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 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 246 154
Rank change year-on-year +48 -92 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 230 165 489
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 1.28% 2.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.41% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 174 117 403
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,050
25th Percentile £65,000 £59,250 £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 £86,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £102,500 £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 17,754 11,701 21,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 90.63% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,912 7,555 16,645
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.37%

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 19 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 19 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 +40 62 £80,000 +14.29% 6
South London +14 5 £70,000 -
West London -24 3 - - 4
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 230 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 108 (46.96%) React
3 78 (33.91%) TypeScript
4 75 (32.61%) Java
5 62 (26.96%) AI
6 60 (26.09%) Python
7 58 (25.22%) JavaScript
8 56 (24.35%) AWS
9 49 (21.30%) CI/CD
9 49 (21.30%) Node.js
10 45 (19.57%) Agile
11 42 (18.26%) Software Engineering
11 42 (18.26%) Vue
12 41 (17.83%) Security Cleared
13 38 (16.52%) AngularJS
13 38 (16.52%) Microservices
14 36 (15.65%) DevOps
15 35 (15.22%) Docker
15 35 (15.22%) SC Cleared
16 30 (13.04%) .NET
16 30 (13.04%) Azure
17 29 (12.61%) C#
17 29 (12.61%) Git
17 29 (12.61%) Next.js
18 28 (12.17%) CSS
18 28 (12.17%) RESTful
19 27 (11.74%) HTML
19 27 (11.74%) SaaS
20 24 (10.43%) GraphQL
20 24 (10.43%) SQL

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 (2.61%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) Liferay
2 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.87%) nginx
4 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (24.35%) AWS
2 30 (13.04%) Azure
3 27 (11.74%) SaaS
4 20 (8.70%) Serverless
5 18 (7.83%) GitHub
6 15 (6.52%) GCP
7 13 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.48%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.61%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (2.61%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.74%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (1.30%) Amazon Cognito
13 3 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.30%) Figma
13 3 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) DNS
1 3 (1.30%) HTTP
2 2 (0.87%) AMQP
2 2 (0.87%) Broadband
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.26%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.65%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.91%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.48%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.48%) MySQL
6 5 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.17%) DB2
6 5 (2.17%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.74%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.30%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.87%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.43%) Power BI
10 1 (0.43%) Redis
10 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (12.61%) Git
2 14 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.04%) JIRA
4 5 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.17%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.17%) Selenium
4 5 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.74%) webpack
6 3 (1.30%) ESLint
6 3 (1.30%) GitLab
7 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.87%) JMeter
7 2 (0.87%) JUnit
7 2 (0.87%) Mocha
7 2 (0.87%) Mockito
7 2 (0.87%) Storybook
8 1 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (16.09%) Finance
2 35 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.13%) Banking
4 14 (6.09%) Investment Banking
5 13 (5.65%) Front Office
6 11 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.91%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.91%) Retail
8 6 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.30%) Law
9 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (46.96%) React
2 49 (21.30%) Node.js
3 42 (18.26%) Vue
4 38 (16.52%) AngularJS
5 30 (13.04%) .NET
6 29 (12.61%) Next.js
7 28 (12.17%) CSS
7 28 (12.17%) RESTful
8 27 (11.74%) HTML
9 24 (10.43%) GraphQL
10 23 (10.00%) REST
11 21 (9.13%) Spring
12 17 (7.39%) Kafka
13 16 (6.96%) Laravel
13 16 (6.96%) WebSockets
14 15 (6.52%) Spring Boot
15 13 (5.65%) Django
16 9 (3.91%) React Native
16 9 (3.91%) Redux
17 8 (3.48%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.52%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.09%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.78%) Fixed Income
4 9 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.74%) PropTech
9 3 (1.30%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.87%) Animation
10 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.43%) Equities
11 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.30%) Android
1 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 62 (26.96%) AI
3 49 (21.30%) CI/CD
4 45 (19.57%) Agile
5 42 (18.26%) Software Engineering
6 38 (16.52%) Microservices
7 36 (15.65%) DevOps
8 21 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (8.26%) User Experience
10 16 (6.96%) Containerisation
10 16 (6.96%) Test Automation
11 15 (6.52%) SDLC
12 14 (6.09%) Computer Science
12 14 (6.09%) Generative AI
12 14 (6.09%) Scrum
13 13 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (5.65%) Mentoring
14 12 (5.22%) Performance Optimisation
15 11 (4.78%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 11 (4.78%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 78 (33.91%) TypeScript
2 75 (32.61%) Java
3 60 (26.09%) Python
4 58 (25.22%) JavaScript
5 29 (12.61%) C#
6 24 (10.43%) SQL
7 17 (7.39%) PHP
8 8 (3.48%) Go
9 4 (1.74%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.87%) RPG
12 1 (0.43%) Bash
12 1 (0.43%) Bicep
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.52%) Degree
4 14 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.17%) QA
2 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (15.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.35%) Terraform
3 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.87%) Ansible
4 2 (0.87%) Kibana
4 2 (0.87%) Podman
5 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 9 (3.91%) OpenAI
2 8 (3.48%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.74%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.74%) Google
4 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.30%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.87%) Aderant
5 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.87%) IBM
5 2 (0.87%) iManage
5 2 (0.87%) Intapp
5 2 (0.87%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.87%) Splunk
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe
6 1 (0.43%) Databricks
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle