Full-Stack Developer Contracts in the South East

Full-Stack Developer
England > South East

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the South East is £550, 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 123 150 188
Rank change year-on-year +27 +38 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 36 55 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.20% 0.99% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.07% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 46 19
10th Percentile £408 £325 £400
25th Percentile £457 £338 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £578
90th Percentile - £675 £600
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £61.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +10.91% +7.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in the South East

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in the South East

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the South East

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in the South East

Full-Stack Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +33 23 £600 -4.00% 8
Berkshire +19 21 £625 -
Hampshire +24 6 £413 +17.86% 13
East Sussex -5 4 £550 +76.00% 3
Surrey +17 2 - - 3
Kent +7 1 £375 -31.82% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 8
Buckinghamshire - 1 £488 -
Full-Stack Developer
England

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (58.33%) Azure
3 18 (50.00%) DevOps
3 18 (50.00%) React
4 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
5 16 (44.44%) Agile
5 16 (44.44%) Python
6 14 (38.89%) Microservices
7 12 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (33.33%) Git
7 12 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 11 (30.56%) Java
8 11 (30.56%) JavaScript
9 10 (27.78%) .NET
9 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
10 9 (25.00%) Selenium
10 9 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (25.00%) SDLC
10 9 (25.00%) NoSQL
11 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
11 8 (22.22%) Azure Functions
11 8 (22.22%) HTML
11 8 (22.22%) CSS
11 8 (22.22%) Serverless
12 7 (19.44%) Product Backlog
12 7 (19.44%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
12 7 (19.44%) MySQL
12 7 (19.44%) RESTful
12 7 (19.44%) Unit Testing

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (8.33%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 12 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (22.22%) Azure Functions
4 8 (22.22%) Serverless
5 7 (19.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (16.67%) Azure API Management
6 6 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
8 3 (8.33%) AWS
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.56%) Azure Stack
9 2 (5.56%) SaaS
10 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.78%) Figma
10 1 (2.78%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (19.44%) MongoDB
2 7 (19.44%) MySQL
2 7 (19.44%) Redis
2 7 (19.44%) Relational Database
3 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Git
2 9 (25.00%) Selenium
3 3 (8.33%) Subversion
4 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.56%) Moq
4 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
4 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.78%) NUnit
5 1 (2.78%) Vite
General
1 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (50.00%) React
2 10 (27.78%) .NET
3 8 (22.22%) CSS
3 8 (22.22%) HTML
4 7 (19.44%) RESTful
5 6 (16.67%) ADO
6 5 (13.89%) Node.js
7 4 (11.11%) ASP.NET
7 4 (11.11%) GraphQL
7 4 (11.11%) Kafka
7 4 (11.11%) Laravel
7 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (11.11%) REST
7 4 (11.11%) Vue
8 3 (8.33%) .NET Core
8 3 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (8.33%) React Native
8 3 (8.33%) Redux
8 3 (8.33%) Symfony
8 3 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (50.00%) DevOps
3 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
4 16 (44.44%) Agile
5 14 (38.89%) Microservices
6 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
7 9 (25.00%) SDLC
8 7 (19.44%) Product Backlog
8 7 (19.44%) Unit Testing
9 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (16.67%) Front End Development
9 6 (16.67%) OO
9 6 (16.67%) OWASP
9 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (16.67%) Scrum
10 5 (13.89%) API Development
10 5 (13.89%) Code Quality
10 5 (13.89%) MVC
11 4 (11.11%) Design Patterns
11 4 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) Java
2 11 (30.56%) JavaScript
3 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 5 (13.89%) C#
5 4 (11.11%) PHP
6 2 (5.56%) SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 4 (11.11%) Zend
2 3 (8.33%) Virgin Media
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
3 2 (5.56%) Sitecore