Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in London is £79,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 220 164
Rank change year-on-year -32 -56 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 190 184 407
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.82% 1.50% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.64% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 160 130 267
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,250 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £91,563 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £136,250 £115,000
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 21,551 11,245 19,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 91.67% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,787 7,343 13,537
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +5 37 £85,000 +17.24% 3
West London -22 5 £55,000 -13.39% 2
South London -9 4 - -
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 July 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.

1 190 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 85 (44.74%) React
3 69 (36.32%) TypeScript
4 65 (34.21%) AWS
5 53 (27.89%) Python
6 52 (27.37%) AI
6 52 (27.37%) JavaScript
7 49 (25.79%) Agile
8 47 (24.74%) .NET
9 46 (24.21%) Software Engineering
10 45 (23.68%) C#
11 44 (23.16%) CI/CD
12 43 (22.63%) Azure
13 42 (22.11%) Node.js
14 39 (20.53%) AngularJS
14 39 (20.53%) Microservices
15 35 (18.42%) Vue
16 33 (17.37%) Docker
17 31 (16.32%) Java
18 27 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 27 (14.21%) Git
18 27 (14.21%) GitHub
19 25 (13.16%) Microsoft
20 24 (12.63%) HTML
20 24 (12.63%) RESTful
21 23 (12.11%) Degree
21 23 (12.11%) Next.js
22 22 (11.58%) CSS
22 22 (11.58%) DevOps
22 22 (11.58%) GraphQL

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 2 (1.05%) Confluence
1 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 65 (34.21%) AWS
2 43 (22.63%) Azure
3 27 (14.21%) GitHub
4 22 (11.58%) SaaS
5 19 (10.00%) GCP
6 13 (6.84%) Serverless
7 12 (6.32%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.63%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (1.58%) Supabase
13 3 (1.58%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.11%) DNS
1 4 (2.11%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) Broadband
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 10 (5.26%) MySQL
3 7 (3.68%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.68%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.11%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.58%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (14.21%) Git
2 13 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.21%) Claude Code
4 5 (2.63%) GitLab
4 5 (2.63%) JIRA
5 3 (1.58%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.58%) Maven
5 3 (1.58%) Vite
5 3 (1.58%) webpack
6 2 (1.05%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.05%) JMeter
6 2 (1.05%) JUnit
6 2 (1.05%) Mockito
7 1 (0.53%) Codeship
7 1 (0.53%) Plastic SCM
7 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 38 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.32%) Finance
3 12 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.79%) Front Office
5 4 (2.11%) Legal
5 4 (2.11%) Legal Technology
6 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.58%) Law
7 2 (1.05%) Advertising
7 2 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Banking
7 2 (1.05%) Retail
7 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.53%) Back Office
8 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (44.74%) React
2 47 (24.74%) .NET
3 42 (22.11%) Node.js
4 39 (20.53%) AngularJS
5 35 (18.42%) Vue
6 24 (12.63%) HTML
6 24 (12.63%) RESTful
7 23 (12.11%) Next.js
8 22 (11.58%) CSS
8 22 (11.58%) GraphQL
9 17 (8.95%) REST
9 17 (8.95%) Spring Boot
10 16 (8.42%) NestJS
10 16 (8.42%) Spring
11 13 (6.84%) Blazor
11 13 (6.84%) Kafka
12 10 (5.26%) Redux
13 9 (4.74%) JWT
13 9 (4.74%) OAuth
14 8 (4.21%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.11%) PropTech
6 3 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.05%) IoT
7 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.53%) NHS
8 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 52 (27.37%) AI
3 49 (25.79%) Agile
4 46 (24.21%) Software Engineering
5 44 (23.16%) CI/CD
6 39 (20.53%) Microservices
7 27 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (11.58%) DevOps
8 22 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (11.05%) Computer Science
9 21 (11.05%) Mentoring
10 18 (9.47%) Containerisation
11 16 (8.42%) Decision-Making
12 14 (7.37%) API Design
12 14 (7.37%) Code Quality
12 14 (7.37%) User Experience
13 13 (6.84%) Observability
14 11 (5.79%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (5.26%) Scrum
15 10 (5.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 69 (36.32%) TypeScript
2 53 (27.89%) Python
3 52 (27.37%) JavaScript
4 45 (23.68%) C#
5 31 (16.32%) Java
6 18 (9.47%) SQL
7 10 (5.26%) Go
8 4 (2.11%) C++
9 3 (1.58%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.58%) PHP
9 3 (1.58%) Ruby
10 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (12.11%) Degree
2 22 (11.58%) SC Cleared
2 22 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.58%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.11%) QA
2 3 (1.58%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.58%) WCAG
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (17.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (8.95%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.84%) Terraform
3 4 (2.11%) Grafana
3 4 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) Argo
4 2 (1.05%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Podman
4 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 25 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.11%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle
4 2 (1.05%) Aderant
4 2 (1.05%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.05%) Google
4 2 (1.05%) iManage
4 2 (1.05%) Intapp
4 2 (1.05%) OneLogin
4 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.05%) Splunk
5 1 (0.53%) Databricks
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce