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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 63 76
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 +13
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 18 10 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.74% 1.21% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.43% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 13
10th Percentile - £396 £353
25th Percentile £406 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -6.28% +1.19%
75th Percentile £555 £460 £501
90th Percentile £600 £479 £503
Scotland median daily rate £450 £440 £472
% change year-on-year +2.27% -6.78% +0.43%

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 619 700 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.36% 84.95% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 389 691
10th Percentile £306 £209 £213
25th Percentile £413 £347 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.55%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £599 £639 £600
Scotland median daily rate £467 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 5
10th Percentile £17.15 £13.21 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.10 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -65.71% +170.97%
75th Percentile £37.09 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £38.00 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year +2.09% +2.14% -27.42%

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 10 August 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) Serverless
3 9 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (44.44%) AWS CodePipeline
5 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
5 7 (38.89%) GitHub
5 7 (38.89%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (16.67%) Firebase
8 2 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (11.11%) CloudFront
8 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (5.56%) Azure
9 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
9 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
9 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Storybook
2 6 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.11%) Git
5 1 (5.56%) Appium
General
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Java Developer
2 5 (27.78%) React Developer
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (77.78%) React
2 8 (44.44%) AWS CDK
2 8 (44.44%) CSS
2 8 (44.44%) Jest
2 8 (44.44%) Tailwind CSS
3 6 (33.33%) REST
3 6 (33.33%) Spring
4 4 (22.22%) GraphQL
4 4 (22.22%) Node.js
4 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
5 3 (16.67%) AWS Amplify
5 3 (16.67%) Playwright
5 3 (16.67%) RESTful
6 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC 5
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (5.56%) Ionic Framework
7 1 (5.56%) React Native
7 1 (5.56%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) DevSecOps
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) Microservices
5 5 (27.78%) Secure Coding
5 5 (27.78%) User Experience
6 4 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
6 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) OWASP
6 4 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (22.22%) TDD
7 3 (16.67%) Front End Development
7 3 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
7 3 (16.67%) Scrum
7 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 7 (38.89%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) KVM
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Fluentd
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Commvault
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat