Full Stack Development Contracts

Full-Stack Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Full Stack Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Full Stack Development over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 91 73
Rank change year-on-year +1 -18 -15
Contract jobs citing Full Stack Development 1,037 1,587 2,950
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.39% 2.65% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.95% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 1,190 2,282
10th Percentile £325 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% -1.91% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -5.87% +4.00% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 20
10th Percentile £51.25 £38.00 £40.00
25th Percentile £58.75 £42.50 £49.06
Median hourly rate £67.00 £50.00 £65.52
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% -23.69% +19.13%
75th Percentile £76.25 £57.81 £76.21
90th Percentile £80.00 £58.38 £83.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £56.25 £65.50
% change year-on-year +24.44% -14.12% +19.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Full Stack Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Full Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Full Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Top 16 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 Development 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 +1 885 £550 -4.35% 932
London +4 551 £575 -4.17% 358
Work from Home -3 400 £513 -6.82% 771
UK excluding London +12 380 £465 -5.87% 615
South East +41 93 £450 -13.88% 112
North of England -24 85 £513 -2.38% 181
South West -8 56 £475 - 96
Scotland +19 53 £470 -0.95% 39
Midlands +24 47 £386 -18.68% 115
North West -11 47 £500 -4.76% 109
Yorkshire +11 35 £525 - 54
West Midlands +39 32 £350 -33.33% 61
East of England +26 25 £479 +6.44% 69
Wales +19 23 £438 +4.48% 16
East Midlands +11 15 £410 -3.53% 53
North East -14 3 - - 21

Full Stack Development
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 65 (6.27%) Apache
2 46 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.41%) CMS
4 20 (1.93%) nginx
5 12 (1.16%) Confluence
6 11 (1.06%) WordPress
7 10 (0.96%) Drupal
8 9 (0.87%) BizTalk Server
9 8 (0.77%) Umbraco
10 7 (0.68%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.48%) JBoss
12 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.19%) EPiServer
14 2 (0.19%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
14 2 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.096%) Simulink
2 1 (0.096%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.096%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.096%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.096%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 421 (40.60%) AWS
2 299 (28.83%) Azure
3 111 (10.70%) GCP
4 97 (9.35%) Serverless
5 65 (6.27%) GitHub
6 58 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (4.53%) Azure Functions
8 44 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (3.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 30 (2.89%) Amazon S3
10 30 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 26 (2.51%) SaaS
12 21 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (1.93%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 20 (1.93%) npm
14 19 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (1.54%) Entra ID
16 15 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.83%) VPN
2 16 (1.54%) Firewall
3 6 (0.58%) HTTP
4 5 (0.48%) DNS
5 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.096%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.096%) DHCP
6 1 (0.096%) DWDM
6 1 (0.096%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.096%) FTP
6 1 (0.096%) Internet
6 1 (0.096%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.096%) LAN
6 1 (0.096%) Network Security
6 1 (0.096%) SSH
6 1 (0.096%) VLAN
6 1 (0.096%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (13.31%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (7.23%) MongoDB
3 72 (6.94%) NoSQL
4 70 (6.75%) SQL Server
5 64 (6.17%) MySQL
6 47 (4.53%) Relational Database
7 46 (4.44%) Apache Ignite
8 18 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (1.35%) Flink
12 12 (1.16%) Redis
13 11 (1.06%) Power BI
13 11 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
15 6 (0.58%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.58%) GIS
15 6 (0.58%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 108 (10.41%) Git
2 67 (6.46%) Cypress.io
3 43 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 42 (4.05%) JIRA
5 37 (3.57%) GitLab
6 31 (2.99%) webpack
7 19 (1.83%) JUnit
8 16 (1.54%) Selenium
9 14 (1.35%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.06%) Postman
11 10 (0.96%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.77%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.68%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.68%) Mockito
13 7 (0.68%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.58%) Maven
14 6 (0.58%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.48%) Gradle
15 5 (0.48%) Jasmine
General
1 226 (21.79%) Finance
2 145 (13.98%) Social Skills
3 122 (11.76%) Front Office
4 95 (9.16%) Banking
5 87 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (7.23%) Public Sector
7 28 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (2.51%) Marketing
9 16 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.45%) Tech for Good
11 9 (0.87%) Retail
12 8 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.77%) Law
