Lead Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Lead Full-Stack Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Full-Stack Developer daily rate in England is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 483 559
Rank change year-on-year -57 +76 +173
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Full-Stack Developer 4 24 12
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.013% 0.079% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.085% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 8
10th Percentile £365 £479 £535
25th Percentile £388 £520 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% -2.04% -27.94%
75th Percentile £491 £669 £725
90th Percentile £512 £681 £808
UK median daily rate £493 £600 £594
% change year-on-year -17.92% +1.05% -30.15%

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 28,233 28,165 35,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.89% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,092 17,437 24,751
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,705 974 1,399
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.34 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Full-Stack Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Lead Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in England

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Full-Stack Developer job vacancies 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 11 December 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 11 December 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 -14 3 £400 -28.95% 10
Yorkshire -41 1 £500 -4.76% 4
North of England -42 1 £500 -9.09% 10
Lead Full-Stack Developer
UK

Lead Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 December 2025, Lead Full-Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) CSS3
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Git

Lead Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) JWT
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (25.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA