Full-Stack Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Full-Stack Engineer
England > South West

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the South West is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 138 153
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 -
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.075% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.081% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £470 £426 £300
25th Percentile £631 £428 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £463 £413
Median % change year-on-year +37.84% +12.12% -
75th Percentile £695 £503 £500
90th Percentile - £509 £545
England median daily rate £520 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,761 2,454 3,096
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.21% 92.60% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 1,483 2,111
10th Percentile £225 £225 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £713
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 259 281
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £18.28
25th Percentile £18.19 £40.00 £40.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.66
90th Percentile £68.53 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Engineer in the South West

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in the South West

Full-Stack Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Bristol +10 5 £638 +37.84% 5
Full-Stack Engineer
England

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Full-Stack Engineer 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 West region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Docker
3 3 (60.00%) Node.js
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (40.00%) Next.js
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Bicep
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (40.00%) API Management
4 2 (40.00%) Express.js
4 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (40.00%) Go
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Kibana
4 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (40.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) Express.js
3 2 (40.00%) Next.js
4 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (20.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) API Management
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) SOLID
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft