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 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 242 148
Rank change year-on-year +46 -94 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 232 151 512
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.12% 1.22% 2.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.36% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 182 109 406
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,750 £51,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%

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 19,040 11,104 22,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 90.06% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13,018 7,211 16,647
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +29 63 £80,000 +10.34% 10
South London +15 5 £70,000 -
West London -20 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 232 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 102 (43.97%) React
3 79 (34.05%) TypeScript
4 64 (27.59%) AI
5 61 (26.29%) Java
6 60 (25.86%) JavaScript
7 59 (25.43%) Python
8 56 (24.14%) AWS
9 51 (21.98%) Software Engineering
10 49 (21.12%) Agile
11 46 (19.83%) CI/CD
11 46 (19.83%) Microservices
12 44 (18.97%) Node.js
13 43 (18.53%) .NET
13 43 (18.53%) Security Cleared
14 42 (18.10%) Vue
15 41 (17.67%) C#
16 39 (16.81%) SC Cleared
17 36 (15.52%) DevOps
17 36 (15.52%) Docker
18 35 (15.09%) AngularJS
19 33 (14.22%) Azure
19 33 (14.22%) RESTful
20 32 (13.79%) CSS
20 32 (13.79%) Git
21 31 (13.36%) HTML
22 30 (12.93%) SaaS
23 28 (12.07%) Next.js
24 23 (9.91%) Kubernetes
25 22 (9.48%) GraphQL

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 (2.59%) Confluence
2 3 (1.29%) Liferay
2 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
3 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (24.14%) AWS
2 33 (14.22%) Azure
3 30 (12.93%) SaaS
4 19 (8.19%) Serverless
5 15 (6.47%) GitHub
6 13 (5.60%) GCP
7 12 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.59%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.16%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (1.72%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (1.29%) Amazon Cognito
13 3 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.72%) DNS
1 4 (1.72%) HTTP
2 2 (0.86%) Broadband
2 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.43%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.03%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.60%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.31%) MySQL
5 9 (3.88%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.16%) DB2
8 4 (1.72%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.86%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.43%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.43%) Power BI
11 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.43%) Redis
11 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (13.79%) Git
2 14 (6.03%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.02%) JIRA
4 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.16%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.16%) Selenium
4 5 (2.16%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.72%) GitLab
6 3 (1.29%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.29%) ESLint
6 3 (1.29%) Maven
6 3 (1.29%) webpack
7 2 (0.86%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.86%) JMeter
7 2 (0.86%) JUnit
7 2 (0.86%) Mockito
7 2 (0.86%) Storybook
8 1 (0.43%) Mocha
8 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (15.95%) Finance
2 36 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 12 (5.17%) Banking
4 11 (4.74%) Front Office
5 10 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.59%) Retail
7 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.29%) Law
8 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.86%) Legal
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (43.97%) React
2 44 (18.97%) Node.js
3 43 (18.53%) .NET
4 42 (18.10%) Vue
5 35 (15.09%) AngularJS
6 33 (14.22%) RESTful
7 32 (13.79%) CSS
8 31 (13.36%) HTML
9 28 (12.07%) Next.js
10 22 (9.48%) GraphQL
10 22 (9.48%) Spring
11 19 (8.19%) Spring Boot
12 16 (6.90%) Kafka
12 16 (6.90%) REST
13 15 (6.47%) Blazor
13 15 (6.47%) Laravel
14 14 (6.03%) Django
15 11 (4.74%) CSS3
15 11 (4.74%) HTML5
16 10 (4.31%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.60%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.74%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.72%) PropTech
8 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.86%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.86%) Animation
9 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.43%) Equities
10 1 (0.43%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.29%) Android
1 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 64 (27.59%) AI
3 51 (21.98%) Software Engineering
4 49 (21.12%) Agile
5 46 (19.83%) CI/CD
5 46 (19.83%) Microservices
6 36 (15.52%) DevOps
7 21 (9.05%) Mentoring
8 20 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (7.76%) Containerisation
9 18 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (7.76%) Scrum
10 17 (7.33%) User Experience
11 15 (6.47%) Decision-Making
11 15 (6.47%) SDLC
11 15 (6.47%) Test Automation
12 14 (6.03%) Computer Science
13 13 (5.60%) Generative AI
13 13 (5.60%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (5.60%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 79 (34.05%) TypeScript
2 61 (26.29%) Java
3 60 (25.86%) JavaScript
4 59 (25.43%) Python
5 41 (17.67%) C#
6 22 (9.48%) SQL
7 16 (6.90%) PHP
8 9 (3.88%) Go
9 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.86%) RPG
12 1 (0.43%) Bash
12 1 (0.43%) Bicep
12 1 (0.43%) C
12 1 (0.43%) C++
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 43 (18.53%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.81%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.47%) Degree
4 14 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.16%) QA
2 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (15.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (9.91%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.74%) Terraform
3 4 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.29%) Ansible
5 2 (0.86%) Kibana
5 2 (0.86%) Podman
6 1 (0.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.43%) Grafana
6 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (6.47%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.72%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.72%) Google
4 3 (1.29%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.29%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.86%) Aderant
5 2 (0.86%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.86%) IBM
5 2 (0.86%) iManage
5 2 (0.86%) Intapp
5 2 (0.86%) Oracle
5 2 (0.86%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.86%) Splunk
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe
6 1 (0.43%) Databricks