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 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 232 144
Rank change year-on-year +41 -88 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 228 165 483
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 1.28% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.41% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 170 117 407
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,330 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £102,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%

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 17,362 11,703 21,364
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 90.66% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 11,654 7,547 16,606
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £99,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.59% -9.13%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +37 59 £80,000 +14.29% 14
South London +20 5 £70,000 - 1
West London -20 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 April 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.

1 228 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 109 (47.81%) React
3 79 (34.65%) Java
4 77 (33.77%) TypeScript
5 62 (27.19%) AI
6 60 (26.32%) JavaScript
6 60 (26.32%) Python
7 57 (25.00%) AWS
8 49 (21.49%) CI/CD
9 48 (21.05%) Agile
9 48 (21.05%) Node.js
10 42 (18.42%) Security Cleared
11 40 (17.54%) AngularJS
11 40 (17.54%) Vue
12 39 (17.11%) Microservices
12 39 (17.11%) Software Engineering
13 35 (15.35%) DevOps
13 35 (15.35%) Docker
13 35 (15.35%) SC Cleared
14 34 (14.91%) Azure
15 30 (13.16%) .NET
16 29 (12.72%) CSS
16 29 (12.72%) Git
16 29 (12.72%) HTML
17 27 (11.84%) C#
17 27 (11.84%) RESTful
18 26 (11.40%) Next.js
18 26 (11.40%) SaaS
19 25 (10.96%) SQL
20 24 (10.53%) 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 6 (2.63%) Confluence
2 3 (1.32%) Liferay
2 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (25.00%) AWS
2 34 (14.91%) Azure
3 26 (11.40%) SaaS
4 21 (9.21%) Serverless
5 19 (8.33%) GitHub
6 16 (7.02%) GCP
7 13 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.51%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (2.63%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.32%) Amazon Cognito
13 3 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.32%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (1.32%) Figma
13 3 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) AMQP
2 1 (0.44%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) DNS
2 1 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.89%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.58%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.51%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.51%) MySQL
4 8 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.07%) RDBMS
6 6 (2.63%) DB2
7 5 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.75%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.32%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.88%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.44%) Power BI
11 1 (0.44%) Redis
11 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (12.72%) Git
2 16 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.07%) JIRA
4 6 (2.63%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.63%) Selenium
4 6 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.19%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.75%) webpack
7 3 (1.32%) ESLint
7 3 (1.32%) GitLab
7 3 (1.32%) JMeter
7 3 (1.32%) JUnit
7 3 (1.32%) Mockito
8 2 (0.88%) Mocha
8 2 (0.88%) Storybook
9 1 (0.44%) Maven
9 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (16.67%) Finance
2 37 (16.23%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.09%) Banking
4 15 (6.58%) Investment Banking
5 14 (6.14%) Front Office
6 12 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.39%) Retail
8 6 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.75%) Law
10 3 (1.32%) Legal
10 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Back Office
11 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (47.81%) React
2 48 (21.05%) Node.js
3 40 (17.54%) AngularJS
3 40 (17.54%) Vue
4 30 (13.16%) .NET
5 29 (12.72%) CSS
5 29 (12.72%) HTML
6 27 (11.84%) RESTful
7 26 (11.40%) Next.js
8 24 (10.53%) REST
9 23 (10.09%) Spring
10 22 (9.65%) GraphQL
11 18 (7.89%) Kafka
12 17 (7.46%) WebSockets
13 16 (7.02%) Spring Boot
14 14 (6.14%) Laravel
15 13 (5.70%) Django
16 9 (3.95%) React Native
16 9 (3.95%) Redux
17 8 (3.51%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (5.70%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.82%) Fixed Income
3 11 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.63%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.75%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.75%) PropTech
9 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.32%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.88%) Animation
10 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.32%) Android
1 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 62 (27.19%) AI
3 49 (21.49%) CI/CD
4 48 (21.05%) Agile
5 39 (17.11%) Microservices
5 39 (17.11%) Software Engineering
6 35 (15.35%) DevOps
7 23 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (9.21%) User Experience
9 18 (7.89%) Test Automation
10 17 (7.46%) SDLC
11 15 (6.58%) Computer Science
12 14 (6.14%) Containerisation
12 14 (6.14%) Generative AI
13 13 (5.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (5.70%) Mentoring
13 13 (5.70%) Scrum
14 12 (5.26%) Front End Development
14 12 (5.26%) TDD
15 11 (4.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 79 (34.65%) Java
2 77 (33.77%) TypeScript
3 60 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 60 (26.32%) Python
4 27 (11.84%) C#
5 25 (10.96%) SQL
6 15 (6.58%) PHP
7 8 (3.51%) Go
8 5 (2.19%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.32%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.88%) RPG
11 1 (0.44%) Bash
11 1 (0.44%) Bicep
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 42 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.58%) Degree
4 14 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.63%) QA
2 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (15.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.51%) Terraform
3 3 (1.32%) Kibana
4 2 (0.88%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.44%) Podman
5 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (3.95%) Microsoft
1 9 (3.95%) OpenAI
2 5 (2.19%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.32%) Google
3 3 (1.32%) Splunk
3 3 (1.32%) WooCommerce
4 2 (0.88%) Aderant
4 2 (0.88%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.88%) IBM
4 2 (0.88%) iManage
4 2 (0.88%) Intapp
4 2 (0.88%) SendGrid
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe
5 1 (0.44%) Databricks
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle