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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 221 185
Rank change year-on-year -34 -36 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 200 164 354
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.79% 1.38% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.51% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 161 108 194
10th Percentile £47,500 £58,725 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £122,500
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 23,473 10,864 18,378
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 91.22% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16,099 7,086 11,532
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% - -1.36%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 20 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 20 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 -1 25 £85,000 +17.24% 10
West London -13 5 £55,000 -13.39% 4
East London - 4 £43,750 - 1
South London -10 3 - -
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 200 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 81 (40.50%) React
3 76 (38.00%) AWS
4 64 (32.00%) TypeScript
5 57 (28.50%) JavaScript
6 55 (27.50%) Azure
7 54 (27.00%) Agile
7 54 (27.00%) CI/CD
8 50 (25.00%) AI
9 45 (22.50%) Microservices
10 44 (22.00%) .NET
11 43 (21.50%) Python
12 42 (21.00%) Node.js
13 41 (20.50%) C#
14 40 (20.00%) Docker
15 36 (18.00%) GitHub
16 35 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (17.50%) HTML
17 34 (17.00%) Microsoft
17 34 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
18 33 (16.50%) CSS
19 32 (16.00%) AngularJS
19 32 (16.00%) Software Engineering
20 30 (15.00%) Java
21 28 (14.00%) Git
22 25 (12.50%) RESTful
22 25 (12.50%) Vue
23 24 (12.00%) Degree
23 24 (12.00%) DevOps
23 24 (12.00%) SQL

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 (1.50%) Confluence
1 3 (1.50%) WordPress
2 2 (1.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 76 (38.00%) AWS
2 55 (27.50%) Azure
3 36 (18.00%) GitHub
4 22 (11.00%) GCP
5 17 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (6.50%) SaaS
6 13 (6.50%) Serverless
7 12 (6.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (4.00%) Snowflake
10 7 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.00%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
12 5 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (1.50%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.00%) DNS
1 4 (2.00%) HTTP
2 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.50%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.50%) MySQL
5 8 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.50%) Redis
7 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.50%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (14.00%) Git
2 21 (10.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.00%) Claude Code
4 7 (3.50%) Vite
5 6 (3.00%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.00%) GitLab
6 4 (2.00%) JIRA
6 4 (2.00%) Maven
7 3 (1.50%) Storybook
7 3 (1.50%) webpack
8 2 (1.00%) JMeter
8 2 (1.00%) JUnit
8 2 (1.00%) Mockito
8 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.50%) Codeship
9 1 (0.50%) Moq
9 1 (0.50%) NUnit
9 1 (0.50%) Plastic SCM
9 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.00%) Finance
3 17 (8.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.00%) Banking
4 4 (2.00%) Legal
5 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.50%) Legal Technology
5 3 (1.50%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.00%) Advertising
6 2 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.00%) Front Office
6 2 (1.00%) Retail
7 1 (0.50%) Back Office
7 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.50%) Law
7 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (40.50%) React
2 44 (22.00%) .NET
3 42 (21.00%) Node.js
4 35 (17.50%) HTML
5 33 (16.50%) CSS
6 32 (16.00%) AngularJS
7 25 (12.50%) RESTful
7 25 (12.50%) Vue
8 23 (11.50%) REST
9 22 (11.00%) Next.js
10 18 (9.00%) NestJS
10 18 (9.00%) Spring Boot
11 17 (8.50%) Spring
12 14 (7.00%) Blazor
13 13 (6.50%) Terraform
14 10 (5.00%) Express.js
14 10 (5.00%) GraphQL
15 9 (4.50%) Django
15 9 (4.50%) JWT
15 9 (4.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 37 (18.50%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.50%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.50%) PropTech
6 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.00%) IoT
7 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.00%) NHS
7 2 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (27.00%) Agile
2 54 (27.00%) CI/CD
3 50 (25.00%) AI
4 45 (22.50%) Microservices
5 35 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 24 (12.00%) DevOps
9 23 (11.50%) Computer Science
10 21 (10.50%) Mentoring
11 19 (9.50%) Containerisation
12 16 (8.00%) Code Quality
12 16 (8.00%) E-Commerce
12 16 (8.00%) User Experience
13 15 (7.50%) Customer Experience
14 14 (7.00%) Clean Code
14 14 (7.00%) Responsive Web Design
15 13 (6.50%) API Design
15 13 (6.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.00%) TypeScript
2 57 (28.50%) JavaScript
3 43 (21.50%) Python
4 41 (20.50%) C#
5 30 (15.00%) Java
6 24 (12.00%) SQL
7 7 (3.50%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.00%) Ruby
9 5 (2.50%) PHP
10 4 (2.00%) C++
11 2 (1.00%) Bash
11 2 (1.00%) Go
11 2 (1.00%) Groovy
11 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.50%) Bicep
12 1 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (12.00%) Degree
2 23 (11.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 18 (9.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.50%) QA
3 4 (2.00%) WCAG
4 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.00%) Grafana
2 4 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.00%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) Argo
3 2 (1.00%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.00%) Kibana
3 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.50%) Podman
Vendors
1 34 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.00%) Oracle
3 7 (3.50%) OutSystems
3 7 (3.50%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.50%) Google
6 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.00%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.00%) Splunk
7 1 (0.50%) NEC
7 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.50%) Salesforce