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 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 233 130
Rank change year-on-year +19 -103 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 176 235 443
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.33% 1.37% 2.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.46% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 114 132 427
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -5.33% -
75th Percentile £109,375 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £110,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +10.20%

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 12,001 16,146 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 94.43% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7,915 9,771 14,135
10th Percentile £36,000 £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 £116,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 December 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 5 December 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 +22 31 £80,000 +28.00% 11
South London +37 18 - - 4
West London -1 1 - - 1
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 5 December 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.

1 176 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 114 (64.77%) React
3 95 (53.98%) JavaScript
4 85 (48.30%) AWS
5 75 (42.61%) TypeScript
6 74 (42.05%) Agile
7 71 (40.34%) Java
8 69 (39.20%) Python
9 58 (32.95%) HTML
10 54 (30.68%) CI/CD
11 53 (30.11%) AngularJS
12 49 (27.84%) Azure
13 47 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (26.14%) REST
15 44 (25.00%) Node.js
16 43 (24.43%) CSS
16 43 (24.43%) GraphQL
17 42 (23.86%) Docker
18 39 (22.16%) Microservices
19 37 (21.02%) Serverless
19 37 (21.02%) SQL
19 37 (21.02%) User Experience
20 34 (19.32%) C#
20 34 (19.32%) Relational Database
21 33 (18.75%) .NET
21 33 (18.75%) AI
21 33 (18.75%) Spring
22 32 (18.18%) Kubernetes
23 31 (17.61%) DevOps
24 30 (17.05%) PostgreSQL

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 (4.55%) Headless CMS
2 6 (3.41%) CMS
3 3 (1.70%) Confluence
3 3 (1.70%) nginx
4 2 (1.14%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (5.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (48.30%) AWS
2 49 (27.84%) Azure
3 37 (21.02%) Serverless
4 28 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (15.34%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (15.34%) GCP
6 19 (10.80%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (10.80%) GitHub
7 11 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.68%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (5.68%) Figma
9 9 (5.11%) Vercel
10 8 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.55%) Google Analytics
11 7 (3.98%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.41%) npm
13 5 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.84%) SaaS
14 3 (1.70%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) Broadband
2 2 (1.14%) AMQP
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.32%) Relational Database
2 30 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (15.91%) RDBMS
4 27 (15.34%) NoSQL
5 23 (13.07%) SQL Server
6 11 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.55%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.41%) MySQL
9 5 (2.84%) Redis
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.27%) DB2
11 3 (1.70%) Power BI
12 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.57%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.57%) Big Data
12 1 (0.57%) ClickHouse
12 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.57%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.57%) PostHog
12 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (14.77%) Git
2 24 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.23%) JMeter
3 18 (10.23%) JUnit
3 18 (10.23%) Mockito
4 13 (7.39%) Cypress.io
5 8 (4.55%) JIRA
6 6 (3.41%) webpack
7 5 (2.84%) Mocha
7 5 (2.84%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.27%) Selenium
8 4 (2.27%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.27%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.70%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.14%) Vite
11 1 (0.57%) GitLab
11 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 43 (24.43%) Finance
2 41 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.93%) Banking
4 20 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.80%) Front Office
6 17 (9.66%) Investment Banking
7 13 (7.39%) Law
8 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (5.68%) Retail
10 9 (5.11%) Legal
11 7 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.70%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.70%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.57%) Back Office
14 1 (0.57%) Marketing
14 1 (0.57%) Publishing
14 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (64.77%) React
2 58 (32.95%) HTML
3 53 (30.11%) AngularJS
4 46 (26.14%) REST
5 44 (25.00%) Node.js
6 43 (24.43%) CSS
6 43 (24.43%) GraphQL
7 33 (18.75%) .NET
7 33 (18.75%) Spring
8 30 (17.05%) Vue
9 28 (15.91%) RESTful
10 25 (14.20%) Web Services
11 22 (12.50%) JSON
12 21 (11.93%) Kafka
13 20 (11.36%) Next.js
14 19 (10.80%) jQuery
14 19 (10.80%) Spring Boot
15 18 (10.23%) ActiveMQ
15 18 (10.23%) Hibernate
15 18 (10.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (10.23%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (6.82%) Hedge funds
4 11 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (5.68%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.68%) Reference Data
6 8 (4.55%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.70%) Social Media
9 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) Equities
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%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.27%) Linux
2 3 (1.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Android
3 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 74 (42.05%) Agile
3 54 (30.68%) CI/CD
4 47 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (22.16%) Microservices
6 37 (21.02%) User Experience
7 33 (18.75%) AI
8 31 (17.61%) DevOps
9 28 (15.91%) SDLC
10 27 (15.34%) UX Design
11 26 (14.77%) TDD
11 26 (14.77%) Test Automation
12 21 (11.93%) Workflow
13 20 (11.36%) BDD
14 18 (10.23%) Process Management
14 18 (10.23%) Software Engineering
15 17 (9.66%) Containerisation
16 14 (7.95%) Analytics
16 14 (7.95%) Clean Code
16 14 (7.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 95 (53.98%) JavaScript
2 75 (42.61%) TypeScript
3 71 (40.34%) Java
4 69 (39.20%) Python
5 37 (21.02%) SQL
6 34 (19.32%) C#
7 18 (10.23%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.98%) Go
9 6 (3.41%) PHP
10 3 (1.70%) R
11 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.57%) Bash
12 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.57%) RPG
12 1 (0.57%) Ruby
12 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.82%) Degree
3 10 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.70%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.66%) Accessibility
2 10 (5.68%) QA
3 4 (2.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (23.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.23%) Kibana
3 6 (3.41%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Argo
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (10.80%) Splunk
2 18 (10.23%) Dynatrace
3 12 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.55%) Apple
5 3 (1.70%) Google
5 3 (1.70%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.57%) Databricks
6 1 (0.57%) IBM
6 1 (0.57%) iManage
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.57%) Sybase
6 1 (0.57%) WooCommerce