Full Stack Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 236 274
Rank change year-on-year +14 +38 -98
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 182 226 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.96% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.02% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 184 175
10th Percentile £313 £353 £350
25th Percentile £325 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £626 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £588 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 £52.50 £75.55
Median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £76.10
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -27.72% +90.24%
75th Percentile £54.69 £57.50 £76.64
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Full Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +37 57 £530 -3.64% 17
South West +8 36 £400 -11.11% 19
North of England -2 32 £450 -14.29% 33
Wales +26 18 £438 +2.94% 7
Midlands +25 17 £350 -17.65% 24
North West -11 17 £456 -13.10% 25
Yorkshire +15 15 £400 -17.95% 5
Scotland +19 12 £500 +8.11% 7
West Midlands +22 10 £325 -27.78% 12
East of England +13 10 £375 -16.67% 11
East Midlands +14 7 £410 +13.89% 12
Full Stack Developer
UK

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Full Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 182 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 106 (58.24%) React
3 69 (37.91%) Agile
4 64 (35.16%) AngularJS
5 61 (33.52%) JavaScript
6 59 (32.42%) Java
7 55 (30.22%) Python
8 48 (26.37%) DevOps
9 47 (25.82%) Azure
10 46 (25.27%) AWS
11 44 (24.18%) TypeScript
11 44 (24.18%) CI/CD
12 35 (19.23%) CSS
12 35 (19.23%) Spring
13 34 (18.68%) SDLC
14 33 (18.13%) Microservices
15 30 (16.48%) Unit Testing
15 30 (16.48%) HTML
16 29 (15.93%) C#
16 29 (15.93%) Git
17 28 (15.38%) SQL
17 28 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
18 26 (14.29%) .NET
18 26 (14.29%) Security Cleared
18 26 (14.29%) Node.js
19 24 (13.19%) Change Management
20 23 (12.64%) QA
21 22 (12.09%) NoSQL
21 22 (12.09%) Serverless
21 22 (12.09%) Azure Cosmos DB

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (3.85%) Apache
1 7 (3.85%) CMS
1 7 (3.85%) Drupal
2 3 (1.65%) Confluence
3 2 (1.10%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.10%) JBoss
3 2 (1.10%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.10%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.10%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.10%) WildFly
4 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.55%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.55%) Camunda
4 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.82%) Azure
2 46 (25.27%) AWS
3 22 (12.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 22 (12.09%) Serverless
4 19 (10.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (10.44%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (9.34%) Entra ID
6 16 (8.79%) Azure Functions
7 7 (3.85%) GitHub
8 6 (3.30%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.20%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.20%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.20%) SaaS
10 3 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.10%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.10%) npm
11 2 (1.10%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) Firewall
1 2 (1.10%) VPN
2 1 (0.55%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.09%) NoSQL
2 18 (9.89%) MySQL
3 16 (8.79%) MongoDB
4 15 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (8.24%) Relational Database
5 10 (5.49%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.75%) Power BI
7 4 (2.20%) GIS
8 3 (1.65%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.10%) Big Data
9 2 (1.10%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.10%) Redis
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (15.93%) Git
2 8 (4.40%) Cypress.io
3 6 (3.30%) Postman
3 6 (3.30%) Selenium
4 5 (2.75%) GitLab
4 5 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.75%) JUnit
5 4 (2.20%) JIRA
6 2 (1.10%) Maven
6 2 (1.10%) Mocha
6 2 (1.10%) Subversion
6 2 (1.10%) webpack
7 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.55%) JMeter
7 1 (0.55%) Mockito
7 1 (0.55%) Storybook
General
1 20 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (8.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.69%) Finance
4 11 (6.04%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.75%) Banking
5 5 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.65%) Music Industry
7 2 (1.10%) Retail
8 1 (0.55%) Automotive
8 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.55%) Legal
8 1 (0.55%) Military
8 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (58.24%) React
2 64 (35.16%) AngularJS
3 35 (19.23%) CSS
3 35 (19.23%) Spring
4 30 (16.48%) HTML
5 26 (14.29%) .NET
5 26 (14.29%) Node.js
6 20 (10.99%) REST
6 20 (10.99%) Spring Boot
7 15 (8.24%) Vue
8 13 (7.14%) GraphQL
8 13 (7.14%) Next.js
9 12 (6.59%) Laravel
10 9 (4.95%) Express.js
10 9 (4.95%) Redux
11 8 (4.40%) HTML5
12 7 (3.85%) Angular 2
12 7 (3.85%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.85%) RESTful
12 7 (3.85%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (1.65%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.10%) NHS
4 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.55%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.55%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.55%) PropTech
5 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.55%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.49%) Linux
2 4 (2.20%) Android
2 4 (2.20%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.20%) Unix
3 2 (1.10%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.55%) AIX
4 1 (0.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 69 (37.91%) Agile
3 48 (26.37%) DevOps
4 44 (24.18%) CI/CD
5 34 (18.68%) SDLC
6 33 (18.13%) Microservices
7 30 (16.48%) Unit Testing
8 28 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (13.19%) Change Management
10 18 (9.89%) Project Management
10 18 (9.89%) Test Automation
11 17 (9.34%) Product Backlog
12 16 (8.79%) MVC
13 15 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (8.24%) OO
14 14 (7.69%) Secure Coding
14 14 (7.69%) Software Architecture
15 13 (7.14%) TDD
16 12 (6.59%) OOP
16 12 (6.59%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (33.52%) JavaScript
2 59 (32.42%) Java
3 55 (30.22%) Python
4 44 (24.18%) TypeScript
5 29 (15.93%) C#
6 28 (15.38%) SQL
7 21 (11.54%) PHP
8 15 (8.24%) C
9 3 (1.65%) Ruby
10 1 (0.55%) Bash
10 1 (0.55%) C++
10 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.55%) Scala
10 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.65%) Degree
5 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.64%) QA
2 5 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.55%) NCSC
4 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (10.44%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.20%) Terraform
3 3 (1.65%) Ansible
4 2 (1.10%) Grafana
4 2 (1.10%) Kibana
4 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.55%) Packer
5 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.75%) Oracle
3 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.55%) Databricks
4 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.55%) Google
4 1 (0.55%) IBM
4 1 (0.55%) Splunk
4 1 (0.55%) Sybase
4 1 (0.55%) VMware
4 1 (0.55%) Xamarin