Full-Stack Development Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Full-Stack Development
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 65 72
Rank change year-on-year -50 +7 +32
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 10 26 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.42% 1.95% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 2.17% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 16
10th Percentile £395 £360 £265
25th Percentile £475 £406 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £300
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +66.67% -34.25%
75th Percentile £564 £550 £375
90th Percentile £654 £630 £444
England median daily rate £525 £510 £563
% change year-on-year +2.94% -9.41% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £67.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £67.00 £40.08
% change year-on-year +7.46% +67.18% -49.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,883 1,200 1,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.39% 89.96% 81.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 525 462
10th Percentile £190 £200 £213
25th Percentile £356 £379 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £552
90th Percentile £694 £686 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 329 311
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.03 £16.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -35.71% +75.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in the East of England

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in the East of England

Full-Stack Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Development within the East of England region over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -31 5 £550 +15.79% 26
Essex -15 2 £350 -39.13% 4
Suffolk -19 2 £738 +68.69% 9
Cambridgeshire -2 1 - - 63
Full-Stack Development
England

Full-Stack Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (10.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (20.00%) Google Gemini
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Claude Code
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Clojure Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) eBPF
2 4 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (30.00%) Node.js
3 3 (30.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) Next.js
4 2 (20.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) JWT
5 1 (10.00%) Kafka
5 1 (10.00%) OAuth
5 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Genomics
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Observability
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) AIOps
3 4 (40.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
3 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (40.00%) ITSM
3 4 (40.00%) Open Source
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) SIEM
3 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Use Case
3 4 (40.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bash
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Clojure
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
1 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cribl.io
1 4 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk