Senior Full-Stack Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in England is £404, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 June 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
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 531 628
Rank change year-on-year +58 +97 +111
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer 4 22 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.059% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.064% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 11
10th Percentile £372 £493 £406
25th Percentile £385 £506 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £534 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -7.13% -20.69%
75th Percentile £438 £613 £688
90th Percentile £481 £725 £788
UK median daily rate £490 £534 £575
% change year-on-year -8.24% -7.13% -17.86%

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 22,485 34,569 44,755
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.81% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,806 22,698 31,838
10th Percentile £289 £285 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.68%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 2,604 1,309
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.34
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.14 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% -15.26% +88.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +83.67%

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full-Stack Engineer in England

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Full-Stack Engineer in England

Senior Full-Stack 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 Senior Full-Stack Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 June 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 2 £404 -24.58% 160
East Midlands - 1 £490 - 1
Midlands - 1 £490 - 3
South West - 1 £375 - 7
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 2025, Senior Full-Stack 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 Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) TypeORM
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js

Senior Full-Stack 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) TypeORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle