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 16 January 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 254 146
Rank change year-on-year +54 -108 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 181 186 410
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.27% 1.20% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.29% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 119 106 388
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £106,875 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £110,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -3.85%

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 12,999 14,371 17,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.58% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,600 8,291 13,996
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,242
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,125 £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 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -7.26%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +39 44 £80,000 +23.08% 5
South London +40 12 £70,000 - 5
West London +2 3 - - 3
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 January 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.

1 181 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 98 (54.14%) React
3 78 (43.09%) Java
4 64 (35.36%) AWS
5 63 (34.81%) TypeScript
6 61 (33.70%) JavaScript
7 53 (29.28%) Python
8 52 (28.73%) Agile
8 52 (28.73%) AI
8 52 (28.73%) CI/CD
9 43 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (21.55%) REST
11 38 (20.99%) Docker
11 38 (20.99%) HTML
11 38 (20.99%) Microservices
12 36 (19.89%) Azure
13 34 (18.78%) AngularJS
13 34 (18.78%) DevOps
13 34 (18.78%) Node.js
13 34 (18.78%) Spring
14 32 (17.68%) CSS
15 31 (17.13%) Security Cleared
16 30 (16.57%) Kubernetes
16 30 (16.57%) SQL
17 29 (16.02%) User Experience
18 28 (15.47%) PostgreSQL
19 27 (14.92%) Git
20 25 (13.81%) .NET
21 24 (13.26%) Relational Database
22 23 (12.71%) Jenkins

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 6 (3.31%) Confluence
2 3 (1.66%) Liferay
2 3 (1.66%) nginx
3 2 (1.10%) CMS
3 2 (1.10%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.55%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (35.36%) AWS
2 36 (19.89%) Azure
3 23 (12.71%) Serverless
4 22 (12.15%) Amazon EKS
4 22 (12.15%) GitHub
5 16 (8.84%) GCP
6 13 (7.18%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (6.08%) SaaS
8 6 (3.31%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (2.76%) npm
10 4 (2.21%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (2.21%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.66%) Sentry
11 3 (1.66%) Yarn
12 2 (1.10%) Algolia
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) AMQP
1 2 (1.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.47%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (13.26%) Relational Database
3 22 (12.15%) NoSQL
4 21 (11.60%) RDBMS
4 21 (11.60%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.97%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.87%) DB2
8 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.31%) MySQL
9 3 (1.66%) Redis
10 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.10%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.55%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.55%) PostHog
11 1 (0.55%) Power BI
11 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (14.92%) Git
2 23 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.08%) JMeter
3 11 (6.08%) JUnit
3 11 (6.08%) Mockito
4 10 (5.52%) JIRA
5 7 (3.87%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.87%) Selenium
5 7 (3.87%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.31%) webpack
7 5 (2.76%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.21%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.21%) Mocha
9 3 (1.66%) ESLint
10 2 (1.10%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.10%) GitLab
10 2 (1.10%) Storybook
10 2 (1.10%) Vite
11 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 41 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.78%) Finance
3 29 (16.02%) Banking
4 21 (11.60%) Investment Banking
5 15 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.18%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.08%) Front Office
7 11 (6.08%) Law
7 11 (6.08%) Retail
8 10 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.97%) Legal
10 4 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.55%) Back Office
13 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (54.14%) React
2 39 (21.55%) REST
3 38 (20.99%) HTML
4 34 (18.78%) AngularJS
4 34 (18.78%) Node.js
4 34 (18.78%) Spring
5 32 (17.68%) CSS
6 25 (13.81%) .NET
7 22 (12.15%) Vue
8 21 (11.60%) RESTful
9 20 (11.05%) WebSockets
10 18 (9.94%) Spring Boot
11 17 (9.39%) GraphQL
11 17 (9.39%) Next.js
12 16 (8.84%) Django
13 15 (8.29%) Kafka
14 13 (7.18%) JSON
15 12 (6.63%) jQuery
15 12 (6.63%) Web Services
15 12 (6.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.60%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.18%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (5.52%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.52%) Reference Data
5 7 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.31%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.10%) Social Media
9 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.66%) Android
1 3 (1.66%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.10%) Linux
2 2 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 52 (28.73%) Agile
2 52 (28.73%) AI
2 52 (28.73%) CI/CD
3 43 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (20.99%) Microservices
5 34 (18.78%) DevOps
6 29 (16.02%) User Experience
7 23 (12.71%) SDLC
8 21 (11.60%) Test Automation
9 20 (11.05%) TDD
10 17 (9.39%) BDD
10 17 (9.39%) Containerisation
10 17 (9.39%) UX Design
11 14 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (7.73%) Front End Development
11 14 (7.73%) Machine Learning
11 14 (7.73%) Software Engineering
12 13 (7.18%) Code Quality
13 12 (6.63%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 78 (43.09%) Java
2 63 (34.81%) TypeScript
3 61 (33.70%) JavaScript
4 53 (29.28%) Python
5 30 (16.57%) SQL
6 22 (12.15%) C#
7 15 (8.29%) PHP
8 13 (7.18%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.10%) R
9 2 (1.10%) RPG
10 1 (0.55%) Go
10 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.55%) Ruby
10 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.73%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.52%) Degree
4 5 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.08%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.31%) QA
2 6 (3.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (20.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (16.57%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.08%) Kibana
3 7 (3.87%) Terraform
4 1 (0.55%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Argo
4 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (6.08%) Dynatrace
1 11 (6.08%) Splunk
2 7 (3.87%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.76%) Google
3 5 (2.76%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.66%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.66%) WooCommerce
5 2 (1.10%) IBM
5 2 (1.10%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.55%) Adobe
6 1 (0.55%) iManage
6 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.55%) Sybase