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 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 258 134
Rank change year-on-year +55 -124 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 194 180 471
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.31% 1.17% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.27% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 132 102 440
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £67,375 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £95,625
90th Percentile £136,250 £109,500 £117,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%

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 13,555 14,194 19,559
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 91.96% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 8,969 8,146 15,807
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £53,321
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +45 52 £80,000 +23.08% 10
South London +37 11 £70,000 - 4
West London +1 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 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.

1 194 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 103 (53.09%) React
3 78 (40.21%) Java
4 64 (32.99%) JavaScript
5 63 (32.47%) TypeScript
6 60 (30.93%) AWS
7 54 (27.84%) Python
8 53 (27.32%) AI
9 51 (26.29%) CI/CD
10 50 (25.77%) Agile
11 46 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (19.59%) Azure
12 38 (19.59%) Docker
12 38 (19.59%) HTML
12 38 (19.59%) Microservices
13 36 (18.56%) Node.js
13 36 (18.56%) REST
14 34 (17.53%) DevOps
14 34 (17.53%) Security Cleared
15 33 (17.01%) Spring
16 32 (16.49%) CSS
17 31 (15.98%) AngularJS
18 30 (15.46%) Kubernetes
19 29 (14.95%) SQL
19 29 (14.95%) User Experience
20 28 (14.43%) .NET
20 28 (14.43%) Git
21 27 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
22 23 (11.86%) GitHub
22 23 (11.86%) Relational Database

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 6 (3.09%) Confluence
2 3 (1.55%) Liferay
3 2 (1.03%) CMS
3 2 (1.03%) nginx
3 2 (1.03%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (30.93%) AWS
2 38 (19.59%) Azure
3 23 (11.86%) GitHub
4 22 (11.34%) Serverless
5 21 (10.82%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (8.25%) GCP
7 12 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (5.67%) SaaS
9 10 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.09%) Amazon EventBridge
11 5 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.58%) npm
12 4 (2.06%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (2.06%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.55%) Figma
13 3 (1.55%) Yarn
14 2 (1.03%) Algolia
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) AMQP
1 2 (1.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (11.86%) Relational Database
3 22 (11.34%) NoSQL
3 22 (11.34%) SQL Server
4 20 (10.31%) RDBMS
5 10 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.12%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.61%) DB2
8 6 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.09%) MySQL
9 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.03%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.03%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.03%) Redis
10 1 (0.52%) Power BI
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (14.43%) Git
2 22 (11.34%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.15%) JIRA
3 10 (5.15%) JMeter
3 10 (5.15%) JUnit
3 10 (5.15%) Mockito
4 7 (3.61%) Cucumber
4 7 (3.61%) Selenium
4 7 (3.61%) TeamCity
5 6 (3.09%) webpack
6 5 (2.58%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.06%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.06%) Mocha
8 3 (1.55%) ESLint
9 2 (1.03%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.03%) Storybook
10 1 (0.52%) GitLab
10 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 41 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.53%) Finance
3 29 (14.95%) Banking
4 21 (10.82%) Investment Banking
5 18 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.19%) Law
6 12 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.67%) Front Office
7 11 (5.67%) Retail
8 10 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.64%) Legal
10 4 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.52%) Back Office
13 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (53.09%) React
2 38 (19.59%) HTML
3 36 (18.56%) Node.js
3 36 (18.56%) REST
4 33 (17.01%) Spring
5 32 (16.49%) CSS
6 31 (15.98%) AngularJS
7 28 (14.43%) .NET
8 22 (11.34%) Vue
9 21 (10.82%) RESTful
9 21 (10.82%) WebSockets
10 19 (9.79%) Next.js
11 17 (8.76%) Django
11 17 (8.76%) Spring Boot
12 15 (7.73%) Kafka
13 14 (7.22%) GraphQL
14 12 (6.19%) CSS3
14 12 (6.19%) HTML5
15 11 (5.67%) JSON
15 11 (5.67%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.82%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (5.15%) Hedge funds
3 10 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.15%) Reference Data
4 9 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.09%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.03%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.03%) Animation
7 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.03%) Social Media
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.52%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.55%) Android
1 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.03%) Linux
2 2 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 53 (27.32%) AI
3 51 (26.29%) CI/CD
4 50 (25.77%) Agile
5 46 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (19.59%) Microservices
7 34 (17.53%) DevOps
8 29 (14.95%) User Experience
9 22 (11.34%) SDLC
9 22 (11.34%) Test Automation
10 19 (9.79%) TDD
11 17 (8.76%) Containerisation
11 17 (8.76%) UX Design
12 16 (8.25%) BDD
12 16 (8.25%) Software Engineering
13 15 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (7.22%) Front End Development
15 13 (6.70%) Code Quality
15 13 (6.70%) Machine Learning
16 12 (6.19%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 78 (40.21%) Java
2 64 (32.99%) JavaScript
3 63 (32.47%) TypeScript
4 54 (27.84%) Python
5 29 (14.95%) SQL
6 22 (11.34%) C#
7 15 (7.73%) PHP
8 12 (6.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.03%) R
9 2 (1.03%) RPG
10 1 (0.52%) Bicep
10 1 (0.52%) Go
10 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.15%) Degree
4 5 (2.58%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.09%) WCAG
3 5 (2.58%) QA
System Software
1 38 (19.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (15.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.15%) Kibana
3 7 (3.61%) Terraform
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (5.15%) Dynatrace
1 10 (5.15%) Splunk
2 7 (3.61%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.58%) Google
3 5 (2.58%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.55%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.55%) WooCommerce
5 2 (1.03%) IBM
5 2 (1.03%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.52%) Adobe
6 1 (0.52%) iManage
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.52%) Sybase