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 9 August 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 208 171
Rank change year-on-year -48 -37 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 189 186 392
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.80% 1.52% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.65% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 162 130 249
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,250 £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 £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £115,500
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 21,991 11,255 18,536
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 91.68% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,042 7,320 12,900
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.11% -2.74%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -7 31 £85,000 +17.24% 7
West London -26 5 £55,000 -13.39% 3
South London -8 4 - -
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 August 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.

1 189 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 81 (42.86%) React
3 66 (34.92%) AWS
3 66 (34.92%) TypeScript
4 51 (26.98%) JavaScript
5 50 (26.46%) AI
6 47 (24.87%) Agile
6 47 (24.87%) Python
7 46 (24.34%) .NET
8 44 (23.28%) CI/CD
9 43 (22.75%) C#
10 42 (22.22%) Azure
10 42 (22.22%) Software Engineering
11 41 (21.69%) Node.js
12 39 (20.63%) Microservices
13 36 (19.05%) AngularJS
14 32 (16.93%) Docker
14 32 (16.93%) Vue
15 28 (14.81%) Java
16 27 (14.29%) Git
16 27 (14.29%) GitHub
17 26 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (13.76%) Microsoft
18 25 (13.23%) HTML
19 24 (12.70%) RESTful
20 23 (12.17%) CSS
20 23 (12.17%) Degree
20 23 (12.17%) Next.js
21 22 (11.64%) Computer Science
21 22 (11.64%) Computer Science Degree

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 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.92%) AWS
2 42 (22.22%) Azure
3 27 (14.29%) GitHub
4 20 (10.58%) SaaS
5 19 (10.05%) GCP
6 12 (6.35%) Serverless
7 11 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (5.82%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.65%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.65%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (1.59%) Supabase
13 3 (1.59%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.12%) DNS
1 4 (2.12%) HTTP
2 2 (1.06%) Broadband
2 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.29%) MySQL
3 9 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.12%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (14.29%) Git
2 14 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.23%) Claude Code
4 5 (2.65%) GitLab
5 4 (2.12%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.12%) JIRA
6 3 (1.59%) Maven
6 3 (1.59%) Vite
6 3 (1.59%) webpack
7 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.06%) JMeter
7 2 (1.06%) JUnit
7 2 (1.06%) Mockito
8 1 (0.53%) Codeship
8 1 (0.53%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 39 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.29%) Finance
3 16 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.23%) Front Office
5 5 (2.65%) Legal
5 5 (2.65%) Legal Technology
6 3 (1.59%) Banking
6 3 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.59%) Law
6 3 (1.59%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.06%) Advertising
7 2 (1.06%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Back Office
8 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (42.86%) React
2 46 (24.34%) .NET
3 41 (21.69%) Node.js
4 36 (19.05%) AngularJS
5 32 (16.93%) Vue
6 25 (13.23%) HTML
7 24 (12.70%) RESTful
8 23 (12.17%) CSS
8 23 (12.17%) Next.js
9 19 (10.05%) GraphQL
10 17 (8.99%) NestJS
11 16 (8.47%) Spring Boot
12 15 (7.94%) REST
12 15 (7.94%) Spring
13 13 (6.88%) Blazor
14 10 (5.29%) Kafka
15 9 (4.76%) JWT
15 9 (4.76%) OAuth
16 8 (4.23%) Django
16 8 (4.23%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.70%) Fixed Income
2 7 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.65%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.12%) PropTech
5 3 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.06%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.06%) IoT
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.06%) NHS
6 2 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Equities
7 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 50 (26.46%) AI
3 47 (24.87%) Agile
4 44 (23.28%) CI/CD
5 42 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 39 (20.63%) Microservices
7 26 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (11.64%) Computer Science
8 22 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (11.11%) DevOps
10 19 (10.05%) Mentoring
11 18 (9.52%) Containerisation
12 14 (7.41%) API Design
12 14 (7.41%) Code Quality
12 14 (7.41%) Decision-Making
13 13 (6.88%) Observability
13 13 (6.88%) User Experience
14 11 (5.82%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (5.29%) Scrum
15 10 (5.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 66 (34.92%) TypeScript
2 51 (26.98%) JavaScript
3 47 (24.87%) Python
4 43 (22.75%) C#
5 28 (14.81%) Java
6 18 (9.52%) SQL
7 8 (4.23%) Go
8 6 (3.17%) Ruby
9 5 (2.65%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.12%) C++
11 2 (1.06%) PHP
11 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.53%) Bash
12 1 (0.53%) C
12 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (12.17%) Degree
2 22 (11.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.58%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.12%) QA
2 3 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.59%) WCAG
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.35%) Terraform
3 4 (2.12%) Grafana
3 4 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) Argo
4 2 (1.06%) Kibana
4 2 (1.06%) Podman
4 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 26 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.65%) Oracle
3 4 (2.12%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.06%) Aderant
4 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.06%) Google
4 2 (1.06%) iManage
4 2 (1.06%) Intapp
4 2 (1.06%) OneLogin
4 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.06%) OutSystems
4 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.06%) Splunk
5 1 (0.53%) Databricks
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce