Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Full-Stack Developer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in Belfast is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 33 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 -
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 1.26% 1.15% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.27% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £286 -
25th Percentile - £305 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £364 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -33.86% -
75th Percentile - £400 £575
90th Percentile - £407 -
County Antrim median daily rate £375 £364 £550
% change year-on-year +3.09% -33.86% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 140 157 118
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.05% 90.23% 91.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 101 72
10th Percentile £263 £200 £156
25th Percentile £369 £325 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £394
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +19.37% -7.35%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £694 £625 £670
County Antrim median daily rate £450 £460 £394
% change year-on-year -2.17% +16.83% -7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 11
10th Percentile £18.52 - £12.25
25th Percentile £31.00 £14.78 £12.62
Median hourly rate £40.75 £18.53 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +119.97% -17.89% +50.85%
75th Percentile £53.75 £24.50 £24.06
90th Percentile - £32.69 £24.18
County Antrim median hourly rate £41.00 £15.50 £22.56
% change year-on-year +164.52% -31.29% +50.85%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in Belfast

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in Belfast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in Belfast

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 3 July 2026, Full-Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Belfast region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google