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 26 November 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 222 133
Rank change year-on-year -4 -89 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 171 250 446
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.31% 1.43% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.51% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 109 141 431
10th Percentile £59,500 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £110,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,833 16,596 17,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 94.64% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,662 10,115 14,384
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,625 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 +20 30 £80,000 +33.33% 10
South London +36 18 - - 1
West London -1 1 - - 3
North London - 1 £32,500 - 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 November 2025, 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.

1 171 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 108 (63.16%) React
3 99 (57.89%) JavaScript
4 86 (50.29%) AWS
5 76 (44.44%) Agile
6 71 (41.52%) TypeScript
7 69 (40.35%) Python
8 68 (39.77%) Java
9 61 (35.67%) HTML
10 56 (32.75%) AngularJS
11 55 (32.16%) CI/CD
12 52 (30.41%) Azure
12 52 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (28.65%) REST
14 46 (26.90%) CSS
15 45 (26.32%) GraphQL
16 41 (23.98%) Node.js
17 40 (23.39%) Docker
17 40 (23.39%) SQL
18 39 (22.81%) Serverless
19 37 (21.64%) Microservices
20 36 (21.05%) C#
21 35 (20.47%) .NET
21 35 (20.47%) DevOps
22 34 (19.88%) Relational Database
22 34 (19.88%) User Experience
23 33 (19.30%) AI
23 33 (19.30%) Spring
24 32 (18.71%) TDD
25 31 (18.13%) Git

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 8 (4.68%) Headless CMS
2 6 (3.51%) CMS
3 4 (2.34%) Apache
3 4 (2.34%) nginx
4 2 (1.17%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Shopify
2 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 86 (50.29%) AWS
2 52 (30.41%) Azure
3 39 (22.81%) Serverless
4 28 (16.37%) Amazon EKS
4 28 (16.37%) GCP
5 27 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (12.28%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (11.70%) GitHub
8 13 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 12 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (5.26%) Figma
10 9 (5.26%) Vercel
11 8 (4.68%) Google Analytics
12 7 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (3.51%) npm
14 4 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.34%) SaaS
15 3 (1.75%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.75%) Broadband
2 2 (1.17%) AMQP
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.88%) Relational Database
2 29 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (16.37%) RDBMS
4 25 (14.62%) NoSQL
5 23 (13.45%) SQL Server
6 13 (7.60%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (4.09%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.51%) MySQL
9 5 (2.92%) Redis
10 4 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.75%) Big Data
11 3 (1.75%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.75%) Power BI
12 2 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.17%) DB2
13 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (18.13%) Git
2 22 (12.87%) Jenkins
3 19 (11.11%) JUnit
3 19 (11.11%) Mockito
4 18 (10.53%) JMeter
5 13 (7.60%) Cypress.io
6 9 (5.26%) JIRA
7 5 (2.92%) Mocha
7 5 (2.92%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.92%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (2.92%) webpack
8 3 (1.75%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.17%) Selenium
9 2 (1.17%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.17%) Vite
10 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
General
1 49 (28.65%) Finance
2 44 (25.73%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.28%) Front Office
4 20 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 19 (11.11%) Banking
6 16 (9.36%) Investment Banking
7 15 (8.77%) Law
8 11 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (5.26%) Legal
10 7 (4.09%) Retail
11 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.75%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.75%) Marketing
12 3 (1.75%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.58%) Back Office
13 1 (0.58%) Publishing
13 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (63.16%) React
2 61 (35.67%) HTML
3 56 (32.75%) AngularJS
4 49 (28.65%) REST
5 46 (26.90%) CSS
6 45 (26.32%) GraphQL
7 41 (23.98%) Node.js
8 35 (20.47%) .NET
9 33 (19.30%) Spring
10 31 (18.13%) Vue
11 26 (15.20%) Web Services
12 25 (14.62%) RESTful
13 22 (12.87%) JSON
14 21 (12.28%) Kafka
15 20 (11.70%) Spring Boot
16 19 (11.11%) Hibernate
16 19 (11.11%) jQuery
17 18 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
17 18 (10.53%) Apache Camel
17 18 (10.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.70%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (9.94%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (7.60%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.85%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.85%) Reference Data
5 9 (5.26%) Fixed Income
6 8 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.75%) Equities
8 3 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.75%) Social Media
9 2 (1.17%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.58%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.92%) Unix
2 4 (2.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 76 (44.44%) Agile
3 55 (32.16%) CI/CD
4 52 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (21.64%) Microservices
6 35 (20.47%) DevOps
7 34 (19.88%) User Experience
8 33 (19.30%) AI
9 32 (18.71%) TDD
10 27 (15.79%) SDLC
11 26 (15.20%) Test Automation
11 26 (15.20%) UX Design
12 23 (13.45%) Workflow
13 20 (11.70%) Software Engineering
14 18 (10.53%) BDD
14 18 (10.53%) Computer Science
14 18 (10.53%) Process Management
15 17 (9.94%) Containerisation
16 16 (9.36%) Clean Code
16 16 (9.36%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 99 (57.89%) JavaScript
2 71 (41.52%) TypeScript
3 69 (40.35%) Python
4 68 (39.77%) Java
5 40 (23.39%) SQL
6 36 (21.05%) C#
7 19 (11.11%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.09%) Go
9 6 (3.51%) PHP
10 3 (1.75%) R
11 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.58%) Bash
12 1 (0.58%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.58%) Perl
12 1 (0.58%) Ruby
12 1 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 21 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.53%) Degree
3 15 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.17%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.94%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.60%) QA
3 4 (2.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (23.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (18.13%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.53%) Kibana
3 10 (5.85%) Terraform
4 1 (0.58%) Argo
4 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (12.87%) Splunk
2 19 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 12 (7.02%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.68%) Apple
5 3 (1.75%) Google
6 2 (1.17%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.58%) Adobe
7 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.58%) Databricks
7 1 (0.58%) iManage
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle
7 1 (0.58%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.58%) Sybase