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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 240 147
Rank change year-on-year +39 -93 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 225 150 520
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.07% 1.24% 2.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.37% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 180 109 395
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £95,625 £93,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 19,351 10,916 22,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 90.06% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,246 6,956 16,827
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,994 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

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 May 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 May 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 +29 61 £80,000 +12.28% 3
South London +5 5 £70,000 -
West London -20 3 £55,000 -13.39% 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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.

1 225 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 99 (44.00%) React
3 81 (36.00%) TypeScript
4 63 (28.00%) AI
5 58 (25.78%) AWS
6 57 (25.33%) Java
6 57 (25.33%) JavaScript
7 56 (24.89%) Python
8 52 (23.11%) Software Engineering
9 48 (21.33%) Agile
10 47 (20.89%) .NET
10 47 (20.89%) Microservices
11 44 (19.56%) C#
11 44 (19.56%) CI/CD
12 41 (18.22%) Node.js
13 40 (17.78%) Vue
14 39 (17.33%) Security Cleared
15 38 (16.89%) SC Cleared
16 37 (16.44%) Azure
17 36 (16.00%) AngularJS
17 36 (16.00%) DevOps
18 35 (15.56%) Docker
19 34 (15.11%) RESTful
20 31 (13.78%) Git
21 30 (13.33%) CSS
22 29 (12.89%) HTML
23 28 (12.44%) SaaS
24 27 (12.00%) Next.js
25 23 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
25 23 (10.22%) Spring

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 5 (2.22%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) Liferay
2 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (25.78%) AWS
2 37 (16.44%) Azure
3 28 (12.44%) SaaS
4 18 (8.00%) Serverless
5 15 (6.67%) GitHub
6 12 (5.33%) GCP
7 11 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
9 8 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (2.67%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (2.67%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (1.78%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (1.78%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.78%) DNS
1 4 (1.78%) HTTP
2 2 (0.89%) Broadband
2 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.22%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.78%) MySQL
4 12 (5.33%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.56%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.78%) DB2
8 4 (1.78%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.89%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.89%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.44%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (13.78%) Git
2 13 (5.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.11%) JIRA
4 5 (2.22%) Claude Code
5 4 (1.78%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.78%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.78%) GitLab
5 4 (1.78%) Selenium
5 4 (1.78%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.33%) ESLint
6 3 (1.33%) Maven
7 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.89%) JMeter
7 2 (0.89%) JUnit
7 2 (0.89%) Mockito
7 2 (0.89%) Storybook
8 1 (0.44%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 40 (17.78%) Finance
2 39 (17.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.89%) Banking
3 11 (4.89%) Front Office
4 10 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.33%) Law
8 3 (1.33%) Retail
9 2 (0.89%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Advertising
10 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (44.00%) React
2 47 (20.89%) .NET
3 41 (18.22%) Node.js
4 40 (17.78%) Vue
5 36 (16.00%) AngularJS
6 34 (15.11%) RESTful
7 30 (13.33%) CSS
8 29 (12.89%) HTML
9 27 (12.00%) Next.js
10 23 (10.22%) Spring
11 21 (9.33%) GraphQL
11 21 (9.33%) Spring Boot
12 17 (7.56%) REST
13 15 (6.67%) Blazor
13 15 (6.67%) Kafka
14 13 (5.78%) Laravel
15 11 (4.89%) Django
16 10 (4.44%) CSS3
16 10 (4.44%) HTML5
16 10 (4.44%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.89%) Fixed Income
3 9 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.56%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.78%) PropTech
8 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.89%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.89%) Animation
9 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.44%) Equities
10 1 (0.44%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.33%) Android
1 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 63 (28.00%) AI
3 52 (23.11%) Software Engineering
4 48 (21.33%) Agile
5 47 (20.89%) Microservices
6 44 (19.56%) CI/CD
7 36 (16.00%) DevOps
8 23 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (9.78%) Mentoring
10 20 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (8.44%) Containerisation
11 19 (8.44%) Scrum
12 17 (7.56%) User Experience
13 16 (7.11%) Decision-Making
14 14 (6.22%) API Design
14 14 (6.22%) Code Quality
14 14 (6.22%) Computer Science
14 14 (6.22%) Test Automation
15 13 (5.78%) Kanban
15 13 (5.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.00%) TypeScript
2 57 (25.33%) Java
2 57 (25.33%) JavaScript
3 56 (24.89%) Python
4 44 (19.56%) C#
5 22 (9.78%) SQL
6 15 (6.67%) PHP
7 9 (4.00%) Go
8 4 (1.78%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.33%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.89%) C++
11 1 (0.44%) Bash
11 1 (0.44%) Bicep
11 1 (0.44%) C
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
11 1 (0.44%) RPG
Qualifications
1 39 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 38 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.11%) Degree
4 14 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.67%) QA
2 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.89%) WCAG
4 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (15.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.89%) Terraform
3 4 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.33%) Ansible
5 2 (0.89%) Kibana
5 2 (0.89%) Podman
6 1 (0.44%) Argo
6 1 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (8.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.67%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.78%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.78%) Google
4 3 (1.33%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.33%) Oracle
4 3 (1.33%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.89%) Aderant
5 2 (0.89%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.89%) iManage
5 2 (0.89%) Intapp
5 2 (0.89%) SendGrid
5 2 (0.89%) Splunk
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe
6 1 (0.44%) Databricks
6 1 (0.44%) IBM