Full Stack Developer Contracts

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 209 196
Rank change year-on-year +29 -13 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 576 768 1,336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 1.28% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.36% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 587 1,003
10th Percentile £325 £404 £400
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £632 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £52.00 £45.75 £34.15
25th Percentile £53.13 £46.88 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.60 £56.25 £67.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Top 15 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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +38 485 £525 -4.55% 191
London +31 311 £550 -7.17% 76
Work from Home +32 228 £525 +5.00% 117
UK excluding London +43 189 £435 -3.33% 116
South East +46 54 £488 -5.34% 20
South West +15 38 £400 -11.11% 18
North of England +5 34 £425 -19.05% 33
Scotland +17 19 £473 +3.62% 6
Wales +22 17 £438 +2.94% 4
Yorkshire +20 17 £400 -18.99% 10
Midlands +11 17 £350 -18.13% 24
North West -9 17 £425 -19.05% 21
West Midlands +29 10 £325 -29.73% 12
East of England +21 10 £375 -16.67% 13
East Midlands +7 7 £410 +4.46% 12

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 576 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 293 (50.87%) React
3 232 (40.28%) AWS
4 229 (39.76%) JavaScript
5 216 (37.50%) Agile
6 170 (29.51%) TypeScript
7 162 (28.13%) Java
8 156 (27.08%) AngularJS
9 154 (26.74%) Azure
10 146 (25.35%) C#
11 140 (24.31%) Python
12 136 (23.61%) CSS
13 133 (23.09%) HTML
14 130 (22.57%) .NET
15 113 (19.62%) Node.js
16 110 (19.10%) DevOps
17 106 (18.40%) CI/CD
18 104 (18.06%) SQL
19 103 (17.88%) Security Cleared
20 102 (17.71%) Finance
21 90 (15.63%) Microservices
22 85 (14.76%) SC Cleared
23 79 (13.72%) Software Engineering
23 79 (13.72%) PostgreSQL
24 74 (12.85%) REST
25 72 (12.50%) Social Skills
26 70 (12.15%) Git
27 63 (10.94%) Spring
28 61 (10.59%) Front Office
28 61 (10.59%) Test Automation

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
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 40 (6.94%) Apache
2 21 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.95%) nginx
4 14 (2.43%) CMS
5 7 (1.22%) BizTalk Server
5 7 (1.22%) Drupal
6 5 (0.87%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.69%) Confluence
7 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.52%) JBoss
8 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.52%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.35%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.35%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.35%) WildFly
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 232 (40.28%) AWS
2 154 (26.74%) Azure
3 50 (8.68%) Serverless
4 46 (7.99%) GCP
5 29 (5.03%) Azure Functions
6 28 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 26 (4.51%) GitHub
9 24 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (2.95%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 16 (2.78%) Entra ID
14 13 (2.26%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (2.26%) Amazon S3
14 13 (2.26%) npm
15 9 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (1.39%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.69%) HTTP
2 3 (0.52%) Firewall
2 3 (0.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.17%) DHCP
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (13.72%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (9.55%) MongoDB
3 50 (8.68%) NoSQL
4 44 (7.64%) SQL Server
5 36 (6.25%) MySQL
6 27 (4.69%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
8 12 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.08%) Flink
9 7 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.04%) Power BI
10 6 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.87%) Redis
12 4 (0.69%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.69%) GIS
12 4 (0.69%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.35%) Big Data
14 2 (0.35%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 70 (12.15%) Git
2 37 (6.42%) Cypress.io
3 24 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.82%) JIRA
5 14 (2.43%) GitLab
6 13 (2.26%) Selenium
6 13 (2.26%) webpack
7 8 (1.39%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.22%) JUnit
8 7 (1.22%) Postman
9 5 (0.87%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.87%) Jasmine
9 5 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.87%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.52%) Mocha
11 3 (0.52%) NUnit
11 3 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 102 (17.71%) Finance
2 72 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 61 (10.59%) Front Office
4 52 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.99%) Banking
6 10 (1.74%) Marketing
7 8 (1.39%) Financial Institution
7 8 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.04%) Back Office
9 5 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.69%) Law
10 4 (0.69%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.52%) Automotive
11 3 (0.52%) Music Industry
11 3 (0.52%) Retail
11 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.35%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (50.87%) React
2 156 (27.08%) AngularJS
3 136 (23.61%) CSS
4 133 (23.09%) HTML
5 130 (22.57%) .NET
6 113 (19.62%) Node.js
7 74 (12.85%) REST
8 63 (10.94%) Spring
9 47 (8.16%) Redux
10 46 (7.99%) GraphQL
11 43 (7.47%) ASP.NET
12 42 (7.29%) Spring Boot
13 39 (6.77%) .NET Core
13 39 (6.77%) Laravel
14 37 (6.42%) Vue
15 32 (5.56%) Sass
16 31 (5.38%) Material-UI
17 29 (5.03%) HTML5
17 29 (5.03%) Next.js
18 28 (4.86%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 30 (5.21%) Hedge funds
3 24 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 9 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.22%) Equities
8 6 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (0.87%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.35%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.35%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.35%) NHS
12 2 (0.35%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.56%) Linux
2 20 (3.47%) Unix
3 12 (2.08%) Windows
4 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.35%) Android
5 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 216 (37.50%) Agile
3 110 (19.10%) DevOps
4 106 (18.40%) CI/CD
5 90 (15.63%) Microservices
6 79 (13.72%) Software Engineering
7 61 (10.59%) Test Automation
8 59 (10.24%) TDD
9 57 (9.90%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (9.55%) SDLC
11 53 (9.20%) Unit Testing
12 47 (8.16%) MVC
13 44 (7.64%) Front End Development
14 43 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (7.29%) Web Development
16 36 (6.25%) Asset Management
17 35 (6.08%) OO
17 35 (6.08%) User Experience
18 33 (5.73%) Scrum
19 32 (5.56%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 229 (39.76%) JavaScript
2 170 (29.51%) TypeScript
3 162 (28.13%) Java
4 146 (25.35%) C#
5 140 (24.31%) Python
6 104 (18.06%) SQL
7 52 (9.03%) PHP
8 23 (3.99%) C
9 21 (3.65%) Kotlin
10 17 (2.95%) Go
11 12 (2.08%) Ruby
12 11 (1.91%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.56%) C++
13 9 (1.56%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.22%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.52%) Bash
16 2 (0.35%) Rust
16 2 (0.35%) Scala
16 2 (0.35%) Swift
17 1 (0.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 103 (17.88%) Security Cleared
2 85 (14.76%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.03%) Degree
4 12 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.35%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.03%) QA
2 28 (4.86%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.69%) MiFID
4 3 (0.52%) SLA
4 3 (0.52%) WCAG
5 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (9.20%) Docker
2 17 (2.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.38%) Terraform
3 11 (1.91%) Ansible
4 9 (1.56%) Grafana
5 3 (0.52%) Kibana
6 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.35%) Puppet
6 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) logstash
7 1 (0.17%) Packer
7 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 39 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.34%) Google
3 23 (3.99%) Oracle
4 7 (1.22%) Databricks
4 7 (1.22%) MuleSoft
5 5 (0.87%) Optimizely
6 3 (0.52%) SAP
6 3 (0.52%) Splunk
6 3 (0.52%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.35%) IBM
7 2 (0.35%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.17%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.17%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.17%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.17%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.17%) Sybase
8 1 (0.17%) VMware
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