Full Stack Engineer Contracts

Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 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 465 599 635
Rank change year-on-year +134 +36 -84
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Engineer 133 120 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.20% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 93 168
10th Percentile £379 £375 £450
25th Percentile £458 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +17.07%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £689
90th Percentile £788 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -3.50% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £62.75 - -
25th Percentile £63.13 £56.25 £75.00
Median hourly rate £66.25 £57.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -28.13% +45.45%
75th Percentile £71.88 £58.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +21.74% - -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +132 112 £600 -2.04% 162
London +92 75 £650 -7.14% 105
UK excluding London +103 55 £483 -3.50% 57
Work from Home +94 35 £530 -21.56% 84
Scotland +49 18 £435 - 3
North of England +41 13 £400 -20.00% 17
East of England +27 11 £534 - 5
South East +28 7 £600 +14.29% 5
North West +21 6 £400 -11.11% 11
South West +24 4 £538 +34.38% 10
Yorkshire +20 4 £438 -12.50% 4
North East - 3 - - 2
Wales +15 1 £490 +22.50% 2
West Midlands - 1 £300 - 5
Midlands - 1 £300 - 15

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Full Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 95 (71.43%) React
3 92 (69.17%) Software Engineering
4 84 (63.16%) TypeScript
5 72 (54.14%) Agile
6 69 (51.88%) AWS
7 55 (41.35%) Python
8 54 (40.60%) Java
9 52 (39.10%) JavaScript
10 46 (34.59%) Finance
11 45 (33.83%) Azure
12 42 (31.58%) CI/CD
13 40 (30.08%) Node.js
14 37 (27.82%) HTML
14 37 (27.82%) GCP
15 36 (27.07%) CSS
16 35 (26.32%) SQL
17 34 (25.56%) Redux
18 32 (24.06%) Artificial Intelligence
19 31 (23.31%) Asset Management
19 31 (23.31%) Fixed Income
19 31 (23.31%) Front Office
19 31 (23.31%) Investment Management
19 31 (23.31%) Material-UI
20 30 (22.56%) Machine Learning
21 28 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
22 24 (18.05%) Google
23 23 (17.29%) DevOps
24 22 (16.54%) Microservices
24 22 (16.54%) Cypress.io

Full Stack Engineer 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 21 (15.79%) Apache
1 21 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.26%) CMS
2 3 (2.26%) WordPress
3 2 (1.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 69 (51.88%) AWS
2 45 (33.83%) Azure
3 37 (27.82%) GCP
4 16 (12.03%) GitHub
5 13 (9.77%) Serverless
6 9 (6.77%) SaaS
7 8 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.01%) BrowserStack
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.50%) Cloud Run
10 2 (1.50%) IaaS
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.75%) Google Compute Engine
11 1 (0.75%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.52%) Firewall
1 10 (7.52%) VPN
2 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.75%) DNS
2 1 (0.75%) DWDM
2 1 (0.75%) LAN
2 1 (0.75%) Network Security
2 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.79%) Apache Ignite
3 11 (8.27%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.02%) MySQL
5 7 (5.26%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.75%) Big Data
7 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.75%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.75%) Looker
7 1 (0.75%) Power BI
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (16.54%) Cypress.io
2 8 (6.02%) Git
2 8 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.01%) GitLab
4 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.26%) JUnit
4 3 (2.26%) Mockito
4 3 (2.26%) webpack
5 2 (1.50%) Gradle
5 2 (1.50%) JIRA
5 2 (1.50%) Maven
5 2 (1.50%) Postman
5 2 (1.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.75%) Travis CI
General
1 46 (34.59%) Finance
2 31 (23.31%) Front Office
3 21 (15.79%) Banking
4 18 (13.53%) Social Skills
5 17 (12.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.02%) Marketing
7 5 (3.76%) Aviation
8 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.01%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (71.43%) React
2 40 (30.08%) Node.js
3 37 (27.82%) HTML
4 36 (27.07%) CSS
5 34 (25.56%) Redux
6 31 (23.31%) Material-UI
7 21 (15.79%) gRPC
7 21 (15.79%) Protocol Buffers
8 20 (15.04%) AngularJS
9 17 (12.78%) GraphQL
10 13 (9.77%) REST
11 12 (9.02%) Spring
11 12 (9.02%) Spring Boot
12 11 (8.27%) HTML5
13 8 (6.02%) JPA
14 7 (5.26%) Next.js
14 7 (5.26%) RESTful
14 7 (5.26%) Vue
15 6 (4.51%) Laravel
16 5 (3.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.31%) Fixed Income
2 21 (15.79%) Hedge funds
3 9 (6.77%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (6.02%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.26%) Equities
6 5 (3.76%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.75%) Genomics
9 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Life Science
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.75%) Solar Panel
9 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.01%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 92 (69.17%) Software Engineering
3 72 (54.14%) Agile
4 42 (31.58%) CI/CD
5 32 (24.06%) Artificial Intelligence
6 31 (23.31%) Asset Management
6 31 (23.31%) Investment Management
7 30 (22.56%) Machine Learning
8 23 (17.29%) DevOps
9 22 (16.54%) Microservices
10 21 (15.79%) Automated Trading
11 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.03%) SDLC
13 12 (9.02%) Test Automation
14 11 (8.27%) Analytics
14 11 (8.27%) Operational Stability
14 11 (8.27%) TDD
15 10 (7.52%) Fintech
15 10 (7.52%) Performance Attribution
15 10 (7.52%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 84 (63.16%) TypeScript
2 55 (41.35%) Python
3 54 (40.60%) Java
4 52 (39.10%) JavaScript
5 35 (26.32%) SQL
6 15 (11.28%) Kotlin
7 13 (9.77%) C#
8 5 (3.76%) PHP
9 4 (3.01%) Go
10 2 (1.50%) C++
11 1 (0.75%) Bash
11 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (5.26%) Degree
2 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.26%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.75%) CCNA
4 1 (0.75%) CCNP
4 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.75%) JNCIA
4 1 (0.75%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.51%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.76%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.75%) VirtualBox
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.77%) Terraform
2 8 (6.02%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.01%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (18.05%) Google
2 3 (2.26%) WooCommerce
3 1 (0.75%) Arista
3 1 (0.75%) Cisco
3 1 (0.75%) Compaq
3 1 (0.75%) Confluent
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle
3 1 (0.75%) VMware
186 Full Stack Engineer jobs Nationwide