Senior Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the City of London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - +51
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.087% - 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.12%
75th Percentile £638 - £666
90th Percentile - - £731
Central London median daily rate £625 - £538
% change year-on-year - - -8.12%

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 2,181 1,622 2,052
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 93.11% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 1,014 1,445
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £451 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 15
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £15.62
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £29.58 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% +28.59% -34.29%
75th Percentile £52.33 £47.50 £28.44
90th Percentile £61.83 £89.13 £40.00
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £28.61 £26.41
% change year-on-year -5.63% +8.35% -24.56%

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

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

Senior Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2026, Senior Full-Stack Developer 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 Senior Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Micro Frontends
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Observability

Senior Full-Stack Developer 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Micro Frontends
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
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