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 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 234 196
Rank change year-on-year -22 -38 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 208 154 309
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.80% 1.32% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.45% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 145 101 171
10th Percentile £46,750 £59,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £101,250
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 23,991 10,620 17,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 90.99% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,970 6,919 10,739
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.03% -1.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £119,071
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -1.79% -6.67%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +4 16 £85,000 +13.33% 13
East London - 6 £43,750 -
West London -17 5 £55,000 -13.39% 1
South London -17 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 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.

1 208 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 78 (37.50%) React
3 74 (35.58%) AWS
4 62 (29.81%) TypeScript
5 59 (28.37%) Azure
5 59 (28.37%) JavaScript
6 56 (26.92%) CI/CD
7 53 (25.48%) Agile
8 51 (24.52%) AI
9 47 (22.60%) Node.js
10 45 (21.63%) Microservices
11 42 (20.19%) Docker
11 42 (20.19%) Microsoft
12 40 (19.23%) Python
13 39 (18.75%) .NET
14 38 (18.27%) GitHub
14 38 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (16.83%) C#
17 34 (16.35%) HTML
17 34 (16.35%) Software Engineering
18 32 (15.38%) AngularJS
18 32 (15.38%) CSS
18 32 (15.38%) Java
19 26 (12.50%) GCP
19 26 (12.50%) REST
20 25 (12.02%) Git
21 24 (11.54%) Degree
21 24 (11.54%) SQL
22 23 (11.06%) Computer Science

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 (1.92%) WordPress
2 3 (1.44%) Confluence
2 3 (1.44%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (35.58%) AWS
2 59 (28.37%) Azure
3 38 (18.27%) GitHub
4 26 (12.50%) GCP
5 18 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (6.73%) Snowflake
7 12 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (5.29%) SaaS
9 7 (3.37%) Serverless
10 6 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.92%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.92%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.92%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.44%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) DNS
1 3 (1.44%) HTTP
2 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
1 19 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.81%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.81%) Redis
3 7 (3.37%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.88%) MySQL
5 5 (2.40%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.44%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (12.02%) Git
2 21 (10.10%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.33%) Claude Code
3 9 (4.33%) Vite
4 6 (2.88%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.92%) GitLab
5 4 (1.92%) Maven
5 4 (1.92%) Storybook
6 3 (1.44%) JIRA
6 3 (1.44%) JUnit
6 3 (1.44%) Mockito
6 3 (1.44%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.44%) webpack
7 2 (0.96%) JMeter
7 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.48%) Codeship
8 1 (0.48%) Gradle
8 1 (0.48%) NUnit
8 1 (0.48%) Plastic SCM
General
1 40 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.94%) Finance
3 14 (6.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.40%) Legal
5 4 (1.92%) Banking
5 4 (1.92%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.44%) Legal Technology
6 3 (1.44%) Tech for Good
7 2 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.96%) Front Office
7 2 (0.96%) Law
8 1 (0.48%) Advertising
8 1 (0.48%) Back Office
8 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (37.50%) React
2 47 (22.60%) Node.js
3 39 (18.75%) .NET
4 34 (16.35%) HTML
5 32 (15.38%) AngularJS
5 32 (15.38%) CSS
6 26 (12.50%) REST
7 23 (11.06%) RESTful
8 22 (10.58%) Spring
8 22 (10.58%) Spring Boot
9 20 (9.62%) Next.js
9 20 (9.62%) Vue
10 18 (8.65%) NestJS
11 12 (5.77%) Blazor
12 10 (4.81%) Express.js
12 10 (4.81%) Playwright
12 10 (4.81%) Sass
13 9 (4.33%) Terraform
14 8 (3.85%) GraphQL
14 8 (3.85%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.73%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.40%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.96%) IoT
7 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.96%) NHS
7 2 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.48%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 56 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 53 (25.48%) Agile
4 51 (24.52%) AI
5 45 (21.63%) Microservices
6 38 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (16.35%) Software Engineering
9 23 (11.06%) Computer Science
10 21 (10.10%) Containerisation
10 21 (10.10%) Mentoring
11 20 (9.62%) E-Commerce
12 19 (9.13%) DevOps
13 16 (7.69%) Clean Code
13 16 (7.69%) Customer Experience
14 15 (7.21%) Code Quality
14 15 (7.21%) LLM
14 15 (7.21%) Responsive Web Design
14 15 (7.21%) User Experience
15 13 (6.25%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 62 (29.81%) TypeScript
2 59 (28.37%) JavaScript
3 40 (19.23%) Python
4 35 (16.83%) C#
5 32 (15.38%) Java
6 24 (11.54%) SQL
7 14 (6.73%) Kotlin
8 9 (4.33%) Ruby
9 6 (2.88%) PHP
10 5 (2.40%) Rust
11 4 (1.92%) C++
12 2 (0.96%) Go
12 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.48%) Bash
13 1 (0.48%) Bicep
13 1 (0.48%) C
13 1 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (11.54%) Degree
2 23 (11.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.81%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.37%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.40%) WCAG
3 2 (0.96%) QA
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (20.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.92%) Grafana
3 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.96%) Argo
4 2 (0.96%) Kibana
4 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.48%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.48%) Podman
Vendors
1 42 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.25%) Oracle
3 11 (5.29%) OutSystems
3 11 (5.29%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.92%) Google
5 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
5 2 (0.96%) Splunk
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) NEC
6 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.48%) Salesforce