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 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 246 144
Rank change year-on-year +32 -102 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 217 152 542
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.01% 1.25% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.38% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 177 109 394
10th Percentile £55,000 £54,500 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -7.94% +8.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%

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 19,874 11,054 23,293
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 90.83% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,704 6,993 17,330
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,517 £37,283
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.86%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +23 57 £80,000 +10.34% 2
South London +20 4 - -
West London -15 2 £55,000 -13.39%
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 June 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.

1 217 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 95 (43.78%) React
3 77 (35.48%) TypeScript
4 64 (29.49%) AI
5 60 (27.65%) AWS
6 56 (25.81%) Python
7 54 (24.88%) JavaScript
8 50 (23.04%) Java
9 49 (22.58%) Software Engineering
10 47 (21.66%) .NET
11 46 (21.20%) Agile
12 43 (19.82%) Microservices
13 42 (19.35%) Azure
13 42 (19.35%) C#
14 40 (18.43%) CI/CD
15 39 (17.97%) Node.js
15 39 (17.97%) Security Cleared
15 39 (17.97%) Vue
16 38 (17.51%) AngularJS
16 38 (17.51%) SC Cleared
17 34 (15.67%) Docker
18 31 (14.29%) DevOps
19 29 (13.36%) RESTful
20 27 (12.44%) Git
21 26 (11.98%) CSS
21 26 (11.98%) HTML
21 26 (11.98%) SaaS
22 23 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
22 23 (10.60%) Next.js
23 21 (9.68%) 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 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.92%) Confluence
2 2 (0.92%) Liferay
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.65%) AWS
2 42 (19.35%) Azure
3 26 (11.98%) SaaS
4 19 (8.76%) GitHub
5 16 (7.37%) GCP
6 15 (6.91%) Serverless
7 11 (5.07%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.30%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.30%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (2.30%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.84%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (1.84%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.84%) DNS
1 4 (1.84%) HTTP
2 2 (0.92%) Broadband
2 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.53%) MySQL
3 9 (4.15%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.69%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.69%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.84%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.92%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.46%) Db2
8 1 (0.46%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (12.44%) Git
2 11 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.69%) Claude Code
4 6 (2.76%) GitLab
5 4 (1.84%) JIRA
6 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.38%) Maven
7 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.92%) ESLint
7 2 (0.92%) JMeter
7 2 (0.92%) JUnit
7 2 (0.92%) Mockito
8 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.46%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.46%) Selenium
8 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.46%) Storybook
8 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (17.51%) Finance
2 37 (17.05%) Social Skills
3 12 (5.53%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.07%) Front Office
5 7 (3.23%) Banking
6 6 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.38%) Law
8 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Legal
9 2 (0.92%) Legal Technology
9 2 (0.92%) Retail
10 1 (0.46%) Advertising
10 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (43.78%) React
2 47 (21.66%) .NET
3 39 (17.97%) Node.js
3 39 (17.97%) Vue
4 38 (17.51%) AngularJS
5 29 (13.36%) RESTful
6 26 (11.98%) CSS
6 26 (11.98%) HTML
7 23 (10.60%) Next.js
8 21 (9.68%) GraphQL
8 21 (9.68%) Spring
8 21 (9.68%) Spring Boot
9 14 (6.45%) Kafka
9 14 (6.45%) REST
10 13 (5.99%) Blazor
10 13 (5.99%) NestJS
11 11 (5.07%) Laravel
12 10 (4.61%) Django
13 9 (4.15%) Redux
14 8 (3.69%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.07%) Fixed Income
3 7 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.84%) PropTech
6 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.92%) Animation
7 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.46%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.92%) Android
1 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 64 (29.49%) AI
3 49 (22.58%) Software Engineering
4 46 (21.20%) Agile
5 43 (19.82%) Microservices
6 40 (18.43%) CI/CD
7 31 (14.29%) DevOps
8 23 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (9.68%) Mentoring
9 21 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (8.76%) Containerisation
11 16 (7.37%) Decision-Making
12 15 (6.91%) API Design
12 15 (6.91%) Code Quality
12 15 (6.91%) Computer Science
12 15 (6.91%) User Experience
13 12 (5.53%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (5.53%) Scrum
13 12 (5.53%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (5.07%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.48%) TypeScript
2 56 (25.81%) Python
3 54 (24.88%) JavaScript
4 50 (23.04%) Java
5 42 (19.35%) C#
6 18 (8.29%) SQL
7 11 (5.07%) PHP
8 9 (4.15%) Go
9 3 (1.38%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.92%) C++
11 1 (0.46%) Bash
11 1 (0.46%) Bicep
11 1 (0.46%) C
11 1 (0.46%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 39 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.83%) Degree
4 15 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.92%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.30%) QA
2 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.38%) WCAG
3 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (15.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.53%) Terraform
3 4 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.92%) Ansible
4 2 (0.92%) Kibana
4 2 (0.92%) Podman
5 1 (0.46%) Argo
5 1 (0.46%) Grafana
5 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (9.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.30%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.84%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.38%) Google
4 3 (1.38%) Oracle
5 2 (0.92%) Aderant
5 2 (0.92%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.92%) iManage
5 2 (0.92%) Intapp
5 2 (0.92%) OneLogin
5 2 (0.92%) Splunk
5 2 (0.92%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.46%) Databricks
6 1 (0.46%) SendGrid