Full-Stack Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Full-Stack Developer
England > Midlands

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £451, 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 96 116 138
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 15 17 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 0.62% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.67% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 26
10th Percentile £363 £280 £313
25th Percentile £391 £313 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £350 £428
Median % change year-on-year +28.86% -18.13% +16.33%
75th Percentile £567 £459 £488
90th Percentile £700 £515 £556
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £61.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +10.91% +7.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in the Midlands

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in the Midlands

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the Midlands

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in the Midlands

Full-Stack Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +15 11 £508 +56.15% 14
East Midlands +7 4 £402 -1.95% 18
Full-Stack Developer
England

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Midlands region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (46.67%) HTML
3 7 (46.67%) AWS
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) Git
4 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (40.00%) CSS
5 5 (33.33%) User Experience
5 5 (33.33%) RESTful
5 5 (33.33%) JIRA
5 5 (33.33%) GCP
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Code Quality
6 4 (26.67%) Web Development
7 3 (20.00%) MVC
7 3 (20.00%) Python
7 3 (20.00%) MySQL
7 3 (20.00%) Java
7 3 (20.00%) C#
7 3 (20.00%) SQL
7 3 (20.00%) jQuery
7 3 (20.00%) REST
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (20.00%) React
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (13.33%) Next.js
8 2 (13.33%) NgRx
8 2 (13.33%) Terraform

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CodeBuild
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) Postman
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Automotive
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) HTML
2 6 (40.00%) CSS
3 5 (33.33%) RESTful
4 3 (20.00%) jQuery
4 3 (20.00%) React
4 3 (20.00%) REST
5 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (13.33%) CSS3
5 2 (13.33%) Flutter
5 2 (13.33%) HTML5
5 2 (13.33%) Laravel
5 2 (13.33%) Next.js
5 2 (13.33%) NgRx
5 2 (13.33%) Node.js
5 2 (13.33%) RxJS
5 2 (13.33%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (13.33%) SAPUI5
5 2 (13.33%) Spring
5 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
5 2 (13.33%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) User Experience
4 4 (26.67%) Code Quality
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Web Development
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) MVC
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) API Design
6 2 (13.33%) API Development
6 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
6 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) OO
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
6 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) ABAP
4 2 (13.33%) COBOL
4 2 (13.33%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) Rust
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
1 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) SendGrid