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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 91 111
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 17 39 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.96% 1.86% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.97% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 14
10th Percentile £508 £500 £357
25th Percentile £546 £520 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -13.93%
75th Percentile £624 £675 £622
90th Percentile £626 £821 £754
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.63% -11.89%
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 1,653 1,976 2,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 94.18% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,248 1,946
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 12
10th Percentile £17.35 £16.49 £16.65
25th Percentile £23.98 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.97%
75th Percentile £53.50 £85.63 £44.87
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £67.13
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.57% - -15.66%

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

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer 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 and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Full-Stack Developer 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 across the City of London region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
3 11 (64.71%) HTML
3 11 (64.71%) Agile
4 10 (58.82%) Python
5 9 (52.94%) SQL
6 8 (47.06%) React
7 7 (41.18%) CSS
7 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
8 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (35.29%) Azure
8 6 (35.29%) Web Development
8 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
9 5 (29.41%) REST
9 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
9 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
9 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
10 4 (23.53%) Banking
10 4 (23.53%) Retail
10 4 (23.53%) Finance
10 4 (23.53%) Oracle
10 4 (23.53%) Git
10 4 (23.53%) AWS
10 4 (23.53%) Retail Banking
10 4 (23.53%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
10 4 (23.53%) Wealth Management
10 4 (23.53%) Flask
10 4 (23.53%) DevOps

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) PaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Figma
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) Mockito
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
2 4 (23.53%) Corporate Banking
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
2 4 (23.53%) Retail
2 4 (23.53%) Retail Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Front Office
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) HTML
2 8 (47.06%) React
3 7 (41.18%) CSS
4 5 (29.41%) REST
5 4 (23.53%) Flask
5 4 (23.53%) Node.js
6 3 (17.65%) Django
6 3 (17.65%) FastAPI
6 3 (17.65%) JSON
6 3 (17.65%) Leaflet
6 3 (17.65%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (17.65%) Web Services
7 2 (11.76%) .NET
7 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
7 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
7 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
7 2 (11.76%) HTML5
7 2 (11.76%) Kafka
7 2 (11.76%) Spring
7 2 (11.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (64.71%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Web Development
5 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
5 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
6 4 (23.53%) API Development
6 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Wealth Management
7 3 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (17.65%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) Generative AI
7 3 (17.65%) Microservices
7 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) SQL Optimisation
8 2 (11.76%) Clean Code
8 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
8 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
8 2 (11.76%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
2 10 (58.82%) Python
3 9 (52.94%) SQL
4 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
5 3 (17.65%) Java
6 2 (11.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe
2 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.88%) Cloudera
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft