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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 224 129
Rank change year-on-year +1 -95 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 174 250 440
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.33% 1.42% 2.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 1.50% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 112 140 425
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -5.33% +1.69%
75th Percentile £110,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £110,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,895 16,645 17,505
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 94.63% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,712 10,135 14,273
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +26 31 £80,000 +33.33% 10
South London +40 18 - - 1
West London -2 1 - - 4
North London - 1 £32,500 - 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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.

1 174 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 110 (63.22%) React
3 99 (56.90%) JavaScript
4 87 (50.00%) AWS
5 76 (43.68%) Agile
6 71 (40.80%) Python
6 71 (40.80%) TypeScript
7 69 (39.66%) Java
8 61 (35.06%) HTML
9 57 (32.76%) AngularJS
10 56 (32.18%) CI/CD
11 53 (30.46%) Azure
12 52 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (28.16%) REST
14 46 (26.44%) CSS
15 45 (25.86%) GraphQL
16 42 (24.14%) Node.js
17 41 (23.56%) Docker
17 41 (23.56%) SQL
18 39 (22.41%) Serverless
19 37 (21.26%) Microservices
20 36 (20.69%) C#
21 35 (20.11%) .NET
21 35 (20.11%) DevOps
21 35 (20.11%) User Experience
22 34 (19.54%) AI
22 34 (19.54%) Relational Database
23 33 (18.97%) Spring
24 32 (18.39%) TDD
24 32 (18.39%) Vue

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 8 (4.60%) Headless CMS
2 6 (3.45%) CMS
3 4 (2.30%) Apache
3 4 (2.30%) nginx
4 2 (1.15%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Shopify
2 1 (0.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 87 (50.00%) AWS
2 53 (30.46%) Azure
3 39 (22.41%) Serverless
4 28 (16.09%) Amazon EKS
4 28 (16.09%) GCP
5 27 (15.52%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (12.07%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (12.07%) GitHub
7 13 (7.47%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (6.90%) Amazon S3
8 12 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (5.17%) Figma
9 9 (5.17%) Vercel
10 8 (4.60%) Google Analytics
11 7 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.02%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (3.45%) npm
13 5 (2.87%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.30%) SaaS
15 3 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) Broadband
2 2 (1.15%) AMQP
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.54%) Relational Database
2 29 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (16.09%) RDBMS
4 26 (14.94%) NoSQL
5 23 (13.22%) SQL Server
6 13 (7.47%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.45%) MySQL
9 5 (2.87%) Redis
10 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.72%) Big Data
11 3 (1.72%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.72%) Power BI
12 2 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.15%) DB2
13 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (17.82%) Git
2 22 (12.64%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.92%) JUnit
3 19 (10.92%) Mockito
4 18 (10.34%) JMeter
5 13 (7.47%) Cypress.io
6 9 (5.17%) JIRA
7 5 (2.87%) Mocha
7 5 (2.87%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.87%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (2.87%) webpack
8 3 (1.72%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.15%) Selenium
9 2 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.15%) Vite
10 1 (0.57%) Maven
10 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.57%) Subversion
10 1 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 49 (28.16%) Finance
2 44 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.07%) Front Office
4 20 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.92%) Banking
6 16 (9.20%) Investment Banking
7 15 (8.62%) Law
8 11 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (5.17%) Legal
10 8 (4.60%) Retail
11 4 (2.30%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.72%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.72%) Marketing
12 3 (1.72%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.57%) Back Office
13 1 (0.57%) Publishing
13 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (63.22%) React
2 61 (35.06%) HTML
3 57 (32.76%) AngularJS
4 49 (28.16%) REST
5 46 (26.44%) CSS
6 45 (25.86%) GraphQL
7 42 (24.14%) Node.js
8 35 (20.11%) .NET
9 33 (18.97%) Spring
10 32 (18.39%) Vue
11 26 (14.94%) Web Services
12 25 (14.37%) RESTful
13 22 (12.64%) JSON
14 21 (12.07%) Kafka
15 20 (11.49%) Spring Boot
16 19 (10.92%) Hibernate
16 19 (10.92%) jQuery
17 18 (10.34%) ActiveMQ
17 18 (10.34%) Apache Camel
17 18 (10.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (9.77%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (7.47%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.75%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.75%) Reference Data
5 9 (5.17%) Fixed Income
5 9 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.72%) Equities
7 3 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.72%) Social Media
8 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.57%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.87%) Unix
2 4 (2.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 76 (43.68%) Agile
3 56 (32.18%) CI/CD
4 52 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (21.26%) Microservices
6 35 (20.11%) DevOps
6 35 (20.11%) User Experience
7 34 (19.54%) AI
8 32 (18.39%) TDD
9 27 (15.52%) SDLC
9 27 (15.52%) UX Design
10 26 (14.94%) Test Automation
11 23 (13.22%) Workflow
12 20 (11.49%) Software Engineering
13 18 (10.34%) BDD
13 18 (10.34%) Computer Science
13 18 (10.34%) Containerisation
13 18 (10.34%) Process Management
14 16 (9.20%) Clean Code
14 16 (9.20%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 99 (56.90%) JavaScript
2 71 (40.80%) Python
2 71 (40.80%) TypeScript
3 69 (39.66%) Java
4 41 (23.56%) SQL
5 36 (20.69%) C#
6 19 (10.92%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.02%) Go
8 6 (3.45%) PHP
9 3 (1.72%) R
10 2 (1.15%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.57%) Bash
11 1 (0.57%) Groovy
11 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.57%) Perl
11 1 (0.57%) Ruby
11 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.34%) Degree
3 15 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.30%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (1.15%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.77%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.47%) QA
3 4 (2.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (23.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (17.82%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.34%) Kibana
3 10 (5.75%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Argo
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (12.64%) Splunk
2 19 (10.92%) Dynatrace
3 12 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.60%) Apple
5 3 (1.72%) Google
6 2 (1.15%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe
7 1 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) iManage
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.57%) Sybase