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 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 144 177
Rank change year-on-year 0 +33 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 21 46 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.61% 0.84% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.91% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 39 27
10th Percentile £455 £325 £358
25th Percentile £461 £381 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +9.33% +9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £644 £607
90th Percentile - £656 £655
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

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 3,100 5,082 5,496
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.54% 92.33% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,005 3,030 3,798
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £405 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £629 £601
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 472 253
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.25 £21.22
Median hourly rate £27.63 £54.88 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +9.75% +138.10%
75th Percentile £62.24 £70.23 £65.02
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
% change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +1 12 £550 -12.00% 10
Berkshire +3 10 £550 -12.00% 7
Hampshire +25 4 £456 +30.36% 5
East Sussex -4 3 £550 -12.00% 2
Surrey - 2 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +7 1 £475 +11.76%
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 3
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 19 July 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 21 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (47.62%) React
3 9 (42.86%) Azure
4 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 7 (33.33%) Python
4 7 (33.33%) .NET
5 6 (28.57%) Virgin Media
5 6 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
6 5 (23.81%) REST
6 5 (23.81%) DevOps
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
6 5 (23.81%) HTML
6 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
6 5 (23.81%) CSS
7 4 (19.05%) MySQL
7 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
7 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (19.05%) RESTful
7 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) Node.js
7 4 (19.05%) FastAPI
7 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
7 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
8 3 (14.29%) Code Quality
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (14.29%) Redis
8 3 (14.29%) Microservices

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 2 (9.52%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
5 1 (4.76%) Figma
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
3 4 (19.05%) MySQL
3 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (14.29%) Redis
5 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.76%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.76%) Moq
2 1 (4.76%) Subversion
2 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (4.76%) Vite
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) React
2 7 (33.33%) .NET
3 5 (23.81%) CSS
3 5 (23.81%) HTML
3 5 (23.81%) REST
4 4 (19.05%) FastAPI
4 4 (19.05%) Node.js
4 4 (19.05%) RESTful
5 3 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 3 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 3 (14.29%) OAuth
5 3 (14.29%) React Native
5 3 (14.29%) Redux
6 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET
6 2 (9.52%) SOAP
6 2 (9.52%) TanStack
7 1 (4.76%) Blazor
7 1 (4.76%) Middleware
7 1 (4.76%) Prisma
7 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 3 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 3 (14.29%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) Scrum
5 3 (14.29%) SOLID
6 2 (9.52%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) MVC
6 2 (9.52%) OO
6 2 (9.52%) OOP
6 2 (9.52%) OWASP
6 2 (9.52%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) Korn
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) Rust
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Virgin Media
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Databricks
4 2 (9.52%) Sitecore
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) Zend