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 20 February 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 255 138
Rank change year-on-year +68 -117 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 215 171 463
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.37% 1.15% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.26% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 147 103 424
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,250 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £106,875 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £109,000 £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 14,375 13,595 19,965
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 91.43% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,586 7,889 16,128
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -0.81%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +55 61 £80,000 +23.08% 7
South London +45 10 £70,000 - 2
West London -9 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 February 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.

1 215 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 112 (52.09%) React
3 87 (40.47%) Java
4 69 (32.09%) TypeScript
5 68 (31.63%) JavaScript
6 62 (28.84%) Python
7 60 (27.91%) AWS
8 57 (26.51%) AI
9 52 (24.19%) Agile
10 50 (23.26%) CI/CD
11 43 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (19.07%) Node.js
13 40 (18.60%) Azure
14 39 (18.14%) Microservices
15 38 (17.67%) Docker
15 38 (17.67%) Security Cleared
16 36 (16.74%) AngularJS
16 36 (16.74%) REST
17 35 (16.28%) HTML
18 33 (15.35%) DevOps
19 31 (14.42%) .NET
19 31 (14.42%) Kubernetes
19 31 (14.42%) Spring
20 30 (13.95%) CSS
21 28 (13.02%) Git
21 28 (13.02%) SQL
21 28 (13.02%) User Experience
22 27 (12.56%) PostgreSQL
23 25 (11.63%) Vue
24 24 (11.16%) C#

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 (2.79%) Confluence
2 3 (1.40%) Liferay
3 2 (0.93%) nginx
3 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.91%) AWS
2 40 (18.60%) Azure
3 23 (10.70%) GitHub
3 23 (10.70%) Serverless
4 18 (8.37%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (8.37%) GCP
5 14 (6.51%) SaaS
6 12 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.79%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.33%) npm
10 4 (1.86%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.40%) Figma
11 3 (1.40%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) AMQP
1 2 (0.93%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.56%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.77%) NoSQL
2 21 (9.77%) SQL Server
3 20 (9.30%) Relational Database
4 17 (7.91%) RDBMS
5 9 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.72%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.26%) DB2
8 6 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.79%) MySQL
9 3 (1.40%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.93%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.93%) Redis
11 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.47%) Power BI
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (13.02%) Git
2 21 (9.77%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.19%) JIRA
3 9 (4.19%) JMeter
3 9 (4.19%) JUnit
3 9 (4.19%) Mockito
4 7 (3.26%) Cucumber
4 7 (3.26%) Selenium
4 7 (3.26%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.79%) webpack
6 5 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.86%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.86%) Mocha
8 3 (1.40%) ESLint
9 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.93%) Storybook
10 1 (0.47%) GitLab
10 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.47%) Vite
General
1 40 (18.60%) Finance
2 37 (17.21%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.49%) Banking
4 21 (9.77%) Investment Banking
5 17 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.98%) Front Office
7 13 (6.05%) Law
8 11 (5.12%) Retail
9 10 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (4.65%) Legal
9 10 (4.65%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.47%) Back Office
13 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (52.09%) React
2 41 (19.07%) Node.js
3 36 (16.74%) AngularJS
3 36 (16.74%) REST
4 35 (16.28%) HTML
5 31 (14.42%) .NET
5 31 (14.42%) Spring
6 30 (13.95%) CSS
7 25 (11.63%) Vue
8 23 (10.70%) WebSockets
9 21 (9.77%) Next.js
10 20 (9.30%) RESTful
11 18 (8.37%) Kafka
12 17 (7.91%) Django
12 17 (7.91%) GraphQL
12 17 (7.91%) Spring Boot
13 13 (6.05%) FastAPI
14 12 (5.58%) Flask
15 10 (4.65%) .NET Core
15 10 (4.65%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.84%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (7.44%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.19%) Hedge funds
4 9 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.72%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.72%) Reference Data
6 7 (3.26%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.26%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.93%) Animation
9 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Social Media
10 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.40%) Android
1 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.93%) Linux
2 2 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 57 (26.51%) AI
3 52 (24.19%) Agile
4 50 (23.26%) CI/CD
5 43 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (18.14%) Microservices
7 33 (15.35%) DevOps
8 28 (13.02%) User Experience
9 23 (10.70%) Software Engineering
10 21 (9.77%) SDLC
11 20 (9.30%) Test Automation
12 18 (8.37%) TDD
13 17 (7.91%) Containerisation
14 16 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (6.98%) BDD
15 15 (6.98%) UX Design
16 14 (6.51%) Front End Development
17 13 (6.05%) Machine Learning
18 12 (5.58%) Clean Code
18 12 (5.58%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 87 (40.47%) Java
2 69 (32.09%) TypeScript
3 68 (31.63%) JavaScript
4 62 (28.84%) Python
5 28 (13.02%) SQL
6 24 (11.16%) C#
7 15 (6.98%) PHP
8 11 (5.12%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.33%) Go
10 3 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.93%) R
11 2 (0.93%) RPG
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.12%) Degree
4 10 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.19%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.79%) WCAG
3 5 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 38 (17.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.19%) Kibana
3 7 (3.26%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (4.19%) Dynatrace
1 9 (4.19%) Splunk
2 8 (3.72%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.72%) OpenAI
3 5 (2.33%) Google
4 3 (1.40%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.40%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.93%) IBM
5 2 (0.93%) iManage
5 2 (0.93%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.47%) Aderant
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) Intapp
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat