Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 60 71
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 5 8 14
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.82% 1.16% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.23% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 11
10th Percentile - £390 £440
25th Percentile £431 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £461
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -13.23% +2.16%
75th Percentile £444 £447 £506
90th Percentile - £469 £538
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +5.88% -8.11% +2.21%

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 554 653 891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 94.64% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 332 532
10th Percentile £235 £196 £212
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 28 18
10th Percentile £23.60 £16.37 £13.24
25th Percentile £30.50 £18.19 £17.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £23.30 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year +157.57% -19.49% +45.77%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile - - £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £19.94 £19.50
% change year-on-year +26.14% +2.24% +10.05%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, 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 Edinburgh region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (20.00%) Content Management

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (20.00%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (20.00%) Next.js
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
3 1 (20.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (20.00%) Content Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform