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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 75 99
Rank change year-on-year -42 +24 +17
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 33 33 45
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.14% 2.20% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.37% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 37
10th Percentile £469 £409 £355
25th Percentile £513 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £680
South East median daily rate £540 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -1.82% +22.22% -13.88%

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 2,411 1,390 2,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.08% 92.85% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 844 1,363
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £413 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £611 £600
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +2.40% +0.10% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 55 178
10th Percentile £16.28 £14.20 £14.94
25th Percentile £20.79 £14.78 £19.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £32.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.61% -24.59% -12.73%
75th Percentile £85.50 £62.24 £63.29
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.51 £85.37
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -5.26%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -10 16 £575 +8.24% 14
Berkshire -52 9 £550 +4.76% 15
Oxfordshire -9 8 £575 +4.55% 17
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 (6.06%) Confluence
1 2 (6.06%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) GitHub
4 6 (18.18%) GCP
5 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Storage
8 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.03%) Azure App Service
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.03%) IaaS
9 1 (3.03%) PaaS
9 1 (3.03%) SaaS
9 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (21.21%) Relational Database
4 6 (18.18%) MySQL
5 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.03%) Parquet
7 1 (3.03%) Power BI
7 1 (3.03%) Redis
7 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Visual Studio
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) JUnit
2 4 (12.12%) Storybook
3 2 (6.06%) Postman
4 1 (3.03%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.12%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.09%) Electronics
3 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (69.70%) Developer
2 21 (63.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) .NET Developer
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 3 (9.09%) React Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Python Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (48.48%) React
2 14 (42.42%) .NET
3 10 (30.30%) RESTful
4 9 (27.27%) CSS
5 7 (21.21%) .NET Framework
5 7 (21.21%) Entity Framework
5 7 (21.21%) REST
6 6 (18.18%) OAuth
7 5 (15.15%) Material-UI
8 4 (12.12%) .NET Core
8 4 (12.12%) FastAPI
8 4 (12.12%) HTML
8 4 (12.12%) Node.js
8 4 (12.12%) Spring
8 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
8 4 (12.12%) Vitest
9 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 3 (9.09%) GraphQL
9 3 (9.09%) OpenID
9 3 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Android
1 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (24.24%) Agile
2 8 (24.24%) DevOps
2 8 (24.24%) Microservices
3 7 (21.21%) AI
4 6 (18.18%) API Integration
4 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.18%) User Experience
5 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (15.15%) Front End Development
5 5 (15.15%) High Availability
5 5 (15.15%) Secure Coding
5 5 (15.15%) Software Engineering
5 5 (15.15%) Unit Testing
6 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (12.12%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
6 4 (12.12%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (12.12%) Software Testing
7 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 13 (39.39%) TypeScript
3 11 (33.33%) SQL
4 10 (30.30%) C#
5 9 (27.27%) Java
6 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.03%) Bicep
8 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Argo
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow