Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Full-Stack Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in Birmingham is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 62 56
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 2 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.22% 0.67% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.75% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £421 - £437
25th Percentile £434 - £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -27.27% +29.41%
75th Percentile £484 £538 £613
90th Percentile £494 £620 £737
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +9.38% -27.27% +25.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 825 534 691
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.36% 89.45% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 356 459
10th Percentile £313 £178 £205
25th Percentile £406 £330 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -7.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £541 £616
90th Percentile £688 £638 £726
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +1.03% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 46 16
10th Percentile £14.79 - £15.61
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.62 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.09 £14.00 £34.56
Median % change year-on-year +100.64% -59.49% +64.82%
75th Percentile £55.00 £25.78 £53.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £33.15 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £20.30
% change year-on-year +19.28% +23.92% -3.36%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 13 September 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 Birmingham region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Validation

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft