Full-Stack Development Contracts in England

Full-Stack Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 110 88 91
Rank change year-on-year -22 +3 -19
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 601 893 1,339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.47% 2.40% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.77% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 736 1,019
10th Percentile £363 £325 £406
25th Percentile £414 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £52.13 £36.75
25th Percentile £43.25 £62.50 £39.38
Median hourly rate £44.50 £68.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.04% +52.22% -31.30%
75th Percentile £45.75 £76.88 £51.88
90th Percentile - £80.25 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £67.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -33.58% +34.00% -23.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development in England

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Development in England

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in England

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Development in England

Full-Stack Development
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 Development 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 -17 392 £550 -4.35% 821
North of England +10 72 £463 -11.90% 281
South East +6 53 £550 +22.22% 360
North West +14 42 £456 -8.75% 184
Midlands +2 28 £463 +23.33% 159
Yorkshire -2 24 £466 -11.24% 73
West Midlands +1 20 £468 +33.57% 84
South West +2 12 £456 -4.11% 114
East Midlands +3 8 £446 +8.78% 63
East of England +12 7 £413 -13.88% 115
North East +4 7 £460 - 26
Full-Stack Development
UK

Full-Stack Development
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 12 (2.00%) SAS
2 11 (1.83%) Confluence
3 10 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.50%) nginx
5 8 (1.33%) Camunda
5 8 (1.33%) CMS
6 6 (1.00%) BizTalk Server
6 6 (1.00%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.67%) Apache
9 3 (0.50%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.33%) Drupal
10 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.17%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.50%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.33%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) FLEXCUBE
1 6 (1.00%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 232 (38.60%) AWS
2 156 (25.96%) Azure
3 62 (10.32%) Serverless
4 50 (8.32%) GCP
5 35 (5.82%) GitHub
6 34 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (4.66%) Azure Functions
9 22 (3.66%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 16 (2.66%) Azure AKS
12 15 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.16%) npm
15 11 (1.83%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.33%) Firewall
2 12 (2.00%) HTTP
3 10 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.00%) DNS
5 5 (0.83%) LAN
5 5 (0.83%) Network Security
5 5 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.83%) VPN
5 5 (0.83%) WAN
6 4 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (0.67%) DWDM
7 1 (0.17%) ATM
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) Intranet
7 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (12.65%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (8.32%) MongoDB
3 40 (6.66%) MySQL
4 39 (6.49%) NoSQL
5 35 (5.82%) Relational Database
5 35 (5.82%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.66%) DynamoDB
7 21 (3.49%) Redis
8 13 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (2.16%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
10 8 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (1.33%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.00%) Power BI
11 6 (1.00%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.83%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.83%) Parquet
12 5 (0.83%) Presto
Development Applications
1 109 (18.14%) Git
2 32 (5.32%) Jenkins
3 28 (4.66%) GitLab
4 20 (3.33%) JIRA
5 16 (2.66%) Bitbucket
6 14 (2.33%) Selenium
7 13 (2.16%) Cypress.io
8 12 (2.00%) webpack
9 11 (1.83%) Postman
10 10 (1.66%) Maven
10 10 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (1.66%) TeamCity
10 10 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (1.33%) JUnit
11 8 (1.33%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.83%) gulp
12 5 (0.83%) Mocha
12 5 (0.83%) Poetry
12 5 (0.83%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.67%) Artifactory
General
1 105 (17.47%) Finance
2 93 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 57 (9.48%) Banking
4 53 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 45 (7.49%) Front Office
6 42 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (4.99%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.50%) Military
10 8 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.16%) Marketing
