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

Full-Stack Development
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 66 75
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 42 60 62
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.33% 2.88% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 3.13% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 33
10th Percentile £489 £480 £325
25th Percentile £613 £575 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £675
90th Percentile £843 £763 £738
Central London median daily rate £675 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Full-Stack Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,639 1,916 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.90% 91.98% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,167 1,626
10th Percentile £339 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £762 £788 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +62.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.33 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -37.04%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Full-Stack Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

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

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Full-Stack Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

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

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Full-Stack Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
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 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) GitHub
2 13 (30.95%) AWS
3 10 (23.81%) Azure
4 6 (14.29%) Serverless
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) GCP
6 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
7 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Run
8 2 (4.76%) Figma
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.38%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.76%) MySQL
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.76%) Tableau
4 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (38.10%) Git
2 8 (19.05%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) JUnit
4 2 (4.76%) Mockito
5 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.38%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) Maven
5 1 (2.38%) Snyk
General
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Banking
3 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Front Office
5 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
7 1 (2.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (59.52%) Developer
2 12 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 11 (26.19%) Angular Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Lead
5 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) Web Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) Web Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 2 (4.76%) React Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
8 1 (2.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (47.62%) React
2 18 (42.86%) AngularJS
3 13 (30.95%) REST
4 10 (23.81%) .NET
4 10 (23.81%) Spring Boot
5 6 (14.29%) HTML
6 5 (11.90%) Node.js
7 4 (9.52%) CSS
7 4 (9.52%) Hibernate
7 4 (9.52%) Spring
7 4 (9.52%) Web Services
7 4 (9.52%) ZK
8 3 (7.14%) FastAPI
8 3 (7.14%) HTML5
8 3 (7.14%) WSE
9 2 (4.76%) LangGraph
9 2 (4.76%) Next.js
9 2 (4.76%) RESTful
9 2 (4.76%) RxJS
9 2 (4.76%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) Genomics
4 1 (2.38%) Life Science
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Agile
2 13 (30.95%) TDD
2 13 (30.95%) Test Automation
3 12 (28.57%) Kanban
3 12 (28.57%) Scrum
4 11 (26.19%) BDD
4 11 (26.19%) Microservices
5 9 (21.43%) AI
6 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 8 (19.05%) DevOps
6 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven
6 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 6 (14.29%) Front End Development
8 5 (11.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (11.90%) User Experience
9 4 (9.52%) Asset Management
9 4 (9.52%) Machine Learning
9 4 (9.52%) Mentoring
9 4 (9.52%) Visualisation
9 4 (9.52%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) Java
2 18 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 15 (35.71%) Python
3 15 (35.71%) SQL
4 11 (26.19%) JavaScript
5 6 (14.29%) C#
6 3 (7.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Ansible
3 3 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Oracle
2 4 (9.52%) Google
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (2.38%) Adobe
4 1 (2.38%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.38%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.38%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.38%) Ping Identity