Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 197 143
Rank change year-on-year -15 -54 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 183 169 318
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.24% 1.22% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.31% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 124 245
10th Percentile £376 £368 £388
25th Percentile £425 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.51%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £700
90th Percentile £679 £746 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +30.38% -61.14%
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.75 £29.72
% change year-on-year -9.68% +30.38% -59.42%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 13,645 12,924 17,313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 93.63% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,056 8,253 12,514
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 139 327
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.95 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.75 £24.66 £19.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.77% -15.09%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.15 £65.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.90% +2.99%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in London

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in London

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in London

Full-Stack Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in London

Full-Stack Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -21 13 £519 -11.32% 10
South London +4 10 £506 -38.73% 4
West London - 9 £365 - 2
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 2026, Full-Stack Developer contract 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 contract job ads across the London region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 183 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 88 (48.09%) React
3 84 (45.90%) CI/CD
4 73 (39.89%) AWS
5 71 (38.80%) Agile
6 67 (36.61%) TypeScript
7 65 (35.52%) JavaScript
8 60 (32.79%) Docker
8 60 (32.79%) Java
8 60 (32.79%) Node.js
9 59 (32.24%) Python
10 50 (27.32%) Kubernetes
11 49 (26.78%) Security Cleared
12 47 (25.68%) SC Cleared
13 45 (24.59%) AngularJS
13 45 (24.59%) Azure
14 44 (24.04%) DevOps
14 44 (24.04%) Microservices
15 40 (21.86%) Containerisation
15 40 (21.86%) CSS
16 39 (21.31%) HTML
17 38 (20.77%) GitHub
18 37 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
19 36 (19.67%) SQL
20 35 (19.13%) Spring
21 33 (18.03%) Git
22 32 (17.49%) PostgreSQL
23 31 (16.94%) RESTful
24 30 (16.39%) .NET
25 27 (14.75%) 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 11 (6.01%) Confluence
2 5 (2.73%) CMS
3 2 (1.09%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.09%) SAS
4 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.55%) Camunda
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.09%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 73 (39.89%) AWS
2 45 (24.59%) Azure
3 38 (20.77%) GitHub
4 19 (10.38%) GCP
4 19 (10.38%) Serverless
5 14 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.92%) OpenShift
9 8 (4.37%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.73%) Datadog
11 4 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.19%) Figma
11 4 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.19%) SaaS
12 3 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.55%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) RTMP
2 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.49%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (11.48%) NoSQL
3 17 (9.29%) SQL Server
4 14 (7.65%) MongoDB
5 11 (6.01%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.92%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.28%) MySQL
9 4 (2.19%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.64%) DocumentDB
11 2 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.09%) Metadata
11 2 (1.09%) Redis
12 1 (0.55%) Big Data
12 1 (0.55%) GIS
12 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (18.03%) Git
2 16 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.65%) JIRA
4 9 (4.92%) GitLab
5 4 (2.19%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.64%) JUnit
7 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.09%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.09%) Mockito
7 2 (1.09%) Snyk
7 2 (1.09%) Storybook
8 1 (0.55%) Babel
8 1 (0.55%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.55%) Mocha
8 1 (0.55%) MSTest
8 1 (0.55%) Postman
8 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 43 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.13%) Finance
3 16 (8.74%) Banking
4 14 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.28%) Front Office
7 5 (2.73%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.64%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Retail
10 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.55%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Military
11 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (48.09%) React
2 60 (32.79%) Node.js
3 45 (24.59%) AngularJS
4 40 (21.86%) CSS
5 39 (21.31%) HTML
6 35 (19.13%) Spring
7 31 (16.94%) RESTful
8 30 (16.39%) .NET
9 27 (14.75%) Next.js
10 26 (14.21%) REST
11 22 (12.02%) Spring Boot
12 18 (9.84%) FastAPI
12 18 (9.84%) Kafka
13 13 (7.10%) Playwright
13 13 (7.10%) Vue
14 11 (6.01%) pytest
15 9 (4.92%) GraphQL
16 8 (4.37%) Jest
17 7 (3.83%) .NET Core
17 7 (3.83%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.28%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.64%) Derivative
6 3 (1.64%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.09%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.09%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Life Science
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.55%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.55%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.01%) Linux
2 6 (3.28%) Unix
3 3 (1.64%) CentOS
3 3 (1.64%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.09%) Windows
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 84 (45.90%) CI/CD
3 71 (38.80%) Agile
4 44 (24.04%) DevOps
4 44 (24.04%) Microservices
5 40 (21.86%) Containerisation
6 37 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (13.66%) AI
7 25 (13.66%) Front End Development
8 20 (10.93%) Scrum
8 20 (10.93%) TDD
9 19 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (9.84%) Code Quality
11 17 (9.29%) Software Engineering
12 16 (8.74%) SDLC
13 15 (8.20%) Test Automation
14 14 (7.65%) User Experience
15 12 (6.56%) Event-Driven
16 11 (6.01%) API Development
16 11 (6.01%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 67 (36.61%) TypeScript
2 65 (35.52%) JavaScript
3 60 (32.79%) Java
4 59 (32.24%) Python
5 36 (19.67%) SQL
6 26 (14.21%) C#
7 5 (2.73%) Ruby
8 3 (1.64%) C
8 3 (1.64%) Perl
8 3 (1.64%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.09%) Groovy
9 2 (1.09%) PHP
9 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.55%) C++
10 1 (0.55%) Go
10 1 (0.55%) Korn
10 1 (0.55%) Scala
10 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (26.78%) Security Cleared
2 47 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.92%) Degree
4 6 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.28%) QA
2 5 (2.73%) Accessibility
System Software
1 60 (32.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (27.32%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.46%) Terraform
3 7 (3.83%) Argo
4 5 (2.73%) Grafana
4 5 (2.73%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.09%) Kibana
6 1 (0.55%) Ansible
6 1 (0.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (6.01%) Oracle
1 11 (6.01%) Red Hat
2 8 (4.37%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.83%) Google
4 3 (1.64%) Adobe
5 1 (0.55%) Cisco
5 1 (0.55%) Databricks
5 1 (0.55%) Okta
5 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.55%) Sybase