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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 241 149
Rank change year-on-year +32 -92 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 231 159 508
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.15% 1.25% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.39% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 180 115 412
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £102,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%

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 18,396 11,462 22,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.21% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,403 7,453 16,731
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,454
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
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 £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%

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 1 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 1 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 +31 62 £80,000 +12.28% 9
South London +10 3 £70,000 - 1
West London -33 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 231 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 107 (46.32%) React
3 80 (34.63%) TypeScript
4 66 (28.57%) Java
5 64 (27.71%) AI
6 61 (26.41%) Python
7 57 (24.68%) JavaScript
8 52 (22.51%) AWS
9 49 (21.21%) Node.js
10 47 (20.35%) CI/CD
11 44 (19.05%) Vue
12 42 (18.18%) Agile
12 42 (18.18%) Software Engineering
13 41 (17.75%) Security Cleared
14 38 (16.45%) Microservices
15 37 (16.02%) SC Cleared
16 36 (15.58%) AngularJS
16 36 (15.58%) DevOps
17 35 (15.15%) .NET
18 34 (14.72%) C#
19 33 (14.29%) Azure
19 33 (14.29%) Docker
20 30 (12.99%) CSS
20 30 (12.99%) Git
20 30 (12.99%) Next.js
21 29 (12.55%) RESTful
22 28 (12.12%) SaaS
23 27 (11.69%) HTML
24 26 (11.26%) SQL
25 22 (9.52%) 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 6 (2.60%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) Liferay
2 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
3 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.51%) AWS
2 33 (14.29%) Azure
3 28 (12.12%) SaaS
4 19 (8.23%) GitHub
5 17 (7.36%) Serverless
6 13 (5.63%) GCP
7 12 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (3.90%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (2.60%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.73%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (1.30%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.30%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.73%) DNS
1 4 (1.73%) HTTP
2 2 (0.87%) Broadband
2 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.43%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.23%) NoSQL
2 16 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.63%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.46%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.46%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.46%) MySQL
5 5 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.16%) DB2
6 4 (1.73%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.87%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.87%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.43%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.43%) Redis
8 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (12.99%) Git
2 11 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.03%) JIRA
4 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.16%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.16%) Selenium
4 5 (2.16%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.30%) ESLint
6 3 (1.30%) GitLab
6 3 (1.30%) webpack
7 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.87%) Storybook
8 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) Mocha
8 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 36 (15.58%) Finance
2 33 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 17 (7.36%) Banking
4 11 (4.76%) Front Office
5 10 (4.33%) Investment Banking
5 10 (4.33%) Retail
6 9 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.03%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.30%) Law
9 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (46.32%) React
2 49 (21.21%) Node.js
3 44 (19.05%) Vue
4 36 (15.58%) AngularJS
5 35 (15.15%) .NET
6 30 (12.99%) CSS
6 30 (12.99%) Next.js
7 29 (12.55%) RESTful
8 27 (11.69%) HTML
9 22 (9.52%) GraphQL
10 18 (7.79%) REST
11 17 (7.36%) Spring
12 16 (6.93%) Laravel
13 15 (6.49%) Django
14 14 (6.06%) Kafka
15 13 (5.63%) Spring Boot
15 13 (5.63%) WebSockets
16 12 (5.19%) Blazor
17 11 (4.76%) CSS3
17 11 (4.76%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.76%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.46%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.46%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.73%) PropTech
7 3 (1.30%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.87%) Animation
8 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.43%) Equities
9 1 (0.43%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.30%) Android
1 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 64 (27.71%) AI
3 47 (20.35%) CI/CD
4 42 (18.18%) Agile
4 42 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 38 (16.45%) Microservices
6 36 (15.58%) DevOps
7 20 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (7.79%) User Experience
9 17 (7.36%) Containerisation
10 15 (6.49%) Mentoring
10 15 (6.49%) Test Automation
11 14 (6.06%) Generative AI
11 14 (6.06%) Scrum
12 13 (5.63%) Computer Science
12 13 (5.63%) Performance Optimisation
12 13 (5.63%) SDLC
13 11 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (4.76%) Machine Learning
13 11 (4.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 80 (34.63%) TypeScript
2 66 (28.57%) Java
3 61 (26.41%) Python
4 57 (24.68%) JavaScript
5 34 (14.72%) C#
6 26 (11.26%) SQL
7 17 (7.36%) PHP
8 8 (3.46%) Go
9 3 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.87%) RPG
10 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.43%) Bash
11 1 (0.43%) Bicep
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) C++
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 37 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.06%) Degree
4 13 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.16%) QA
2 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.76%) Terraform
3 4 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.87%) Ansible
4 2 (0.87%) Podman
5 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 12 (5.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.90%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.73%) Google
4 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.30%) WooCommerce
5 2 (0.87%) Aderant
5 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.87%) IBM
5 2 (0.87%) iManage
5 2 (0.87%) Intapp
5 2 (0.87%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe
6 1 (0.43%) Databricks
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle