Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 229 191
Rank change year-on-year -22 -38 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 212 162 331
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.82% 1.38% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.51% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 156 108 180
10th Percentile £47,500 £58,725 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% -8.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 23,928 10,698 17,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.04% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,205 6,931 10,984
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 30 September 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 30 September 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 20 £85,000 +15.25% 12
East London - 6 £43,750 -
West London -12 5 £55,000 -13.39% 2
South London -13 3 - - 3
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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.

1 212 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 87 (41.04%) React
3 79 (37.26%) AWS
4 68 (32.08%) TypeScript
5 60 (28.30%) Azure
5 60 (28.30%) JavaScript
6 59 (27.83%) CI/CD
7 56 (26.42%) Agile
7 56 (26.42%) AI
8 48 (22.64%) Microservices
9 47 (22.17%) Node.js
10 45 (21.23%) Docker
11 44 (20.75%) Python
12 43 (20.28%) .NET
13 41 (19.34%) Microsoft
14 40 (18.87%) C#
15 38 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (17.45%) GitHub
17 36 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (16.98%) Software Engineering
18 35 (16.51%) HTML
19 34 (16.04%) Java
20 33 (15.57%) AngularJS
20 33 (15.57%) CSS
21 28 (13.21%) Git
22 26 (12.26%) REST
22 26 (12.26%) RESTful
23 25 (11.79%) Degree
23 25 (11.79%) GCP
23 25 (11.79%) SQL

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 (1.89%) WordPress
2 3 (1.42%) Confluence
2 3 (1.42%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.26%) AWS
2 60 (28.30%) Azure
3 37 (17.45%) GitHub
4 25 (11.79%) GCP
5 18 (8.49%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (5.66%) GitHub Copilot
6 12 (5.66%) SaaS
7 11 (5.19%) Serverless
8 10 (4.72%) Snowflake
9 9 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.83%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.36%) Azure Event Grid
12 5 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.89%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.89%) DNS
1 4 (1.89%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.96%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.72%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.25%) Redis
5 8 (3.77%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.30%) MySQL
6 7 (3.30%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.47%) Power BI
10 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (13.21%) Git
2 22 (10.38%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.25%) Claude Code
3 9 (4.25%) Vite
4 7 (3.30%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.83%) GitLab
6 4 (1.89%) Maven
6 4 (1.89%) Storybook
7 3 (1.42%) JIRA
7 3 (1.42%) webpack
8 2 (0.94%) JMeter
8 2 (0.94%) JUnit
8 2 (0.94%) Mockito
8 2 (0.94%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.47%) Codeship
9 1 (0.47%) Moq
9 1 (0.47%) NUnit
9 1 (0.47%) Plastic SCM
General
1 44 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.21%) Finance
3 16 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.36%) Legal
5 4 (1.89%) Banking
6 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.42%) Legal Technology
6 3 (1.42%) Tech for Good
7 2 (0.94%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.94%) Front Office
7 2 (0.94%) Retail
8 1 (0.47%) Advertising
8 1 (0.47%) Back Office
8 1 (0.47%) Law
8 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (41.04%) React
2 47 (22.17%) Node.js
3 43 (20.28%) .NET
4 35 (16.51%) HTML
5 33 (15.57%) AngularJS
5 33 (15.57%) CSS
6 26 (12.26%) REST
6 26 (12.26%) RESTful
7 24 (11.32%) Vue
8 23 (10.85%) Next.js
9 22 (10.38%) Spring Boot
10 21 (9.91%) Spring
11 19 (8.96%) NestJS
12 14 (6.60%) Blazor
13 13 (6.13%) Terraform
14 11 (5.19%) Express.js
14 11 (5.19%) GraphQL
15 10 (4.72%) Playwright
15 10 (4.72%) Sass
16 9 (4.25%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.45%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.60%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.77%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.94%) IoT
7 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.94%) NHS
7 2 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.47%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 59 (27.83%) CI/CD
3 56 (26.42%) Agile
3 56 (26.42%) AI
4 48 (22.64%) Microservices
5 38 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (16.98%) Software Engineering
7 24 (11.32%) Computer Science
7 24 (11.32%) DevOps
8 23 (10.85%) Mentoring
9 21 (9.91%) Containerisation
10 18 (8.49%) User Experience
11 17 (8.02%) E-Commerce
12 16 (7.55%) Code Quality
12 16 (7.55%) Customer Experience
13 15 (7.08%) Clean Code
13 15 (7.08%) LLM
13 15 (7.08%) Responsive Web Design
14 14 (6.60%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 68 (32.08%) TypeScript
2 60 (28.30%) JavaScript
3 44 (20.75%) Python
4 40 (18.87%) C#
5 34 (16.04%) Java
6 25 (11.79%) SQL
7 10 (4.72%) Kotlin
8 8 (3.77%) Ruby
9 6 (2.83%) PHP
10 4 (1.89%) C++
10 4 (1.89%) Rust
11 2 (0.94%) Bash
11 2 (0.94%) Go
11 2 (0.94%) Groovy
11 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (11.79%) Degree
2 24 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (8.02%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.60%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.94%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.72%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.36%) WCAG
3 4 (1.89%) QA
4 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (21.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (10.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.89%) Grafana
2 4 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.94%) Ansible
3 2 (0.94%) Argo
3 2 (0.94%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.94%) Kibana
3 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 41 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.66%) Oracle
3 9 (4.25%) OutSystems
3 9 (4.25%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.89%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.89%) Google
5 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.94%) OneLogin
5 2 (0.94%) Splunk
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) NEC
6 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.47%) Salesforce