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 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 237 155
Rank change year-on-year +6 -82 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 206 166 521
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 1.34% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.47% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 170 119 374
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,000 £50,300
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.76% +6.42%
75th Percentile £94,375 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,250 £136,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 20,353 11,297 22,786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 91.28% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 14,015 7,236 16,886
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,201 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.52% +8.95% -12.50%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +18 52 £80,000 +10.34% 9
South London +16 4 - -
West London -14 2 £55,000 -13.39% 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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.

1 206 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 89 (43.20%) React
3 70 (33.98%) TypeScript
4 58 (28.16%) AI
4 58 (28.16%) AWS
5 55 (26.70%) Python
6 53 (25.73%) JavaScript
7 49 (23.79%) Software Engineering
8 46 (22.33%) .NET
8 46 (22.33%) Agile
9 43 (20.87%) Azure
10 42 (20.39%) C#
10 42 (20.39%) Java
11 40 (19.42%) CI/CD
12 38 (18.45%) AngularJS
12 38 (18.45%) Microservices
12 38 (18.45%) Node.js
13 37 (17.96%) Vue
14 35 (16.99%) Security Cleared
15 34 (16.50%) SC Cleared
16 32 (15.53%) Docker
17 26 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (12.14%) RESTful
19 24 (11.65%) Git
20 23 (11.17%) HTML
20 23 (11.17%) SaaS
21 22 (10.68%) DevOps
21 22 (10.68%) GitHub
21 22 (10.68%) GraphQL
21 22 (10.68%) Mentoring

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 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 58 (28.16%) AWS
2 43 (20.87%) Azure
3 23 (11.17%) SaaS
4 22 (10.68%) GitHub
5 17 (8.25%) GCP
6 13 (6.31%) Serverless
7 12 (5.83%) GitHub Copilot
8 9 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.43%) Azure Event Grid
12 5 (2.43%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.94%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
15 2 (0.97%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.94%) DNS
1 4 (1.94%) HTTP
2 2 (0.97%) Broadband
2 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.85%) MySQL
3 9 (4.37%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.91%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.94%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.97%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (11.65%) Git
2 11 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.88%) Claude Code
4 5 (2.43%) GitLab
5 4 (1.94%) JIRA
6 3 (1.46%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.46%) Maven
7 2 (0.97%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.97%) JMeter
7 2 (0.97%) JUnit
7 2 (0.97%) Mockito
8 1 (0.49%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 37 (17.96%) Finance
2 35 (16.99%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.34%) Front Office
3 11 (5.34%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (1.94%) Banking
6 3 (1.46%) Law
7 2 (0.97%) Legal
7 2 (0.97%) Legal Technology
7 2 (0.97%) Retail
8 1 (0.49%) Advertising
8 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (43.20%) React
2 46 (22.33%) .NET
3 38 (18.45%) AngularJS
3 38 (18.45%) Node.js
4 37 (17.96%) Vue
5 25 (12.14%) RESTful
6 23 (11.17%) HTML
7 22 (10.68%) GraphQL
8 21 (10.19%) CSS
9 20 (9.71%) Next.js
10 18 (8.74%) Spring Boot
11 17 (8.25%) Spring
12 15 (7.28%) REST
13 14 (6.80%) Kafka
13 14 (6.80%) NestJS
14 13 (6.31%) Blazor
15 10 (4.85%) Django
15 10 (4.85%) Redux
16 8 (3.88%) Laravel
16 8 (3.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.56%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.34%) Fixed Income
3 5 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.43%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.94%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.94%) PropTech
4 4 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.97%) Animation
6 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.49%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 58 (28.16%) AI
3 49 (23.79%) Software Engineering
4 46 (22.33%) Agile
5 40 (19.42%) CI/CD
6 38 (18.45%) Microservices
7 26 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (10.68%) DevOps
8 22 (10.68%) Mentoring
9 20 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (8.25%) Computer Science
11 16 (7.77%) Containerisation
11 16 (7.77%) Decision-Making
12 15 (7.28%) User Experience
13 14 (6.80%) API Design
13 14 (6.80%) Code Quality
14 12 (5.83%) Observability
15 11 (5.34%) Performance Optimisation
15 11 (5.34%) Technical Leadership
16 10 (4.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.98%) TypeScript
2 55 (26.70%) Python
3 53 (25.73%) JavaScript
4 42 (20.39%) C#
4 42 (20.39%) Java
5 14 (6.80%) SQL
6 10 (4.85%) Go
7 5 (2.43%) PHP
8 3 (1.46%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.97%) C++
9 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) Bash
10 1 (0.49%) Bicep
10 1 (0.49%) C
10 1 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 35 (16.99%) Security Cleared
2 34 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.22%) Degree
4 17 (8.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.94%) QA
2 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.46%) WCAG
3 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (15.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.34%) Terraform
3 4 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.46%) Grafana
5 2 (0.97%) Ansible
5 2 (0.97%) Argo
5 2 (0.97%) Kibana
5 2 (0.97%) Podman
5 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.49%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 21 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.94%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.46%) Oracle
4 2 (0.97%) Aderant
4 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.97%) Google
4 2 (0.97%) iManage
4 2 (0.97%) Intapp
4 2 (0.97%) OneLogin
4 2 (0.97%) Splunk
5 1 (0.49%) Databricks