CI/CD
7 34 (15.38%) DevOps
8 23 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (9.95%) Mentoring
10 20 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (8.14%) Containerisation
12 17 (7.69%) Scrum
13 16 (7.24%) Decision-Making
13 16 (7.24%) User Experience
14 14 (6.33%) API Design
14 14 (6.33%) Code Quality
14 14 (6.33%) Computer Science
15 13 (5.88%) Performance Optimisation
16 12 (5.43%) Generative AI
16 12 (5.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 78 (35.29%) TypeScript
2 56 (25.34%) JavaScript
3 55 (24.89%) Python
4 54 (24.43%) Java
5 43 (19.46%) C#
6 21 (9.50%) SQL
7 14 (6.33%) PHP
8 9 (4.07%) Go
9 4 (1.81%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.90%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Bash
12 1 (0.45%) Bicep
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 39 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.24%) Degree
4 14 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.71%) QA
2 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (14.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.98%) Terraform
3 4 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.36%) Ansible
5 2 (0.90%) Kibana
5 2 (0.90%) Podman
6 1 (0.45%) Argo
6 1 (0.45%) Grafana
6 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.71%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.81%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.81%) Google
4 3 (1.36%) Oracle
5 2 (0.90%) Aderant
5 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.90%) iManage
5 2 (0.90%) Intapp
5 2 (0.90%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.90%) Splunk
5 2 (0.90%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe
6 1 (0.45%) Databricks
6 1 (0.45%) IBM