Full-Stack Development Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Full-Stack Development
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 27 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 7 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 3.13% 1.82% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 2.60% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £342 £324 -
25th Percentile £405 £397 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £448 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.97% -18.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile - £491 -
90th Percentile - £541 -
North West median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

Full-Stack Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 198 154 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 88.39% 70.00% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 69 106
10th Percentile £129 £153 £220
25th Percentile £163 £206 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £420 £461
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -8.94% -0.27%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £548
90th Percentile £650 £600 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 15
10th Percentile - £15.99 £13.98
25th Percentile £12.21 £18.35 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.18 £22.88 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.64% +20.39% +8.39%
75th Percentile £44.94 £29.76 £28.15
90th Percentile £51.02 £37.60 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £40.33 £35.50
% change year-on-year -33.04% +13.59% +36.00%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Full-Stack Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Full-Stack Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in Merseyside over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in Merseyside

Full-Stack Development
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Development within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 30 October 2025. 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
Liverpool 0 7 £510 +13.97% 7
Full-Stack Development
North West

Full-Stack Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure AKS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
3 1 (14.29%) Firebase
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Vercel
3 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JUnit
2 4 (57.14%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Mockito
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) AngularJS
1 5 (71.43%) JSON
1 5 (71.43%) React
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
1 5 (71.43%) Spring
1 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 4 (57.14%) jQuery
2 4 (57.14%) POJO
2 4 (57.14%) Thymeleaf
3 2 (28.57%) Gradio
3 2 (28.57%) LangChain
3 2 (28.57%) Streamlit
4 1 (14.29%) CrewAI
4 1 (14.29%) D3.js
4 1 (14.29%) Faiss
4 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
4 1 (14.29%) Flask
4 1 (14.29%) Kafka
4 1 (14.29%) LangGraph
4 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) API Development
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
2 4 (57.14%) User Research
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational UI
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) LLM
3 2 (28.57%) Prototyping
3 2 (28.57%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Co-Creation
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 1 (14.29%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Netlify
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAI