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 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 240 141
Rank change year-on-year +46 -99 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 224 159 478
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.23% 1.23% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.36% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 165 115 411
10th Percentile £57,000 £49,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £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 16,759 11,710 21,203
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.72% 90.76% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,273 7,577 16,546
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £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 4 April 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 4 April 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 57 £80,000 +20.75% 14
South London +26 6 £70,000 - 1
West London -22 3 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 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.

1 224 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 109 (48.66%) React
3 81 (36.16%) Java
4 76 (33.93%) TypeScript
5 61 (27.23%) JavaScript
5 61 (27.23%) Python
6 60 (26.79%) AI
7 58 (25.89%) AWS
8 50 (22.32%) CI/CD
9 49 (21.88%) Agile
10 47 (20.98%) Node.js
11 40 (17.86%) Security Cleared
12 39 (17.41%) Microservices
13 38 (16.96%) AngularJS
14 37 (16.52%) Software Engineering
15 36 (16.07%) Docker
15 36 (16.07%) Vue
16 35 (15.63%) Azure
17 34 (15.18%) DevOps
18 32 (14.29%) SC Cleared
19 28 (12.50%) .NET
19 28 (12.50%) HTML
20 27 (12.05%) CSS
20 27 (12.05%) Git
20 27 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
20 27 (12.05%) SQL
21 26 (11.61%) REST
22 25 (11.16%) C#
22 25 (11.16%) Kubernetes
22 25 (11.16%) 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 (2.68%) Confluence
2 3 (1.34%) Liferay
2 3 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.89%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (25.89%) AWS
2 35 (15.63%) Azure
3 24 (10.71%) SaaS
4 21 (9.38%) Serverless
5 20 (8.93%) GitHub
6 18 (8.04%) GCP
7 12 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.68%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (2.68%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.34%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.34%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (1.34%) Figma
12 3 (1.34%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.89%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.89%) AMQP
2 1 (0.45%) Broadband
2 1 (0.45%) DNS
2 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.48%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.46%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 7 (3.13%) DB2
6 7 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.13%) MySQL
7 5 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.34%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.34%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.89%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.89%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.45%) Power BI
11 1 (0.45%) Redis
11 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (12.05%) Git
2 17 (7.59%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.13%) Cucumber
3 7 (3.13%) JIRA
3 7 (3.13%) Selenium
3 7 (3.13%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.23%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.79%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.79%) JMeter
5 4 (1.79%) JUnit
5 4 (1.79%) Mockito
5 4 (1.79%) webpack
6 3 (1.34%) ESLint
7 2 (0.89%) GitLab
7 2 (0.89%) Mocha
7 2 (0.89%) Storybook
8 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 39 (17.41%) Finance
2 38 (16.96%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.16%) Banking
4 16 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 14 (6.25%) Front Office
6 12 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.91%) Retail
8 9 (4.02%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.23%) Law
11 4 (1.79%) Legal
11 4 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (48.66%) React
2 47 (20.98%) Node.js
3 38 (16.96%) AngularJS
4 36 (16.07%) Vue
5 28 (12.50%) .NET
5 28 (12.50%) HTML
6 27 (12.05%) CSS
7 26 (11.61%) REST
8 25 (11.16%) Next.js
9 24 (10.71%) RESTful
10 22 (9.82%) Spring
11 20 (8.93%) GraphQL
12 18 (8.04%) Kafka
12 18 (8.04%) WebSockets
13 15 (6.70%) Django
13 15 (6.70%) Spring Boot
14 13 (5.80%) Laravel
15 10 (4.46%) FastAPI
16 9 (4.02%) React Native
17 8 (3.57%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (4.91%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.91%) Fixed Income
4 9 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.23%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.79%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.34%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.34%) PropTech
7 3 (1.34%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.89%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.89%) Animation
8 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.45%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.34%) Android
1 3 (1.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 60 (26.79%) AI
3 50 (22.32%) CI/CD
4 49 (21.88%) Agile
5 39 (17.41%) Microservices
6 37 (16.52%) Software Engineering
7 34 (15.18%) DevOps
8 27 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (9.38%) User Experience
10 19 (8.48%) SDLC
11 17 (7.59%) Test Automation
12 15 (6.70%) Computer Science
13 14 (6.25%) Containerisation
14 13 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (5.80%) Front End Development
14 13 (5.80%) Generative AI
14 13 (5.80%) Machine Learning
14 13 (5.80%) Scrum
15 12 (5.36%) Mentoring
15 12 (5.36%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.16%) Java
2 76 (33.93%) TypeScript
3 61 (27.23%) JavaScript
3 61 (27.23%) Python
4 27 (12.05%) SQL
5 25 (11.16%) C#
6 15 (6.70%) PHP
7 8 (3.57%) Go
8 6 (2.68%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.89%) RPG
11 1 (0.45%) Bash
11 1 (0.45%) Bicep
11 1 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.70%) Degree
4 14 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.34%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.68%) QA
2 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (16.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.13%) Terraform
3 4 (1.79%) Kibana
4 1 (0.45%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.45%) Podman
4 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (4.02%) OpenAI
2 8 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.23%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.79%) Splunk
5 3 (1.34%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.34%) Google
5 3 (1.34%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.89%) Aderant
6 2 (0.89%) IBM
6 2 (0.89%) iManage
6 2 (0.89%) Intapp
6 2 (0.89%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.45%) Adobe
7 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.45%) Databricks
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle