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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 246 142
Rank change year-on-year +52 -104 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 213 168 472
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.29% 1.22% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 1.34% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 152 119 423
10th Percentile £55,500 £49,356 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,500 £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 £107,500 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £105,000 £114,750
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 15,072 12,523 20,617
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.54% 90.98% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10,050 7,713 16,416
10th Percentile £37,342 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,651 £75,000 £72,102
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +4.02% -1.23%
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% -9.84%

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 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 9 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 +31 56 £80,000 +23.08% 12
South London +36 7 £70,000 - 2
West London -11 3 - - 3
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 213 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 110 (51.64%) React
3 87 (40.85%) Java
4 74 (34.74%) TypeScript
5 66 (30.99%) JavaScript
6 60 (28.17%) Python
7 58 (27.23%) AI
8 57 (26.76%) AWS
9 48 (22.54%) Agile
9 48 (22.54%) CI/CD
10 47 (22.07%) Node.js
11 40 (18.78%) Azure
12 38 (17.84%) AngularJS
13 37 (17.37%) Microservices
14 36 (16.90%) Security Cleared
15 35 (16.43%) Docker
16 34 (15.96%) Vue
17 33 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
18 32 (15.02%) DevOps
18 32 (15.02%) Software Engineering
19 30 (14.08%) .NET
19 30 (14.08%) HTML
19 30 (14.08%) REST
20 28 (13.15%) CSS
20 28 (13.15%) Git
21 27 (12.68%) Kubernetes
21 27 (12.68%) Spring
22 26 (12.21%) C#
22 26 (12.21%) SQL
23 25 (11.74%) 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 (2.82%) Confluence
2 3 (1.41%) Liferay
2 3 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.94%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (26.76%) AWS
2 40 (18.78%) Azure
3 20 (9.39%) GCP
3 20 (9.39%) GitHub
3 20 (9.39%) SaaS
4 19 (8.92%) Serverless
5 13 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.82%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (2.35%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.88%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.41%) Figma
10 3 (1.41%) npm
10 3 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.94%) AMQP
2 1 (0.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.92%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.45%) SQL Server
4 15 (7.04%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.63%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.76%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.29%) DB2
8 6 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.88%) MySQL
10 3 (1.41%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.94%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.94%) Redis
12 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.47%) Power BI
12 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (13.15%) Git
2 18 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.29%) Cucumber
3 7 (3.29%) JIRA
3 7 (3.29%) Selenium
3 7 (3.29%) TeamCity
4 6 (2.82%) JMeter
4 6 (2.82%) JUnit
4 6 (2.82%) Mockito
5 5 (2.35%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.35%) webpack
6 3 (1.41%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.41%) ESLint
6 3 (1.41%) Mocha
7 2 (0.94%) Storybook
8 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.47%) GitLab
8 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.47%) Vite
General
1 41 (19.25%) Finance
2 39 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.15%) Banking
4 20 (9.39%) Investment Banking
5 17 (7.98%) Front Office
6 15 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.16%) Retail
8 9 (4.23%) Law
9 8 (3.76%) Legal
10 7 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.29%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Back Office
13 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.47%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (51.64%) React
2 47 (22.07%) Node.js
3 38 (17.84%) AngularJS
4 34 (15.96%) Vue
5 30 (14.08%) .NET
5 30 (14.08%) HTML
5 30 (14.08%) REST
6 28 (13.15%) CSS
7 27 (12.68%) Spring
8 25 (11.74%) Next.js
9 22 (10.33%) WebSockets
10 21 (9.86%) GraphQL
10 21 (9.86%) RESTful
11 20 (9.39%) Kafka
12 15 (7.04%) Spring Boot
13 14 (6.57%) Django
14 10 (4.69%) FastAPI
14 10 (4.69%) Laravel
15 9 (4.23%) Redux
15 9 (4.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.98%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (7.51%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.16%) Fixed Income
4 10 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.29%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.29%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.82%) Reference Data
8 5 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.94%) Animation
10 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.47%) Equities
11 1 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.41%) Android
1 3 (1.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 58 (27.23%) AI
3 48 (22.54%) Agile
3 48 (22.54%) CI/CD
4 37 (17.37%) Microservices
5 33 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (15.02%) DevOps
6 32 (15.02%) Software Engineering
7 25 (11.74%) User Experience
8 18 (8.45%) SDLC
8 18 (8.45%) Test Automation
9 16 (7.51%) Containerisation
10 15 (7.04%) Computer Science
11 14 (6.57%) TDD
12 13 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.10%) Front End Development
12 13 (6.10%) Machine Learning
13 12 (5.63%) BDD
13 12 (5.63%) Design Patterns
13 12 (5.63%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 87 (40.85%) Java
2 74 (34.74%) TypeScript
3 66 (30.99%) JavaScript
4 60 (28.17%) Python
5 26 (12.21%) C#
5 26 (12.21%) SQL
6 15 (7.04%) PHP
7 8 (3.76%) Go
7 8 (3.76%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.94%) RPG
10 1 (0.47%) Bicep
10 1 (0.47%) R
10 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.04%) Degree
4 14 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.88%) 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 5 (2.35%) Accessibility
1 5 (2.35%) QA
2 3 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (16.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.82%) Kibana
2 6 (2.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (4.23%) Microsoft
1 9 (4.23%) OpenAI
2 6 (2.82%) Dynatrace
2 6 (2.82%) Splunk
3 4 (1.88%) Google
4 3 (1.41%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.41%) iManage
4 3 (1.41%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.94%) Aderant
5 2 (0.94%) IBM
5 2 (0.94%) Intapp
5 2 (0.94%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe
6 1 (0.47%) Databricks
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat