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

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
18 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - 139
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.055% - 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% - 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £650
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £450 - £650

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 1,686 1,915 2,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 92.92% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 1,176 1,730
10th Percentile £328 £354 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +134.69% -30.00%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £132.40 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.29% +40.08% -23.12%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Senior Full-Stack 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 Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Senior Full-Stack 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
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