Full-Stack Engineer Contracts in England

Full-Stack Engineer
UK > England

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in England is £575, 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 407 426 544
Rank change year-on-year +19 +118 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 78 116 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.31% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.34% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 94 89
10th Percentile £369 £404 £395
25th Percentile £459 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £663 £750 £700
90th Percentile £838 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.68% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £66.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +15.22% -28.13%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Engineer in England

Full-Stack Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Engineer in England

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in England

Full-Stack Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Engineer in England

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +12 52 £613 -9.26% 258
North of England +18 12 £466 +16.50% 57
Yorkshire +12 8 £478 +9.26% 16
Midlands +26 6 £435 +45.00% 16
West Midlands +16 4 £435 +45.00% 6
South East +42 3 £513 -14.58% 95
North West +14 3 £438 +9.38% 38
East Midlands - 2 £490 - 10
South West +43 1 - - 17
North East -2 1 £370 - 3
Full-Stack Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Full-Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 45 (57.69%) React
2 45 (57.69%) Python
3 44 (56.41%) JavaScript
4 40 (51.28%) Software Engineering
4 40 (51.28%) AWS
4 40 (51.28%) TypeScript
5 39 (50.00%) Agile
6 26 (33.33%) Finance
6 26 (33.33%) Azure
7 23 (29.49%) AngularJS
7 23 (29.49%) GCP
8 22 (28.21%) TDD
9 20 (25.64%) CI/CD
10 19 (24.36%) Vue
11 18 (23.08%) Asset Management
12 17 (21.79%) Analytics
12 17 (21.79%) Fintech
13 16 (20.51%) Redux
13 16 (20.51%) Kubernetes
13 16 (20.51%) Hedge funds
13 16 (20.51%) Investment Management
13 16 (20.51%) Front Office
13 16 (20.51%) Fixed Income
14 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (17.95%) Node.js
16 13 (16.67%) Java
16 13 (16.67%) DevOps
17 12 (15.38%) Docker
17 12 (15.38%) Git

Full-Stack Engineer 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 2 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) CMS
2 1 (1.28%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.28%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (51.28%) AWS
2 26 (33.33%) Azure
3 23 (29.49%) GCP
4 8 (10.26%) Serverless
5 6 (7.69%) GitHub
6 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.13%) Azure Functions
7 4 (5.13%) CloudBees
8 3 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.56%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.56%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (1.28%) DNS
1 1 (1.28%) DWDM
1 1 (1.28%) Firewall
1 1 (1.28%) LAN
1 1 (1.28%) Network Security
1 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.28%) VPN
1 1 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.56%) MySQL
5 2 (2.56%) Power BI
6 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (15.38%) Git
2 4 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.13%) JIRA
3 1 (1.28%) Babel
3 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.28%) git-flow
3 1 (1.28%) GitLab
3 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.28%) webpack
General
1 26 (33.33%) Finance
2 16 (20.51%) Front Office
3 8 (10.26%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Advertising
6 3 (3.85%) Publishing
7 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.56%) Marketing
7 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.28%) Automotive
8 1 (1.28%) French Language
8 1 (1.28%) Games
8 1 (1.28%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (57.69%) React
2 23 (29.49%) AngularJS
3 19 (24.36%) Vue
4 16 (20.51%) Redux
5 14 (17.95%) Node.js
6 10 (12.82%) .NET
7 8 (10.26%) Next.js
8 7 (8.97%) REST
9 6 (7.69%) CSS
9 6 (7.69%) GraphQL
9 6 (7.69%) HTML
9 6 (7.69%) RESTful
10 5 (6.41%) FastAPI
10 5 (6.41%) Flask
11 4 (5.13%) .NET Core
12 3 (3.85%) Django
12 3 (3.85%) pydantic
13 2 (2.56%) Ajax
13 2 (2.56%) Spring
14 1 (1.28%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.51%) Fixed Income
1 16 (20.51%) Hedge funds
2 8 (10.26%) Equities
2 8 (10.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (6.41%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.85%) NHS
5 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.28%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 40 (51.28%) Software Engineering
3 39 (50.00%) Agile
4 22 (28.21%) TDD
5 20 (25.64%) CI/CD
6 18 (23.08%) Asset Management
7 17 (21.79%) Analytics
7 17 (21.79%) Fintech
8 16 (20.51%) Investment Management
9 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (16.67%) DevOps
11 9 (11.54%) Containerisation
11 9 (11.54%) Microservices
12 8 (10.26%) Architectural Design
13 7 (8.97%) API Development
13 7 (8.97%) Code Quality
13 7 (8.97%) Test Automation
14 6 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 6 (7.69%) OO
Programming Languages
1 45 (57.69%) Python
2 44 (56.41%) JavaScript
3 40 (51.28%) TypeScript
4 13 (16.67%) Java
5 9 (11.54%) C#
6 8 (10.26%) Kotlin
6 8 (10.26%) SQL
7 4 (5.13%) PHP
7 4 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.56%) Go
8 2 (2.56%) Groovy
8 2 (2.56%) Ruby
9 1 (1.28%) C++
9 1 (1.28%) Scala
9 1 (1.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.28%) CCNA
5 1 (1.28%) CCNP
5 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.28%) JNCIA
5 1 (1.28%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 12 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.85%) Terraform
3 2 (2.56%) Grafana
3 2 (2.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.28%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (7.69%) Google
2 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
2 2 (2.56%) Databricks
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle
3 1 (1.28%) Amplitude
3 1 (1.28%) Arista
3 1 (1.28%) Cisco
3 1 (1.28%) Virgin Media