Full-Stack Engineer Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Engineer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 273 335
Rank change year-on-year +122 +62 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 318 116 185
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.49% 0.95% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.61% 1.05% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 255 92 171
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £69,500 £70,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £136,250 £136,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -12.82%

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 19,805 11,062 23,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 90.47% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,658 6,965 17,253
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
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 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.87%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in London

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in London

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 15 June 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 +56 110 £90,000 +2.86% 9
Full-Stack Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 2026, Full-Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 318 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 133 (41.82%) TypeScript
3 130 (40.88%) React
4 110 (34.59%) Software Engineering
5 105 (33.02%) AWS
6 97 (30.50%) Python
7 85 (26.73%) AI
8 60 (18.87%) JavaScript
9 59 (18.55%) Node.js
10 56 (17.61%) Java
11 52 (16.35%) CI/CD
12 47 (14.78%) Agile
13 40 (12.58%) Next.js
14 39 (12.26%) .NET
14 39 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (11.64%) LLM
15 37 (11.64%) Terraform
16 36 (11.32%) Azure
17 35 (11.01%) Microservices
18 34 (10.69%) GCP
19 31 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
20 30 (9.43%) C#
20 30 (9.43%) Containerisation
20 30 (9.43%) SQL
21 29 (9.12%) Docker
22 28 (8.81%) DevOps
23 26 (8.18%) Kubernetes
24 25 (7.86%) LangChain
24 25 (7.86%) Security Cleared
25 24 (7.55%) SaaS

Full-Stack Engineer 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 5 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.63%) WordPress
4 1 (0.31%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 105 (33.02%) AWS
2 36 (11.32%) Azure
3 34 (10.69%) GCP
4 24 (7.55%) SaaS
5 17 (5.35%) Serverless
6 13 (4.09%) Anthropic Claude
6 13 (4.09%) GitHub
7 12 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.20%) Amazon EventBridge
8 7 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.89%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.89%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.57%) dbt
10 5 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.57%) LangSmith
10 5 (1.57%) Vercel
11 4 (1.26%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.26%) Google Gemini
11 4 (1.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (6.29%) NoSQL
3 14 (4.40%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.46%) DynamoDB
4 11 (3.46%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.57%) MySQL
5 5 (1.57%) Pinecone
6 3 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.31%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (5.03%) Git
2 12 (3.77%) Claude Code
2 12 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.83%) Vite
4 8 (2.52%) GitLab
5 6 (1.89%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.26%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.63%) ESLint
7 2 (0.63%) Storybook
8 1 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.31%) Maven
8 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 64 (20.13%) Finance
2 43 (13.52%) Social Skills
3 15 (4.72%) Front Office
4 13 (4.09%) Banking
5 11 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.83%) Law
7 8 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.52%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.20%) Retail
9 6 (1.89%) Legal
9 6 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.94%) Advertising
11 3 (0.94%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.63%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.63%) Marketing
12 2 (0.63%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (40.88%) React
2 59 (18.55%) Node.js
3 40 (12.58%) Next.js
4 39 (12.26%) .NET
5 25 (7.86%) LangChain
6 22 (6.92%) LangGraph
7 21 (6.60%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.66%) CSS
8 18 (5.66%) Spring
8 18 (5.66%) Spring Boot
9 17 (5.35%) FastAPI
10 15 (4.72%) HTML
10 15 (4.72%) Vue
11 14 (4.40%) Django
12 13 (4.09%) Kafka
13 12 (3.77%) RESTful
14 11 (3.46%) Redux
15 10 (3.14%) GraphQL
16 7 (2.20%) Entity Framework
16 7 (2.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.23%) AI Agents
2 20 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.83%) Fixed Income
5 6 (1.89%) Blog
6 5 (1.57%) PropTech
7 4 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.94%) NHS
9 2 (0.63%) Derivative
9 2 (0.63%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.63%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.31%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.31%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.31%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.31%) Equities
10 1 (0.31%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.31%) Linux
1 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 110 (34.59%) Software Engineering
3 85 (26.73%) AI
4 52 (16.35%) CI/CD
5 47 (14.78%) Agile
6 39 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (11.64%) LLM
8 35 (11.01%) Microservices
9 31 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (9.43%) Containerisation
11 28 (8.81%) DevOps
12 24 (7.55%) Test Automation
13 22 (6.92%) Clean Code
14 21 (6.60%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (6.29%) Decision-Making
15 20 (6.29%) Fintech
16 19 (5.97%) Computer Science
16 19 (5.97%) Generative AI
16 19 (5.97%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 18 (5.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 133 (41.82%) TypeScript
2 97 (30.50%) Python
3 60 (18.87%) JavaScript
4 56 (17.61%) Java
5 30 (9.43%) C#
5 30 (9.43%) SQL
6 8 (2.52%) Go
7 7 (2.20%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.89%) PHP
9 1 (0.31%) C++
9 1 (0.31%) Elm
9 1 (0.31%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (7.86%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.23%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.97%) Degree
4 13 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.46%) QA
2 4 (1.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (9.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (11.64%) Terraform
2 26 (8.18%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.46%) Grafana
4 5 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (4.09%) OpenAI
2 9 (2.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.89%) Google
4 2 (0.63%) Aderant
4 2 (0.63%) Foundry
4 2 (0.63%) iManage
4 2 (0.63%) Intapp
4 2 (0.63%) Mapbox
4 2 (0.63%) Palantir
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle
5 1 (0.31%) Pega
5 1 (0.31%) Workday