12 6 (1.00%) Publishing
13 5 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.67%) Advertising
14 4 (0.67%) Back Office
14 4 (0.67%) Retail
15 3 (0.50%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 424 (70.55%) Developer
2 300 (49.92%) Full-Stack Developer
3 78 (12.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 74 (12.31%) Senior
5 59 (9.82%) Senior Developer
6 56 (9.32%) React Developer
7 54 (8.99%) Lead
8 51 (8.49%) Java Developer
8 51 (8.49%) Software Engineer
9 45 (7.49%) .NET Developer
10 40 (6.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 38 (6.32%) Software Developer
12 36 (5.99%) Lead Developer
13 34 (5.66%) Python Developer
14 29 (4.83%) C# Developer
15 27 (4.49%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 27 (4.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 25 (4.16%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 25 (4.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 21 (3.49%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (43.93%) React
2 135 (22.46%) .NET
3 128 (21.30%) Node.js
4 123 (20.47%) AngularJS
5 111 (18.47%) CSS
6 106 (17.64%) HTML
7 76 (12.65%) RESTful
8 50 (8.32%) Vue
9 49 (8.15%) Spring
10 48 (7.99%) .NET Core
11 46 (7.65%) Kafka
12 42 (6.99%) Spring Boot
13 37 (6.16%) HTML5
14 34 (5.66%) Redux
14 34 (5.66%) REST
15 33 (5.49%) Next.js
16 31 (5.16%) GraphQL
17 28 (4.66%) ASP.NET
18 26 (4.33%) .NET Framework
18 26 (4.33%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (3.99%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.49%) Hedge funds
4 20 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 19 (3.16%) Derivative
6 18 (3.00%) Fixed Income
6 18 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.66%) Equities
11 9 (1.50%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (1.16%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.00%) NHS
15 5 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.33%) Linux
2 15 (2.50%) Windows
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (32.28%) Agile
2 183 (30.45%) CI/CD
3 160 (26.62%) DevOps
4 142 (23.63%) Microservices
5 126 (20.97%) Software Engineering
6 105 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (10.98%) TDD
8 65 (10.82%) Containerisation
9 64 (10.65%) Front End Development
10 56 (9.32%) Test Automation
11 51 (8.49%) Code Quality
12 50 (8.32%) Web Development
13 49 (8.15%) Artificial Intelligence
14 47 (7.82%) Event-Driven
14 47 (7.82%) User Experience
15 46 (7.65%) Analytics
15 46 (7.65%) Unit Testing
16 44 (7.32%) API Development
17 41 (6.82%) Scrum
18 37 (6.16%) OO
Programming Languages
1 229 (38.10%) JavaScript
2 210 (34.94%) Python
3 189 (31.45%) TypeScript
4 182 (30.28%) Java
5 108 (17.97%) SQL
6 102 (16.97%) C#
7 22 (3.66%) PHP
8 16 (2.66%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.50%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.33%) C++
11 12 (2.00%) Go
11 12 (2.00%) Ruby
12 10 (1.66%) Scala
13 9 (1.50%) Shell Script
14 8 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.16%) Bicep
16 5 (0.83%) ABAP
16 5 (0.83%) COBOL
16 5 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 104 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 91 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.32%) Degree
4 27 (4.49%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.67%) CCNA
7 4 (0.67%) CCNP
7 4 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.67%) JNCIA
7 4 (0.67%) JNCIS
7 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.17%) CISA
9 1 (0.17%) CISSP
9 1 (0.17%) SANS
9 1 (0.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.00%) QA
2 15 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.83%) WCAG
4 2 (0.33%) EMIR
4 2 (0.33%) MiFID
5 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 107 (17.80%) Docker
2 8 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 125 (20.80%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.99%) Terraform
3 12 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.83%) Grafana
5 10 (1.66%) Ansible
6 2 (0.33%) Istio
6 2 (0.33%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) Avamar
7 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.17%) vRealize
7 1 (0.17%) VxRail
7 1 (0.17%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 50 (8.32%) Oracle
2 42 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.66%) Google
4 15 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 12 (2.00%) Virgin Media
6 10 (1.66%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.50%) SAP
8 7 (1.16%) Databricks
9 6 (1.00%) Adobe
9 6 (1.00%) Splunk
10 5 (0.83%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.67%) Arista
11 4 (0.67%) Cisco
11 4 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.67%) Zend
12 3 (0.50%) SendGrid
13 2 (0.33%) InterSystems
13 2 (0.33%) Murex
13 2 (0.33%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.33%) VMware