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 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 233 147
Rank change year-on-year +27 -86 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 220 148 530
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.04% 1.21% 2.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.34% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 176 107 391
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,750 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%

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 19,532 11,040 22,930
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 90.26% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,446 6,934 17,034
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
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 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,400 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +9.52% -12.98%

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 9 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 9 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 +27 60 £80,000 +10.34% 3
South London +17 5 £70,000 -
West London -12 2 £55,000 -13.39% 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 220 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 95 (43.18%) React
3 78 (35.45%) TypeScript
4 63 (28.64%) AI
5 56 (25.45%) AWS
6 55 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 53 (24.09%) Java
7 53 (24.09%) Python
8 51 (23.18%) Software Engineering
9 46 (20.91%) .NET
10 44 (20.00%) Agile
10 44 (20.00%) Microservices
11 42 (19.09%) C#
12 40 (18.18%) CI/CD
13 39 (17.73%) Node.js
13 39 (17.73%) Security Cleared
14 38 (17.27%) SC Cleared
15 37 (16.82%) AngularJS
15 37 (16.82%) Azure
15 37 (16.82%) Vue
16 33 (15.00%) DevOps
17 32 (14.55%) Docker
18 31 (14.09%) Git
19 30 (13.64%) RESTful
20 28 (12.73%) CSS
21 27 (12.27%) HTML
21 27 (12.27%) SaaS
22 25 (11.36%) Next.js
23 22 (10.00%) Mentoring
23 22 (10.00%) Spring

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 (1.36%) Confluence
1 3 (1.36%) Liferay
1 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.45%) AWS
2 37 (16.82%) Azure
3 27 (12.27%) SaaS
4 18 (8.18%) Serverless
5 15 (6.82%) GitHub
6 13 (5.91%) GCP
7 11 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (2.73%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
12 5 (2.27%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (1.82%) Cloud Functions
14 3 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.82%) DNS
1 4 (1.82%) HTTP
2 2 (0.91%) Broadband
2 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.45%) MySQL
3 10 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.64%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.64%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.82%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.91%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.91%) Db2
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.45%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (14.09%) Git
2 9 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.18%) Claude Code
4 5 (2.27%) JIRA
5 4 (1.82%) GitLab
6 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.36%) ESLint
6 3 (1.36%) Maven
7 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.91%) JMeter
7 2 (0.91%) JUnit
7 2 (0.91%) Mockito
7 2 (0.91%) Selenium
7 2 (0.91%) Storybook
7 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.45%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (18.18%) Finance
2 36 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.00%) Front Office
4 10 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.09%) Banking
6 8 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.82%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Law
9 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.91%) Legal
9 2 (0.91%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Advertising
10 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (43.18%) React
2 46 (20.91%) .NET
3 39 (17.73%) Node.js
4 37 (16.82%) AngularJS
4 37 (16.82%) Vue
5 30 (13.64%) RESTful
6 28 (12.73%) CSS
7 27 (12.27%) HTML
8 25 (11.36%) Next.js
9 22 (10.00%) Spring
10 21 (9.55%) GraphQL
10 21 (9.55%) Spring Boot
11 16 (7.27%) REST
12 14 (6.36%) Blazor
12 14 (6.36%) Kafka
13 12 (5.45%) NestJS
14 11 (5.00%) Laravel
15 10 (4.55%) Django
16 9 (4.09%) CSS3
16 9 (4.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.18%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 7 (3.18%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.82%) PropTech
7 3 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.91%) Animation
8 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.45%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.91%) Android
1 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 63 (28.64%) AI
3 51 (23.18%) Software Engineering
4 44 (20.00%) Agile
4 44 (20.00%) Microservices
5 40 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 33 (15.00%) DevOps
7 22 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 21 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (7.73%) Containerisation
11 16 (7.27%) Decision-Making
12 15 (6.82%) API Design
12 15 (6.82%) Code Quality
12 15 (6.82%) Scrum
12 15 (6.82%) User Experience
13 14 (6.36%) Computer Science
14 13 (5.91%) Performance Optimisation
14 13 (5.91%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (5.45%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 78 (35.45%) TypeScript
2 55 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 53 (24.09%) Java
3 53 (24.09%) Python
4 42 (19.09%) C#
5 20 (9.09%) SQL
6 13 (5.91%) PHP
7 9 (4.09%) Go
8 4 (1.82%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.91%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) Bash
11 1 (0.45%) Bicep
11 1 (0.45%) C
11 1 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 39 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 38 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.27%) Degree
4 14 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.73%) QA
2 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.91%) WCAG
3 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (14.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.00%) Terraform
3 4 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.36%) Ansible
5 2 (0.91%) Kibana
5 2 (0.91%) Podman
6 1 (0.45%) Argo
6 1 (0.45%) Grafana
6 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.27%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.82%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.82%) Google
4 3 (1.36%) Oracle
5 2 (0.91%) Aderant
5 2 (0.91%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.91%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.91%) iManage
5 2 (0.91%) Intapp
5 2 (0.91%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.91%) Splunk
5 2 (0.91%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.45%) Databricks