Full-Stack Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Full-Stack Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £448, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 106 132
Rank change year-on-year +2 +26 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 4 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.27% 0.43% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.47% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £393 £339 £424
25th Percentile £410 £356 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £360 £488
Median % change year-on-year +24.51% -26.15% -
75th Percentile £495 £480 £528
90th Percentile £517 £503 £556
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,373 1,479 2,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 91.86% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 882 1,396
10th Percentile £216 £208 £250
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £637 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 46 98
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.13 £12.29
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.46 £16.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £22.94 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -49.03% +153.95%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £66.20 £34.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £33.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year -10.27% -8.21% +2.71%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in Scotland

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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
Glasgow +2 4 £448 +25.21% 5
Full-Stack Engineer
UK

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 2 February 2026, Full-Stack Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle