Full-Stack Development Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Development
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 79 94
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 +32
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 18 47 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.10% 2.09% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 2.45% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 39 32
10th Percentile £375 £424 £313
25th Percentile £436 £488 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £863 £650 £604
90th Percentile £950 £651 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,488 1,918 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.79% 85.40% 90.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,069 1,665
10th Percentile £270 £281 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £523
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.39% +4.50%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 88 88
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.75 £16.36
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.31 £24.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £59.47 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.71% +18.95% +163.16%
75th Percentile £49.28 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £86.49 £75.08
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.38% +9.24% +64.53%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Full-Stack Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Development
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 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
Berkshire -13 15 £663 +6.00% 36
Buckinghamshire +6 2 £425 - 14
Oxfordshire -6 1 £413 -17.50% 12
Full-Stack Development
South East

Full-Stack Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (11.11%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) Gunicorn
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Figma
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.56%) Prefect
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) Redis
2 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) GIS
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.56%) Gradle
2 1 (5.56%) Maven
2 1 (5.56%) Vite
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 4 (22.22%) React Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Gen AI Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Django Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.56%) HTML CSS Developer
6 1 (5.56%) HTML Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.56%) JSP Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.56%) UI Developer
6 1 (5.56%) UI/UX Developer
6 1 (5.56%) UX Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) React
2 3 (16.67%) CSS
2 3 (16.67%) HTML
2 3 (16.67%) REST
2 3 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) Django
3 2 (11.11%) FastAPI
3 2 (11.11%) jQuery
3 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) Ajax
4 1 (5.56%) Blazor
4 1 (5.56%) DWR
4 1 (5.56%) JDBC
4 1 (5.56%) JSON
4 1 (5.56%) JSP
4 1 (5.56%) Middleware
4 1 (5.56%) NestJS
4 1 (5.56%) Servlets
4 1 (5.56%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (11.11%) Robotics
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) IoT
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) Analytics
2 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 8 (44.44%) Data Science
3 7 (38.89%) Computer Vision
3 7 (38.89%) LLM
3 7 (38.89%) Predictive Analytics
3 7 (38.89%) Prototyping
4 6 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 6 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 5 (27.78%) Code Quality
6 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 3 (16.67%) Mobile Development
7 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Databricks
1 3 (16.67%) Virgin Media
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle