Senior Full-Stack Developer Contracts in London

Senior Full-Stack Developer
England > London

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer daily rate in London is £763, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 374 446
Rank change year-on-year +36 +72 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 12 20 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.095% 0.11% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 20
10th Percentile £464 £448 £511
25th Percentile £503 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £538 £628
Median % change year-on-year +41.86% -14.34% -7.38%
75th Percentile £816 £625 £700
90th Percentile £829 £735 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -3.85%

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 11,802 16,538 23,816
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.75% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,993 11,885 17,371
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 321 274
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.56 £46.48 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.38 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 12 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (58.33%) HTML
4 6 (50.00%) CSS
4 6 (50.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (41.67%) Node.js
5 5 (41.67%) React
5 5 (41.67%) Azure
5 5 (41.67%) HTML5
6 4 (33.33%) AWS
6 4 (33.33%) Agile
6 4 (33.33%) SQL
6 4 (33.33%) .NET
6 4 (33.33%) C#
6 4 (33.33%) Finance
6 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (25.00%) Python
7 3 (25.00%) RESTful
7 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
7 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (25.00%) CSS3
7 3 (25.00%) Analytics
7 3 (25.00%) DevOps
7 3 (25.00%) Docker
8 2 (16.67%) Flask
8 2 (16.67%) Microservices

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 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) ClickHouse
3 1 (8.33%) Couchbase
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
1 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Mocha
1 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Back Office
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Front Office
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) HTML
2 6 (50.00%) CSS
3 5 (41.67%) HTML5
3 5 (41.67%) Node.js
3 5 (41.67%) React
4 4 (33.33%) .NET
5 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (25.00%) CSS3
5 3 (25.00%) RESTful
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (16.67%) Django
6 2 (16.67%) Flask
6 2 (16.67%) Kafka
6 2 (16.67%) NumPy
6 2 (16.67%) Pandas
6 2 (16.67%) Svelte
6 2 (16.67%) Web Services
7 1 (8.33%) Next.js
7 1 (8.33%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Derivative
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Equities
2 1 (8.33%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Code
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) OOP
4 2 (16.67%) Refactoring
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) SOA
4 2 (16.67%) SOLID
4 2 (16.67%) Web Development
5 1 (8.33%) Release Management
5 1 (8.33%) Resource Management
5 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle