Full Stack Engineer Contracts

Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 566 636
Rank change year-on-year +139 +70 -67
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Engineer 145 122 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.23% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 96 163
10th Percentile £375 £403 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £750 £731 £691
90th Percentile £788 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £62.75 - -
25th Percentile £63.13 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £66.25 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% - -
75th Percentile £71.88 £58.75 -
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 39,817 53,094 83,517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 94.62% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,817 37,082 58,793
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,805 1,473 1,982
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +7.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

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 30 May 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 30 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
England +115 124 £600 -4.00% 174
London +76 81 £700 +3.70% 107
UK excluding London +84 60 £470 -6.00% 63
Work from Home +82 37 £500 -25.93% 92
Scotland +48 17 £430 - 1
North of England +35 14 £400 -20.00% 18
East of England +24 11 £534 - 7
South East +21 9 £538 +18.13% 18
North West +25 6 £400 -23.81% 13
South West +4 5 £475 +18.75% 7
Yorkshire +16 4 £438 -12.50% 3
North East - 4 - - 2
Midlands - 3 £300 - 7
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 3
Wales +19 1 £490 +22.50% 4

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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.

1 145 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 103 (71.03%) React
3 102 (70.34%) Software Engineering
4 93 (64.14%) TypeScript
5 83 (57.24%) Agile
6 77 (53.10%) AWS
7 66 (45.52%) Python
8 58 (40.00%) Azure
9 55 (37.93%) Java
9 55 (37.93%) Finance
10 48 (33.10%) GCP
11 47 (32.41%) JavaScript
12 46 (31.72%) CI/CD
13 43 (29.66%) PostgreSQL
13 43 (29.66%) Artificial Intelligence
14 42 (28.97%) Machine Learning
14 42 (28.97%) Redux
15 41 (28.28%) SQL
16 39 (26.90%) Fixed Income
16 39 (26.90%) Asset Management
16 39 (26.90%) Front Office
16 39 (26.90%) Investment Management
16 39 (26.90%) Material-UI
17 38 (26.21%) Node.js
17 38 (26.21%) Google
17 38 (26.21%) HTML
18 37 (25.52%) Banking
19 36 (24.83%) CSS
20 34 (23.45%) Apache
21 33 (22.76%) 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 34 (23.45%) Apache
2 33 (22.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.07%) CMS
3 3 (2.07%) WordPress
4 2 (1.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 77 (53.10%) AWS
2 58 (40.00%) Azure
3 48 (33.10%) GCP
4 18 (12.41%) GitHub
5 15 (10.34%) Serverless
6 9 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.83%) SaaS
8 5 (3.45%) BrowserStack
9 4 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.07%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.07%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.38%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.38%) Cloud Run
11 2 (1.38%) IaaS
11 2 (1.38%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.69%) Azure Event Grid
12 1 (0.69%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.90%) Firewall
1 10 (6.90%) VPN
2 1 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.69%) DNS
2 1 (0.69%) DWDM
2 1 (0.69%) LAN
2 1 (0.69%) Network Security
2 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (29.66%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (22.76%) Apache Ignite
3 16 (11.03%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.59%) MongoDB
5 10 (6.90%) MySQL
6 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.69%) Big Data
8 1 (0.69%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.69%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.69%) Looker
8 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (22.76%) Cypress.io
2 10 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.83%) Git
4 5 (3.45%) GitLab
4 5 (3.45%) webpack
5 3 (2.07%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.07%) JUnit
5 3 (2.07%) Mockito
6 2 (1.38%) Gradle
6 2 (1.38%) JIRA
6 2 (1.38%) Maven
6 2 (1.38%) Postman
6 2 (1.38%) Selenium
6 2 (1.38%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (37.93%) Finance
2 39 (26.90%) Front Office
3 37 (25.52%) Banking
4 18 (12.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (11.03%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.45%) Aviation
6 5 (3.45%) Marketing
7 4 (2.76%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.07%) Retail
9 2 (1.38%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.69%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (71.03%) React
2 42 (28.97%) Redux
3 39 (26.90%) Material-UI
4 38 (26.21%) HTML
4 38 (26.21%) Node.js
5 36 (24.83%) CSS
6 33 (22.76%) gRPC
6 33 (22.76%) Protocol Buffers
7 20 (13.79%) AngularJS
8 13 (8.97%) REST
8 13 (8.97%) Spring
8 13 (8.97%) Spring Boot
9 12 (8.28%) GraphQL
9 12 (8.28%) HTML5
10 9 (6.21%) Next.js
11 8 (5.52%) JPA
12 7 (4.83%) CSS3
12 7 (4.83%) RESTful
12 7 (4.83%) Vue
13 6 (4.14%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.90%) Fixed Income
2 33 (22.76%) Hedge funds
3 17 (11.72%) Equities
4 8 (5.52%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.69%) Derivative
9 1 (0.69%) Genomics
9 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) IoT
9 1 (0.69%) Life Science
9 1 (0.69%) OTC Derivatives
9 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.69%) Solar Panel
9 1 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (1.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) Android
3 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 102 (70.34%) Software Engineering
3 83 (57.24%) Agile
4 46 (31.72%) CI/CD
5 43 (29.66%) Artificial Intelligence
6 42 (28.97%) Machine Learning
7 39 (26.90%) Asset Management
7 39 (26.90%) Investment Management
8 33 (22.76%) Automated Trading
9 27 (18.62%) DevOps
10 26 (17.93%) Microservices
11 19 (13.10%) SDLC
12 17 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (8.28%) Operational Stability
13 12 (8.28%) TDD
13 12 (8.28%) Test Automation
14 10 (6.90%) BDD
15 9 (6.21%) Identity Management
15 9 (6.21%) Load Balancing
16 8 (5.52%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 93 (64.14%) TypeScript
2 66 (45.52%) Python
3 55 (37.93%) Java
4 47 (32.41%) JavaScript
5 41 (28.28%) SQL
6 14 (9.66%) C#
7 11 (7.59%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.76%) Go
8 4 (2.76%) PHP
9 2 (1.38%) C++
10 1 (0.69%) Bash
10 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (4.83%) Degree
2 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.07%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.38%) OCP
4 2 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.69%) CCNA
5 1 (0.69%) CCNP
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.69%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.69%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (5.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.69%) VirtualBox
2 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Terraform
3 5 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.69%) Ansible
4 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (26.21%) Google
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.07%) WooCommerce
4 2 (1.38%) Confluent
5 1 (0.69%) Arista
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco
5 1 (0.69%) Compaq
5 1 (0.69%) SAP
5 1 (0.69%) VMware
203 Full Stack Engineer jobs Nationwide