Full-Stack Development Contracts in the South East

Full-Stack Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 102 133
Rank change year-on-year -16 +31 -2
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 38 100 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.30% 1.79% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 2.14% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 82 46
10th Percentile £409 £325 £403
25th Percentile £500 £376 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -15.91% +7.32%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £601
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
England median daily rate £508 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.73% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £66.50 -
25th Percentile - £68.75 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +36.36% +12.82%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - £79.50 -
England median hourly rate £44.50 £67.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.58% +48.89% -31.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,668 4,666 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.34% 83.55% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 2,714 3,430
10th Percentile £250 £255 £249
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 446 214
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.23 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%
75th Percentile £62.37 £62.50 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.93 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

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

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

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

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

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the South East over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

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

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

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

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

Full-Stack Development
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 Development within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 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 0 20 £550 -8.41% 712
Berkshire -2 18 £550 -12.00% 443
Hampshire +35 10 £513 +46.43% 270
Surrey +10 4 £550 +29.41% 174
East Sussex -4 3 £550 +66.04% 83
West Sussex +12 1 - - 82
Buckinghamshire +9 1 £575 +27.78% 160
Oxfordshire +1 1 £550 +10.00% 112
Full-Stack Development
England

Full-Stack Development
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 (7.89%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) Azure
2 13 (34.21%) AWS
3 9 (23.68%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (15.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (13.16%) Azure API Management
5 5 (13.16%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (13.16%) SaaS
5 5 (13.16%) Serverless
6 4 (10.53%) GCP
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Stack
8 2 (5.26%) Figma
9 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.63%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
3 6 (15.79%) MySQL
4 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
4 5 (13.16%) Redis
5 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) Selenium
3 3 (7.89%) Visual Studio
4 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.26%) Moq
4 2 (5.26%) Subversion
4 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (5.26%) Vite
5 1 (2.63%) Browser DevTools
General
1 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.63%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (73.68%) Developer
2 25 (65.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (18.42%) React Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Azure Developer
5 4 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Lead
6 3 (7.89%) Lead Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (39.47%) React
2 14 (36.84%) .NET
3 9 (23.68%) CSS
3 9 (23.68%) HTML
4 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
5 6 (15.79%) Node.js
5 6 (15.79%) RESTful
6 5 (13.16%) ADO
6 5 (13.16%) REST
7 4 (10.53%) .NET Core
7 4 (10.53%) Vue
8 3 (7.89%) .NET Framework
8 3 (7.89%) ASP.NET
8 3 (7.89%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (7.89%) GraphQL
8 3 (7.89%) Kafka
8 3 (7.89%) Laravel
8 3 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (7.89%) Redux
8 3 (7.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Agile
2 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
3 13 (34.21%) DevOps
4 12 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 10 (26.32%) Microservices
5 10 (26.32%) Test Automation
6 8 (21.05%) OO
7 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.79%) Scrum
9 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
9 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
9 5 (13.16%) Front End Development
9 5 (13.16%) OWASP
10 4 (10.53%) API Development
10 4 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (10.53%) MVC
10 4 (10.53%) SDLC
10 4 (10.53%) User Experience
10 4 (10.53%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) JavaScript
1 16 (42.11%) Python
2 12 (31.58%) Java
2 12 (31.58%) TypeScript
3 9 (23.68%) C#
4 7 (18.42%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) PHP
6 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Google
3 3 (7.89%) Virgin Media
3 3 (7.89%) Zend
4 2 (5.26%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.63%) SAP