Full-Stack Development Contracts in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Development
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Full-Stack Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 61 72
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 20 11 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.20% 1.35% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 1.53% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 34
10th Percentile - £325 £378
25th Percentile £406 £411 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £472
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% -0.37% +0.48%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £507
90th Percentile £572 £542 £576
Scotland median daily rate £475 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Development in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in Edinburgh

Full-Stack Development
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 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
1 8 (40.00%) Serverless
2 7 (35.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (30.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 6 (30.00%) GitHub
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (25.00%) Azure
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (5.00%) BrowserStack
7 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.00%) Firebase
7 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Storybook
2 4 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.00%) Git
5 1 (5.00%) Appium
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Front Office
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) React Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Angular Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) React
2 8 (40.00%) REST
3 6 (30.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (30.00%) AWS CDK
3 6 (30.00%) CSS
3 6 (30.00%) Jest
3 6 (30.00%) Spring
4 5 (25.00%) .NET
4 5 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 5 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (20.00%) Node.js
5 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (15.00%) Playwright
7 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
7 2 (10.00%) Vitest
8 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC 5
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Amplify
8 1 (5.00%) Next.js
8 1 (5.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Microservices
3 5 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) TDD
4 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Investment Management
5 3 (15.00%) User Experience
5 3 (15.00%) Web Development
6 2 (10.00%) Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (10.00%) Secure Coding
6 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) TypeScript
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) Python
4 5 (25.00%) C#
5 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (10.00%) SQL
7 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft