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 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 210 139
Rank change year-on-year -8 -71 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 171 257 459
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.33% 1.48% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.56% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 108 139 443
10th Percentile £59,775 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £112,500 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £111,000 £122,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.90% -14.44% +12.50%

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 11,650 16,489 18,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 94.85% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 10,094 14,956
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,613 £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 £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +20 27 £80,000 +33.33% 22
South London +27 18 - - 2
West London -3 1 £63,500 -7.97% 6
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 16 November 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.

1 171 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 108 (63.16%) React
3 101 (59.06%) JavaScript
4 89 (52.05%) AWS
5 78 (45.61%) Agile
6 74 (43.27%) TypeScript
7 68 (39.77%) Python
8 64 (37.43%) Java
9 63 (36.84%) HTML
10 58 (33.92%) AngularJS
10 58 (33.92%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (32.16%) CI/CD
12 54 (31.58%) Azure
13 50 (29.24%) REST
14 48 (28.07%) CSS
15 47 (27.49%) GraphQL
16 42 (24.56%) SQL
17 40 (23.39%) Docker
17 40 (23.39%) Node.js
17 40 (23.39%) Serverless
18 37 (21.64%) C#
19 36 (21.05%) Microservices
20 35 (20.47%) .NET
20 35 (20.47%) DevOps
21 34 (19.88%) AI
21 34 (19.88%) Relational Database
22 33 (19.30%) TDD
22 33 (19.30%) User Experience
23 32 (18.71%) Spring
24 31 (18.13%) Kubernetes

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 (4.68%) Headless CMS
2 6 (3.51%) CMS
3 5 (2.92%) Apache
4 3 (1.75%) nginx
5 2 (1.17%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.58%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Shopify
2 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 89 (52.05%) AWS
2 54 (31.58%) Azure
3 40 (23.39%) Serverless
4 30 (17.54%) GCP
5 28 (16.37%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (16.37%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (13.45%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (11.70%) GitHub
8 14 (8.19%) Amazon S3
8 14 (8.19%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.26%) Figma
10 9 (5.26%) Vercel
11 8 (4.68%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (4.68%) Google Analytics
12 7 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.92%) npm
14 4 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (2.34%) dbt
15 3 (1.75%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) AMQP
2 1 (0.58%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) MQTT
2 1 (0.58%) SMS
2 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.88%) Relational Database
2 30 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (16.37%) RDBMS
4 25 (14.62%) NoSQL
5 23 (13.45%) SQL Server
6 14 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.26%) MongoDB
8 8 (4.68%) MySQL
9 6 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.51%) Redis
10 4 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.34%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (2.34%) Big Data
10 4 (2.34%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.17%) DB2
11 2 (1.17%) Power BI
12 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.58%) ClickHouse
12 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (17.54%) Git
2 22 (12.87%) Jenkins
3 19 (11.11%) JUnit
3 19 (11.11%) Mockito
4 18 (10.53%) JMeter
5 12 (7.02%) Cypress.io
6 10 (5.85%) JIRA
7 5 (2.92%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.34%) Mocha
8 4 (2.34%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.34%) webpack
9 3 (1.75%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.17%) Selenium
10 2 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.17%) Vite
11 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.58%) Subversion
11 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.58%) Xcode
General
1 50 (29.24%) Finance
2 48 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.45%) Front Office
3 23 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.53%) Banking
5 16 (9.36%) Law
6 15 (8.77%) Investment Banking
7 12 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.26%) Legal
9 7 (4.09%) Retail
10 5 (2.92%) Marketing
11 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.75%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.75%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.58%) Back Office
13 1 (0.58%) Publishing
13 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (63.16%) React
2 63 (36.84%) HTML
3 58 (33.92%) AngularJS
4 50 (29.24%) REST
5 48 (28.07%) CSS
6 47 (27.49%) GraphQL
7 40 (23.39%) Node.js
8 35 (20.47%) .NET
9 32 (18.71%) Spring
10 30 (17.54%) Vue
11 27 (15.79%) RESTful
12 26 (15.20%) Web Services
13 23 (13.45%) JSON
14 20 (11.70%) Kafka
14 20 (11.70%) Spring Boot
15 19 (11.11%) Hibernate
15 19 (11.11%) jQuery
16 18 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
16 18 (10.53%) Apache Camel
16 18 (10.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.70%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.36%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (8.77%) Hedge funds
4 11 (6.43%) Fixed Income
5 10 (5.85%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.85%) Reference Data
6 7 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.51%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.92%) Equities
8 5 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.92%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.75%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.75%) Social Media
10 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.58%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.92%) Linux
1 5 (2.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 78 (45.61%) Agile
3 58 (33.92%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (32.16%) CI/CD
5 36 (21.05%) Microservices
6 35 (20.47%) DevOps
7 34 (19.88%) AI
8 33 (19.30%) TDD
8 33 (19.30%) User Experience
9 29 (16.96%) SDLC
10 27 (15.79%) Test Automation
11 25 (14.62%) UX Design
12 24 (14.04%) Workflow
13 22 (12.87%) Software Engineering
14 19 (11.11%) Analytics
15 18 (10.53%) BDD
15 18 (10.53%) Computer Science
15 18 (10.53%) Process Management
16 17 (9.94%) Clean Code
16 17 (9.94%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 101 (59.06%) JavaScript
2 74 (43.27%) TypeScript
3 68 (39.77%) Python
4 64 (37.43%) Java
5 42 (24.56%) SQL
6 37 (21.64%) C#
7 19 (11.11%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.09%) Go
9 5 (2.92%) PHP
10 4 (2.34%) R
11 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.58%) Bash
12 1 (0.58%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.58%) Perl
12 1 (0.58%) Ruby
12 1 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.53%) Degree
3 15 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.34%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.34%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.94%) Accessibility
1 17 (9.94%) QA
2 4 (2.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (23.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (18.13%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.53%) Kibana
3 11 (6.43%) Terraform
4 1 (0.58%) Argo
4 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (13.45%) Splunk
2 19 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 13 (7.60%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.68%) Apple
5 4 (2.34%) Google
6 3 (1.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.58%) Adobe
7 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.58%) Databricks
7 1 (0.58%) iManage
7 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle
7 1 (0.58%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.58%) Sybase