Full-Stack Developer Contracts in Reading

Full-Stack Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in Reading is £625, 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 43 60 73
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 17 31 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.85% 2.60% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.02% 2.79% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 11
10th Percentile £454 £345 £453
25th Percentile £525 £381 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £591
90th Percentile - £688 £600
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £625 £556
% change year-on-year - +12.36% +1.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in Reading

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in Reading

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in Reading

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

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 Reading region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 15 (88.24%) DevOps
2 15 (88.24%) Azure
3 12 (70.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 12 (70.59%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (70.59%) Python
4 9 (52.94%) Java
4 9 (52.94%) Agile
4 9 (52.94%) Selenium
5 8 (47.06%) Serverless
5 8 (47.06%) Azure Functions
5 8 (47.06%) Microservices
5 8 (47.06%) React
5 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
6 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
7 6 (35.29%) Git
7 6 (35.29%) ADO
7 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
7 6 (35.29%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (35.29%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (35.29%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (35.29%) SDLC
7 6 (35.29%) Azure API Management
8 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
8 5 (29.41%) Product Backlog
8 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
9 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
9 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
9 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (11.76%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 12 (70.59%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (47.06%) Azure Functions
3 8 (47.06%) Serverless
4 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (35.29%) Azure API Management
5 6 (35.29%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (35.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
7 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.88%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Selenium
2 6 (35.29%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) Vite
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) React
2 6 (35.29%) ADO
3 3 (17.65%) Node.js
4 2 (11.76%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.76%) Prisma
4 2 (11.76%) RESTful
4 2 (11.76%) TanStack
5 1 (5.88%) CSS
5 1 (5.88%) Express.js
5 1 (5.88%) Framer.js
5 1 (5.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 15 (88.24%) DevOps
3 9 (52.94%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 8 (47.06%) Microservices
5 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
6 6 (35.29%) SDLC
7 5 (29.41%) Product Backlog
8 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
9 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (11.76%) API Design
10 2 (11.76%) API Development
10 2 (11.76%) Change Management
10 2 (11.76%) Cost Management
10 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
10 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
10 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
10 2 (11.76%) Migration
10 2 (11.76%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 9 (52.94%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Sitecore
1 2 (11.76%) Virgin Media