Full Stack Development Contracts

Full-Stack Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Full Stack Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Full Stack Development over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 92 72
Rank change year-on-year +5 -20 -13
Contract jobs citing Full Stack Development 1,051 1,459 2,924
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.45% 2.59% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 2.89% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 1,099 2,267
10th Percentile £325 £405 £413
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 25
10th Percentile £41.80 £38.00 £45.50
25th Percentile £54.06 £42.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £64.75 £50.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +29.50% -23.71% +19.16%
75th Percentile £75.63 £57.81 £75.39
90th Percentile £79.75 £58.38 £77.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £56.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +24.44% -25.00% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Full Stack Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Full Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Full Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Development.

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Development over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Development.

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Full Stack Development over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full Stack Development within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +2 898 £550 -4.35% 981
London +4 564 £600 - 412
Work from Home 0 410 £525 -4.55% 812
UK excluding London +14 378 £463 -7.50% 603
South East +33 100 £463 -15.91% 111
North of England -19 77 £500 -6.98% 190
South West -2 56 £450 - 91
Scotland +33 53 £450 -5.16% 26
Midlands +33 48 £398 -16.32% 119
North West -5 44 £494 -5.95% 116
West Midlands +22 33 £350 -36.36% 72
Yorkshire +1 29 £500 -4.76% 48
Wales +23 23 £438 +2.94% 20
East of England +15 23 £472 +11.06% 52
East Midlands +10 14 £415 -2.47% 47
North East -12 4 - - 30

