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 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 221 167
Rank change year-on-year -35 -54 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 183 166 357
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.75% 1.40% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.53% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 156 110 202
10th Percentile £47,500 £59,075 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,250 £99,063 £101,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 22,650 10,825 18,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 91.24% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,632 7,039 11,878
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £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 5 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 5 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 24 £85,000 +17.24% 6
West London -19 5 £55,000 -13.39% 2
South London -12 4 - -
East London - 2 £43,750 - 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 183 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 77 (42.08%) React
3 70 (38.25%) AWS
4 61 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 52 (28.42%) JavaScript
6 49 (26.78%) Agile
6 49 (26.78%) CI/CD
7 48 (26.23%) Azure
8 47 (25.68%) AI
9 42 (22.95%) Python
10 41 (22.40%) .NET
11 40 (21.86%) Microservices
12 39 (21.31%) C#
13 38 (20.77%) Node.js
14 36 (19.67%) Docker
15 32 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (17.49%) GitHub
15 32 (17.49%) HTML
15 32 (17.49%) Software Engineering
16 30 (16.39%) CSS
17 29 (15.85%) AngularJS
17 29 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
18 28 (15.30%) Microsoft
19 27 (14.75%) Git
20 25 (13.66%) Vue
21 24 (13.11%) Java
21 24 (13.11%) RESTful
22 23 (12.57%) Degree
23 22 (12.02%) Computer Science
23 22 (12.02%) Computer Science Degree

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 (1.09%) Confluence
1 2 (1.09%) WordPress
2 1 (0.55%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 70 (38.25%) AWS
2 48 (26.23%) Azure
3 32 (17.49%) GitHub
4 20 (10.93%) GCP
5 15 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (7.10%) SaaS
7 12 (6.56%) Serverless
8 11 (6.01%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.83%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.73%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.73%) Azure Event Grid
12 5 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.73%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.19%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (1.64%) Supabase
14 3 (1.64%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.19%) DNS
1 4 (2.19%) HTTP
2 2 (1.09%) Broadband
2 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.02%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.46%) MySQL
2 10 (5.46%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.92%) DynamoDB
3 9 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.37%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.19%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.19%) Redis
5 4 (2.19%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (14.75%) Git
2 18 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.37%) Claude Code
4 6 (3.28%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.73%) GitLab
5 5 (2.73%) Vite
6 4 (2.19%) JIRA
7 3 (1.64%) Maven
7 3 (1.64%) Storybook
7 3 (1.64%) webpack
8 2 (1.09%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.09%) JMeter
8 2 (1.09%) JUnit
8 2 (1.09%) Mockito
9 1 (0.55%) Codeship
9 1 (0.55%) Plastic SCM
9 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.02%) Finance
3 17 (9.29%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.19%) Banking
5 3 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.64%) Legal
5 3 (1.64%) Legal Technology
5 3 (1.64%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.09%) Advertising
6 2 (1.09%) Retail
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Back Office
7 1 (0.55%) Front Office
7 1 (0.55%) Law
7 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (42.08%) React
2 41 (22.40%) .NET
3 38 (20.77%) Node.js
4 32 (17.49%) HTML
5 30 (16.39%) CSS
6 29 (15.85%) AngularJS
7 25 (13.66%) Vue
8 24 (13.11%) RESTful
9 22 (12.02%) Next.js
10 19 (10.38%) REST
11 18 (9.84%) NestJS
12 16 (8.74%) Spring Boot
13 15 (8.20%) Spring
14 13 (7.10%) Blazor
15 12 (6.56%) Terraform
16 11 (6.01%) GraphQL
17 9 (4.92%) JWT
17 9 (4.92%) OAuth
18 8 (4.37%) Django
18 8 (4.37%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.01%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.83%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.19%) PropTech
6 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.64%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.09%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.09%) IoT
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.09%) NHS
7 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.55%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 49 (26.78%) Agile
2 49 (26.78%) CI/CD
3 47 (25.68%) AI
4 40 (21.86%) Microservices
5 32 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (17.49%) Software Engineering
6 29 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (12.02%) Computer Science
8 20 (10.93%) Containerisation
8 20 (10.93%) DevOps
8 20 (10.93%) Mentoring
9 15 (8.20%) Code Quality
10 14 (7.65%) API Design
10 14 (7.65%) E-Commerce
10 14 (7.65%) User Experience
11 13 (7.10%) Customer Experience
12 12 (6.56%) Decision-Making
12 12 (6.56%) Responsive Web Design
13 11 (6.01%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 61 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 52 (28.42%) JavaScript
3 42 (22.95%) Python
4 39 (21.31%) C#
5 24 (13.11%) Java
6 21 (11.48%) SQL
7 6 (3.28%) Ruby
8 5 (2.73%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.19%) C++
9 4 (2.19%) PHP
10 2 (1.09%) Go
10 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.55%) Bash
11 1 (0.55%) C
11 1 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (12.57%) Degree
2 22 (12.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (10.38%) Security Cleared
4 17 (9.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.83%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.19%) QA
2 4 (2.19%) WCAG
3 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (19.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.19%) Grafana
2 4 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.09%) Ansible
3 2 (1.09%) Argo
3 2 (1.09%) Kibana
3 2 (1.09%) Podman
3 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.55%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 28 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.83%) Oracle
3 4 (2.19%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.19%) Google
3 4 (2.19%) OutSystems
3 4 (2.19%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.09%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.09%) OneLogin
4 2 (1.09%) Splunk
5 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.55%) Salesforce