Full Stack Software Engineer Contracts

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 680 800
Rank change year-on-year +145 +120 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Software Engineer 59 36 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.060% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.064% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 28 36
10th Percentile £369 £496 £431
25th Percentile £500 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £703
90th Percentile - - £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £525 £713
% change year-on-year -26.19% -26.32% +39.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
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 £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Full Stack Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Software Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Top 13 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 Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +138 52 £700 +7.69% 26
London +125 41 £700 - 15
UK excluding London +78 18 £388 -26.19% 12
Work from Home +113 13 £550 -21.43% 18
North of England - 7 £550 - 3
Scotland - 6 £313 - 1
North East - 3 - - 1
East of England +10 2 £550 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
North West - 2 £550 -
South East +17 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £325 - 1
Wales - 1 £490 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Full Stack Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 59 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 50 (84.75%) React
3 45 (76.27%) TypeScript
3 45 (76.27%) Agile
4 42 (71.19%) AWS
5 37 (62.71%) Python
6 34 (57.63%) Azure
7 32 (54.24%) Finance
8 31 (52.54%) Fixed Income
8 31 (52.54%) Front Office
8 31 (52.54%) Investment Management
8 31 (52.54%) Asset Management
8 31 (52.54%) GCP
8 31 (52.54%) Redux
8 31 (52.54%) Material-UI
9 25 (42.37%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (37.29%) Java
10 22 (37.29%) JavaScript
10 22 (37.29%) Artificial Intelligence
10 22 (37.29%) Machine Learning
11 21 (35.59%) Hedge funds
11 21 (35.59%) Protocol Buffers
11 21 (35.59%) Banking
11 21 (35.59%) Google
11 21 (35.59%) Apache
11 21 (35.59%) Apache Ignite
11 21 (35.59%) gRPC
11 21 (35.59%) Apache Airflow
11 21 (35.59%) Automated Trading

Full Stack Software 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 (35.59%) Apache
1 21 (35.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.69%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (71.19%) AWS
2 34 (57.63%) Azure
3 31 (52.54%) GCP
4 9 (15.25%) GitHub
5 5 (8.47%) Serverless
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.78%) BrowserStack
7 3 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.39%) IaaS
9 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.69%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
1 2 (3.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (42.37%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (35.59%) Apache Ignite
3 6 (10.17%) MySQL
4 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.69%) Big Data
7 1 (1.69%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (33.90%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.39%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) GitLab
2 2 (3.39%) Gradle
2 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.39%) Maven
2 2 (3.39%) Postman
3 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (54.24%) Finance
2 31 (52.54%) Front Office
3 21 (35.59%) Banking
4 10 (16.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (10.17%) Social Skills
6 5 (8.47%) Aviation
7 2 (3.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (84.75%) React
2 31 (52.54%) Material-UI
2 31 (52.54%) Redux
3 21 (35.59%) gRPC
3 21 (35.59%) Protocol Buffers
4 16 (27.12%) Node.js
5 11 (18.64%) GraphQL
6 8 (13.56%) AngularJS
7 7 (11.86%) CSS
7 7 (11.86%) HTML
8 4 (6.78%) Next.js
8 4 (6.78%) Vue
9 3 (5.08%) HTML5
9 3 (5.08%) REST
9 3 (5.08%) RESTful
10 2 (3.39%) .NET
10 2 (3.39%) Laravel
10 2 (3.39%) React Native
10 2 (3.39%) Spring
11 1 (1.69%) koa
Miscellaneous
1 31 (52.54%) Fixed Income
2 21 (35.59%) Hedge funds
3 7 (11.86%) Equities
4 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 59 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 45 (76.27%) Agile
3 31 (52.54%) Asset Management
3 31 (52.54%) Investment Management
4 22 (37.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 22 (37.29%) Machine Learning
5 21 (35.59%) Automated Trading
6 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
7 11 (18.64%) Analytics
8 10 (16.95%) Fintech
8 10 (16.95%) Performance Attribution
8 10 (16.95%) Risk Analytics
9 6 (10.17%) SDLC
9 6 (10.17%) TDD
10 5 (8.47%) DevOps
10 5 (8.47%) Microservices
11 4 (6.78%) BDD
11 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (6.78%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 45 (76.27%) TypeScript
2 37 (62.71%) Python
3 22 (37.29%) Java
3 22 (37.29%) JavaScript
4 12 (20.34%) SQL
5 11 (18.64%) Kotlin
6 10 (16.95%) C#
7 3 (5.08%) PHP
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) C++
8 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (1.69%) Degree
1 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.39%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
1 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.69%) VirtualBox
1 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Grafana
2 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (35.59%) Google
2 1 (1.69%) Compaq
2 1 (1.69%) VMware