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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 88 90
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 -20
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 594 898 1,285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.45% 2.47% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.86% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 733 980
10th Percentile £363 £325 £405
25th Percentile £425 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £694 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £565
% change year-on-year -6.98% -4.87% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 2
10th Percentile - £40.75 £36.75
25th Percentile £43.25 £58.75 £39.38
Median hourly rate £44.50 £67.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.58% +48.89% -38.18%
75th Percentile £45.75 £76.25 £51.88
90th Percentile - £80.00 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £64.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -31.27% +29.50% -23.71%

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 22,142 31,440 43,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.23% 86.46% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,483 20,583 30,556
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
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 £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 937 2,239 1,538
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.87 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 16 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 16 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 -17 390 £550 -4.35% 1,117
North of England +16 76 £463 -7.50% 328
North West +9 45 £450 -8.86% 223
South East +4 42 £550 +22.22% 502
Midlands -7 29 £490 +26.86% 141
Yorkshire +7 25 £488 -4.88% 79
West Midlands -4 19 £500 +42.86% 73
South West +3 13 £475 +8.57% 108
East Midlands +4 10 £446 +8.78% 58
East of England +8 7 £413 -13.88% 94
North East +3 7 £460 - 30
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 (2.02%) Confluence
2 9 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.52%) nginx
3 8 (1.35%) Camunda
3 8 (1.35%) CMS
3 8 (1.35%) SAS
4 6 (1.01%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (1.01%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.67%) Apache
7 3 (0.51%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Drupal
8 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.51%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.35%) FLEXCUBE
1 8 (1.35%) 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 (39.06%) AWS
2 153 (25.76%) Azure
3 56 (9.43%) Serverless
4 48 (8.08%) GCP
5 36 (6.06%) GitHub
6 33 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.87%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.37%) Azure Functions
10 17 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (2.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.19%) npm
14 12 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (2.02%) Azure AKS
15 11 (1.85%) Figma
15 11 (1.85%) Yarn
16 10 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.36%) Firewall
2 12 (2.02%) HTTP
3 10 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.01%) DNS
5 5 (0.84%) LAN
5 5 (0.84%) Network Security
5 5 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.84%) VPN
5 5 (0.84%) 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 77 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (8.75%) MongoDB
3 44 (7.41%) MySQL
4 38 (6.40%) SQL Server
5 35 (5.89%) NoSQL
6 34 (5.72%) Relational Database
7 19 (3.20%) DynamoDB
8 16 (2.69%) Redis
9 12 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.52%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (1.35%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.01%) Power BI
13 5 (0.84%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.84%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (0.84%) Parquet
13 5 (0.84%) Presto
14 4 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 106 (17.85%) Git
2 33 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 29 (4.88%) GitLab
4 23 (3.87%) JIRA
5 16 (2.69%) Bitbucket
6 13 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 12 (2.02%) webpack
8 11 (1.85%) Postman
8 11 (1.85%) Selenium
9 10 (1.68%) Maven
9 10 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (1.68%) TeamCity
9 10 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (1.35%) JUnit
10 8 (1.35%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.84%) gulp
12 5 (0.84%) Mocha
12 5 (0.84%) Poetry
13 4 (0.67%) CircleCI
General
1 112 (18.86%) Finance
2 103 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 63 (10.61%) Banking
4 53 (8.92%) Public Sector
5 47 (7.91%) Front Office
6 44 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (5.39%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.02%) Military
9 10 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.35%) Marketing
10 8 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.01%) Publishing
13 5 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.84%) Retail
14 4 (0.67%) Advertising
14 4 (0.67%) Back Office
14 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 412 (69.36%) Developer
2 292 (49.16%) Full-Stack Developer
3 80 (13.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 79 (13.30%) Senior
5 64 (10.77%) Senior Developer
6 57 (9.60%) React Developer
7 54 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 52 (8.75%) Java Developer
9 50 (8.42%) Lead
10 43 (7.24%) .NET Developer
11 40 (6.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 34 (5.72%) Python Developer
13 33 (5.56%) Software Developer
14 32 (5.39%) Lead Developer
15 28 (4.71%) C# Developer
15 28 (4.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 27 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 26 (4.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
18 25 (4.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 20 (3.37%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (44.44%) React
2 132 (22.22%) .NET
3 129 (21.72%) Node.js
4 122 (20.54%) AngularJS
5 109 (18.35%) CSS
6 106 (17.85%) HTML
7 77 (12.96%) RESTful
8 51 (8.59%) Vue
9 48 (8.08%) Spring
10 46 (7.74%) .NET Core
10 46 (7.74%) Kafka
11 40 (6.73%) Spring Boot
12 39 (6.57%) REST
13 38 (6.40%) HTML5
14 35 (5.89%) Redux
15 34 (5.72%) Next.js
16 29 (4.88%) GraphQL
17 27 (4.55%) .NET Framework
17 27 (4.55%) ASP.NET
18 26 (4.38%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (4.38%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.70%) Hedge funds
4 19 (3.20%) Derivative
4 19 (3.20%) Fixed Income
4 19 (3.20%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.85%) Equities
7 10 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.18%) NHS
9 7 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.03%) Linux
2 15 (2.53%) Windows
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (34.68%) Agile
2 177 (29.80%) CI/CD
3 148 (24.92%) DevOps
4 138 (23.23%) Microservices
5 132 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 114 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (11.62%) TDD
8 61 (10.27%) Containerisation
9 60 (10.10%) Front End Development
10 54 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 52 (8.75%) Web Development
12 51 (8.59%) Artificial Intelligence
13 48 (8.08%) Code Quality
14 47 (7.91%) Analytics
14 47 (7.91%) API Development
14 47 (7.91%) User Experience
15 45 (7.58%) Clean Code
16 43 (7.24%) Event-Driven
17 42 (7.07%) Scrum
18 37 (6.23%) OO
Programming Languages
1 234 (39.39%) JavaScript
2 208 (35.02%) Python
3 191 (32.15%) TypeScript
4 180 (30.30%) Java
5 114 (19.19%) SQL
6 102 (17.17%) C#
7 22 (3.70%) PHP
8 16 (2.69%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.53%) C++
9 15 (2.53%) PL/SQL
10 13 (2.19%) Go
11 12 (2.02%) Ruby
12 9 (1.52%) Scala
12 9 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.18%) Bicep
14 5 (0.84%) ABAP
14 5 (0.84%) COBOL
14 5 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 97 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 84 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.23%) Degree
4 21 (3.54%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.52%) AWS Certification
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 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 19 (3.20%) QA
2 15 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.67%) WCAG
4 2 (0.34%) EMIR
4 2 (0.34%) MiFID
5 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 102 (17.17%) Docker
2 4 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.34%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 119 (20.03%) Kubernetes
2 51 (8.59%) Terraform
3 12 (2.02%) Grafana
4 11 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.68%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Istio
6 2 (0.34%) 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 49 (8.25%) Oracle
2 44 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.37%) Google
4 15 (2.53%) Atlassian
5 12 (2.02%) Virgin Media
6 10 (1.68%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.52%) SAP
8 7 (1.18%) Databricks
9 6 (1.01%) Adobe
10 5 (0.84%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.84%) Splunk
11 4 (0.67%) Arista
11 4 (0.67%) Cisco
11 4 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.67%) Zend
12 3 (0.51%) SendGrid
13 2 (0.34%) InterSystems
13 2 (0.34%) Murex
13 2 (0.34%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.34%) VMware