Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in London is £521, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 176 143
Rank change year-on-year -56 -33 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 186 176 310
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.39% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.49% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 137 246
10th Percentile £400 £365 £375
25th Percentile £442 £410 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £580 £663 £722
90th Percentile £711 £800 £794
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £33.45
25th Percentile - - £39.04
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £48.36
75th Percentile - - £57.68
90th Percentile - - £63.27
England median hourly rate £58.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

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 16,066 11,835 16,721
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 93.57% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,721 8,113 12,065
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £800 £788
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 143 341
10th Percentile £18.28 £21.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.75 £63.75
England median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year +35.38% -5.00% -21.70%

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 12 April 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 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -19 19 £518 -1.43% 8
South London -2 13 £513 +7.95% 1
West London -13 9 - - 4
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 April 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.

1 186 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 83 (44.62%) React
3 82 (44.09%) AWS
4 76 (40.86%) CI/CD
5 72 (38.71%) Agile
6 67 (36.02%) Python
7 63 (33.87%) TypeScript
8 62 (33.33%) Java
9 61 (32.80%) Node.js
10 58 (31.18%) Docker
11 56 (30.11%) JavaScript
12 55 (29.57%) Azure
13 45 (24.19%) AngularJS
13 45 (24.19%) Security Cleared
14 43 (23.12%) Kubernetes
15 39 (20.97%) Containerisation
15 39 (20.97%) DevOps
15 39 (20.97%) SC Cleared
16 36 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
17 33 (17.74%) Microservices
17 33 (17.74%) SQL
18 30 (16.13%) Spring
19 28 (15.05%) RESTful
20 27 (14.52%) .NET
20 27 (14.52%) HTML
20 27 (14.52%) REST
21 26 (13.98%) CSS
21 26 (13.98%) GitHub
21 26 (13.98%) Kafka
22 25 (13.44%) AI

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 9 (4.84%) Confluence
2 1 (0.54%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 82 (44.09%) AWS
2 55 (29.57%) Azure
3 26 (13.98%) GitHub
4 20 (10.75%) GCP
4 20 (10.75%) Serverless
5 13 (6.99%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.38%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 9 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.76%) Datadog
9 7 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.69%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.15%) Azure AI
12 4 (2.15%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.15%) Figma
13 3 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.61%) SSL
2 1 (0.54%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (12.37%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.60%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.53%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.84%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.23%) MySQL
7 6 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.61%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.61%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.61%) Redis
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.08%) GIS
9 2 (1.08%) Metadata
10 1 (0.54%) Power BI
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (12.90%) Git
2 15 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.91%) JIRA
4 7 (3.76%) GitLab
5 4 (2.15%) NUnit
6 3 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.61%) JUnit
7 2 (1.08%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.08%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.08%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.08%) Mockito
7 2 (1.08%) MSTest
7 2 (1.08%) Snyk
7 2 (1.08%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.08%) Storybook
7 2 (1.08%) webpack
8 1 (0.54%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 39 (20.97%) Finance
2 24 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 20 (10.75%) Social Skills
4 18 (9.68%) Banking
5 14 (7.53%) Front Office
6 7 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Advertising
9 1 (0.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (44.62%) React
2 61 (32.80%) Node.js
3 45 (24.19%) AngularJS
4 30 (16.13%) Spring
5 28 (15.05%) RESTful
6 27 (14.52%) .NET
6 27 (14.52%) HTML
6 27 (14.52%) REST
7 26 (13.98%) CSS
7 26 (13.98%) Kafka
8 23 (12.37%) Spring Boot
9 20 (10.75%) Vue
10 16 (8.60%) GraphQL
10 16 (8.60%) Next.js
11 13 (6.99%) YAML
12 12 (6.45%) FastAPI
12 12 (6.45%) Redux
13 11 (5.91%) Playwright
14 9 (4.84%) Flask
14 9 (4.84%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.52%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.91%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.69%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.15%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.61%) Derivative
6 3 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.08%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.54%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.15%) Linux
2 2 (1.08%) Unix
3 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 76 (40.86%) CI/CD
3 72 (38.71%) Agile
4 39 (20.97%) Containerisation
4 39 (20.97%) DevOps
5 33 (17.74%) Microservices
6 25 (13.44%) AI
6 25 (13.44%) Front End Development
7 22 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (11.83%) Software Engineering
8 21 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (10.22%) SDLC
9 19 (10.22%) Test Automation
10 16 (8.60%) TDD
11 15 (8.06%) Mentoring
12 14 (7.53%) Code Quality
12 14 (7.53%) Scrum
13 11 (5.91%) Sprint Planning
14 10 (5.38%) Clean Code
14 10 (5.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 67 (36.02%) Python
2 63 (33.87%) TypeScript
3 62 (33.33%) Java
4 56 (30.11%) JavaScript
5 33 (17.74%) SQL
6 24 (12.90%) C#
7 8 (4.30%) Go
8 2 (1.08%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.08%) PHP
8 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.08%) Scala
8 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.54%) Bash
9 1 (0.54%) Bicep
9 1 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.76%) Degree
4 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.91%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.15%) QA
3 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (31.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (23.12%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.06%) Terraform
3 8 (4.30%) Grafana
3 8 (4.30%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.08%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (6.99%) Oracle
2 9 (4.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.61%) Adobe
3 3 (1.61%) Databricks
3 3 (1.61%) Google
4 1 (0.54%) Hitachi
4 1 (0.54%) NEC
4 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.54%) Splunk
4 1 (0.54%) Sybase
4 1 (0.54%) Workday