Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 228 192
Rank change year-on-year -16 -36 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 209 160 317
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 1.35% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.49% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 147 105 175
10th Percentile £47,000 £59,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 23,908 10,752 17,576
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 90.97% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 15,984 6,982 10,838
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.03% -1.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,235
% change year-on-year +7.27% -0.42% -7.94%

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 October 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 October 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 -1 17 £85,000 +11.48% 12
East London - 6 £43,750 -
West London -15 5 £55,000 -13.39% 1
South London -13 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 October 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.

1 209 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 83 (39.71%) React
3 74 (35.41%) AWS
4 63 (30.14%) TypeScript
5 60 (28.71%) Azure
6 59 (28.23%) JavaScript
7 57 (27.27%) CI/CD
8 54 (25.84%) Agile
9 53 (25.36%) AI
10 47 (22.49%) Microservices
10 47 (22.49%) Node.js
11 44 (21.05%) Docker
12 42 (20.10%) Microsoft
13 41 (19.62%) Python
14 40 (19.14%) .NET
15 39 (18.66%) GitHub
16 38 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
17 37 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 36 (17.22%) C#
18 36 (17.22%) HTML
19 35 (16.75%) Software Engineering
20 34 (16.27%) AngularJS
20 34 (16.27%) CSS
20 34 (16.27%) Java
21 27 (12.92%) REST
22 26 (12.44%) GCP
22 26 (12.44%) Git
23 25 (11.96%) RESTful
23 25 (11.96%) SQL
24 24 (11.48%) Degree

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 4 (1.91%) WordPress
2 3 (1.44%) Confluence
2 3 (1.44%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (35.41%) AWS
2 60 (28.71%) Azure
3 39 (18.66%) GitHub
4 26 (12.44%) GCP
5 18 (8.61%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (6.22%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (5.74%) Snowflake
8 10 (4.78%) SaaS
9 7 (3.35%) Serverless
10 6 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.39%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.91%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.91%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.91%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.44%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) DNS
1 3 (1.44%) HTTP
2 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.61%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.78%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.31%) Redis
5 7 (3.35%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.87%) MySQL
7 5 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.44%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (12.44%) Git
2 22 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.31%) Claude Code
3 9 (4.31%) Vite
4 6 (2.87%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.39%) GitLab
6 4 (1.91%) Maven
6 4 (1.91%) Storybook
7 3 (1.44%) JIRA
7 3 (1.44%) JUnit
7 3 (1.44%) Mockito
7 3 (1.44%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.44%) webpack
8 2 (0.96%) JMeter
8 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) Codeship
9 1 (0.48%) Gradle
9 1 (0.48%) Moq
9 1 (0.48%) NUnit
9 1 (0.48%) Plastic SCM
General
1 42 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.88%) Finance
3 14 (6.70%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.39%) Legal
5 4 (1.91%) Banking
5 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.44%) Legal Technology
6 3 (1.44%) Tech for Good
7 2 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.96%) Front Office
7 2 (0.96%) Law
8 1 (0.48%) Advertising
8 1 (0.48%) Back Office
8 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (39.71%) React
2 47 (22.49%) Node.js
3 40 (19.14%) .NET
4 36 (17.22%) HTML
5 34 (16.27%) AngularJS
5 34 (16.27%) CSS
6 27 (12.92%) REST
7 25 (11.96%) RESTful
8 24 (11.48%) Spring
8 24 (11.48%) Spring Boot
9 22 (10.53%) Vue
10 21 (10.05%) Next.js
11 19 (9.09%) NestJS
12 12 (5.74%) Blazor
13 11 (5.26%) Express.js
13 11 (5.26%) Terraform
14 10 (4.78%) Playwright
14 10 (4.78%) Sass
15 9 (4.31%) GraphQL
16 8 (3.83%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.22%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.70%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.83%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.91%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.96%) IoT
8 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.96%) NHS
8 2 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.48%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 57 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 54 (25.84%) Agile
4 53 (25.36%) AI
5 47 (22.49%) Microservices
6 38 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (16.75%) Software Engineering
9 23 (11.00%) Computer Science
9 23 (11.00%) Mentoring
10 22 (10.53%) Containerisation
11 21 (10.05%) DevOps
12 19 (9.09%) E-Commerce
13 17 (8.13%) Code Quality
14 16 (7.66%) Customer Experience
15 15 (7.18%) Clean Code
15 15 (7.18%) LLM
15 15 (7.18%) Responsive Web Design
15 15 (7.18%) User Experience
16 13 (6.22%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 63 (30.14%) TypeScript
2 59 (28.23%) JavaScript
3 41 (19.62%) Python
4 36 (17.22%) C#
5 34 (16.27%) Java
6 25 (11.96%) SQL
7 13 (6.22%) Kotlin
8 9 (4.31%) Ruby
9 6 (2.87%) PHP
10 5 (2.39%) Rust
11 4 (1.91%) C++
12 2 (0.96%) Go
12 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.48%) Bash
13 1 (0.48%) Bicep
13 1 (0.48%) C
13 1 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (11.48%) Degree
2 23 (11.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.74%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.31%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.39%) WCAG
3 2 (0.96%) QA
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.91%) Grafana
3 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.96%) Ansible
4 2 (0.96%) Argo
4 2 (0.96%) Kibana
4 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.48%) Podman
Vendors
1 42 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.74%) Oracle
3 10 (4.78%) OutSystems
3 10 (4.78%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.91%) Google
5 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.96%) Splunk
7 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.48%) Databricks
7 1 (0.48%) NEC
7 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.48%) Salesforce