Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 223 182
Rank change year-on-year -39 -41 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 187 169 353
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.75% 1.41% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.54% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 158 112 195
10th Percentile £47,500 £59,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -1.56% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,625 £102,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £119,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 22,980 10,945 18,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 91.25% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15,854 7,137 11,798
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -6 24 £85,000 +13.33% 12
West London -13 5 £55,000 -13.39% 2
South London -12 4 - -
East London - 2 £43,750 - 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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.

1 187 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 77 (41.18%) React
3 73 (39.04%) AWS
4 61 (32.62%) TypeScript
5 53 (28.34%) JavaScript
6 52 (27.81%) Agile
7 50 (26.74%) CI/CD
8 49 (26.20%) Azure
9 47 (25.13%) AI
10 42 (22.46%) Python
11 41 (21.93%) .NET
11 41 (21.93%) Microservices
12 39 (20.86%) C#
13 38 (20.32%) Node.js
14 37 (19.79%) Docker
15 34 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (17.65%) GitHub
16 33 (17.65%) HTML
17 32 (17.11%) Software Engineering
18 31 (16.58%) CSS
18 31 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
19 30 (16.04%) AngularJS
20 29 (15.51%) Microsoft
21 26 (13.90%) Git
21 26 (13.90%) Java
22 25 (13.37%) Vue
23 23 (12.30%) Degree
23 23 (12.30%) RESTful
24 22 (11.76%) Computer Science
24 22 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree

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 (1.60%) WordPress
2 2 (1.07%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 73 (39.04%) AWS
2 49 (26.20%) Azure
3 33 (17.65%) GitHub
4 21 (11.23%) GCP
5 16 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (6.95%) Serverless
7 11 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (5.88%) SaaS
8 8 (4.28%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.21%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.21%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.67%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.14%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (1.60%) Supabase
13 3 (1.60%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.14%) DNS
1 4 (2.14%) HTTP
2 2 (1.07%) Broadband
2 2 (1.07%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.23%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.35%) DynamoDB
2 10 (5.35%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.81%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.81%) MySQL
4 8 (4.28%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.14%) Redis
5 4 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (13.90%) Git
2 20 (10.70%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.28%) Claude Code
4 7 (3.74%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.21%) GitLab
6 5 (2.67%) Vite
7 4 (2.14%) JIRA
7 4 (2.14%) Maven
8 3 (1.60%) Storybook
8 3 (1.60%) webpack
9 2 (1.07%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.07%) JMeter
9 2 (1.07%) JUnit
9 2 (1.07%) Mockito
9 2 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.53%) Codeship
10 1 (0.53%) Plastic SCM
General
1 39 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.76%) Finance
3 17 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.14%) Banking
5 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.60%) Legal
5 3 (1.60%) Legal Technology
5 3 (1.60%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.07%) Advertising
6 2 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.07%) Retail
7 1 (0.53%) Back Office
7 1 (0.53%) Front Office
7 1 (0.53%) Law
7 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (41.18%) React
2 41 (21.93%) .NET
3 38 (20.32%) Node.js
4 33 (17.65%) HTML
5 31 (16.58%) CSS
6 30 (16.04%) AngularJS
7 25 (13.37%) Vue
8 23 (12.30%) RESTful
9 21 (11.23%) Next.js
10 19 (10.16%) REST
11 18 (9.63%) NestJS
12 17 (9.09%) Spring Boot
13 16 (8.56%) Spring
14 13 (6.95%) Blazor
15 12 (6.42%) Terraform
16 10 (5.35%) GraphQL
17 9 (4.81%) JWT
17 9 (4.81%) OAuth
18 8 (4.28%) Django
18 8 (4.28%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.72%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.42%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.28%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.60%) PropTech
5 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.07%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.07%) IoT
6 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.07%) NHS
6 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 52 (27.81%) Agile
3 50 (26.74%) CI/CD
4 47 (25.13%) AI
5 41 (21.93%) Microservices
6 34 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (17.11%) Software Engineering
8 31 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (11.76%) Computer Science
10 21 (11.23%) DevOps
11 20 (10.70%) Containerisation
11 20 (10.70%) Mentoring
12 16 (8.56%) Code Quality
12 16 (8.56%) User Experience
13 15 (8.02%) E-Commerce
14 14 (7.49%) Customer Experience
15 13 (6.95%) API Design
15 13 (6.95%) Clean Code
15 13 (6.95%) Responsive Web Design
16 12 (6.42%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 61 (32.62%) TypeScript
2 53 (28.34%) JavaScript
3 42 (22.46%) Python
4 39 (20.86%) C#
5 26 (13.90%) Java
6 21 (11.23%) SQL
7 6 (3.21%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.21%) Ruby
8 5 (2.67%) PHP
9 4 (2.14%) C++
10 2 (1.07%) Bash
10 2 (1.07%) Go
10 2 (1.07%) Groovy
10 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.53%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (12.30%) Degree
2 22 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (10.16%) Security Cleared
4 17 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.07%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.07%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.28%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.67%) QA
3 4 (2.14%) WCAG
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (19.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.14%) Grafana
2 4 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.07%) Ansible
3 2 (1.07%) Argo
3 2 (1.07%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.07%) Kibana
3 2 (1.07%) Podman
3 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.28%) Oracle
3 5 (2.67%) OutSystems
3 5 (2.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.14%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.14%) Google
5 2 (1.07%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.07%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.07%) Splunk
6 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.53%) Salesforce