Full-Stack Developer Contracts in England

Full-Stack Developer
UK > England

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in England is £501, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 183 203
Rank change year-on-year -39 +20 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 294 489 614
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.19% 1.31% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.41% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 400 478
10th Percentile £354 £325 £404
25th Percentile £406 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £675
90th Percentile £800 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -38.85%

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 22,842 34,786 44,421
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.84% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,017 22,675 31,547
10th Percentile £293 £288 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £635 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 2,675 1,318
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.58 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -12.11% +85.22%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -41 183 £510 -11.30% 462
North of England +12 41 £465 +3.33% 429
South East +6 22 £550 -8.33% 453
North West +12 20 £450 -2.70% 229
Midlands +8 15 £505 +44.29% 334
Yorkshire +7 12 £463 +15.63% 168
North East - 10 £473 - 31
East of England +26 8 £475 +26.67% 282
South West +15 8 £550 +57.14% 211
East Midlands +10 8 £402 -1.95% 162
West Midlands +8 7 £700 +107.41% 172
Full-Stack Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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.

1 294 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 162 (55.10%) React
3 131 (44.56%) JavaScript
4 123 (41.84%) AWS
5 122 (41.50%) TypeScript
6 105 (35.71%) Python
7 95 (32.31%) Agile
8 89 (30.27%) Java
9 84 (28.57%) Azure
9 84 (28.57%) Node.js
10 79 (26.87%) AngularJS
10 79 (26.87%) CI/CD
11 72 (24.49%) HTML
12 59 (20.07%) CSS
13 57 (19.39%) .NET
13 57 (19.39%) Finance
14 55 (18.71%) Docker
15 53 (18.03%) SQL
16 52 (17.69%) PostgreSQL
16 52 (17.69%) Microservices
17 51 (17.35%) TDD
18 50 (17.01%) DevOps
19 48 (16.33%) Security Cleared
20 47 (15.99%) Git
20 47 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
21 45 (15.31%) RESTful
22 43 (14.63%) SC Cleared
22 43 (14.63%) C#
23 42 (14.29%) Software Engineering
23 42 (14.29%) Social Skills

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 6 (2.04%) Confluence
2 4 (1.36%) Apache
2 4 (1.36%) Camunda
2 4 (1.36%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.02%) Alfresco
3 3 (1.02%) CMS
4 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.68%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 123 (41.84%) AWS
2 84 (28.57%) Azure
3 35 (11.90%) GCP
4 31 (10.54%) Serverless
5 21 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (6.80%) GitHub
7 19 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (5.78%) Amazon S3
9 12 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (2.38%) Figma
12 6 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.70%) PaaS
14 4 (1.36%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.70%) HTTP
2 2 (0.68%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.69%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.56%) MongoDB
2 34 (11.56%) MySQL
3 28 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 21 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 19 (6.46%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.42%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.40%) Redis
8 6 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.02%) GIS
10 2 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.68%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (0.68%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.68%) ObjectStore
11 1 (0.34%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.34%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 47 (15.99%) Git
2 17 (5.78%) JIRA
2 17 (5.78%) Maven
3 16 (5.44%) GitLab
3 16 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 11 (3.74%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.40%) JUnit
6 10 (3.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.72%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.72%) Selenium
7 8 (2.72%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.04%) Visual Studio
8 6 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.70%) gulp
10 4 (1.36%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.36%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.02%) Mockito
11 3 (1.02%) Terragrunt
General
1 57 (19.39%) Finance
2 42 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 37 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 36 (12.24%) Front Office
5 23 (7.82%) Banking
6 19 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.40%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.36%) Back Office
8 4 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.36%) Retail
9 3 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Marketing
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Aviation
11 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (55.10%) React
2 84 (28.57%) Node.js
3 79 (26.87%) AngularJS
4 72 (24.49%) HTML
5 59 (20.07%) CSS
6 57 (19.39%) .NET
7 45 (15.31%) RESTful
8 40 (13.61%) Spring
8 40 (13.61%) Vue
9 37 (12.59%) Spring Boot
10 34 (11.56%) Redux
11 26 (8.84%) REST
12 24 (8.16%) Next.js
13 21 (7.14%) .NET Core
13 21 (7.14%) Kafka
14 20 (6.80%) Express.js
14 20 (6.80%) HTML5
15 19 (6.46%) Jest
16 15 (5.10%) FastAPI
17 13 (4.42%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.50%) Hedge funds
2 24 (8.16%) Fixed Income
3 21 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (5.10%) Equities
5 9 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.72%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.04%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.70%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.70%) PKI
9 4 (1.36%) Derivative
9 4 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.68%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.70%) Unix
2 4 (1.36%) Windows
3 3 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 95 (32.31%) Agile
3 79 (26.87%) CI/CD
4 52 (17.69%) Microservices
5 51 (17.35%) TDD
6 50 (17.01%) DevOps
7 47 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 38 (12.93%) Test Automation
10 33 (11.22%) Fintech
11 32 (10.88%) Analytics
12 31 (10.54%) Front End Development
13 26 (8.84%) User Experience
13 26 (8.84%) Web Development
14 25 (8.50%) Containerisation
15 24 (8.16%) Investment Management
16 23 (7.82%) API Development
17 22 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (7.48%) Asset Management
18 21 (7.14%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 131 (44.56%) JavaScript
2 122 (41.50%) TypeScript
3 105 (35.71%) Python
4 89 (30.27%) Java
5 53 (18.03%) SQL
6 43 (14.63%) C#
7 11 (3.74%) PHP
8 6 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.70%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.70%) Ruby
10 4 (1.36%) Go
11 2 (0.68%) ABAP
11 2 (0.68%) C++
11 2 (0.68%) Cypher
11 2 (0.68%) Perl
11 2 (0.68%) Rust
11 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.68%) VB
11 2 (0.68%) VB6
Qualifications
1 48 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 43 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.40%) Degree
4 7 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.36%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.06%) QA
2 8 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.02%) WCAG
4 2 (0.68%) EMIR
4 2 (0.68%) MiFID
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (18.71%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (12.93%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.82%) Terraform
3 4 (1.36%) Ansible
4 3 (1.02%) Kibana
5 2 (0.68%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) Istio
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.46%) Oracle
3 7 (2.38%) Virgin Media
4 6 (2.04%) Google
5 4 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.02%) SendGrid
6 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.68%) Adobe
7 2 (0.68%) Databricks
7 2 (0.68%) InterSystems
7 2 (0.68%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.68%) SAP
7 2 (0.68%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.68%) Splunk
7 2 (0.68%) Veracode
8 1 (0.34%) Brio
8 1 (0.34%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.34%) Solace
8 1 (0.34%) Zend