Full Stack Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 96 (9.13%) Apache
2 74 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.19%) CMS
4 22 (2.09%) nginx
5 12 (1.14%) Confluence
6 10 (0.95%) Drupal
6 10 (0.95%) WordPress
7 7 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.67%) BizTalk Server
7 7 (0.67%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.48%) JBoss
9 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) Camunda
10 2 (0.19%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.095%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.095%) Simulink
2 1 (0.095%) Sketch
2 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.095%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 422 (40.15%) AWS
2 330 (31.40%) Azure
3 130 (12.37%) GCP
4 105 (9.99%) Serverless
5 60 (5.71%) GitHub
6 56 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (5.04%) Azure Functions
8 46 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (4.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 33 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (3.04%) Amazon S3
12 28 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
13 25 (2.38%) SaaS
14 24 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
15 23 (2.19%) Entra ID
16 22 (2.09%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
16 22 (2.09%) npm
17 16 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.90%) VPN
2 16 (1.52%) Firewall
3 6 (0.57%) DNS
3 6 (0.57%) HTTP
4 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) DHCP
5 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.19%) SSH
6 1 (0.095%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.095%) DWDM
6 1 (0.095%) FTP
6 1 (0.095%) Internet
6 1 (0.095%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.095%) LAN
6 1 (0.095%) LTE
6 1 (0.095%) Network Security
6 1 (0.095%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.095%) VLAN
6 1 (0.095%) WAN
6 1 (0.095%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (8.18%) NoSQL
3 76 (7.23%) SQL Server
4 74 (7.04%) Apache Ignite
5 69 (6.57%) MongoDB
6 67 (6.37%) MySQL
7 42 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (1.62%) Redis
10 14 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.33%) Flink
11 12 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.05%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.67%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.67%) Power BI
16 6 (0.57%) GIS
17 5 (0.48%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 105 (9.99%) Git
2 89 (8.47%) Cypress.io
3 38 (3.62%) JIRA
4 37 (3.52%) GitLab
5 34 (3.24%) Jenkins
6 33 (3.14%) webpack
7 23 (2.19%) Selenium
8 20 (1.90%) JUnit
9 12 (1.14%) CircleCI
10 11 (1.05%) Postman
11 9 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.86%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.76%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.76%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.67%) Maven
13 7 (0.67%) Mockito
14 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.48%) Gradle
15 5 (0.48%) Jasmine
15 5 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 245 (23.31%) Finance
2 144 (13.70%) Front Office
3 138 (13.13%) Social Skills
4 119 (11.32%) Banking
5 92 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (6.18%) Public Sector
7 30 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.52%) Tech for Good
9 15 (1.43%) Marketing
10 14 (1.33%) Investment Banking
11 10 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 10 (0.95%) Retail
12 8 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.67%) Automotive
14 6 (0.57%) Games
15 5 (0.48%) Aviation
15 5 (0.48%) Billing
16 4 (0.38%) Law
16 4 (0.38%) Music Industry
16 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 820 (78.02%) Developer
2 584 (55.57%) Full Stack Developer
3 180 (17.13%) React Developer
4 158 (15.03%) Software Engineer
5 145 (13.80%) Full Stack Engineer
6 117 (11.13%) .NET Developer
7 102 (9.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 102 (9.71%) Python Developer
8 88 (8.37%) Java Developer
9 83 (7.90%) Senior
10 80 (7.61%) Python Engineer
11 75 (7.14%) C# Developer
12 71 (6.76%) Python Software Engineer
13 68 (6.47%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 64 (6.09%) Full Stack Java Developer
15 63 (5.99%) Full Stack .NET Developer
16 61 (5.80%) Full-Stack C# Developer
17 58 (5.52%) Angular Developer
17 58 (5.52%) Full Stack Python Developer
18 54 (5.14%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (51.47%) React
2 246 (23.41%) AngularJS
3 229 (21.79%) .NET
4 217 (20.65%) CSS
5 211 (20.08%) HTML
6 191 (18.17%) Node.js
7 135 (12.84%) Redux
8 101 (9.61%) REST
9 87 (8.28%) Spring
10 75 (7.14%) gRPC
10 75 (7.14%) Protocol Buffers
10 75 (7.14%) Vue
11 71 (6.76%) Material-UI
12 70 (6.66%) GraphQL
13 69 (6.57%) .NET Core
14 64 (6.09%) Spring Boot
15 58 (5.52%) ASP.NET
15 58 (5.52%) Laravel
16 51 (4.85%) Kafka
17 50 (4.76%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.28%) Fixed Income
2 105 (9.99%) Hedge funds
3 55 (5.23%) Equities
4 54 (5.14%) Product Ownership
5 47 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
6 28 (2.66%) Derivative
7 25 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 21 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.81%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.52%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.86%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.76%) Data Structures
16 7 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
17 6 (0.57%) Onboarding
18 5 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
18 5 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.90%) Linux
2 35 (3.33%) Unix
3 17 (1.62%) Windows
4 15 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.95%) Android
6 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.095%) AIX
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (40.63%) Agile
2 281 (26.74%) Software Engineering
3 230 (21.88%) CI/CD
4 226 (21.50%) DevOps
5 157 (14.94%) Microservices
6 129 (12.27%) TDD
7 128 (12.18%) Test Automation
8 123 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (10.47%) Asset Management
10 102 (9.71%) Investment Management
10 102 (9.71%) Machine Learning
11 96 (9.13%) Artificial Intelligence
12 89 (8.47%) SDLC
13 80 (7.61%) Front End Development
14 73 (6.95%) Unit Testing
14 73 (6.95%) User Experience
14 73 (6.95%) Web Development
15 65 (6.18%) Automated Trading
16 59 (5.61%) Scrum
17 57 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 375 (35.68%) JavaScript
2 342 (32.54%) TypeScript
3 274 (26.07%) Java
4 273 (25.98%) Python
5 255 (24.26%) C#
6 211 (20.08%) SQL
7 78 (7.42%) PHP
8 33 (3.14%) C
9 28 (2.66%) Go
10 27 (2.57%) C++
10 27 (2.57%) Kotlin
11 22 (2.09%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.52%) Ruby
13 12 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.05%) Bash
14 11 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.95%) PowerShell
16 7 (0.67%) Scala
17 6 (0.57%) Bicep
18 5 (0.48%) ProC
Qualifications
1 115 (10.94%) Security Cleared
2 94 (8.94%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.33%) Degree
4 27 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.29%) OCP
11 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.095%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.095%) CCNA
12 1 (0.095%) CCNP
12 1 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.095%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.095%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.095%) PhD
12 1 (0.095%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.80%) QA
2 47 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.67%) WCAG
4 6 (0.57%) MiFID
5 3 (0.29%) SLA
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.095%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.095%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.095%) GDPR
7 1 (0.095%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.095%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.095%) MISRA
7 1 (0.095%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.095%) NCSC
7 1 (0.095%) NIST
7 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (8.37%) Docker
2 26 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 104 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.57%) Terraform
3 17 (1.62%) Grafana
4 9 (0.86%) Ansible
5 5 (0.48%) Kibana
5 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.095%) Istio
7 1 (0.095%) logstash
7 1 (0.095%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.095%) Puppet
Vendors
1 80 (7.61%) Google
2 63 (5.99%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.00%) Oracle
4 12 (1.14%) Databricks
5 8 (0.76%) Salesforce
6 7 (0.67%) MuleSoft
7 6 (0.57%) Xamarin
8 5 (0.48%) Optimizely
8 5 (0.48%) Virgin Media
9 4 (0.38%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.38%) VMware
10 3 (0.29%) Confluent
10 3 (0.29%) IBM
10 3 (0.29%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.29%) SAP
10 3 (0.29%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.29%) Splunk
10 3 (0.29%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.095%) Arista
11 1 (0.095%) Mapbox