Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 193 138
Rank change year-on-year -10 -55 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 197 167 321
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 1.24% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 1.32% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 125 248
10th Percentile £395 £365 £388
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £598 £663 £700
90th Percentile £688 £750 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +30.38% -61.14%
England median hourly rate £58.00 £38.75 £29.72
% change year-on-year +49.68% +30.38% -59.42%

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 14,017 12,647 17,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 93.64% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,333 8,126 12,393
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £776
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 141 331
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.21 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.88 £24.66 £19.03
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.11 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.72% +33.72% -15.95%
75th Percentile £60.75 £55.25 £48.92
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £65.75
England median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% - -6.67%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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
South London +5 14 £506 -38.73% 4
Central London -20 14 £519 -11.32% 9
West London - 9 £365 - 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 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.

1 197 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 94 (47.72%) React
3 91 (46.19%) CI/CD
4 79 (40.10%) AWS
5 76 (38.58%) Agile
6 74 (37.56%) TypeScript
7 68 (34.52%) Java
7 68 (34.52%) Node.js
8 67 (34.01%) JavaScript
9 64 (32.49%) Python
10 62 (31.47%) Docker
11 52 (26.40%) Kubernetes
11 52 (26.40%) Security Cleared
12 51 (25.89%) Azure
13 48 (24.37%) AngularJS
13 48 (24.37%) DevOps
13 48 (24.37%) SC Cleared
14 47 (23.86%) Microservices
15 44 (22.34%) Containerisation
16 41 (20.81%) CSS
17 39 (19.80%) HTML
17 39 (19.80%) Spring
18 38 (19.29%) PostgreSQL
19 37 (18.78%) GitHub
19 37 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
20 35 (17.77%) SQL
21 33 (16.75%) Git
22 32 (16.24%) RESTful
23 30 (15.23%) .NET
24 28 (14.21%) Next.js

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 11 (5.58%) Confluence
2 5 (2.54%) CMS
3 2 (1.02%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.02%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.51%) Camunda
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Adobe XD
1 3 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 79 (40.10%) AWS
2 51 (25.89%) Azure
3 37 (18.78%) GitHub
4 23 (11.68%) GCP
5 18 (9.14%) Serverless
6 14 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.57%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.57%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.54%) Datadog
11 5 (2.54%) Figma
12 4 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.03%) SaaS
13 3 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.52%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) SSL
2 1 (0.51%) RTMP
2 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.29%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (11.17%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.12%) SQL Server
4 15 (7.61%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.06%) MySQL
6 8 (4.06%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.05%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.52%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.02%) Metadata
10 2 (1.02%) Redis
11 1 (0.51%) GIS
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (16.75%) Git
2 17 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.61%) JIRA
4 10 (5.08%) GitLab
5 4 (2.03%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.52%) JUnit
7 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.02%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.02%) Mockito
7 2 (1.02%) Snyk
7 2 (1.02%) Storybook
7 2 (1.02%) webpack
8 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.51%) Babel
8 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.51%) Mocha
8 1 (0.51%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.51%) Postman
8 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.30%) Finance
3 18 (9.14%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.63%) Banking
5 9 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.57%) Front Office
6 5 (2.54%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.54%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.52%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Retail
9 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Military
10 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (47.72%) React
2 68 (34.52%) Node.js
3 48 (24.37%) AngularJS
4 41 (20.81%) CSS
5 39 (19.80%) HTML
5 39 (19.80%) Spring
6 32 (16.24%) RESTful
7 30 (15.23%) .NET
8 28 (14.21%) Next.js
9 26 (13.20%) REST
10 24 (12.18%) Spring Boot
11 22 (11.17%) Kafka
12 18 (9.14%) FastAPI
13 17 (8.63%) Vue
14 13 (6.60%) Playwright
15 11 (5.58%) GraphQL
15 11 (5.58%) pytest
16 8 (4.06%) HTML5
16 8 (4.06%) Jest
17 7 (3.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.05%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.54%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.52%) Derivative
7 3 (1.52%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.02%) Life Science
8 2 (1.02%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.51%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.58%) Linux
2 6 (3.05%) Unix
3 3 (1.52%) CentOS
3 3 (1.52%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.02%) Windows
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 91 (46.19%) CI/CD
3 76 (38.58%) Agile
4 48 (24.37%) DevOps
5 47 (23.86%) Microservices
6 44 (22.34%) Containerisation
7 37 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (12.69%) AI
8 25 (12.69%) Front End Development
9 21 (10.66%) Scrum
10 20 (10.15%) Code Quality
10 20 (10.15%) Software Engineering
10 20 (10.15%) TDD
11 19 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (8.63%) SDLC
12 17 (8.63%) Test Automation
13 16 (8.12%) User Experience
14 14 (7.11%) Clean Code
15 13 (6.60%) Mentoring
16 12 (6.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 74 (37.56%) TypeScript
2 68 (34.52%) Java
3 67 (34.01%) JavaScript
4 64 (32.49%) Python
5 35 (17.77%) SQL
6 26 (13.20%) C#
7 5 (2.54%) Ruby
8 3 (1.52%) C
8 3 (1.52%) Go
8 3 (1.52%) Perl
8 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.02%) Groovy
9 2 (1.02%) PHP
9 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.51%) Korn
10 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.51%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 48 (24.37%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.60%) Degree
4 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.55%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.05%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (31.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (26.40%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.09%) Terraform
3 7 (3.55%) Argo
4 6 (3.05%) Grafana
4 6 (3.05%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (1.02%) Kibana
6 1 (0.51%) Ansible
6 1 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (6.09%) Oracle
2 11 (5.58%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.55%) Google
5 4 (2.03%) Adobe
6 3 (1.52%) Databricks
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco
7 1 (0.51%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.51%) Okta
7 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.51%) Sybase