12 8 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.68%) Automotive
13 7 (0.68%) Back Office
14 5 (0.48%) Aviation
14 5 (0.48%) Billing
15 4 (0.39%) Music Industry
15 4 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 804 (77.53%) Developer
2 576 (55.54%) Full Stack Developer
3 152 (14.66%) React Developer
4 135 (13.02%) Software Engineer
5 133 (12.83%) Full Stack Engineer
6 117 (11.28%) .NET Developer
7 84 (8.10%) Java Developer
7 84 (8.10%) Senior
8 83 (8.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 74 (7.14%) C# Developer
10 70 (6.75%) Python Developer
11 62 (5.98%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 59 (5.69%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 58 (5.59%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 56 (5.40%) Full Stack .NET Developer
15 55 (5.30%) Python Engineer
16 52 (5.01%) Angular Developer
16 52 (5.01%) Lead
17 50 (4.82%) Azure Developer
18 46 (4.44%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (49.57%) React
2 240 (23.14%) AngularJS
3 234 (22.57%) CSS
4 223 (21.50%) .NET
4 223 (21.50%) HTML
5 210 (20.25%) Node.js
6 119 (11.48%) Redux
7 109 (10.51%) REST
8 92 (8.87%) Spring
9 79 (7.62%) Vue
10 77 (7.43%) GraphQL
11 74 (7.14%) .NET Core
12 70 (6.75%) ASP.NET
13 69 (6.65%) Spring Boot
14 58 (5.59%) Laravel
15 51 (4.92%) Material-UI
16 48 (4.63%) Express.js
17 47 (4.53%) Kafka
17 47 (4.53%) Protocol Buffers
17 47 (4.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.39%) Fixed Income
2 82 (7.91%) Hedge funds
3 47 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
4 43 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 40 (3.86%) Equities
6 32 (3.09%) Derivative
7 31 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 24 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (2.03%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 10 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.87%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 5 (0.48%) Marketing Technology
16 4 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.59%) Linux
2 31 (2.99%) Unix
3 18 (1.74%) Windows
4 11 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.58%) Android
6 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.096%) AIX
8 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.096%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (40.21%) Agile
2 254 (24.49%) Software Engineering
3 223 (21.50%) DevOps
4 220 (21.22%) CI/CD
5 143 (13.79%) Microservices
6 137 (13.21%) TDD
7 120 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (11.19%) Test Automation
9 90 (8.68%) SDLC
10 89 (8.58%) Asset Management
11 87 (8.39%) Front End Development
12 83 (8.00%) Investment Management
13 73 (7.04%) Web Development
14 70 (6.75%) Machine Learning
15 69 (6.65%) Unit Testing
16 67 (6.46%) Artificial Intelligence
17 62 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (5.98%) Scrum
18 61 (5.88%) MVC
19 60 (5.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 406 (39.15%) JavaScript
2 345 (33.27%) TypeScript
3 275 (26.52%) Java
4 257 (24.78%) C#
5 245 (23.63%) Python
6 207 (19.96%) SQL
7 76 (7.33%) PHP
8 34 (3.28%) C
9 33 (3.18%) Go
10 29 (2.80%) Kotlin
11 24 (2.31%) PL/SQL
12 23 (2.22%) C++
13 16 (1.54%) Ruby
14 14 (1.35%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.16%) Shell Script
16 11 (1.06%) PowerShell
17 10 (0.96%) Bash
18 8 (0.77%) Scala
19 5 (0.48%) ProC
20 3 (0.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 135 (13.02%) Security Cleared
2 111 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 52 (5.01%) Degree
4 21 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.096%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.096%) CCNA
10 1 (0.096%) CCNP
10 1 (0.096%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.096%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.096%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.096%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (8.20%) QA
2 51 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.77%) WCAG
4 6 (0.58%) MiFID
5 3 (0.29%) SLA
6 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.096%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.096%) GDPR
7 1 (0.096%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.096%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.096%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.096%) MISRA
7 1 (0.096%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.096%) NCSC
7 1 (0.096%) NIST
7 1 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (8.49%) Docker
2 18 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (9.64%) Kubernetes
2 54 (5.21%) Terraform
3 19 (1.83%) Grafana
4 14 (1.35%) Ansible
5 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.39%) Kibana
7 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.19%) Puppet
9 1 (0.096%) Istio
9 1 (0.096%) logstash
9 1 (0.096%) Packer
9 1 (0.096%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 69 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.01%) Google
3 47 (4.53%) Oracle
4 9 (0.87%) Databricks
4 9 (0.87%) MuleSoft
5 6 (0.58%) Optimizely
6 4 (0.39%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.39%) IBM
6 4 (0.39%) SAP
6 4 (0.39%) VMware
7 3 (0.29%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.29%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.29%) Sitecore
7 3 (0.29%) Splunk
7 3 (0.29%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.29%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.19%) Confluent
9 1 (0.096%) Arista
9 1 (0.096%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.096%) NVIDIA