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 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 241 138
Rank change year-on-year +43 -103 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 226 162 487
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 1.26% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.39% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 168 117 411
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £102,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%

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 17,289 11,677 21,366
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.76% 90.62% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 11,607 7,540 16,623
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,000
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 £93,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 +30 59 £80,000 +14.29% 14
South London +20 5 £70,000 - 1
West London -22 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 April 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.

1 226 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 107 (47.35%) React
3 78 (34.51%) Java
4 76 (33.63%) TypeScript
5 62 (27.43%) AI
6 60 (26.55%) Python
7 59 (26.11%) JavaScript
8 56 (24.78%) AWS
9 48 (21.24%) CI/CD
10 47 (20.80%) Agile
10 47 (20.80%) Node.js
11 40 (17.70%) Security Cleared
12 39 (17.26%) Software Engineering
13 38 (16.81%) AngularJS
13 38 (16.81%) Microservices
13 38 (16.81%) Vue
14 34 (15.04%) Azure
14 34 (15.04%) DevOps
14 34 (15.04%) Docker
15 33 (14.60%) SC Cleared
16 30 (13.27%) .NET
17 29 (12.83%) Git
18 28 (12.39%) CSS
18 28 (12.39%) HTML
19 27 (11.95%) C#
20 26 (11.50%) Next.js
20 26 (11.50%) RESTful
20 26 (11.50%) SaaS
21 25 (11.06%) SQL
22 24 (10.62%) REST

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 6 (2.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) Liferay
2 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (24.78%) AWS
2 34 (15.04%) Azure
3 26 (11.50%) SaaS
4 21 (9.29%) Serverless
5 18 (7.96%) GitHub
6 16 (7.08%) GCP
7 13 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.65%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.33%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.33%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (1.33%) Figma
12 3 (1.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) AMQP
2 1 (0.44%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) DNS
2 1 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.96%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.64%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.54%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.54%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.54%) MySQL
4 8 (3.54%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.10%) RDBMS
6 6 (2.65%) DB2
7 5 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.77%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.33%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.88%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.44%) Power BI
11 1 (0.44%) Redis
11 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (12.83%) Git
2 15 (6.64%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.10%) JIRA
4 6 (2.65%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.65%) Selenium
4 6 (2.65%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.21%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.77%) webpack
7 3 (1.33%) ESLint
7 3 (1.33%) JMeter
7 3 (1.33%) JUnit
7 3 (1.33%) Mockito
8 2 (0.88%) GitLab
8 2 (0.88%) Mocha
8 2 (0.88%) Storybook
9 1 (0.44%) Maven
9 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (16.81%) Finance
2 36 (15.93%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.18%) Banking
4 15 (6.64%) Investment Banking
5 14 (6.19%) Front Office
6 12 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.42%) Retail
8 9 (3.98%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.77%) Law
11 3 (1.33%) Legal
11 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Back Office
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (47.35%) React
2 47 (20.80%) Node.js
3 38 (16.81%) AngularJS
3 38 (16.81%) Vue
4 30 (13.27%) .NET
5 28 (12.39%) CSS
5 28 (12.39%) HTML
6 26 (11.50%) Next.js
6 26 (11.50%) RESTful
7 24 (10.62%) REST
8 22 (9.73%) GraphQL
8 22 (9.73%) Spring
9 18 (7.96%) Kafka
10 17 (7.52%) WebSockets
11 15 (6.64%) Spring Boot
12 14 (6.19%) Laravel
13 13 (5.75%) Django
14 9 (3.98%) React Native
14 9 (3.98%) Redux
15 8 (3.54%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.64%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (5.75%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.87%) Fixed Income
3 11 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.21%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.77%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.77%) PropTech
8 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.33%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.88%) Animation
9 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.33%) Android
1 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 62 (27.43%) AI
3 48 (21.24%) CI/CD
4 47 (20.80%) Agile
5 39 (17.26%) Software Engineering
6 38 (16.81%) Microservices
7 34 (15.04%) DevOps
8 23 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (9.29%) User Experience
10 18 (7.96%) Test Automation
11 17 (7.52%) SDLC
12 15 (6.64%) Computer Science
13 14 (6.19%) Generative AI
14 13 (5.75%) Containerisation
14 13 (5.75%) Scrum
15 12 (5.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (5.31%) Front End Development
16 11 (4.87%) Data Pipeline
16 11 (4.87%) Decision-Making
16 11 (4.87%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 78 (34.51%) Java
2 76 (33.63%) TypeScript
3 60 (26.55%) Python
4 59 (26.11%) JavaScript
5 27 (11.95%) C#
6 25 (11.06%) SQL
7 15 (6.64%) PHP
8 8 (3.54%) Go
9 5 (2.21%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.88%) RPG
12 1 (0.44%) Bash
12 1 (0.44%) Bicep
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 33 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.64%) Degree
4 14 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.65%) QA
2 4 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (15.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.10%) Terraform
3 3 (1.33%) Kibana
4 1 (0.44%) Ansible
4 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.44%) Podman
4 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (3.98%) Microsoft
1 9 (3.98%) OpenAI
2 5 (2.21%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.33%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.33%) Google
3 3 (1.33%) Splunk
3 3 (1.33%) WooCommerce
4 2 (0.88%) Aderant
4 2 (0.88%) AppDynamics
4 2 (0.88%) IBM
4 2 (0.88%) iManage
4 2 (0.88%) Intapp
4 2 (0.88%) SendGrid
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe
5 1 (0.44%) Databricks
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle