Senior Full-Stack Developer Contracts in England

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK > England

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer daily rate in England is £620, 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 458 519 615
Rank change year-on-year +61 +96 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 27 23 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.062% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.067% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 27
10th Percentile £400 - £483
25th Percentile £500 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £663
90th Percentile £818 £725 £735
UK median daily rate £620 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +15.35% -2.27% -4.35%

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%

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full-Stack Developer in England

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Full-Stack Developer in England

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Full-Stack Developer in England

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Full-Stack Developer in England

Senior 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 Senior 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 +41 18 £635 +18.14% 19
Midlands +25 4 £700 +47.37% 6
West Midlands - 3 £700 - 4
South West +47 2 £700 +115.38% 2
North of England +19 2 £450 -17.24% 8
North West +18 2 £450 -18.18% 5
South East - 2 - - 11
East Midlands +10 1 £400 -15.79% 2
Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

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

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

1 27 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (62.96%) JavaScript
3 15 (55.56%) TypeScript
4 14 (51.85%) HTML
4 14 (51.85%) Agile
5 12 (44.44%) CSS
5 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 12 (44.44%) React
6 11 (40.74%) AWS
7 10 (37.04%) Node.js
7 10 (37.04%) Azure
8 9 (33.33%) RESTful
8 9 (33.33%) Design Patterns
9 8 (29.63%) C#
10 7 (25.93%) SQL
10 7 (25.93%) .NET
10 7 (25.93%) OO
10 7 (25.93%) Web Development
10 7 (25.93%) AngularJS
10 7 (25.93%) DevOps
10 7 (25.93%) Docker
11 6 (22.22%) Terraform
11 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
11 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
11 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
11 6 (22.22%) HTML5
11 6 (22.22%) Git
11 6 (22.22%) Python
11 6 (22.22%) ASP.NET
12 5 (18.52%) Java

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) GitHub
3 5 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Stack
5 2 (7.41%) SaaS
5 2 (7.41%) Sentry
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) ClickHouse
4 1 (3.70%) Couchbase
4 1 (3.70%) Redis
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) CircleCI
2 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 3 (11.11%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Moq
3 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
3 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) Mocha
4 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Front Office
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Military
5 2 (7.41%) Back Office
6 1 (3.70%) Automotive
6 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) HTML
2 12 (44.44%) CSS
2 12 (44.44%) React
3 10 (37.04%) Node.js
4 9 (33.33%) RESTful
5 7 (25.93%) .NET
5 7 (25.93%) AngularJS
6 6 (22.22%) ASP.NET
6 6 (22.22%) HTML5
7 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
7 4 (14.81%) CSS3
8 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
8 3 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (11.11%) JPA
8 3 (11.11%) Kafka
8 3 (11.11%) Svelte
8 3 (11.11%) Vue
9 2 (7.41%) Django
9 2 (7.41%) JSON
9 2 (7.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Equities
4 1 (3.70%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) NHS
4 1 (3.70%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (51.85%) Agile
3 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 9 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 7 (25.93%) DevOps
5 7 (25.93%) OO
5 7 (25.93%) Web Development
6 5 (18.52%) Analytics
6 5 (18.52%) SOLID
7 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
7 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (14.81%) MVC
7 4 (14.81%) OOP
7 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) Scrum
7 4 (14.81%) TDD
7 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
8 3 (11.11%) Clean Code
8 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) JavaScript
2 15 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 8 (29.63%) C#
4 7 (25.93%) SQL
5 6 (22.22%) Python
6 5 (18.52%) Java
7 3 (11.11%) Kotlin
8 2 (7.41%) Go
8 2 (7.41%) Scala
9 1 (3.70%) C++
9 1 (3.70%) PHP
9 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Google