Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Full-Stack Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
7 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 104 101
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 13 24 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.72% 1.12% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.21% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 16
10th Percentile £528 £428 £369
25th Percentile £558 £579 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £551
Median % change year-on-year - +8.99% -9.75%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £694
90th Percentile - £688 £813
Central London median daily rate £600 £589 £550
% change year-on-year +1.87% +7.09% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,677 1,989 2,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 93.12% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,227 1,762
10th Percentile £325 £363 £353
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £771 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £23.25 £19.51
Median hourly rate £34.00 £48.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +95.92% -42.35%
75th Percentile £52.19 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £64.30 £129.85 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -20.00% +40.08% -40.51%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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 the City of London.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the City of London

Full-Stack Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the City of London

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 7 December 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) React
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 6 (46.15%) Python
4 5 (38.46%) AWS
4 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
5 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
5 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
5 4 (30.77%) Git
5 4 (30.77%) HTML
5 4 (30.77%) Java
5 4 (30.77%) Microservices
6 3 (23.08%) AI
6 3 (23.08%) Azure
6 3 (23.08%) CSS
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Docker
6 3 (23.08%) GitHub
6 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
6 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
6 3 (23.08%) REST
6 3 (23.08%) SDLC
6 3 (23.08%) SQL
7 2 (15.38%) .NET
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) C#

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.69%) Figma
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (15.38%) Tableau
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.69%) MySQL
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) Mockito
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) Maven
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Front Office
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) React
2 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
2 4 (30.77%) HTML
3 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 3 (23.08%) REST
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
4 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
4 2 (15.38%) HTML5
4 2 (15.38%) Kafka
4 2 (15.38%) Spring
4 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 2 (15.38%) Svelte
5 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.69%) JPA
5 1 (7.69%) Next.js
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) OSGi
5 1 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (7.69%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) AI
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
6 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
6 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) OO
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
7 1 (7.69%) Code Optimisation
7 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
7 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
7 1 (7.69%) Generative AI
7 1 (7.69%) LLM
7 1 (7.69%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 4 (30.77%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe
1 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg
1 1 (7.69%) Cloudera
1 1 (7.69%) Databricks
1 1 (7.69%) Google
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
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