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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 78 89
Rank change year-on-year -35 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 35 26 48
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.19% 1.74% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.88% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 42
10th Percentile £363 £454 £375
25th Percentile £513 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.37% +9.14%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 - £675
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -2.36% +22.22% -18.18%

All Process & 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 2,431 1,384 2,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.41% 92.76% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,610 841 1,311
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £601 £600
90th Percentile £673 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.10% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 58 168
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.63 £14.54 £19.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.05 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +154.29% -28.78% -12.20%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.03 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +92.86% -41.05% -3.06%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Full-Stack Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend 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 7 May 2026.

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 7 May 2026. 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
Buckinghamshire -19 17 £506 -4.71% 13
Berkshire -40 10 £550 - 20
Oxfordshire -15 8 £575 +4.55% 16
Full-Stack Development
South East

Full-Stack Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Confluence
1 2 (5.71%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Storage
5 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) Azure App Service
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.86%) IaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.57%) MySQL
5 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.86%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.86%) Parquet
6 1 (2.86%) Power BI
6 1 (2.86%) Redis
6 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) JUnit
3 1 (2.86%) NUnit
3 1 (2.86%) Storybook
General
1 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (71.43%) Developer
2 22 (62.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Senior
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) .NET Developer
6 4 (11.43%) React Developer
7 3 (8.57%) AWS Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Java Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Lead
8 2 (5.71%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Java Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) .NET
2 15 (42.86%) React
3 9 (25.71%) REST
4 8 (22.86%) .NET Framework
4 8 (22.86%) Entity Framework
4 8 (22.86%) RESTful
5 7 (20.00%) CSS
6 6 (17.14%) OAuth
7 5 (14.29%) .NET Core
7 5 (14.29%) Material-UI
8 4 (11.43%) FastAPI
8 4 (11.43%) JSON
8 4 (11.43%) Node.js
9 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
9 3 (8.57%) GraphQL
9 3 (8.57%) OpenID
9 3 (8.57%) SOAP
9 3 (8.57%) Swagger
10 2 (5.71%) HTML
10 2 (5.71%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
1 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (17.14%) Agile
2 6 (17.14%) API Integration
2 6 (17.14%) DevOps
2 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (17.14%) Unit Testing
3 5 (14.29%) AI
3 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (14.29%) High Availability
3 5 (14.29%) Microservices
3 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 3 (8.57%) API Management
4 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (8.57%) MLOps
4 3 (8.57%) User Experience
4 3 (8.57%) Web Development
5 2 (5.71%) LLM
5 2 (5.71%) Prompt Engineering
5 2 (5.71%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Python
2 14 (40.00%) C#
3 12 (34.29%) TypeScript
4 10 (28.57%) SQL
5 6 (17.14%) Java
5 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.86%) Bicep
7 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.86%) Argo
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.86%) Virgin Media