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 2 November 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 217 133
Rank change year-on-year -4 -84 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 164 265 475
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.36% 1.53% 2.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.61% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 103 144 457
10th Percentile £59,250 £53,750 £50,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £122,500 £123,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +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 11,003 16,490 18,677
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 95.08% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,157 10,129 15,268
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.81%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,065 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% -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 2 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 2 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 +19 25 £80,000 +33.33% 5
South London +33 18 - - 5
West London +12 3 £63,500 -11.81% 1
North London - 1 £32,500 - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 164 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 104 (63.41%) JavaScript
3 103 (62.80%) React
4 91 (55.49%) AWS
5 78 (47.56%) Agile
6 74 (45.12%) TypeScript
7 65 (39.63%) HTML
7 65 (39.63%) Python
8 58 (35.37%) Java
9 57 (34.76%) AngularJS
10 55 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (32.32%) CI/CD
12 50 (30.49%) Azure
12 50 (30.49%) CSS
13 49 (29.88%) GraphQL
14 47 (28.66%) REST
15 42 (25.61%) Node.js
16 40 (24.39%) Docker
16 40 (24.39%) Serverless
17 38 (23.17%) SQL
18 37 (22.56%) C#
19 36 (21.95%) Relational Database
20 35 (21.34%) .NET
21 34 (20.73%) GCP
21 34 (20.73%) TDD
22 33 (20.12%) Microservices
23 32 (19.51%) DevOps
24 31 (18.90%) PostgreSQL
24 31 (18.90%) User Experience
25 30 (18.29%) Amazon ECS

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 (4.88%) Headless CMS
2 6 (3.66%) CMS
3 5 (3.05%) Apache
4 3 (1.83%) nginx
5 2 (1.22%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.61%) Confluence
6 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.88%) Shopify
2 1 (0.61%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 91 (55.49%) AWS
2 50 (30.49%) Azure
3 40 (24.39%) Serverless
4 34 (20.73%) GCP
5 30 (18.29%) Amazon ECS
6 28 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (15.24%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (10.37%) GitHub
9 16 (9.76%) Amazon S3
9 16 (9.76%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.49%) Figma
11 9 (5.49%) Vercel
12 8 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (4.88%) Google Analytics
13 7 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (3.05%) npm
15 4 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (2.44%) dbt
15 4 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) Broadband
1 3 (1.83%) MQTT
1 3 (1.83%) SMS
1 3 (1.83%) VPN
2 1 (0.61%) AMQP
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (21.95%) Relational Database
2 31 (18.90%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (17.07%) RDBMS
4 23 (14.02%) NoSQL
4 23 (14.02%) SQL Server
5 14 (8.54%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (7.93%) MongoDB
6 13 (7.93%) MySQL
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.88%) Redis
8 4 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (2.44%) Big Data
8 4 (2.44%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.44%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.22%) DB2
9 2 (1.22%) Power BI
10 1 (0.61%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (17.07%) Git
2 22 (13.41%) Jenkins
3 19 (11.59%) JUnit
3 19 (11.59%) Mockito
4 18 (10.98%) JMeter
5 12 (7.32%) Cypress.io
6 10 (6.10%) JIRA
7 5 (3.05%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.44%) Mocha
8 4 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.44%) webpack
9 3 (1.83%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.22%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.22%) Selenium
10 2 (1.22%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.61%) Maven
11 1 (0.61%) Subversion
11 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.61%) Xcode
General
1 51 (31.10%) Finance
2 45 (27.44%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.63%) Front Office
4 23 (14.02%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.76%) Law
6 15 (9.15%) Banking
7 14 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (7.32%) Investment Banking
9 11 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (5.49%) Legal
11 8 (4.88%) Marketing
12 3 (1.83%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.83%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.83%) Retail
13 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.61%) Back Office
14 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (62.80%) React
2 65 (39.63%) HTML
3 57 (34.76%) AngularJS
4 50 (30.49%) CSS
5 49 (29.88%) GraphQL
6 47 (28.66%) REST
7 42 (25.61%) Node.js
8 35 (21.34%) .NET
9 30 (18.29%) Spring
9 30 (18.29%) Vue
10 28 (17.07%) RESTful
11 26 (15.85%) Web Services
12 23 (14.02%) JSON
13 20 (12.20%) Kafka
14 19 (11.59%) Hibernate
14 19 (11.59%) jQuery
14 19 (11.59%) Spring Boot
15 18 (10.98%) ActiveMQ
15 18 (10.98%) WireMock
15 18 (10.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.76%) Hedge funds
2 16 (9.76%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (7.32%) Fixed Income
4 10 (6.10%) Management Information System
4 10 (6.10%) Reference Data
5 8 (4.88%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.66%) Equities
7 6 (3.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (3.05%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.83%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.83%) Social Media
11 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.61%) N-Tier
12 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.27%) Linux
2 5 (3.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 78 (47.56%) Agile
3 55 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (32.32%) CI/CD
5 34 (20.73%) TDD
6 33 (20.12%) Microservices
7 32 (19.51%) DevOps
8 31 (18.90%) User Experience
9 29 (17.68%) SDLC
10 28 (17.07%) AI
11 27 (16.46%) Test Automation
12 24 (14.63%) Workflow
13 23 (14.02%) Software Engineering
13 23 (14.02%) UX Design
14 21 (12.80%) Analytics
15 18 (10.98%) BDD
15 18 (10.98%) Process Management
16 16 (9.76%) Clean Code
16 16 (9.76%) Computer Science
16 16 (9.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 104 (63.41%) JavaScript
2 74 (45.12%) TypeScript
3 65 (39.63%) Python
4 58 (35.37%) Java
5 38 (23.17%) SQL
6 37 (22.56%) C#
7 19 (11.59%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.27%) Go
9 5 (3.05%) R
10 4 (2.44%) PHP
11 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.61%) Bash
12 1 (0.61%) Groovy
12 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.61%) Perl
12 1 (0.61%) Ruby
12 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.76%) Degree
3 13 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.37%) QA
2 16 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (24.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (18.29%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.98%) Kibana
3 10 (6.10%) Terraform
4 1 (0.61%) Argo
4 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (14.02%) Splunk
2 19 (11.59%) Dynatrace
3 11 (6.71%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.88%) Apple
5 6 (3.66%) Google
6 3 (1.83%) IBM
7 1 (0.61%) Adobe
7 1 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.61%) Databricks
7 1 (0.61%) iManage
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle
7 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.61%) Sybase