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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 246 141
Rank change year-on-year +42 -105 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 212 156 471
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.23% 1.18% 2.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.30% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 151 115 419
10th Percentile £60,000 £49,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,250 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £105,625 £95,000 £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 15,742 11,983 20,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 90.84% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10,519 7,536 16,376
10th Percentile £37,048 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +5.26% -2.46%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 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 20 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 +33 54 £80,000 +25.49% 15
South London +32 8 £70,000 -
West London -17 3 - - 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 212 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 109 (51.42%) React
3 84 (39.62%) Java
4 72 (33.96%) TypeScript
5 64 (30.19%) JavaScript
6 60 (28.30%) Python
7 57 (26.89%) AI
8 56 (26.42%) AWS
9 49 (23.11%) CI/CD
10 48 (22.64%) Agile
10 48 (22.64%) Node.js
11 36 (16.98%) AngularJS
11 36 (16.98%) Azure
11 36 (16.98%) Docker
11 36 (16.98%) Microservices
11 36 (16.98%) Security Cleared
12 35 (16.51%) Vue
13 34 (16.04%) Software Engineering
14 32 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (14.15%) DevOps
16 29 (13.68%) HTML
17 28 (13.21%) .NET
17 28 (13.21%) Git
17 28 (13.21%) REST
18 27 (12.74%) Kubernetes
19 26 (12.26%) CSS
19 26 (12.26%) Spring
19 26 (12.26%) SQL
20 25 (11.79%) SC Cleared
21 24 (11.32%) 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 (2.83%) Confluence
2 3 (1.42%) Liferay
2 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.94%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.42%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (26.42%) AWS
2 36 (16.98%) Azure
3 21 (9.91%) SaaS
4 20 (9.43%) GCP
4 20 (9.43%) GitHub
5 18 (8.49%) Serverless
6 12 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.83%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (1.89%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.42%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (1.42%) Figma
10 3 (1.42%) npm
10 3 (1.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.94%) AMQP
1 2 (0.94%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (9.43%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.49%) SQL Server
4 14 (6.60%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.19%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.30%) DB2
8 6 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.36%) MySQL
10 3 (1.42%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.94%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.47%) Power BI
12 1 (0.47%) Redis
12 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (13.21%) Git
2 18 (8.49%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.30%) Cucumber
3 7 (3.30%) JIRA
3 7 (3.30%) Selenium
3 7 (3.30%) TeamCity
4 6 (2.83%) JMeter
4 6 (2.83%) JUnit
4 6 (2.83%) Mockito
5 5 (2.36%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.36%) webpack
6 4 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.42%) ESLint
7 3 (1.42%) Mocha
8 2 (0.94%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.94%) Storybook
9 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.47%) GitLab
9 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.47%) Vite
General
1 40 (18.87%) Finance
1 40 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.26%) Banking
3 18 (8.49%) Investment Banking
4 16 (7.55%) Front Office
5 14 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.19%) Retail
7 7 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.30%) Law
7 7 (3.30%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.83%) Legal
9 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.47%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (51.42%) React
2 48 (22.64%) Node.js
3 36 (16.98%) AngularJS
4 35 (16.51%) Vue
5 29 (13.68%) HTML
6 28 (13.21%) .NET
6 28 (13.21%) REST
7 26 (12.26%) CSS
7 26 (12.26%) Spring
8 24 (11.32%) Next.js
9 22 (10.38%) RESTful
10 21 (9.91%) GraphQL
11 20 (9.43%) WebSockets
12 19 (8.96%) Kafka
13 15 (7.08%) Spring Boot
14 13 (6.13%) Django
15 11 (5.19%) Laravel
16 10 (4.72%) FastAPI
17 9 (4.25%) Flask
17 9 (4.25%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
1 16 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (5.19%) Fixed Income
3 10 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.25%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.30%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.83%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.36%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.42%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.94%) Animation
9 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.47%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.42%) Android
1 3 (1.42%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 57 (26.89%) AI
3 49 (23.11%) CI/CD
4 48 (22.64%) Agile
5 36 (16.98%) Microservices
6 34 (16.04%) Software Engineering
7 32 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (14.15%) DevOps
9 22 (10.38%) User Experience
10 18 (8.49%) SDLC
11 16 (7.55%) Computer Science
11 16 (7.55%) Containerisation
11 16 (7.55%) Test Automation
12 14 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (6.60%) TDD
13 13 (6.13%) Front End Development
13 13 (6.13%) Machine Learning
14 12 (5.66%) BDD
14 12 (5.66%) Design Patterns
14 12 (5.66%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 84 (39.62%) Java
2 72 (33.96%) TypeScript
3 64 (30.19%) JavaScript
4 60 (28.30%) Python
5 26 (12.26%) SQL
6 23 (10.85%) C#
7 15 (7.08%) PHP
8 8 (3.77%) Go
8 8 (3.77%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.94%) RPG
11 1 (0.47%) Bicep
11 1 (0.47%) R
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.79%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.55%) Degree
4 15 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.89%) 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 (2.36%) Accessibility
1 5 (2.36%) QA
2 3 (1.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (16.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (12.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.83%) Kibana
3 5 (2.36%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Argo
4 1 (0.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (4.25%) OpenAI
2 8 (3.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.83%) Dynatrace
3 6 (2.83%) Splunk
4 5 (2.36%) Google
5 3 (1.42%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.42%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.94%) Aderant
6 2 (0.94%) IBM
6 2 (0.94%) iManage
6 2 (0.94%) Intapp
6 2 (0.94%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.47%) Adobe
7 1 (0.47%) Databricks
7 1 (0.47%) Red Hat