Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in London is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 167 172
Rank change year-on-year -40 +5 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 170 247 305
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.55% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.65% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 176 234
10th Percentile £348 £385 £406
25th Percentile £424 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -2.95% -1.25%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £713
90th Percentile £740 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £36.05 £34.25
25th Percentile - £36.50 £41.04
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £52.36
Median % change year-on-year - -25.99% -28.85%
75th Percentile - £40.63 £63.68
90th Percentile - £41.30 £70.47
England median hourly rate £67.00 £38.75 £52.36
% change year-on-year +72.90% -25.99% -30.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,380 14,992 19,412
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,241 9,739 14,154
10th Percentile £335 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 167 210
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.31
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £22.26
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -7.41% +24.62%
75th Percentile £48.00 £58.75 £61.15
90th Percentile £67.11 £79.55 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.61% +59.17%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -4 19 £588 -0.25% 12
West London - 4 £365 - 3
South London -6 3 £535 -35.10% 3
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, 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.

1 170 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 97 (57.06%) React
3 84 (49.41%) JavaScript
4 83 (48.82%) TypeScript
5 74 (43.53%) AWS
6 71 (41.76%) CI/CD
6 71 (41.76%) Python
7 70 (41.18%) Agile
8 56 (32.94%) Azure
9 54 (31.76%) Node.js
10 49 (28.82%) AngularJS
11 48 (28.24%) Java
12 42 (24.71%) Docker
13 40 (23.53%) HTML
14 39 (22.94%) CSS
15 37 (21.76%) DevOps
15 37 (21.76%) SQL
16 36 (21.18%) Microservices
17 33 (19.41%) Git
17 33 (19.41%) PostgreSQL
17 33 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
18 32 (18.82%) Security Cleared
19 31 (18.24%) .NET
19 31 (18.24%) SC Cleared
20 30 (17.65%) Kubernetes
21 28 (16.47%) C#
22 26 (15.29%) Containerisation
23 25 (14.71%) GCP
23 25 (14.71%) REST
23 25 (14.71%) Spring

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 (3.53%) CMS
2 5 (2.94%) Confluence
3 3 (1.76%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.18%) Moodle
4 2 (1.18%) SAS
5 1 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.59%) Apache
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.59%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 74 (43.53%) AWS
2 56 (32.94%) Azure
3 25 (14.71%) GCP
4 22 (12.94%) Serverless
5 21 (12.35%) GitHub
6 12 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (6.47%) Amazon S3
7 11 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.29%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.94%) SaaS
12 4 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.35%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.35%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (2.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) HTTP
1 1 (0.59%) SSL
1 1 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.41%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 16 (9.41%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.29%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.12%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.12%) MySQL
7 6 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.18%) Power BI
9 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.18%) Tableau
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.59%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (19.41%) Git
2 9 (5.29%) Maven
3 8 (4.71%) JIRA
4 6 (3.53%) GitLab
4 6 (3.53%) JUnit
5 5 (2.94%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.35%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.35%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.76%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.76%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.76%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.76%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.18%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.18%) Mockito
9 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.59%) JMeter
9 1 (0.59%) MSTest
9 1 (0.59%) Vagrant
General
1 42 (24.71%) Finance
2 37 (21.76%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.41%) Front Office
4 14 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.24%) Banking
5 11 (6.47%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.29%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (2.94%) Retail
8 5 (2.94%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.59%) Aviation
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Military
10 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.59%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (57.06%) React
2 54 (31.76%) Node.js
3 49 (28.82%) AngularJS
4 40 (23.53%) HTML
5 39 (22.94%) CSS
6 31 (18.24%) .NET
7 25 (14.71%) REST
7 25 (14.71%) Spring
8 24 (14.12%) RESTful
9 22 (12.94%) Next.js
10 21 (12.35%) Vue
11 16 (9.41%) FastAPI
12 15 (8.82%) Spring Boot
13 14 (8.24%) Redux
14 11 (6.47%) Jest
14 11 (6.47%) Kafka
15 10 (5.88%) GraphQL
15 10 (5.88%) JSON
16 9 (5.29%) Web Services
17 8 (4.71%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.65%) Hedge funds
3 11 (6.47%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (5.29%) Equities
5 9 (5.29%) Fixed Income
6 7 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.35%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.18%) Derivative
10 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.18%) e-Learning
10 2 (1.18%) Learning Management System
10 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.18%) Life Science
10 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.18%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.29%) Linux
2 8 (4.71%) Unix
3 3 (1.76%) CentOS
3 3 (1.76%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 71 (41.76%) CI/CD
3 70 (41.18%) Agile
4 37 (21.76%) DevOps
5 36 (21.18%) Microservices
6 33 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (15.29%) Containerisation
8 23 (13.53%) Front End Development
8 23 (13.53%) Software Engineering
9 22 (12.94%) TDD
10 21 (12.35%) Clean Code
11 18 (10.59%) AI
12 15 (8.82%) Code Quality
12 15 (8.82%) Test Automation
13 13 (7.65%) Scrum
13 13 (7.65%) User Experience
14 12 (7.06%) Analytics
14 12 (7.06%) API Development
14 12 (7.06%) Fintech
15 11 (6.47%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 84 (49.41%) JavaScript
2 83 (48.82%) TypeScript
3 71 (41.76%) Python
4 48 (28.24%) Java
5 37 (21.76%) SQL
6 28 (16.47%) C#
7 9 (5.29%) Ruby
8 4 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.76%) C
9 3 (1.76%) C++
9 3 (1.76%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.76%) Perl
9 3 (1.76%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.18%) Bicep
10 2 (1.18%) Groovy
10 2 (1.18%) PHP
10 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.18%) Scala
10 2 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.88%) Degree
4 7 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.06%) QA
2 6 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (24.71%) Docker
2 3 (1.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.12%) Argo
3 5 (2.94%) Terraform
4 3 (1.76%) Kibana
5 2 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (7.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.88%) Oracle
2 10 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 7 (4.12%) Google
4 4 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (1.76%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.18%) Databricks
6 2 (1.18%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.18%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.59%) Adobe
7 1 (0.59%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco
7 1 (0.59%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.59%) Okta