Full-Stack Development Contracts in the North West

Full-Stack Development
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Full-Stack Development over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 89 84
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 44 44 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.26% 1.63% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 1.92% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 56
10th Percentile £364 £413 £363
25th Percentile £390 £444 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -5.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £514 £689 £588
90th Percentile £551 £694 £638
England median daily rate £508 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.73% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £44.50 £67.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.58% +48.89% -31.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,753 2,295 2,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.08% 85.19% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 1,449 1,936
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £588
90th Percentile £662 £676 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 261 139
10th Percentile £13.88 £11.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.72 £14.00 £22.27
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +52.17%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.38
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development in the North West

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Development in the North West

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in the North West

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Development in the North West

Full-Stack Development
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Manchester +19 29 £463 -15.91% 387
Cheshire +6 13 £385 -16.86% 196
Lancashire -3 2 £525 +10.53% 118
Full-Stack Development
England

Full-Stack Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 23 (52.27%) AWS
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
3 7 (15.91%) Serverless
4 5 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (11.36%) GitHub
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) ATM
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
1 1 (2.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.36%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.09%) ObjectStore
3 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (4.55%) GIS
6 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.27%) MySQL
6 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Git
2 8 (18.18%) GitLab
3 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 2 (4.55%) JUnit
4 2 (4.55%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (65.91%) Developer
2 22 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Node.js Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Senior
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Developer
6 4 (9.09%) C# Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 4 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Architect
7 3 (6.82%) Lead
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.55%) GIS Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) React
2 16 (36.36%) Node.js
3 13 (29.55%) AngularJS
4 12 (27.27%) RESTful
5 9 (20.45%) .NET
6 8 (18.18%) Spring Boot
7 6 (13.64%) Spring
8 5 (11.36%) CSS
8 5 (11.36%) HTML
9 4 (9.09%) Express.js
9 4 (9.09%) Playwright
10 3 (6.82%) .NET Core
10 3 (6.82%) .NET Framework
10 3 (6.82%) HTML5
10 3 (6.82%) Jest
10 3 (6.82%) Kafka
10 3 (6.82%) REST
11 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET
11 2 (4.55%) Google Maps API
11 2 (4.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.27%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) NHS
3 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Agile
1 15 (34.09%) Test Automation
2 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 13 (29.55%) Microservices
4 9 (20.45%) Containerisation
5 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.91%) DevOps
7 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven
8 5 (11.36%) Front End Development
8 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
8 5 (11.36%) Scrum
8 5 (11.36%) SDLC
8 5 (11.36%) TDD
9 4 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (9.09%) Digital Twin
9 4 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (9.09%) Event-Driven Programming
9 4 (9.09%) RBAC
9 4 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 4 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) Java
2 14 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 10 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 8 (18.18%) C#
5 6 (13.64%) Python
6 5 (11.36%) SQL
7 1 (2.27%) Scala
7 1 (2.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.82%) Grafana
3 2 (4.55%) Terraform
4 1 (2.27%) Ansible
4 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (6.82%) Virgin Media
3 2 (4.55%) Google
3 2 (4.55%) Mapbox
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.27%) VMware