Full-Stack Developer Contracts in England

Full-Stack Developer
UK > England

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in England is £515, 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 218 177 206
Rank change year-on-year -41 +29 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 300 492 656
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.23% 1.32% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.43% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 411 503
10th Percentile £363 £325 £406
25th Percentile £410 £404 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £709 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -1.46% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £56.20 -
25th Percentile - £58.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £61.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.91% +7.32%
75th Percentile - £64.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £65.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in England

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in England

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in England

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in England

Full-Stack Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London -48 176 £525 -4.55% 93
North of England +25 39 £465 +9.41% 40
South East +27 36 £550 +10.00% 48
North West +24 23 £500 +14.29% 27
Midlands +20 15 £451 +28.86% 33
West Midlands +15 11 £508 +56.15% 14
Yorkshire +2 11 £438 +9.38% 11
North East - 6 £463 - 3
East of England +25 5 £350 -6.67% 28
South West +14 5 £441 +6.91% 23
East Midlands +7 4 £402 -1.95% 18
Full-Stack Developer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 300 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 170 (56.67%) React
3 121 (40.33%) JavaScript
4 119 (39.67%) AWS
5 112 (37.33%) TypeScript
6 105 (35.00%) Python
7 93 (31.00%) Java
8 88 (29.33%) Agile
9 87 (29.00%) Azure
10 82 (27.33%) CI/CD
11 79 (26.33%) Node.js
12 74 (24.67%) AngularJS
13 70 (23.33%) HTML
14 66 (22.00%) .NET
15 63 (21.00%) DevOps
16 62 (20.67%) Git
17 61 (20.33%) CSS
18 58 (19.33%) Microservices
19 52 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
19 52 (17.33%) RESTful
20 51 (17.00%) Docker
21 49 (16.33%) Kubernetes
21 49 (16.33%) SQL
22 48 (16.00%) C#
22 48 (16.00%) Finance
23 44 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
23 44 (14.67%) Security Cleared
24 41 (13.67%) Social Skills
25 40 (13.33%) TDD
26 39 (13.00%) SC Cleared

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (2.33%) Camunda
2 5 (1.67%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.00%) Apache
3 3 (1.00%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.67%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (39.67%) AWS
2 87 (29.00%) Azure
3 31 (10.33%) GCP
4 28 (9.33%) Serverless
5 20 (6.67%) GitHub
6 18 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.67%) Azure Functions
11 10 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (2.33%) Figma
15 6 (2.00%) Azure API Management
16 5 (1.67%) SaaS
17 4 (1.33%) AWS KMS
17 4 (1.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.33%) HTTP
2 2 (0.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (10.33%) MySQL
3 30 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 28 (9.33%) NoSQL
5 21 (7.00%) SQL Server
6 19 (6.33%) Relational Database
7 15 (5.00%) Redis
8 11 (3.67%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.00%) GIS
11 2 (0.67%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.67%) ObjectStore
11 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 62 (20.67%) Git
2 18 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.33%) GitLab
4 11 (3.67%) Selenium
5 10 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.67%) JIRA
6 8 (2.67%) Maven
7 7 (2.33%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.00%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.67%) gulp
9 5 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.67%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.33%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.33%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.00%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.00%) JUnit
11 3 (1.00%) Postman
11 3 (1.00%) Subversion
11 3 (1.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 48 (16.00%) Finance
2 41 (13.67%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.33%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.00%) Front Office
5 22 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.00%) Banking
7 8 (2.67%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.33%) Back Office
9 3 (1.00%) Military
10 2 (0.67%) Marketing
10 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Retail
10 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Aviation
11 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) German Language
11 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (56.67%) React
2 79 (26.33%) Node.js
3 74 (24.67%) AngularJS
4 70 (23.33%) HTML
5 66 (22.00%) .NET
6 61 (20.33%) CSS
7 52 (17.33%) RESTful
8 39 (13.00%) Vue
9 32 (10.67%) Spring
10 28 (9.33%) Spring Boot
11 25 (8.33%) Redux
12 22 (7.33%) Kafka
13 20 (6.67%) .NET Core
14 19 (6.33%) HTML5
15 18 (6.00%) Next.js
16 17 (5.67%) FastAPI
17 15 (5.00%) GraphQL
17 15 (5.00%) REST
18 14 (4.67%) ASP.NET
18 14 (4.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.33%) Hedge funds
2 18 (6.00%) Fixed Income
3 15 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.00%) Equities
6 8 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.33%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.67%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.33%) Derivative
10 4 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.00%) PKI
11 3 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.33%) Linux
1 4 (1.33%) Windows
2 3 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 88 (29.33%) Agile
3 82 (27.33%) CI/CD
4 63 (21.00%) DevOps
5 58 (19.33%) Microservices
6 52 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (13.33%) TDD
8 34 (11.33%) Front End Development
8 34 (11.33%) Test Automation
9 30 (10.00%) Web Development
10 28 (9.33%) Fintech
10 28 (9.33%) Software Engineering
11 27 (9.00%) API Development
12 26 (8.67%) Analytics
13 25 (8.33%) User Experience
14 24 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
14 24 (8.00%) Code Quality
14 24 (8.00%) Containerisation
15 20 (6.67%) Event-Driven
15 20 (6.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 121 (40.33%) JavaScript
2 112 (37.33%) TypeScript
3 105 (35.00%) Python
4 93 (31.00%) Java
5 49 (16.33%) SQL
6 48 (16.00%) C#
7 15 (5.00%) PHP
8 8 (2.67%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.33%) Go
9 4 (1.33%) Ruby
10 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.00%) Scala
10 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.67%) ABAP
11 2 (0.67%) C++
11 2 (0.67%) COBOL
11 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.67%) VB
11 2 (0.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 44 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.33%) Degree
4 8 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.33%) WCAG
3 3 (1.00%) QA
4 2 (0.67%) EMIR
4 2 (0.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 51 (17.00%) Docker
2 6 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 31 (10.33%) Terraform
3 4 (1.33%) Ansible
4 3 (1.00%) Grafana
4 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.67%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 17 (5.67%) Microsoft
1 17 (5.67%) Oracle
2 11 (3.67%) Virgin Media
3 5 (1.67%) Google
4 4 (1.33%) SAP
4 4 (1.33%) Splunk
4 4 (1.33%) Zend
5 3 (1.00%) SendGrid
6 2 (0.67%) Adobe
6 2 (0.67%) InterSystems
6 2 (0.67%) Mapbox
6 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.67%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.33%) Databricks
7 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.33%) Solace
7 1 (0.33%) Zuora