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 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 220 134
Rank change year-on-year +2 -86 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 175 250 448
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.33% 1.42% 2.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.50% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 113 139 433
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £110,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,919 16,613 17,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 94.59% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,727 10,094 14,365
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +17 31 £80,000 +33.33% 8
South London +38 18 - - 2
West London -6 1 - - 3
North London - 1 £32,500 - 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, 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.

1 175 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 112 (64.00%) React
3 99 (56.57%) JavaScript
4 87 (49.71%) AWS
5 76 (43.43%) Agile
6 73 (41.71%) TypeScript
7 71 (40.57%) Python
8 69 (39.43%) Java
9 61 (34.86%) HTML
10 57 (32.57%) AngularJS
10 57 (32.57%) CI/CD
11 53 (30.29%) Azure
11 53 (30.29%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (28.00%) REST
13 46 (26.29%) CSS
14 45 (25.71%) GraphQL
15 42 (24.00%) Docker
15 42 (24.00%) Node.js
16 41 (23.43%) SQL
17 39 (22.29%) Serverless
18 38 (21.71%) Microservices
19 36 (20.57%) C#
19 36 (20.57%) User Experience
20 35 (20.00%) .NET
20 35 (20.00%) DevOps
21 34 (19.43%) AI
21 34 (19.43%) Relational Database
22 33 (18.86%) Spring
23 32 (18.29%) Kubernetes
23 32 (18.29%) Vue

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 8 (4.57%) Headless CMS
2 6 (3.43%) CMS
3 4 (2.29%) Apache
3 4 (2.29%) nginx
4 2 (1.14%) Confluence
4 2 (1.14%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.57%) Shopify
2 1 (0.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 87 (49.71%) AWS
2 53 (30.29%) Azure
3 39 (22.29%) Serverless
4 28 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
4 28 (16.00%) GCP
5 27 (15.43%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (12.00%) GitHub
7 13 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (6.86%) Amazon S3
8 12 (6.86%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (5.14%) Figma
9 9 (5.14%) Vercel
10 8 (4.57%) Google Analytics
11 7 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.43%) npm
13 5 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.29%) SaaS
15 3 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) Broadband
2 2 (1.14%) AMQP
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.43%) Relational Database
2 30 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (16.00%) RDBMS
4 26 (14.86%) NoSQL
5 24 (13.71%) SQL Server
6 13 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (4.00%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.43%) MySQL
9 5 (2.86%) Redis
10 4 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.71%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.71%) Big Data
11 3 (1.71%) DB2
11 3 (1.71%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.71%) Power BI
12 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (17.14%) Git
2 23 (13.14%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.86%) JUnit
3 19 (10.86%) Mockito
4 18 (10.29%) JMeter
5 13 (7.43%) Cypress.io
6 9 (5.14%) JIRA
7 6 (3.43%) webpack
8 5 (2.86%) Mocha
8 5 (2.86%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.71%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.71%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.71%) Selenium
9 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.14%) Vite
11 1 (0.57%) Postman
11 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.57%) Xcode
11 1 (0.57%) XCTest
General
1 48 (27.43%) Finance
2 45 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.00%) Front Office
4 20 (11.43%) Banking
4 20 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.14%) Investment Banking
6 15 (8.57%) Law
7 12 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.14%) Legal
8 9 (5.14%) Retail
9 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.71%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.71%) Marketing
10 3 (1.71%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.57%) Back Office
11 1 (0.57%) Publishing
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (64.00%) React
2 61 (34.86%) HTML
3 57 (32.57%) AngularJS
4 49 (28.00%) REST
5 46 (26.29%) CSS
6 45 (25.71%) GraphQL
7 42 (24.00%) Node.js
8 35 (20.00%) .NET
9 33 (18.86%) Spring
10 32 (18.29%) Vue
11 26 (14.86%) RESTful
11 26 (14.86%) Web Services
12 22 (12.57%) JSON
13 21 (12.00%) Kafka
14 20 (11.43%) Spring Boot
15 19 (10.86%) Hibernate
15 19 (10.86%) jQuery
16 18 (10.29%) ActiveMQ
16 18 (10.29%) Apache Camel
16 18 (10.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (10.29%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (7.43%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.71%) Reference Data
5 9 (5.14%) Fixed Income
5 9 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.71%) Equities
8 3 (1.71%) Social Media
9 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.57%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.29%) Linux
1 4 (2.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 76 (43.43%) Agile
3 57 (32.57%) CI/CD
4 53 (30.29%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (21.71%) Microservices
6 36 (20.57%) User Experience
7 35 (20.00%) DevOps
8 34 (19.43%) AI
9 31 (17.71%) TDD
10 28 (16.00%) SDLC
11 27 (15.43%) UX Design
12 26 (14.86%) Test Automation
13 23 (13.14%) Workflow
14 21 (12.00%) Software Engineering
15 19 (10.86%) BDD
16 18 (10.29%) Computer Science
16 18 (10.29%) Containerisation
16 18 (10.29%) Process Management
17 17 (9.71%) Clean Code
17 17 (9.71%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 99 (56.57%) JavaScript
2 73 (41.71%) TypeScript
3 71 (40.57%) Python
4 69 (39.43%) Java
5 41 (23.43%) SQL
6 36 (20.57%) C#
7 19 (10.86%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.00%) Go
9 6 (3.43%) PHP
10 3 (1.71%) R
11 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.57%) Bash
12 1 (0.57%) Groovy
12 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.57%) RPG
12 1 (0.57%) Ruby
12 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (12.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.71%) Degree
3 15 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.71%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.71%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.43%) QA
3 4 (2.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (24.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (18.29%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.29%) Kibana
3 10 (5.71%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Argo
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (12.57%) Splunk
2 19 (10.86%) Dynatrace
3 12 (6.86%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.57%) Apple
5 3 (1.71%) Google
6 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe
7 1 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) IBM
7 1 (0.57%) iManage
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.57%) Sybase