Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 179 133
Rank change year-on-year -49 -46 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 166 356 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.39% 1.85% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 1.94% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 110 194 521
10th Percentile £59,075 £51,125 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £121,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +16.67%

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 10,900 18,392 21,003
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 95.37% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7,112 11,566 17,358
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.02% +4.64%
75th Percentile £97,313 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer 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 September 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 September 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 +4 29 £72,500 +26.09% 23
South London +7 16 - - 1
West London +46 4 £63,500 -11.81% 6
North London - 1 £32,500 - 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Full-Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 166 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 116 (69.88%) JavaScript
3 102 (61.45%) React
4 98 (59.04%) AWS
5 77 (46.39%) Agile
6 76 (45.78%) TypeScript
7 73 (43.98%) Python
8 71 (42.77%) HTML
9 58 (34.94%) CSS
9 58 (34.94%) Finance
10 57 (34.34%) AngularJS
11 55 (33.13%) CI/CD
12 53 (31.93%) Azure
13 50 (30.12%) GraphQL
14 49 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (27.11%) Node.js
15 45 (27.11%) SQL
16 43 (25.90%) Serverless
16 43 (25.90%) Social Skills
17 42 (25.30%) Java
18 40 (24.10%) REST
18 40 (24.10%) Docker
18 40 (24.10%) GCP
19 38 (22.89%) Vue
20 37 (22.29%) DevOps
20 37 (22.29%) TDD
21 35 (21.08%) C#
21 35 (21.08%) RESTful
22 33 (19.88%) .NET
23 32 (19.28%) Microservices

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (6.63%) CMS
1 11 (6.63%) Headless CMS
2 5 (3.01%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) nginx
3 2 (1.20%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.02%) Shopify
2 1 (0.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 98 (59.04%) AWS
2 53 (31.93%) Azure
3 43 (25.90%) Serverless
4 40 (24.10%) GCP
5 31 (18.67%) Amazon ECS
6 24 (14.46%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (12.65%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (12.65%) Amazon S3
8 20 (12.05%) GitHub
9 17 (10.24%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (7.23%) Figma
12 10 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (5.42%) Vercel
14 8 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (4.82%) Google Analytics
15 7 (4.22%) SaaS
16 5 (3.01%) Power Platform
17 4 (2.41%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) MQTT
1 4 (2.41%) SMS
1 4 (2.41%) VPN
2 2 (1.20%) Broadband
3 1 (0.60%) HTTP
3 1 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (18.07%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (17.47%) Relational Database
3 24 (14.46%) NoSQL
4 21 (12.65%) RDBMS
5 19 (11.45%) MongoDB
6 18 (10.84%) SQL Server
7 17 (10.24%) MySQL
8 12 (7.23%) Redis
9 9 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (4.22%) BigQuery
11 6 (3.61%) DynamoDB
12 5 (3.01%) Power BI
13 4 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (2.41%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (2.41%) Big Data
14 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
15 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
16 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
16 1 (0.60%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 27 (16.27%) Git
2 17 (10.24%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.24%) JUnit
2 17 (10.24%) Mockito
3 16 (9.64%) JMeter
4 10 (6.02%) Cypress.io
4 10 (6.02%) JIRA
5 5 (3.01%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.81%) Storybook
8 2 (1.20%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.20%) GitLab
8 2 (1.20%) Mocha
8 2 (1.20%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.20%) Postman
8 2 (1.20%) webpack
9 1 (0.60%) PhpStorm
9 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 58 (34.94%) Finance
2 43 (25.90%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.06%) Front Office
4 21 (12.65%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (6.63%) Law
5 11 (6.63%) Marketing
6 10 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.22%) Banking
8 5 (3.01%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.41%) Legal
9 4 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.20%) Advertising
10 2 (1.20%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.20%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.20%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (61.45%) React
2 71 (42.77%) HTML
3 58 (34.94%) CSS
4 57 (34.34%) AngularJS
5 50 (30.12%) GraphQL
6 45 (27.11%) Node.js
7 40 (24.10%) REST
8 38 (22.89%) Vue
9 35 (21.08%) RESTful
10 33 (19.88%) .NET
11 24 (14.46%) Web Services
12 22 (13.25%) Spring
13 21 (12.65%) JSON
14 20 (12.05%) HTML5
15 19 (11.45%) CSS3
16 18 (10.84%) jQuery
16 18 (10.84%) Next.js
16 18 (10.84%) Redux
17 17 (10.24%) Hibernate
17 17 (10.24%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.65%) Fixed Income
2 18 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (9.04%) Hedge funds
4 14 (8.43%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.23%) Equities
5 12 (7.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.01%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.01%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.01%) Reference Data
6 5 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.41%) Life Science
7 4 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.81%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Social Media
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.60%) NHS
10 1 (0.60%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.22%) Linux
2 4 (2.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 77 (46.39%) Agile
3 55 (33.13%) CI/CD
4 49 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (22.29%) DevOps
5 37 (22.29%) TDD
6 32 (19.28%) Microservices
7 31 (18.67%) Software Engineering
8 28 (16.87%) Analytics
9 26 (15.66%) User Experience
10 25 (15.06%) Artificial Intelligence
10 25 (15.06%) Test Automation
11 22 (13.25%) Workflow
12 21 (12.65%) Investment Management
13 20 (12.05%) BDD
13 20 (12.05%) Clean Code
13 20 (12.05%) Mentoring
13 20 (12.05%) SDLC
14 19 (11.45%) UX Design
15 18 (10.84%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 116 (69.88%) JavaScript
2 76 (45.78%) TypeScript
3 73 (43.98%) Python
4 45 (27.11%) SQL
5 42 (25.30%) Java
6 35 (21.08%) C#
7 17 (10.24%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.82%) PHP
9 7 (4.22%) Go
10 5 (3.01%) R
11 3 (1.81%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.60%) Bash
12 1 (0.60%) C++
12 1 (0.60%) Groovy
12 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.60%) Perl
12 1 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (9.04%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.43%) Degree
3 10 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.41%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.64%) Accessibility
2 14 (8.43%) QA
3 3 (1.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (24.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (15.06%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.64%) Kibana
3 11 (6.63%) Terraform
4 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (12.65%) Splunk
2 17 (10.24%) Dynatrace
3 14 (8.43%) Microsoft
4 12 (7.23%) Google
5 8 (4.82%) Apple
6 3 (1.81%) IBM
7 1 (0.60%) Adobe
7 1 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.60%) Databricks
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle
7 1 (0.60%) Sybase