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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 74 91
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 +8
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 28 12 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.56% 1.15% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.33% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 17
10th Percentile £428 - £448
25th Percentile £464 £300 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £534
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -34.46% -7.45%
75th Percentile £538 £408 £597
90th Percentile £550 £538 £615
England median daily rate £510 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -7.27% +3.00% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £39.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +92.31% -44.29% +3.10%

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 1,452 902 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.85% 86.07% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 427 823
10th Percentile £197 £247 £250
25th Percentile £350 £374 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £589
90th Percentile £675 £694 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 149 452
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.12 £17.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £31.80
Median % change year-on-year -49.43% +25.79% +24.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 16 February 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 16 February 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
Cambridgeshire 0 10 £500 +42.86% 17
Hertfordshire - 9 £525 - 17
Bedfordshire - 6 £538 - 5
Suffolk +4 3 £425 +21.43% 10
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 3 (10.71%) CMS
1 3 (10.71%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (17.86%) Serverless
4 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.57%) PaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (78.57%) Developer
2 12 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (35.71%) Senior
4 9 (32.14%) Senior Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Senior Software Developer
5 5 (17.86%) Software Developer
6 4 (14.29%) .NET Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Developer
7 3 (10.71%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (10.71%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Lead
9 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) React
2 12 (42.86%) .NET
3 9 (32.14%) AngularJS
3 9 (32.14%) Node.js
4 7 (25.00%) .NET Core
5 5 (17.86%) RESTful
6 3 (10.71%) CSS
6 3 (10.71%) Express.js
6 3 (10.71%) HTML
6 3 (10.71%) Spring
7 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
7 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (7.14%) jQuery
7 2 (7.14%) NestJS
7 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
7 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
7 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
8 1 (3.57%) Blazor
8 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
8 1 (3.57%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.57%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (17.86%) AI
4 5 (17.86%) Microservices
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (17.86%) Unit Testing
5 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 4 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) Scrum
5 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.71%) Kanban
6 3 (10.71%) LLM
6 3 (10.71%) Machine Learning
6 3 (10.71%) Prompt Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) User Stories
7 2 (7.14%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) C#
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) EU AI Act
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Consul
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Sitecore
2 1 (3.57%) Foundry
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle