Full-Stack Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 65 88
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 5 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.86% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.90% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 21
10th Percentile £423 £446 £369
25th Percentile £456 £456 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £531 £506 £501
90th Percentile £543 - £508
Scotland median daily rate £441 £473 £456
% change year-on-year -6.72% +3.62% -3.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Full-Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) CMS
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Security
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
4 1 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) CSS

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 5
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (20.00%) Blazor
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Security
3 1 (20.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) B2C
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft