Full-Stack Software Engineer Contracts in England

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer daily rate in England is £631, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 469 570
Rank change year-on-year +13 +101 +135
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer 47 56 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 44 46
10th Percentile £478 £500 £516
25th Percentile £488 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +3.70% +1.89%
75th Percentile £838 £788 £750
90th Percentile - £814 £769
UK median daily rate £625 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £65.80 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 - -

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 25,466 30,983 42,910
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.90% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,521 20,498 30,243
10th Percentile £286 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 1,827 1,342
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +66.47%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 0 33 £650 -7.14% 30
East of England - 5 - - 3
North of England -15 3 £490 +12.00% 3
Midlands - 3 £490 - 3
Yorkshire -8 2 £490 -
East Midlands - 2 £490 -
South West - 2 £638 - 4
South East +22 1 - - 12
North West +1 1 - - 3
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 3 August 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 47 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 45 (95.74%) Software Engineering
3 39 (82.98%) Agile
4 38 (80.85%) React
5 37 (78.72%) TypeScript
6 30 (63.83%) JavaScript
7 27 (57.45%) Finance
7 27 (57.45%) AWS
7 27 (57.45%) AngularJS
8 26 (55.32%) Azure
8 26 (55.32%) TDD
9 25 (53.19%) Python
9 25 (53.19%) Vue
10 22 (46.81%) Redux
10 22 (46.81%) Asset Management
11 21 (44.68%) Front Office
11 21 (44.68%) Analytics
12 20 (42.55%) Hedge funds
12 20 (42.55%) GCP
12 20 (42.55%) Fintech
12 20 (42.55%) Fixed Income
12 20 (42.55%) Investment Management
13 18 (38.30%) CI/CD
14 16 (34.04%) Microservices
15 15 (31.91%) DevOps
16 14 (29.79%) Equities
16 14 (29.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 12 (25.53%) Node.js
17 12 (25.53%) Docker
18 11 (23.40%) Kubernetes

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 (4.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (10.64%) FLEXCUBE
1 5 (10.64%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 27 (57.45%) AWS
2 26 (55.32%) Azure
3 20 (42.55%) GCP
4 5 (10.64%) npm
5 4 (8.51%) Serverless
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.26%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.13%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.13%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.13%) Datadog
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.13%) Google Gemini
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) MySQL
2 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.13%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) JIRA
2 5 (10.64%) Artifactory
2 5 (10.64%) GitLab
2 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
3 3 (6.38%) Git
General
1 27 (57.45%) Finance
2 21 (44.68%) Front Office
3 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Military
6 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Publishing
7 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (80.85%) React
2 27 (57.45%) AngularJS
3 25 (53.19%) Vue
4 22 (46.81%) Redux
5 12 (25.53%) Node.js
6 9 (19.15%) .NET
7 6 (12.77%) CSS
7 6 (12.77%) HTML
8 5 (10.64%) .NET Framework
8 5 (10.64%) REST
8 5 (10.64%) Svelte
9 4 (8.51%) RESTful
10 3 (6.38%) Express.js
10 3 (6.38%) Next.js
11 2 (4.26%) .NET Core
11 2 (4.26%) GraphQL
11 2 (4.26%) gRPC
12 1 (2.13%) Kafka
12 1 (2.13%) NgRx
12 1 (2.13%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 20 (42.55%) Fixed Income
1 20 (42.55%) Hedge funds
2 14 (29.79%) Equities
2 14 (29.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (10.64%) Algorithms
4 5 (10.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 45 (95.74%) Software Engineering
3 39 (82.98%) Agile
4 26 (55.32%) TDD
5 22 (46.81%) Asset Management
6 21 (44.68%) Analytics
7 20 (42.55%) Fintech
7 20 (42.55%) Investment Management
8 18 (38.30%) CI/CD
9 16 (34.04%) Microservices
10 15 (31.91%) DevOps
11 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
12 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
13 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (17.02%) SDLC
15 5 (10.64%) Design Patterns
15 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 5 (10.64%) Roadmaps
15 5 (10.64%) Strategic Planning
15 5 (10.64%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 37 (78.72%) TypeScript
2 30 (63.83%) JavaScript
3 25 (53.19%) Python
4 10 (21.28%) C#
5 8 (17.02%) SQL
6 6 (12.77%) Java
7 5 (10.64%) PL/SQL
8 4 (8.51%) C++
9 3 (6.38%) Bicep
10 2 (4.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) SC Cleared
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
3 2 (4.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Oracle
2 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.13%) Foundry
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.13%) OpenAI