Full-Stack Development Contracts in Scotland

Full-Stack Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 76 95
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 -3
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 42 53 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.58% 2.39% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.70% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 38 55
10th Percentile £358 £325 £403
25th Percentile £406 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £529 £500 £530
90th Percentile £550 £510 £622
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -6.12%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £67.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -33.58% +34.00% -23.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development in Scotland

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Development in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Development in Scotland

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in Scotland

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Development in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Development in Scotland

Full-Stack Development
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +14 20 £500 +6.27% 21
Glasgow -11 19 £441 -11.36% 27
Lanarkshire +1 1 £525 +23.53% 2
Full-Stack Development
UK

Full-Stack Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (2.38%) CMS
1 1 (2.38%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 10 (23.81%) Serverless
3 9 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (19.05%) Amazon S3
5 7 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
5 7 (16.67%) Azure
6 6 (14.29%) GitHub
7 4 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
7 4 (9.52%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (9.52%) OpenShift
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (7.14%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
8 3 (7.14%) PaaS
8 3 (7.14%) Route 53
8 3 (7.14%) SaaS
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.38%) Metadata
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Git
1 6 (14.29%) Storybook
2 4 (9.52%) Cypress.io
2 4 (9.52%) JUnit
3 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.76%) Mockito
5 1 (2.38%) Appium
5 1 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 11 (26.19%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Front Office
4 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (78.57%) Developer
2 17 (40.48%) Java Developer
3 12 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (14.29%) React Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Angular Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Java Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (57.14%) React
2 18 (42.86%) Spring
3 14 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 10 (23.81%) CSS
4 10 (23.81%) REST
5 9 (21.43%) AngularJS
6 8 (19.05%) AWS CDK
7 7 (16.67%) .NET
7 7 (16.67%) ASP.NET
8 6 (14.29%) Jest
9 5 (11.90%) Node.js
9 5 (11.90%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (7.14%) .NET Framework
10 3 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC 5
10 3 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (7.14%) Blazor
10 3 (7.14%) Playwright
10 3 (7.14%) RESTful
11 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) CI/CD
2 15 (35.71%) Agile
3 10 (23.81%) Microservices
3 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
4 7 (16.67%) DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 6 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 6 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 5 (11.90%) DevSecOps
7 4 (9.52%) Community of Practice
7 4 (9.52%) Design Patterns
7 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (9.52%) Process Improvement
7 4 (9.52%) Project Delivery
7 4 (9.52%) Scrum
7 4 (9.52%) TDD
7 4 (9.52%) Unit Testing
7 4 (9.52%) Web Development
8 3 (7.14%) B2C
8 3 (7.14%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) Java
2 14 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 13 (30.95%) JavaScript
4 9 (21.43%) Python
5 8 (19.05%) C#
6 4 (9.52%) SQL
7 3 (7.14%) Bash
8 1 (2.38%) CoffeeScript
8 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Terraform
3 2 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle
2 2 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (2.38%) Avaloq
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Imperva