Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Full-Stack Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in Leeds is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 40 62
Rank change year-on-year -34 +22 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 3 25 10
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.42% 3.87% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 4.15% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 10
10th Percentile £415 £397 £400
25th Percentile £438 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £563
90th Percentile £565 £673 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 691 603 897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.84% 93.34% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 371 607
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 31 6
10th Percentile - £17.08 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.50 £18.74
Median hourly rate £20.18 £24.18 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -16.54% +15.10% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.75 £38.75 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.40 £56.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £24.18 £19.85
% change year-on-year +7.53% +21.80% -7.66%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in Leeds

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Jest

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Mocha
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
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