Lead Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Lead Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Lead Full-Stack Developer daily rate in London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 347 392
Rank change year-on-year -60 +45 +116
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Full-Stack Developer 6 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.037% 0.062% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.066% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £405 £444 £378
25th Percentile £520 £492 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year +45.28% +3.25% -47.37%
75th Percentile £800 £673 £531
90th Percentile - £699 £588
England median daily rate £600 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% -38.16%

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 15,145 12,121 16,994
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 93.66% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,152 8,142 12,272
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.80%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 142 340
10th Percentile £18.20 £21.02 £15.99
25th Percentile £22.26 £24.66 £19.20
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £27.91
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +27.02% -20.27%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £47.02
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.31 £64.58
England median hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.71% +7.69% -23.53%

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Lead Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in London

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Full-Stack Developer in London over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Full-Stack Developer in London

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

For the 6 months to 14 March 2026, Lead 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 Lead Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) Node.js
2 5 (83.33%) React
2 5 (83.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Go
3 4 (66.67%) GraphQL
3 4 (66.67%) Investment Management
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) Kafka
3 4 (66.67%) Order Management
3 4 (66.67%) Portfolio Management
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) Redux
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Vue
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 1 (16.67%) Generative AI

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Front Office
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
1 5 (83.33%) Node.js
1 5 (83.33%) React
2 4 (66.67%) GraphQL
2 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 4 (66.67%) Redux
2 4 (66.67%) Vue
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Management
2 4 (66.67%) Order Management
2 4 (66.67%) Portfolio Management
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (66.67%) Go
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) Python