Full-Stack Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Full-Stack Engineer
Dorset > Bournemouth

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in Bournemouth is £384, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 11.63% 2.08% -
As % of the Job Titles category 11.76% 2.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £357 - -
25th Percentile £366 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 - -
75th Percentile £386 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £384 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bournemouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bournemouth. 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 Bournemouth with a recognized job title 85 48 91
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.84% 100.00% 98.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 31 61
10th Percentile £310 £300 £172
25th Percentile £375 £384 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £441 £334
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% +32.23% -31.59%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £825
90th Percentile £688 £675 -
Dorset median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 21
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - £14.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £14.81 £15.31
Median % change year-on-year +48.55% -3.27% -12.51%
75th Percentile £33.41 £20.11 £17.46
90th Percentile £40.25 £23.04 £18.50
Dorset median hourly rate £65.00 £14.81 £47.83
% change year-on-year +338.89% -69.04% -13.16%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth

For the 6 months to 16 February 2026, Full-Stack Engineer 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 Bournemouth region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Spring
3 4 (40.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) Fintech
5 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) Terraform
6 1 (10.00%) AWS
6 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) React
6 1 (10.00%) React Native
6 1 (10.00%) Technology Transformation
6 1 (10.00%) Value Proposition

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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 1 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) Fintech
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Technology Transformation
6 1 (10.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle