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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 242 130
Rank change year-on-year +31 -112 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 176 204 419
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.30% 1.26% 2.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.35% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 114 123 402
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £98,750 £96,875
90th Percentile £136,250 £120,000 £124,750
England median annual salary £63,750 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.87% -14.81% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 12,250 15,090 16,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 93.55% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,133 8,950 13,672
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £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 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 19 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +36 33 £80,000 +23.08% 13
South London +38 16 £70,000 - 1
West London -4 2 - - 4
North London - 1 £32,500 - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, 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.

1 176 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 110 (62.50%) React
3 89 (50.57%) JavaScript
4 82 (46.59%) AWS
5 74 (42.05%) Java
5 74 (42.05%) TypeScript
6 71 (40.34%) Agile
7 61 (34.66%) Python
8 55 (31.25%) HTML
9 53 (30.11%) CI/CD
10 50 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (26.14%) Node.js
12 44 (25.00%) AngularJS
12 44 (25.00%) CSS
13 42 (23.86%) REST
14 41 (23.30%) Docker
15 40 (22.73%) Microservices
15 40 (22.73%) User Experience
16 39 (22.16%) Azure
17 38 (21.59%) GraphQL
18 36 (20.45%) SQL
19 35 (19.89%) AI
20 33 (18.75%) DevOps
20 33 (18.75%) Spring
21 32 (18.18%) Serverless
22 31 (17.61%) .NET
22 31 (17.61%) C#
22 31 (17.61%) Kubernetes
23 30 (17.05%) Relational Database
23 30 (17.05%) RESTful

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 8 (4.55%) Headless CMS
2 5 (2.84%) CMS
2 5 (2.84%) Confluence
3 3 (1.70%) nginx
4 2 (1.14%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.57%) Liferay
5 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (5.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (46.59%) AWS
2 39 (22.16%) Azure
3 32 (18.18%) Serverless
4 26 (14.77%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (14.20%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (14.20%) GCP
6 19 (10.80%) GitHub
7 15 (8.52%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (6.25%) Figma
9 10 (5.68%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (5.11%) Vercel
11 8 (4.55%) Google Analytics
12 7 (3.98%) SaaS
13 6 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (3.41%) npm
14 5 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
16 3 (1.70%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) Broadband
2 2 (1.14%) AMQP
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.05%) Relational Database
2 29 (16.48%) NoSQL
2 29 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (14.20%) RDBMS
4 23 (13.07%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.98%) MySQL
7 6 (3.41%) DB2
8 5 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.70%) Redis
10 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.57%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.57%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.57%) PostHog
10 1 (0.57%) Power BI
10 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (15.34%) Git
2 25 (14.20%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.52%) JMeter
3 15 (8.52%) JUnit
3 15 (8.52%) Mockito
4 13 (7.39%) Cypress.io
5 10 (5.68%) JIRA
6 7 (3.98%) webpack
7 6 (3.41%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.41%) Selenium
7 6 (3.41%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.84%) Mocha
9 4 (2.27%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.70%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.14%) Vite
12 1 (0.57%) ESLint
12 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.57%) Storybook
General
1 44 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.30%) Finance
3 24 (13.64%) Banking
4 18 (10.23%) Investment Banking
5 17 (9.66%) Front Office
5 17 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 14 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.25%) Law
7 11 (6.25%) Retail
8 9 (5.11%) Legal
9 8 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.70%) Multimedia
12 2 (1.14%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.57%) Back Office
13 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Publishing
13 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (62.50%) React
2 55 (31.25%) HTML
3 46 (26.14%) Node.js
4 44 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 44 (25.00%) CSS
5 42 (23.86%) REST
6 38 (21.59%) GraphQL
7 33 (18.75%) Spring
8 31 (17.61%) .NET
9 30 (17.05%) RESTful
10 27 (15.34%) Vue
11 21 (11.93%) Kafka
11 21 (11.93%) Next.js
11 21 (11.93%) Web Services
12 18 (10.23%) JSON
12 18 (10.23%) Spring Boot
13 17 (9.66%) WebSockets
14 16 (9.09%) jQuery
14 16 (9.09%) XML
15 15 (8.52%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.36%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.39%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (5.68%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.68%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.68%) Reference Data
5 6 (3.41%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.70%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.70%) Social Media
8 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.27%) Linux
2 3 (1.70%) Unix
3 2 (1.14%) Android
3 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 71 (40.34%) Agile
3 53 (30.11%) CI/CD
4 50 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (22.73%) Microservices
5 40 (22.73%) User Experience
6 35 (19.89%) AI
7 33 (18.75%) DevOps
8 29 (16.48%) SDLC
9 28 (15.91%) Test Automation
9 28 (15.91%) UX Design
10 23 (13.07%) TDD
11 20 (11.36%) BDD
12 17 (9.66%) Containerisation
13 16 (9.09%) Software Engineering
13 16 (9.09%) Workflow
14 15 (8.52%) Process Management
14 15 (8.52%) Sprint Planning
14 15 (8.52%) Unit Testing
15 14 (7.95%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 89 (50.57%) JavaScript
2 74 (42.05%) Java
2 74 (42.05%) TypeScript
3 61 (34.66%) Python
4 36 (20.45%) SQL
5 31 (17.61%) C#
6 16 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 10 (5.68%) PHP
8 7 (3.98%) Go
9 3 (1.70%) R
10 2 (1.14%) RPG
11 1 (0.57%) Bash
11 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.57%) Ruby
11 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.25%) Degree
3 10 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.70%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.80%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.55%) QA
3 5 (2.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (23.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (17.61%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.52%) Kibana
3 5 (2.84%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) Argo
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (8.52%) Dynatrace
1 15 (8.52%) Splunk
2 9 (5.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.55%) Apple
4 4 (2.27%) Google
4 4 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.14%) IBM
5 2 (1.14%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe
6 1 (0.57%) iManage
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.57%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.57%) Sybase