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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 211 169
Rank change year-on-year -47 -42 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 188 184 383
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.79% 1.52% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.65% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 159 129 239
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £115,500
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 22,178 11,126 18,556
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 91.63% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15,153 7,234 12,776
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,528
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.80% -2.72%
75th Percentile £95,000 £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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -2 29 £85,000 +17.24% 6
West London -22 5 £55,000 -13.39% 2
South London -6 4 - -
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 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.

1 188 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 82 (43.62%) React
3 68 (36.17%) AWS
4 67 (35.64%) TypeScript
5 52 (27.66%) AI
5 52 (27.66%) JavaScript
6 48 (25.53%) CI/CD
7 47 (25.00%) Agile
8 46 (24.47%) .NET
8 46 (24.47%) Azure
9 45 (23.94%) Python
10 43 (22.87%) C#
10 43 (22.87%) Node.js
11 41 (21.81%) Software Engineering
12 39 (20.74%) Microservices
13 33 (17.55%) AngularJS
13 33 (17.55%) Docker
14 31 (16.49%) Vue
15 29 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (15.43%) Git
16 28 (14.89%) GitHub
17 27 (14.36%) HTML
17 27 (14.36%) Java
18 26 (13.83%) Microsoft
18 26 (13.83%) RESTful
19 25 (13.30%) CSS
19 25 (13.30%) Next.js
20 24 (12.77%) Degree
20 24 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
21 23 (12.23%) Computer Science

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 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 68 (36.17%) AWS
2 46 (24.47%) Azure
3 28 (14.89%) GitHub
4 21 (11.17%) SaaS
5 20 (10.64%) GCP
6 12 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.38%) Serverless
7 11 (5.85%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.66%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.66%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.66%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (1.60%) Azure AI
13 3 (1.60%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.13%) DNS
1 4 (2.13%) HTTP
2 2 (1.06%) Broadband
2 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.32%) MySQL
3 9 (4.79%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.72%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.13%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (15.43%) Git
2 15 (7.98%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.26%) Claude Code
4 6 (3.19%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.66%) GitLab
6 4 (2.13%) JIRA
7 3 (1.60%) Maven
7 3 (1.60%) Storybook
7 3 (1.60%) Vite
7 3 (1.60%) webpack
8 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.06%) JMeter
8 2 (1.06%) JUnit
8 2 (1.06%) Mockito
9 1 (0.53%) Codeship
9 1 (0.53%) Plastic SCM
9 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.30%) Finance
3 17 (9.04%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.66%) Front Office
4 5 (2.66%) Legal
4 5 (2.66%) Legal Technology
5 4 (2.13%) Banking
6 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.60%) Law
6 3 (1.60%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.06%) Advertising
7 2 (1.06%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Back Office
8 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (43.62%) React
2 46 (24.47%) .NET
3 43 (22.87%) Node.js
4 33 (17.55%) AngularJS
5 31 (16.49%) Vue
6 27 (14.36%) HTML
7 26 (13.83%) RESTful
8 25 (13.30%) CSS
8 25 (13.30%) Next.js
9 19 (10.11%) GraphQL
10 18 (9.57%) NestJS
11 17 (9.04%) REST
12 16 (8.51%) Spring Boot
13 15 (7.98%) Spring
14 13 (6.91%) Blazor
15 9 (4.79%) JWT
15 9 (4.79%) OAuth
16 8 (4.26%) Django
16 8 (4.26%) Kafka
17 7 (3.72%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.66%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.13%) Fixed Income
4 4 (2.13%) PropTech
5 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.06%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.06%) IoT
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.06%) NHS
6 2 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 52 (27.66%) AI
3 48 (25.53%) CI/CD
4 47 (25.00%) Agile
5 41 (21.81%) Software Engineering
6 39 (20.74%) Microservices
7 29 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (12.23%) Computer Science
10 21 (11.17%) DevOps
10 21 (11.17%) Mentoring
11 19 (10.11%) Containerisation
12 15 (7.98%) Code Quality
13 14 (7.45%) API Design
14 13 (6.91%) Decision-Making
14 13 (6.91%) Observability
14 13 (6.91%) User Experience
15 11 (5.85%) E-Commerce
15 11 (5.85%) Performance Optimisation
16 10 (5.32%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 67 (35.64%) TypeScript
2 52 (27.66%) JavaScript
3 45 (23.94%) Python
4 43 (22.87%) C#
5 27 (14.36%) Java
6 19 (10.11%) SQL
7 6 (3.19%) Go
7 6 (3.19%) Ruby
8 5 (2.66%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.13%) C++
10 2 (1.06%) PHP
10 2 (1.06%) 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 24 (12.77%) Degree
2 23 (12.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (11.17%) Security Cleared
4 20 (10.64%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.66%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.13%) QA
2 4 (2.13%) WCAG
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (17.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (9.04%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.38%) Terraform
3 4 (2.13%) Grafana
3 4 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) Argo
4 2 (1.06%) Kibana
4 2 (1.06%) Podman
4 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 26 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.66%) Oracle
3 4 (2.13%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.60%) Google
4 3 (1.60%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.06%) Aderant
5 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.06%) iManage
5 2 (1.06%) Intapp
5 2 (1.06%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.06%) OutSystems
5 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.06%) Splunk
6 1 (0.53%) Salesforce