Full-Stack Developer Contracts in the North of England

Full-Stack Developer
England > North of England

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the North of England is £473, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 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
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 144 158
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 45 34 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.18% 0.76% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 0.82% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 30 42
10th Percentile £344 £325 £325
25th Percentile £397 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £455 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £506 £550 £584
90th Percentile £557 £575 £618
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,539 4,146 5,171
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 92.38% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,292 2,562 3,532
10th Percentile £253 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £645 £656 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 356 197
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.47 £14.61
25th Percentile £17.29 £15.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.45 £25.15 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.76% +11.78% +9.01%
75th Percentile £47.12 £48.19 £43.39
90th Percentile £75.55 £69.88 £52.47
England median hourly rate £27.39 £42.50 £44.06
% change year-on-year -35.56% -3.53% +75.62%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in the North of England

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in the North of England

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the North of England

Full-Stack Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
North West +1 21 £400 -11.11% 14
Yorkshire +6 14 £488 +5.98% 7
North East - 10 £473 - 4
Full-Stack Developer
England

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 21 July 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 North of England region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (57.78%) AWS
3 24 (53.33%) Java
4 23 (51.11%) Node.js
5 21 (46.67%) JavaScript
6 20 (44.44%) React
7 19 (42.22%) Microservices
8 18 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (37.78%) Agile
10 15 (33.33%) MongoDB
10 15 (33.33%) Git
10 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (31.11%) Spring Boot
12 13 (28.89%) Public Sector
12 13 (28.89%) RESTful
12 13 (28.89%) MySQL
13 12 (26.67%) SQL
13 12 (26.67%) Spring
13 12 (26.67%) NoSQL
13 12 (26.67%) AngularJS
13 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
14 11 (24.44%) Express.js
14 11 (24.44%) TypeScript
14 11 (24.44%) Test Automation
14 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
14 11 (24.44%) HTML
14 11 (24.44%) CSS
15 10 (22.22%) Python
15 10 (22.22%) Docker
16 9 (20.00%) GitLab

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.89%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (57.78%) AWS
2 7 (15.56%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) Serverless
3 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.89%) Kong
5 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.67%) GCP
5 3 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.22%) SaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Slack
7 1 (2.22%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 13 (28.89%) MySQL
4 12 (26.67%) NoSQL
5 7 (15.56%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.22%) Big Data
8 1 (2.22%) DocumentDB
8 1 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Git
2 9 (20.00%) GitLab
3 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.11%) JIRA
4 5 (11.11%) SonarQube
5 4 (8.89%) Artifactory
5 4 (8.89%) gulp
5 4 (8.89%) Maven
5 4 (8.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.22%) Selenium
General
1 13 (28.89%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Banking
3 5 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Military
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (51.11%) Node.js
2 20 (44.44%) React
3 14 (31.11%) Spring Boot
4 13 (28.89%) RESTful
5 12 (26.67%) AngularJS
5 12 (26.67%) Spring
6 11 (24.44%) CSS
6 11 (24.44%) Express.js
6 11 (24.44%) HTML
7 7 (15.56%) .NET
8 6 (13.33%) Kafka
8 6 (13.33%) MEAN Stack
8 6 (13.33%) REST
9 5 (11.11%) HTML5
9 5 (11.11%) Sequelize
10 4 (8.89%) Apache CXF
10 4 (8.89%) CSS3
10 4 (8.89%) Hibernate
10 4 (8.89%) JAX-RS
10 4 (8.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.22%) NHS
3 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (42.22%) Microservices
3 17 (37.78%) Agile
4 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 11 (24.44%) Test Automation
7 9 (20.00%) Code Quality
7 9 (20.00%) Event-Driven
8 8 (17.78%) DevOps
9 7 (15.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (15.56%) MVC
10 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 6 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
11 5 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
11 5 (11.11%) Operational Stability
11 5 (11.11%) SDLC
11 5 (11.11%) TDD
12 4 (8.89%) Computer Science
12 4 (8.89%) Event-Driven Programming
12 4 (8.89%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 24 (53.33%) Java
2 21 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 12 (26.67%) SQL
4 11 (24.44%) TypeScript
5 10 (22.22%) Python
6 5 (11.11%) C#
7 3 (6.67%) Kotlin
8 2 (4.44%) Go
8 2 (4.44%) PHP
8 2 (4.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.89%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Terraform
2 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (4.44%) GoldenSource
2 2 (4.44%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.22%) Brio
3 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.22%) Google
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft