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 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 248 133
Rank change year-on-year +36 -115 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 176 203 418
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.30% 1.27% 2.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.36% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 112 122 400
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -5.33% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £98,750 £98,125
90th Percentile £136,250 £110,000 £125,000
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 12,272 14,970 16,777
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 93.52% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,125 8,866 13,567
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +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 21 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 21 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 +33 33 £80,000 +23.08% 13
South London +39 16 £70,000 - 1
West London -7 2 - - 5
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 21 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
2 109 (61.93%) React
3 88 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 79 (44.89%) AWS
5 75 (42.61%) Java
6 72 (40.91%) TypeScript
7 70 (39.77%) Agile
8 59 (33.52%) Python
9 57 (32.39%) HTML
10 54 (30.68%) CI/CD
11 51 (28.98%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (26.14%) CSS
13 45 (25.57%) Node.js
14 43 (24.43%) AngularJS
15 42 (23.86%) Docker
15 42 (23.86%) Microservices
15 42 (23.86%) REST
16 40 (22.73%) User Experience
17 38 (21.59%) Azure
18 37 (21.02%) SQL
19 36 (20.45%) AI
19 36 (20.45%) GraphQL
20 35 (19.89%) Spring
21 33 (18.75%) DevOps
22 32 (18.18%) Kubernetes
22 32 (18.18%) Serverless
23 31 (17.61%) RESTful
24 30 (17.05%) .NET
24 30 (17.05%) C#
24 30 (17.05%) PostgreSQL

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 6 (3.41%) Confluence
3 5 (2.84%) CMS
4 3 (1.70%) nginx
5 2 (1.14%) Liferay
5 2 (1.14%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (5.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (44.89%) AWS
2 38 (21.59%) Azure
3 32 (18.18%) Serverless
4 26 (14.77%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (14.20%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (12.50%) GCP
7 19 (10.80%) GitHub
8 15 (8.52%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (6.25%) Figma
10 10 (5.68%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (5.11%) Vercel
12 8 (4.55%) Google Analytics
13 7 (3.98%) SaaS
14 6 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.41%) npm
15 5 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
16 4 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
17 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%) PostgreSQL
1 30 (17.05%) Relational Database
2 29 (16.48%) NoSQL
3 25 (14.20%) RDBMS
4 24 (13.64%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.98%) DB2
6 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.98%) MySQL
7 5 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.70%) Redis
9 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.57%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.57%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.57%) PostHog
9 1 (0.57%) Power BI
9 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (15.91%) Git
2 26 (14.77%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.52%) JMeter
3 15 (8.52%) JUnit
3 15 (8.52%) Mockito
4 13 (7.39%) Cypress.io
5 11 (6.25%) JIRA
6 7 (3.98%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.98%) Selenium
6 7 (3.98%) TeamCity
6 7 (3.98%) webpack
7 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.84%) Mocha
8 4 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.70%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.14%) Vite
11 1 (0.57%) ESLint
11 1 (0.57%) GitLab
11 1 (0.57%) Storybook
General
1 45 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.73%) Finance
3 25 (14.20%) Banking
4 18 (10.23%) Investment Banking
5 17 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 15 (8.52%) Front Office
7 14 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (6.25%) Law
8 11 (6.25%) Retail
9 9 (5.11%) Legal
10 8 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.70%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.14%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.57%) Back Office
14 1 (0.57%) Publishing
14 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (61.93%) React
2 57 (32.39%) HTML
3 46 (26.14%) CSS
4 45 (25.57%) Node.js
5 43 (24.43%) AngularJS
6 42 (23.86%) REST
7 36 (20.45%) GraphQL
8 35 (19.89%) Spring
9 31 (17.61%) RESTful
10 30 (17.05%) .NET
11 25 (14.20%) Vue
12 23 (13.07%) Next.js
13 21 (11.93%) Web Services
14 19 (10.80%) Kafka
14 19 (10.80%) Spring Boot
15 18 (10.23%) JSON
16 17 (9.66%) WebSockets
17 16 (9.09%) jQuery
17 16 (9.09%) XML
18 15 (8.52%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.36%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.95%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (5.68%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.68%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.68%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.27%) Fixed Income
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 70 (39.77%) Agile
3 54 (30.68%) CI/CD
4 51 (28.98%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (23.86%) Microservices
6 40 (22.73%) User Experience
7 36 (20.45%) AI
8 33 (18.75%) DevOps
9 29 (16.48%) SDLC
9 29 (16.48%) Test Automation
10 27 (15.34%) UX Design
11 23 (13.07%) TDD
12 21 (11.93%) BDD
13 17 (9.66%) Containerisation
14 16 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
14 16 (9.09%) Unit Testing
14 16 (9.09%) Workflow
15 15 (8.52%) Process Management
15 15 (8.52%) Software Engineering
15 15 (8.52%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 75 (42.61%) Java
3 72 (40.91%) TypeScript
4 59 (33.52%) Python
5 37 (21.02%) SQL
6 30 (17.05%) C#
7 16 (9.09%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.25%) PHP
9 5 (2.84%) Go
10 3 (1.70%) R
11 2 (1.14%) RPG
12 1 (0.57%) Bash
12 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.57%) Ruby
12 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 42 (23.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (18.18%) 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 3 (1.70%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.14%) IBM
6 2 (1.14%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe
7 1 (0.57%) iManage
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.57%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.57%) Sybase