Senior Full-Stack Developer Contracts in London

Senior Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer daily rate in London is £635, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 376 461
Rank change year-on-year +41 +85 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 18 15 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.084% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.090% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 22
10th Percentile £500 £463 £513
25th Percentile £504 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £538 £595
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -9.66% -4.80%
75th Percentile £813 £616 £684
90th Percentile £824 £743 £748
England median daily rate £620 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +15.35% -6.52% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full-Stack Developer in London

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Full-Stack Developer in London

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Full-Stack Developer in London

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Developer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Full-Stack Developer in London

Senior Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Full-Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
3 10 (55.56%) HTML
3 10 (55.56%) React
4 9 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 9 (50.00%) CSS
5 8 (44.44%) AWS
6 7 (38.89%) Node.js
6 7 (38.89%) Agile
7 6 (33.33%) HTML5
7 6 (33.33%) Design Patterns
7 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
8 5 (27.78%) Azure
8 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
8 5 (27.78%) Analytics
8 5 (27.78%) Web Development
8 5 (27.78%) C#
8 5 (27.78%) Front Office
8 5 (27.78%) Finance
9 4 (22.22%) Java
9 4 (22.22%) SQL
9 4 (22.22%) .NET
9 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
9 4 (22.22%) OOP
9 4 (22.22%) OO
9 4 (22.22%) Python
9 4 (22.22%) Banking
9 4 (22.22%) Docker
9 4 (22.22%) RESTful

Senior Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Storage
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Sentry
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.56%) ClickHouse
4 1 (5.56%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.56%) Redis
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) CircleCI
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Mocha
2 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Front Office
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Back Office
4 2 (11.11%) Military
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) HTML
1 10 (55.56%) React
2 9 (50.00%) CSS
3 7 (38.89%) Node.js
4 6 (33.33%) HTML5
5 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
6 4 (22.22%) .NET
6 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
6 4 (22.22%) CSS3
6 4 (22.22%) RESTful
7 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (16.67%) Kafka
7 3 (16.67%) Svelte
8 2 (11.11%) Akka
8 2 (11.11%) Django
8 2 (11.11%) Flask
8 2 (11.11%) NumPy
8 2 (11.11%) Pandas
8 2 (11.11%) Play Framework
8 2 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Derivative
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Equities
3 1 (5.56%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 5 (27.78%) Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) Web Development
5 4 (22.22%) OO
5 4 (22.22%) OOP
6 3 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (16.67%) SOLID
6 3 (16.67%) TDD
7 2 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) Fintech
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (11.11%) Microservices
7 2 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (27.78%) C#
4 4 (22.22%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
5 2 (11.11%) Scala
6 1 (5.56%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle