Full-Stack Software Engineer Contracts in England

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer daily rate in England is £625, 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 460 486 622
Rank change year-on-year +26 +136 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer 25 56 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.15% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 46 27
10th Percentile £473 £500 £504
25th Percentile £588 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £838 £788 £750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £700 £638
% change year-on-year -10.71% +9.80% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Software Engineer in England

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Software Engineer in England

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Software Engineer in England

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Software Engineer in England

Full-Stack Software 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 Software 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 +13 20 £625 -10.71% 70
Midlands - 3 £490 - 7
North of England +14 2 £500 -9.09% 27
East Midlands - 2 £490 - 4
North West +16 1 - - 21
Yorkshire +7 1 £500 - 5
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

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

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

1 25 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 25 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (84.00%) JavaScript
2 21 (84.00%) React
3 20 (80.00%) AWS
3 20 (80.00%) TypeScript
3 20 (80.00%) Python
3 20 (80.00%) Agile
4 19 (76.00%) Azure
4 19 (76.00%) Finance
5 18 (72.00%) Asset Management
6 17 (68.00%) TDD
7 16 (64.00%) Fixed Income
7 16 (64.00%) Investment Management
7 16 (64.00%) Front Office
7 16 (64.00%) AngularJS
7 16 (64.00%) Analytics
7 16 (64.00%) Hedge funds
7 16 (64.00%) GCP
7 16 (64.00%) Fintech
7 16 (64.00%) Vue
7 16 (64.00%) Redux
8 8 (32.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (32.00%) Equities
9 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 4 (16.00%) JIRA
10 4 (16.00%) .NET
10 4 (16.00%) REST
11 3 (12.00%) Docker
11 3 (12.00%) C#

Full-Stack Software 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 (8.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) AWS
2 19 (76.00%) Azure
3 16 (64.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Apigee
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) npm
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MySQL
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Babel
3 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 19 (76.00%) Finance
2 16 (64.00%) Front Office
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (84.00%) React
2 16 (64.00%) AngularJS
2 16 (64.00%) Redux
2 16 (64.00%) Vue
3 4 (16.00%) .NET
3 4 (16.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.00%) CSS
5 2 (8.00%) HTML
5 2 (8.00%) Node.js
6 1 (4.00%) Flask
6 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.00%) JSON
6 1 (4.00%) JWT
6 1 (4.00%) Next.js
6 1 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (64.00%) Fixed Income
1 16 (64.00%) Hedge funds
2 8 (32.00%) Equities
2 8 (32.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 25 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (80.00%) Agile
3 18 (72.00%) Asset Management
4 17 (68.00%) TDD
5 16 (64.00%) Analytics
5 16 (64.00%) Fintech
5 16 (64.00%) Investment Management
6 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.00%) Architectural Design
7 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
8 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.00%) DevOps
8 2 (8.00%) Event-Driven
8 2 (8.00%) Microservices
8 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.00%) Service Management
8 2 (8.00%) Software Asset Management
9 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence
9 1 (4.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (84.00%) JavaScript
2 20 (80.00%) Python
2 20 (80.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (12.00%) C#
4 2 (8.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Java
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Databricks