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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 64 95
Rank change year-on-year -40 +31 +43
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 25 65 49
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.31% 3.01% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 3.47% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 52 27
10th Percentile £359 £405 £313
25th Percentile £411 £423 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +28.11% +5.71%
75th Percentile £747 £641 £600
90th Percentile £950 £651 £650
South East median daily rate £424 £580 £513
% change year-on-year -26.94% +13.17% +5.13%

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 1,701 1,874 2,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.24% 86.88% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,083 1,082 1,551
10th Percentile £267 £308 £244
25th Percentile £404 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £628 £623
90th Percentile £650 £684 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.01% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 67 102
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.08 £16.44
25th Percentile £15.91 £31.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £22.27 £58.05 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.64% +16.09% +138.10%
75th Percentile £31.28 £62.85 £67.05
90th Percentile £72.00 £71.76 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +18.00%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -32 17 £663 +6.00% 43
Buckinghamshire +9 6 £513 +5.13% 16
Oxfordshire -10 2 £344 -31.25% 36
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 (8.00%) nginx
2 1 (4.00%) Gunicorn
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 14 (56.00%) AWS
3 7 (28.00%) GitHub
4 5 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (12.00%) GCP
7 2 (8.00%) Serverless
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
8 1 (4.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) MySQL
1 8 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.00%) Redis
5 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.00%) GIS
5 1 (4.00%) Power BI
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.00%) JUnit
1 3 (12.00%) Storybook
2 2 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.00%) Gradle
3 1 (4.00%) Maven
3 1 (4.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Electronics
4 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (12.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Developer
2 11 (44.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 4 (16.00%) React Developer
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Gen AI Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Web Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Applications Developer
7 1 (4.00%) C# Web Application Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) HTML CSS Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) React
2 6 (24.00%) CSS
2 6 (24.00%) HTML
2 6 (24.00%) REST
2 6 (24.00%) RESTful
3 5 (20.00%) Node.js
4 3 (12.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (12.00%) OAuth
4 3 (12.00%) SOAP
4 3 (12.00%) Spring
4 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.00%) Vitest
5 2 (8.00%) .NET
5 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.00%) Django
5 2 (8.00%) FastAPI
5 2 (8.00%) jQuery
6 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.00%) Next.js
6 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (8.00%) Robotics
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
3 13 (52.00%) AI
4 12 (48.00%) Agile
5 8 (32.00%) Analytics
5 8 (32.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (32.00%) Data Science
6 7 (28.00%) Computer Vision
6 7 (28.00%) LLM
6 7 (28.00%) Predictive Analytics
6 7 (28.00%) Prototyping
7 6 (24.00%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
7 6 (24.00%) Visualisation
8 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
9 4 (16.00%) Digital Innovation
9 4 (16.00%) Microservices
9 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Java
1 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Databricks
1 3 (12.00%) SAP
1 3 (12.00%) Virgin Media
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle