Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in London is £76,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 222 162
Rank change year-on-year -36 -60 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 190 183 423
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.83% 1.49% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.63% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 160 130 279
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,750 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £91,563 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £136,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 21,291 11,236 19,431
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.72% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 14,610 7,337 13,796
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,622
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +3 37 £85,000 +17.24% 7
West London -18 5 £55,000 -13.39% 2
South London -7 4 - -
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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.

1 190 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (44.74%) React
3 69 (36.32%) TypeScript
4 63 (33.16%) AWS
5 54 (28.42%) Python
6 53 (27.89%) AI
7 52 (27.37%) JavaScript
8 48 (25.26%) Agile
9 46 (24.21%) .NET
10 44 (23.16%) Azure
10 44 (23.16%) C#
10 44 (23.16%) CI/CD
10 44 (23.16%) Software Engineering
11 42 (22.11%) Node.js
12 38 (20.00%) AngularJS
12 38 (20.00%) Microservices
13 35 (18.42%) Vue
14 33 (17.37%) Docker
15 32 (16.84%) Java
16 27 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (14.21%) Git
16 27 (14.21%) GitHub
17 25 (13.16%) Microsoft
18 24 (12.63%) HTML
18 24 (12.63%) RESTful
18 24 (12.63%) SC Cleared
18 24 (12.63%) Security Cleared
19 23 (12.11%) Mentoring
19 23 (12.11%) Next.js
20 22 (11.58%) CSS

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 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 63 (33.16%) AWS
2 44 (23.16%) Azure
3 27 (14.21%) GitHub
4 22 (11.58%) SaaS
5 19 (10.00%) GCP
6 14 (7.37%) Serverless
7 12 (6.32%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.63%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (1.58%) Supabase
13 3 (1.58%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.11%) DNS
1 4 (2.11%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) Broadband
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 10 (5.26%) MySQL
3 6 (3.16%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.16%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.11%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.58%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.05%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (14.21%) Git
2 13 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.21%) Claude Code
4 5 (2.63%) GitLab
5 4 (2.11%) JIRA
6 3 (1.58%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.58%) Maven
6 3 (1.58%) Vite
6 3 (1.58%) webpack
7 2 (1.05%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.05%) JMeter
7 2 (1.05%) JUnit
7 2 (1.05%) Mockito
8 1 (0.53%) Codeship
8 1 (0.53%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 37 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.32%) Finance
3 12 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.79%) Front Office
5 4 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.58%) Law
6 3 (1.58%) Legal
6 3 (1.58%) Legal Technology
7 2 (1.05%) Advertising
7 2 (1.05%) Banking
7 2 (1.05%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Back Office
8 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (44.74%) React
2 46 (24.21%) .NET
3 42 (22.11%) Node.js
4 38 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 35 (18.42%) Vue
6 24 (12.63%) HTML
6 24 (12.63%) RESTful
7 23 (12.11%) Next.js
8 22 (11.58%) CSS
8 22 (11.58%) GraphQL
9 17 (8.95%) REST
9 17 (8.95%) Spring Boot
10 16 (8.42%) NestJS
10 16 (8.42%) Spring
11 14 (7.37%) Kafka
12 13 (6.84%) Blazor
13 10 (5.26%) Redux
14 9 (4.74%) Django
14 9 (4.74%) JWT
14 9 (4.74%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.11%) PropTech
6 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.05%) IoT
7 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.53%) Equities
8 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 53 (27.89%) AI
3 48 (25.26%) Agile
4 44 (23.16%) CI/CD
4 44 (23.16%) Software Engineering
5 38 (20.00%) Microservices
6 27 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (12.11%) Mentoring
8 22 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (11.05%) DevOps
10 20 (10.53%) Computer Science
11 18 (9.47%) Containerisation
12 17 (8.95%) Decision-Making
13 14 (7.37%) API Design
13 14 (7.37%) Code Quality
13 14 (7.37%) User Experience
14 13 (6.84%) Observability
15 11 (5.79%) Performance Optimisation
16 10 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 10 (5.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 69 (36.32%) TypeScript
2 54 (28.42%) Python
3 52 (27.37%) JavaScript
4 44 (23.16%) C#
5 32 (16.84%) Java
6 17 (8.95%) SQL
7 10 (5.26%) Go
8 4 (2.11%) C++
9 3 (1.58%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.58%) PHP
10 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) Groovy
11 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (12.63%) SC Cleared
1 24 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.58%) Degree
3 20 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.58%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.11%) QA
2 3 (1.58%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.58%) WCAG
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (17.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (8.95%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.84%) Terraform
3 4 (2.11%) Grafana
3 4 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) Argo
4 2 (1.05%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Podman
4 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 25 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.11%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle
4 2 (1.05%) Aderant
4 2 (1.05%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.05%) Google
4 2 (1.05%) iManage
4 2 (1.05%) Intapp
4 2 (1.05%) OneLogin
4 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.05%) Splunk
5 1 (0.53%) Databricks
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce