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 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 244 144
Rank change year-on-year +38 -100 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 219 153 477
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.22% 1.19% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.31% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 160 113 413
10th Percentile £59,500 £49,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £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 16,445 11,663 20,970
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.76% 90.80% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 11,024 7,552 16,476
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 31 March 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 31 March 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 58 £80,000 +28.00% 14
South London +29 6 £70,000 - 1
West London -21 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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.

1 219 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 108 (49.32%) React
3 82 (37.44%) Java
4 74 (33.79%) TypeScript
5 62 (28.31%) JavaScript
6 60 (27.40%) Python
7 57 (26.03%) AI
8 56 (25.57%) AWS
9 49 (22.37%) CI/CD
9 49 (22.37%) Node.js
10 48 (21.92%) Agile
11 39 (17.81%) AngularJS
12 38 (17.35%) Security Cleared
13 37 (16.89%) Microservices
13 37 (16.89%) Vue
14 36 (16.44%) Azure
15 35 (15.98%) Docker
15 35 (15.98%) Software Engineering
16 32 (14.61%) DevOps
17 30 (13.70%) SC Cleared
18 29 (13.24%) HTML
18 29 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
19 28 (12.79%) .NET
19 28 (12.79%) CSS
19 28 (12.79%) Git
20 27 (12.33%) SQL
21 26 (11.87%) REST
22 25 (11.42%) Kubernetes
23 24 (10.96%) C#
23 24 (10.96%) Next.js

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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 3 (1.37%) Liferay
2 3 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.91%) nginx
4 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.57%) AWS
2 36 (16.44%) Azure
3 24 (10.96%) SaaS
4 21 (9.59%) GitHub
5 20 (9.13%) GCP
6 19 (8.68%) Serverless
7 9 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (3.20%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (2.74%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.28%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.37%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.37%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (1.37%) Figma
12 3 (1.37%) npm
12 3 (1.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.91%) AMQP
1 2 (0.91%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.13%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.31%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.57%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.65%) MySQL
5 8 (3.65%) RDBMS
6 7 (3.20%) DB2
7 5 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.37%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.37%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.91%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.46%) Power BI
11 1 (0.46%) Redis
11 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (12.79%) Git
2 17 (7.76%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.65%) JIRA
4 7 (3.20%) Cucumber
4 7 (3.20%) Selenium
4 7 (3.20%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.28%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.28%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.28%) webpack
6 4 (1.83%) JMeter
6 4 (1.83%) JUnit
6 4 (1.83%) Mockito
7 3 (1.37%) ESLint
7 3 (1.37%) Mocha
8 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.91%) GitLab
8 2 (0.91%) Storybook
9 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 39 (17.81%) Finance
2 38 (17.35%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.87%) Banking
4 17 (7.76%) Investment Banking
5 15 (6.85%) Front Office
6 13 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.02%) Retail
8 7 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.20%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.28%) Law
10 4 (1.83%) Legal
10 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
12 1 (0.46%) Back Office
12 1 (0.46%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (49.32%) React
2 49 (22.37%) Node.js
3 39 (17.81%) AngularJS
4 37 (16.89%) Vue
5 29 (13.24%) HTML
6 28 (12.79%) .NET
6 28 (12.79%) CSS
7 26 (11.87%) REST
8 24 (10.96%) Next.js
8 24 (10.96%) Spring
9 23 (10.50%) RESTful
10 20 (9.13%) GraphQL
11 19 (8.68%) WebSockets
12 18 (8.22%) Kafka
13 15 (6.85%) Django
13 15 (6.85%) Spring Boot
14 13 (5.94%) Laravel
15 10 (4.57%) FastAPI
16 9 (4.11%) Redux
17 8 (3.65%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.31%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.02%) Fixed Income
4 9 (4.11%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.28%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.83%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.37%) PropTech
9 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.91%) Animation
9 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.46%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.37%) Android
1 3 (1.37%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 57 (26.03%) AI
3 49 (22.37%) CI/CD
4 48 (21.92%) Agile
5 37 (16.89%) Microservices
6 35 (15.98%) Software Engineering
7 32 (14.61%) DevOps
8 29 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (9.13%) User Experience
10 19 (8.68%) SDLC
11 16 (7.31%) Computer Science
11 16 (7.31%) Test Automation
12 15 (6.85%) Containerisation
13 13 (5.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (5.94%) Front End Development
13 13 (5.94%) Machine Learning
13 13 (5.94%) TDD
14 12 (5.48%) Generative AI
14 12 (5.48%) Mentoring
14 12 (5.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 82 (37.44%) Java
2 74 (33.79%) TypeScript
3 62 (28.31%) JavaScript
4 60 (27.40%) Python
5 27 (12.33%) SQL
6 24 (10.96%) C#
7 15 (6.85%) PHP
8 8 (3.65%) Go
9 6 (2.74%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.37%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.91%) RPG
12 1 (0.46%) Bash
12 1 (0.46%) Bicep
12 1 (0.46%) Groovy
12 1 (0.46%) R
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.31%) Degree
4 15 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.28%) QA
2 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (15.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (11.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.28%) Terraform
3 4 (1.83%) Kibana
4 1 (0.46%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Argo
4 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.46%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (4.11%) OpenAI
2 8 (3.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.28%) Google
4 4 (1.83%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.83%) Splunk
5 3 (1.37%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.37%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.91%) Aderant
6 2 (0.91%) IBM
6 2 (0.91%) iManage
6 2 (0.91%) Intapp
6 2 (0.91%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe
7 1 (0.46%) Databricks
7 1 (0.46%) Red Hat