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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 230 162
Rank change year-on-year -8 -68 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 199 179 501
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 1.42% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.56% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 167 125 353
10th Percentile £53,550 £55,500 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £136,250 £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 20,559 11,500 22,154
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 91.41% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14,135 7,402 16,292
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,043 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.46% +3.85% -11.67%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +19 47 £80,000 +10.34% 8
South London +11 4 - -
West London -12 3 £55,000 -13.39% 3
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 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.

1 199 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 91 (45.73%) React
3 72 (36.18%) TypeScript
4 58 (29.15%) AWS
5 57 (28.64%) JavaScript
6 55 (27.64%) Python
7 54 (27.14%) AI
8 47 (23.62%) Agile
9 46 (23.12%) .NET
10 45 (22.61%) Software Engineering
11 43 (21.61%) Azure
11 43 (21.61%) C#
12 42 (21.11%) CI/CD
13 40 (20.10%) Node.js
14 38 (19.10%) Microservices
15 37 (18.59%) AngularJS
15 37 (18.59%) Java
16 35 (17.59%) Vue
17 32 (16.08%) Docker
18 29 (14.57%) SC Cleared
18 29 (14.57%) Security Cleared
19 27 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
20 26 (13.07%) Git
21 25 (12.56%) HTML
21 25 (12.56%) RESTful
22 24 (12.06%) GitHub
23 23 (11.56%) CSS
23 23 (11.56%) Mentoring
24 22 (11.06%) DevOps
24 22 (11.06%) 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 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 58 (29.15%) AWS
2 43 (21.61%) Azure
3 24 (12.06%) GitHub
4 22 (11.06%) SaaS
5 18 (9.05%) GCP
6 13 (6.53%) Serverless
7 12 (6.03%) GitHub Copilot
8 9 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.02%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.51%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (2.51%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.01%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (1.01%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.01%) DNS
1 4 (2.01%) HTTP
2 2 (1.01%) Broadband
2 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.03%) MySQL
3 9 (4.52%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.02%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.02%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.02%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.01%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.51%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.01%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (13.07%) Git
2 12 (6.03%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.02%) Claude Code
4 5 (2.51%) GitLab
5 4 (2.01%) JIRA
6 3 (1.51%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.51%) Maven
7 2 (1.01%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.01%) JMeter
7 2 (1.01%) JUnit
7 2 (1.01%) Mockito
8 1 (0.50%) Codeship
8 1 (0.50%) Plastic SCM
8 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.50%) Storybook
8 1 (0.50%) Vite
8 1 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 36 (18.09%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.09%) Finance
3 11 (5.53%) Front Office
3 11 (5.53%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.01%) Banking
6 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.51%) Law
6 3 (1.51%) Legal
6 3 (1.51%) Legal Technology
7 2 (1.01%) Advertising
7 2 (1.01%) Retail
8 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (45.73%) React
2 46 (23.12%) .NET
3 40 (20.10%) Node.js
4 37 (18.59%) AngularJS
5 35 (17.59%) Vue
6 25 (12.56%) HTML
6 25 (12.56%) RESTful
7 23 (11.56%) CSS
8 22 (11.06%) GraphQL
8 22 (11.06%) Next.js
9 17 (8.54%) Spring Boot
10 16 (8.04%) REST
10 16 (8.04%) Spring
11 14 (7.04%) Kafka
11 14 (7.04%) NestJS
12 13 (6.53%) Blazor
13 10 (5.03%) Django
13 10 (5.03%) Redux
14 8 (4.02%) JWT
14 8 (4.02%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.57%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.53%) Fixed Income
3 5 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.51%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.01%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.01%) PropTech
5 3 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.01%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.01%) Animation
6 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.50%) IoT
7 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (27.14%) AI
3 47 (23.62%) Agile
4 45 (22.61%) Software Engineering
5 42 (21.11%) CI/CD
6 38 (19.10%) Microservices
7 27 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (11.56%) Mentoring
9 22 (11.06%) DevOps
10 21 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (9.55%) Computer Science
12 16 (8.04%) Containerisation
12 16 (8.04%) Decision-Making
13 15 (7.54%) API Design
13 15 (7.54%) User Experience
14 14 (7.04%) Code Quality
15 12 (6.03%) Observability
16 11 (5.53%) Performance Optimisation
16 11 (5.53%) Technical Leadership
17 10 (5.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 72 (36.18%) TypeScript
2 57 (28.64%) JavaScript
3 55 (27.64%) Python
4 43 (21.61%) C#
5 37 (18.59%) Java
6 16 (8.04%) SQL
7 10 (5.03%) Go
8 4 (2.01%) PHP
9 3 (1.51%) C++
9 3 (1.51%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) Bash
11 1 (0.50%) Bicep
11 1 (0.50%) C
11 1 (0.50%) Groovy
11 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (14.57%) SC Cleared
1 29 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.55%) Degree
3 19 (9.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.51%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.01%) QA
2 3 (1.51%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.51%) WCAG
3 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.53%) Terraform
3 4 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.51%) Grafana
5 2 (1.01%) Ansible
5 2 (1.01%) Argo
5 2 (1.01%) Kibana
5 2 (1.01%) Podman
5 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 22 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.01%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.51%) Oracle
4 2 (1.01%) Aderant
4 2 (1.01%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.01%) Google
4 2 (1.01%) iManage
4 2 (1.01%) Intapp
4 2 (1.01%) OneLogin
4 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.01%) Splunk
5 1 (0.50%) Databricks