Full-Stack Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 115 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.046% 0.058% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.062% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £538 £613 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,038 1,601 2,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 92.65% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,018 1,548
10th Percentile £350 £363 £342
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 17
10th Percentile - £22.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +41.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.16 £45.23 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.13 £49.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £26.56
% change year-on-year -13.07% +13.08% -24.11%

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Full-Stack Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 2026, Full-Stack Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Full-Stack Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes