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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 83 104
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 28 47 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.54% 2.20% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 2.30% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 28
10th Percentile £450 £466 £385
25th Percentile £513 £500 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £551 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.95% -11.02%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £681
90th Percentile £646 £824 £820
Central London median daily rate £539 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.18% -7.56%

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 1,700 2,040 3,320
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.37% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 1,400 2,247
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% +5.96%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £793 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.36% -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.33 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -29.64% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 28 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (50.00%) Python
2 14 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (50.00%) React
3 13 (46.43%) HTML
3 13 (46.43%) Agile
4 10 (35.71%) AWS
4 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
5 9 (32.14%) TypeScript
5 9 (32.14%) SQL
5 9 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (28.57%) Azure
7 7 (25.00%) Java
7 7 (25.00%) CSS
7 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
7 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
8 6 (21.43%) Banking
8 6 (21.43%) Investment Banking
8 6 (21.43%) Web Development
8 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
8 6 (21.43%) .NET
8 6 (21.43%) REST
8 6 (21.43%) Docker
8 6 (21.43%) DevOps
9 5 (17.86%) Microservices
9 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
9 5 (17.86%) Terraform
9 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
9 5 (17.86%) C#

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 2 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Alfresco
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) PaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.71%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Redis
4 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.57%) JUnit
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Banking
2 6 (21.43%) Investment Banking
3 4 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Retail
3 4 (14.29%) Retail Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Back Office
4 2 (7.14%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) React
2 13 (46.43%) HTML
3 7 (25.00%) CSS
4 6 (21.43%) .NET
4 6 (21.43%) REST
5 5 (17.86%) Spring
6 4 (14.29%) FastAPI
6 4 (14.29%) Kafka
6 4 (14.29%) Node.js
6 4 (14.29%) Web Services
7 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
7 3 (10.71%) Django
7 3 (10.71%) Flask
7 3 (10.71%) JSON
7 3 (10.71%) Leaflet
7 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
7 3 (10.71%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
8 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
8 2 (7.14%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.57%) PKI
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 13 (46.43%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 6 (21.43%) DevOps
4 6 (21.43%) Web Development
5 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.86%) Microservices
5 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
6 4 (14.29%) API Development
6 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) TDD
6 4 (14.29%) Wealth Management
7 3 (10.71%) Code Quality
7 3 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (10.71%) ETL
7 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven
7 3 (10.71%) Generative AI
7 3 (10.71%) SQL Optimisation
8 2 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 9 (32.14%) TypeScript
3 7 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (17.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) EMIR
2 2 (7.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) Databricks
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft