Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in London is £78,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 215 161
Rank change year-on-year -42 -54 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 190 186 397
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 1.51% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.64% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 161 130 255
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £136,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 21,705 11,334 18,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 91.83% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 14,887 7,394 13,004
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 3 August 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 3 August 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 33 £85,000 +17.24% 4
West London -25 5 £55,000 -13.39% 2
South London -10 4 - -
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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.

1 190 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 84 (44.21%) React
3 68 (35.79%) TypeScript
4 65 (34.21%) AWS
5 53 (27.89%) Python
6 52 (27.37%) AI
7 51 (26.84%) JavaScript
8 48 (25.26%) Agile
9 46 (24.21%) .NET
10 45 (23.68%) Software Engineering
11 44 (23.16%) CI/CD
12 43 (22.63%) C#
13 42 (22.11%) Azure
13 42 (22.11%) Node.js
14 39 (20.53%) Microservices
15 38 (20.00%) AngularJS
16 34 (17.89%) Vue
17 32 (16.84%) Docker
18 30 (15.79%) Java
19 27 (14.21%) Git
20 26 (13.68%) GitHub
21 25 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
22 24 (12.63%) HTML
22 24 (12.63%) Microsoft
22 24 (12.63%) Next.js
22 24 (12.63%) RESTful
23 22 (11.58%) CSS
23 22 (11.58%) Degree
23 22 (11.58%) DevOps
23 22 (11.58%) GraphQL

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 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 65 (34.21%) AWS
2 42 (22.11%) Azure
3 26 (13.68%) GitHub
4 20 (10.53%) GCP
4 20 (10.53%) SaaS
5 13 (6.84%) Serverless
6 11 (5.79%) GitHub Copilot
7 10 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.63%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.63%) Azure Event Grid
10 5 (2.63%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.58%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.11%) DNS
1 4 (2.11%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) Broadband
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.26%) MySQL
3 9 (4.74%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.68%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.11%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.58%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.53%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (14.21%) Git
2 13 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.74%) Claude Code
4 5 (2.63%) GitLab
5 4 (2.11%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.11%) JIRA
6 3 (1.58%) Maven
6 3 (1.58%) Vite
6 3 (1.58%) webpack
7 2 (1.05%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.05%) JMeter
7 2 (1.05%) JUnit
7 2 (1.05%) Mockito
8 1 (0.53%) Codeship
8 1 (0.53%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 38 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.26%) Finance
3 14 (7.37%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.79%) Front Office
5 4 (2.11%) Legal
5 4 (2.11%) Legal Technology
6 3 (1.58%) Banking
6 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.58%) Law
7 2 (1.05%) Advertising
7 2 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Retail
7 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.53%) Back Office
8 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (44.21%) React
2 46 (24.21%) .NET
3 42 (22.11%) Node.js
4 38 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 34 (17.89%) Vue
6 24 (12.63%) HTML
6 24 (12.63%) Next.js
6 24 (12.63%) RESTful
7 22 (11.58%) CSS
7 22 (11.58%) GraphQL
8 17 (8.95%) NestJS
8 17 (8.95%) REST
9 16 (8.42%) Spring Boot
10 15 (7.89%) Spring
11 13 (6.84%) Blazor
11 13 (6.84%) Kafka
12 10 (5.26%) Redux
13 9 (4.74%) JWT
13 9 (4.74%) OAuth
14 8 (4.21%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 6 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.11%) PropTech
6 3 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.58%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.05%) IoT
7 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.53%) NHS
8 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 52 (27.37%) AI
3 48 (25.26%) Agile
4 45 (23.68%) Software Engineering
5 44 (23.16%) CI/CD
6 39 (20.53%) Microservices
7 25 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (11.58%) DevOps
8 22 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (11.05%) Computer Science
10 20 (10.53%) Mentoring
11 18 (9.47%) Containerisation
12 16 (8.42%) Decision-Making
13 14 (7.37%) API Design
13 14 (7.37%) Code Quality
13 14 (7.37%) User Experience
14 13 (6.84%) Observability
15 11 (5.79%) Performance Optimisation
16 10 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 10 (5.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 68 (35.79%) TypeScript
2 53 (27.89%) Python
3 51 (26.84%) JavaScript
4 43 (22.63%) C#
5 30 (15.79%) Java
6 17 (8.95%) SQL
7 10 (5.26%) Go
8 5 (2.63%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.11%) C++
9 4 (2.11%) Ruby
10 2 (1.05%) PHP
10 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (11.58%) Degree
1 22 (11.58%) SC Cleared
1 22 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.11%) QA
2 3 (1.58%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.58%) WCAG
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.84%) Terraform
3 4 (2.11%) Grafana
3 4 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.05%) Argo
4 2 (1.05%) Kibana
4 2 (1.05%) Podman
4 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 24 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.11%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle
4 2 (1.05%) Aderant
4 2 (1.05%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.05%) Google
4 2 (1.05%) iManage
4 2 (1.05%) Intapp
4 2 (1.05%) OneLogin
4 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.05%) Splunk
5 1 (0.53%) Databricks
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce