Lead Full-Stack Developer Contracts in England

Lead Full-Stack Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Full-Stack Developer daily rate in England is £550, 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 465 531 650
Rank change year-on-year +66 +119 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Full-Stack Developer 20 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.030% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.032% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 1
10th Percentile £495 £465 -
25th Percentile £513 £500 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £850
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -30.88% +36.00%
75th Percentile £669 £638 £875
90th Percentile £673 £675 -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +7.69%

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%

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Full-Stack Developer in England

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Full-Stack Developer in England

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Full-Stack Developer in England

Lead Full-Stack Developer
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 Lead Full-Stack Developer 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 +42 10 £525 +5.00% 8
North of England +21 4 £525 -19.23% 5
South East +48 3 £550 -12.00% 3
Yorkshire +9 3 £525 -19.23% 2
North West - 2 £563 - 2
Lead Full-Stack Developer
UK

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

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

1 20 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (45.00%) Java
3 9 (45.00%) React
4 8 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 8 (40.00%) Node.js
5 7 (35.00%) HTML
5 7 (35.00%) Python
6 6 (30.00%) CSS
6 6 (30.00%) AWS
7 5 (25.00%) C#
7 5 (25.00%) .NET
7 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (20.00%) Vue
8 4 (20.00%) Microservices
8 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
8 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
8 4 (20.00%) Spring
8 4 (20.00%) SQL
8 4 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (20.00%) Azure
9 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
9 3 (15.00%) MVVM
9 3 (15.00%) BDD
9 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
9 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
9 3 (15.00%) Web Services
9 3 (15.00%) OOP
9 3 (15.00%) OO

Lead Full-Stack Developer 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 1 (5.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
General
1 4 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) React
2 8 (40.00%) Node.js
3 7 (35.00%) HTML
4 6 (30.00%) CSS
5 5 (25.00%) .NET
6 4 (20.00%) Spring
6 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (20.00%) Vue
7 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
7 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (15.00%) Jest
7 3 (15.00%) React Native
7 3 (15.00%) Redux
7 3 (15.00%) Web Services
8 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
8 2 (10.00%) RESTful
9 1 (5.00%) Apache Camel
9 1 (5.00%) Django
9 1 (5.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Microservices
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) BDD
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (15.00%) MVC
4 3 (15.00%) MVVM
4 3 (15.00%) OO
4 3 (15.00%) OOP
4 3 (15.00%) SOLID
4 3 (15.00%) TDD
4 3 (15.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 3 (15.00%) Web Development
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (45.00%) Java
3 8 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (35.00%) Python
5 5 (25.00%) C#
6 4 (20.00%) SQL
7 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Splunk
1 1 (5.00%) Virgin Media