Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in London is £521, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 186 141
Rank change year-on-year -51 -45 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 186 175 311
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.38% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.48% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 136 248
10th Percentile £400 £365 £371
25th Percentile £442 £410 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £580 £663 £716
90th Percentile £725 £775 £791
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £33.45
25th Percentile - - £39.04
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £48.36
75th Percentile - - £57.68
90th Percentile - - £63.27
England median hourly rate £58.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,083 11,836 16,755
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 93.54% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,748 8,114 12,085
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 143 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.97 £46.49
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £63.91
England median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.23
% change year-on-year +35.38% -5.05% -21.54%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in London

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in London over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in London

Full-Stack Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in London

Full-Stack Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Central London -10 19 £518 -1.43% 14
South London -3 13 £513 +7.95% 1
West London -15 9 - - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 2026, 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 London region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 186 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 84 (45.16%) React
3 83 (44.62%) AWS
4 76 (40.86%) CI/CD
5 73 (39.25%) Agile
6 68 (36.56%) Python
7 63 (33.87%) Java
7 63 (33.87%) TypeScript
8 62 (33.33%) Node.js
9 59 (31.72%) Docker
10 56 (30.11%) Azure
10 56 (30.11%) JavaScript
11 46 (24.73%) Security Cleared
12 45 (24.19%) AngularJS
13 44 (23.66%) Kubernetes
14 40 (21.51%) DevOps
14 40 (21.51%) SC Cleared
15 39 (20.97%) Containerisation
16 36 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
17 34 (18.28%) Microservices
18 33 (17.74%) SQL
19 31 (16.67%) Spring
20 28 (15.05%) HTML
20 28 (15.05%) RESTful
21 27 (14.52%) .NET
21 27 (14.52%) CSS
21 27 (14.52%) GitHub
22 26 (13.98%) AI
22 26 (13.98%) Front End Development
22 26 (13.98%) Kafka

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

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.84%) Confluence
2 1 (0.54%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 83 (44.62%) AWS
2 56 (30.11%) Azure
3 27 (14.52%) GitHub
4 21 (11.29%) GCP
5 20 (10.75%) Serverless
6 13 (6.99%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.38%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (3.76%) Datadog
10 7 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.69%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.15%) Azure AI
13 4 (2.15%) Azure Functions
13 4 (2.15%) Figma
14 3 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.61%) SSL
2 1 (0.54%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (12.37%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.60%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.53%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.84%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.23%) MySQL
9 3 (1.61%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.61%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.61%) Redis
10 2 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.08%) GIS
10 2 (1.08%) Metadata
11 1 (0.54%) Power BI
11 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (13.44%) Git
2 15 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.91%) JIRA
4 7 (3.76%) GitLab
5 4 (2.15%) NUnit
6 3 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.61%) JUnit
7 2 (1.08%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.08%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.08%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.08%) Mockito
7 2 (1.08%) MSTest
7 2 (1.08%) Snyk
7 2 (1.08%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.08%) Storybook
7 2 (1.08%) webpack
8 1 (0.54%) Mocha
8 1 (0.54%) MSBuild
General
1 39 (20.97%) Finance
2 24 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 21 (11.29%) Social Skills
4 18 (9.68%) Banking
5 14 (7.53%) Front Office
6 7 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Advertising
9 1 (0.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (45.16%) React
2 62 (33.33%) Node.js
3 45 (24.19%) AngularJS
4 31 (16.67%) Spring
5 28 (15.05%) HTML
5 28 (15.05%) RESTful
6 27 (14.52%) .NET
6 27 (14.52%) CSS
7 26 (13.98%) Kafka
7 26 (13.98%) REST
8 24 (12.90%) Spring Boot
9 20 (10.75%) Vue
10 16 (8.60%) GraphQL
10 16 (8.60%) Next.js
11 13 (6.99%) YAML
12 12 (6.45%) FastAPI
12 12 (6.45%) Redux
13 11 (5.91%) Playwright
14 9 (4.84%) Flask
14 9 (4.84%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.91%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.69%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.15%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.61%) Derivative
6 3 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.08%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.54%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.15%) Linux
2 2 (1.08%) Unix
3 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 76 (40.86%) CI/CD
3 73 (39.25%) Agile
4 40 (21.51%) DevOps
5 39 (20.97%) Containerisation
6 34 (18.28%) Microservices
7 26 (13.98%) AI
7 26 (13.98%) Front End Development
8 24 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (12.37%) Software Engineering
10 21 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (10.22%) SDLC
12 18 (9.68%) Test Automation
13 16 (8.60%) TDD
14 15 (8.06%) Mentoring
15 14 (7.53%) Code Quality
15 14 (7.53%) Scrum
16 12 (6.45%) User Experience
17 11 (5.91%) Sprint Planning
18 10 (5.38%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 68 (36.56%) Python
2 63 (33.87%) Java
2 63 (33.87%) TypeScript
3 56 (30.11%) JavaScript
4 33 (17.74%) SQL
5 24 (12.90%) C#
6 8 (4.30%) Go
7 2 (1.08%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.08%) PHP
7 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.08%) Scala
7 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.54%) Bash
8 1 (0.54%) Bicep
8 1 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 46 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 40 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.76%) Degree
4 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.91%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.69%) QA
3 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (31.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (23.66%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.06%) Terraform
3 8 (4.30%) Grafana
3 8 (4.30%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.08%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) Argo
5 1 (0.54%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (6.99%) Oracle
2 9 (4.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.61%) Adobe
3 3 (1.61%) Databricks
3 3 (1.61%) Google
4 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.54%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.54%) NEC
5 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.54%) Splunk
5 1 (0.54%) Sybase
5 1 (0.54%) Workday