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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 83 88
Rank change year-on-year -39 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 44 27 40
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.34% 1.62% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.76% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 34
10th Percentile £361 £398 £406
25th Percentile £401 £491 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £650
90th Percentile £650 £950 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.38% +5.62%

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 2,647 1,532 1,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.75% 92.18% 84.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 911 1,121
10th Percentile £313 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% -1.94%
75th Percentile £600 £596 £619
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 111 112
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.12 £22.50
Median hourly rate £75.90 £25.15 £55.44
Median % change year-on-year +201.79% -54.63% +10.88%
75th Percentile £87.36 £52.25 £66.38
90th Percentile £104.00 £80.00 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £57.79 £21.58 £57.35
% change year-on-year +167.83% -62.38% +14.70%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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
Berkshire -27 20 £550 - 22
Buckinghamshire -28 14 £375 -28.57% 14
Oxfordshire -11 10 £530 +10.13% 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 8 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (15.91%) Azure AKS
3 7 (15.91%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (15.91%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.64%) AWS
4 6 (13.64%) Azure App Service
4 6 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Storage
5 5 (11.36%) SaaS
6 4 (9.09%) IaaS
6 4 (9.09%) PaaS
7 3 (6.82%) Azure API Management
8 2 (4.55%) Azure AI
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (15.91%) Relational Database
2 6 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.82%) DocumentDB
3 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.55%) Parquet
5 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.27%) Power BI
5 1 (2.27%) Redis
5 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) JIRA
2 3 (6.82%) NUnit
2 3 (6.82%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
General
1 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Automotive
4 1 (2.27%) Finance
4 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.27%) Marketing
4 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (65.91%) Developer
2 24 (54.55%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 11 (25.00%) Senior
4 8 (18.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) React Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (13.64%) Software Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Azure Developer
7 4 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead .NET Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (47.73%) .NET
2 16 (36.36%) REST
3 15 (34.09%) React
4 14 (31.82%) .NET Framework
4 14 (31.82%) Entity Framework
5 12 (27.27%) .NET Core
5 12 (27.27%) RESTful
6 11 (25.00%) AngularJS
7 8 (18.18%) OAuth
7 8 (18.18%) OpenID
8 7 (15.91%) CSS
8 7 (15.91%) JSON
8 7 (15.91%) SAML
9 4 (9.09%) ARM Templates
9 4 (9.09%) ASP.NET
9 4 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 4 (9.09%) HTML
9 4 (9.09%) NestJS
9 4 (9.09%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 13 (29.55%) DevOps
3 10 (22.73%) Agile
3 10 (22.73%) High Availability
3 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
4 9 (20.45%) Analytics
4 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.91%) AI
5 7 (15.91%) Code Coverage
5 7 (15.91%) RBAC
5 7 (15.91%) Test Automation
6 6 (13.64%) B2C
6 6 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (13.64%) Log Analytics
6 6 (13.64%) Secure Coding
6 6 (13.64%) Web Development
7 5 (11.36%) Clean Code
7 5 (11.36%) Microservices
7 5 (11.36%) Unit Testing
8 4 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) SQL
2 21 (47.73%) C#
3 16 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 14 (31.82%) JavaScript
4 14 (31.82%) Python
5 6 (13.64%) Java
6 4 (9.09%) Bicep
6 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Terraform
2 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) Argo
3 1 (2.27%) Grafana
3 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (4.55%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow