Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 227 195
Rank change year-on-year -19 -32 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 212 156 323
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.82% 1.33% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.46% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 152 102 175
10th Percentile £47,500 £59,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £78,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -7.35% +13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 24,003 10,661 17,613
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 90.97% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,104 6,886 10,855
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -2 20 £85,000 +17.24% 14
East London - 6 £43,750 -
West London -12 5 £55,000 -13.39% 1
South London -12 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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.

1 212 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 84 (39.62%) React
3 75 (35.38%) AWS
4 63 (29.72%) TypeScript
5 62 (29.25%) Azure
6 59 (27.83%) JavaScript
7 58 (27.36%) CI/CD
8 55 (25.94%) Agile
8 55 (25.94%) AI
9 47 (22.17%) Microservices
9 47 (22.17%) Node.js
10 43 (20.28%) .NET
10 43 (20.28%) Docker
10 43 (20.28%) Microsoft
10 43 (20.28%) Python
11 39 (18.40%) C#
12 38 (17.92%) GitHub
12 38 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (17.45%) Software Engineering
14 36 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (16.51%) HTML
16 34 (16.04%) AngularJS
17 33 (15.57%) CSS
17 33 (15.57%) Java
18 27 (12.74%) Git
19 26 (12.26%) GCP
19 26 (12.26%) REST
19 26 (12.26%) RESTful
20 25 (11.79%) Degree
20 25 (11.79%) 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 4 (1.89%) WordPress
2 3 (1.42%) Confluence
2 3 (1.42%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (35.38%) AWS
2 62 (29.25%) Azure
3 38 (17.92%) GitHub
4 26 (12.26%) GCP
5 18 (8.49%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (6.13%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (5.66%) SaaS
7 12 (5.66%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.77%) Serverless
9 6 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.36%) Azure Event Grid
10 5 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.89%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.89%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.89%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.42%) DNS
1 3 (1.42%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.96%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.72%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.25%) Redis
5 7 (3.30%) MySQL
5 7 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.89%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (12.74%) Git
2 21 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.25%) Claude Code
3 9 (4.25%) Vite
4 6 (2.83%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.36%) GitLab
6 4 (1.89%) Storybook
7 3 (1.42%) JIRA
7 3 (1.42%) Maven
7 3 (1.42%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.42%) webpack
8 2 (0.94%) JMeter
8 2 (0.94%) JUnit
8 2 (0.94%) Mockito
9 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.47%) Codeship
9 1 (0.47%) Moq
9 1 (0.47%) NUnit
9 1 (0.47%) Plastic SCM
9 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.21%) Finance
3 15 (7.08%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.36%) Legal
5 4 (1.89%) Banking
6 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.42%) Legal Technology
6 3 (1.42%) Tech for Good
7 2 (0.94%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.94%) Front Office
7 2 (0.94%) Law
7 2 (0.94%) Retail
8 1 (0.47%) Advertising
8 1 (0.47%) Back Office
8 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (39.62%) React
2 47 (22.17%) Node.js
3 43 (20.28%) .NET
4 35 (16.51%) HTML
5 34 (16.04%) AngularJS
6 33 (15.57%) CSS
7 26 (12.26%) REST
7 26 (12.26%) RESTful
8 24 (11.32%) Vue
9 23 (10.85%) Spring
9 23 (10.85%) Spring Boot
10 22 (10.38%) Next.js
11 19 (8.96%) NestJS
12 14 (6.60%) Blazor
13 11 (5.19%) Express.js
13 11 (5.19%) Terraform
14 10 (4.72%) GraphQL
14 10 (4.72%) Playwright
14 10 (4.72%) Sass
15 8 (3.77%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.60%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.30%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.94%) IoT
7 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.94%) NHS
7 2 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.47%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.47%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 58 (27.36%) CI/CD
3 55 (25.94%) Agile
3 55 (25.94%) AI
4 47 (22.17%) Microservices
5 38 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (17.45%) Software Engineering
7 36 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (11.32%) Computer Science
9 23 (10.85%) Mentoring
10 21 (9.91%) Containerisation
10 21 (9.91%) DevOps
11 18 (8.49%) E-Commerce
12 17 (8.02%) Code Quality
12 17 (8.02%) User Experience
13 16 (7.55%) Customer Experience
14 15 (7.08%) Clean Code
14 15 (7.08%) LLM
14 15 (7.08%) Responsive Web Design
15 14 (6.60%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 63 (29.72%) TypeScript
2 59 (27.83%) JavaScript
3 43 (20.28%) Python
4 39 (18.40%) C#
5 33 (15.57%) Java
6 25 (11.79%) SQL
7 12 (5.66%) Kotlin
8 9 (4.25%) Ruby
9 6 (2.83%) PHP
10 5 (2.36%) Rust
11 4 (1.89%) C++
12 2 (0.94%) Go
12 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.47%) Bash
13 1 (0.47%) Bicep
13 1 (0.47%) C
13 1 (0.47%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (11.79%) Degree
2 24 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.13%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.72%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.94%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.72%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.36%) WCAG
3 3 (1.42%) QA
4 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (20.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (10.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.89%) Grafana
3 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.94%) Ansible
4 2 (0.94%) Argo
4 2 (0.94%) Kibana
4 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 43 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.66%) Oracle
3 10 (4.72%) OutSystems
3 10 (4.72%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.89%) Google
5 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.94%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.94%) Splunk
7 1 (0.47%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.47%) Databricks
7 1 (0.47%) NEC
7 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.47%) Salesforce