Full-Stack Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Full-Stack Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.71% - 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £364 - -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £459 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £420 - -

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 672 602 961
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.73% 93.04% 96.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 372 658
10th Percentile £306 £313 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.39% -1.24%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £613
90th Percentile £658 £647 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 31 9
10th Percentile £21.63 £18.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.80 £19.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +17.32% -0.88%
75th Percentile £27.06 £45.13 £22.25
90th Percentile £28.08 £48.75 £31.40
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year -5.45% +32.82% -2.38%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, Full-Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) React
4 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
5 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner

Full-Stack Engineer 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) LangChain
3 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google