Full-Stack Developer Contracts 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 £539, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 82 114
Rank change year-on-year -13 +32 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 24 45 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.37% 2.05% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 2.16% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 32 43
10th Percentile £466 £457 £433
25th Percentile £513 £514 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £581 £595
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% -2.31% -4.80%
75th Percentile £598 £747 £700
90th Percentile £691 £836 £785
Central London median daily rate £539 £563 £598
% change year-on-year -4.27% -5.86% -4.40%

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 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Developer 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 1 May 2025.

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

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

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Developer 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 1 May 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 24 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (58.33%) React
3 13 (54.17%) AWS
4 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
4 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
4 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
5 10 (41.67%) HTML
5 10 (41.67%) Agile
6 9 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (37.50%) .NET
7 8 (33.33%) Python
7 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
8 7 (29.17%) Azure
8 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
8 7 (29.17%) Java
8 7 (29.17%) Web Services
8 7 (29.17%) Git
9 6 (25.00%) CSS
9 6 (25.00%) Docker
9 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 6 (25.00%) DevOps
9 6 (25.00%) Code Quality
10 5 (20.83%) SOLID
10 5 (20.83%) Terraform
10 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
10 5 (20.83%) RESTful
10 5 (20.83%) Spring
11 4 (16.67%) Web Development

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 (4.17%) Alfresco
1 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.50%) MySQL
4 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.33%) Redis
4 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.17%) JUnit
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Back Office
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (58.33%) React
2 10 (41.67%) HTML
3 9 (37.50%) .NET
4 7 (29.17%) Web Services
5 6 (25.00%) CSS
6 5 (20.83%) RESTful
6 5 (20.83%) Spring
7 4 (16.67%) GraphQL
8 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
8 3 (12.50%) FastAPI
8 3 (12.50%) Node.js
8 3 (12.50%) REST
8 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
9 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
9 2 (8.33%) Kafka
9 2 (8.33%) ZK
10 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
10 1 (4.17%) jQuery
10 1 (4.17%) SQLAlchemy
10 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 6 (25.00%) DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) SOLID
6 4 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 4 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (16.67%) TDD
6 4 (16.67%) Web Development
7 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 3 (12.50%) Microservices
8 2 (8.33%) API Development
8 2 (8.33%) BDD
8 2 (8.33%) Scrum
8 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
8 2 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 7 (29.17%) Java
3 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
4 4 (16.67%) C#
4 4 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) EMIR
1 2 (8.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
10 Full-Stack Developer jobs in Central London