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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 65 93
Rank change year-on-year -54 +28 +17
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 32 39 52
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.13% 2.58% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 2.77% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 43
10th Percentile £401 £405 £335
25th Percentile £513 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £644
90th Percentile £650 - £675
South East median daily rate £530 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -3.64% +22.22% -16.28%

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 2,359 1,408 2,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.59% 93.12% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 856 1,429
10th Percentile £294 £300 £213
25th Percentile £402 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.19% +0.80% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 51 182
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.20 £15.52
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.00 £20.04
Median hourly rate £75.00 £46.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +61.99% +5.83% -9.61%
75th Percentile £85.50 £62.24 £63.22
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.50 £85.61
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -27.78% -

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 2 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 2 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% 15
Oxfordshire -7 8 £575 +4.55% 15
Berkshire -56 8 £575 +15.00% 24
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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 2 (6.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) Azure
2 13 (40.63%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) GitHub
4 6 (18.75%) GCP
5 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Storage
8 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.13%) Azure App Service
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.13%) IaaS
9 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.13%) SaaS
9 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) SQL Server
2 8 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (21.88%) MySQL
4 6 (18.75%) Relational Database
5 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.13%) Parquet
7 1 (3.13%) Power BI
7 1 (3.13%) Redis
7 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Visual Studio
2 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) JUnit
2 4 (12.50%) Storybook
3 2 (6.25%) Postman
4 1 (3.13%) Git
4 1 (3.13%) JIRA
4 1 (3.13%) PHPUnit
General
1 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Electronics
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.38%) Marketing
3 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (71.88%) Developer
2 20 (62.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 3 (9.38%) AWS Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 3 (9.38%) React Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Lead
7 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Python Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Mobile Developer
8 1 (3.13%) PHP Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) React
2 14 (43.75%) .NET
3 9 (28.13%) CSS
3 9 (28.13%) RESTful
4 7 (21.88%) .NET Framework
4 7 (21.88%) Entity Framework
5 6 (18.75%) OAuth
5 6 (18.75%) REST
6 5 (15.63%) Material-UI
7 4 (12.50%) .NET Core
7 4 (12.50%) HTML
7 4 (12.50%) Node.js
7 4 (12.50%) Spring
7 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 4 (12.50%) Vitest
8 3 (9.38%) GraphQL
8 3 (9.38%) JSON
8 3 (9.38%) OpenID
8 3 (9.38%) SOAP
8 3 (9.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) AI Agents
1 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Android
1 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
2 8 (25.00%) Agile
2 8 (25.00%) DevOps
2 8 (25.00%) Microservices
3 6 (18.75%) AI
3 6 (18.75%) API Integration
3 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (18.75%) User Experience
4 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (15.63%) Front End Development
4 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
5 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (12.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 4 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (12.50%) High Availability
5 4 (12.50%) Secure Coding
5 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 3 (9.38%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 12 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 11 (34.38%) SQL
4 10 (31.25%) C#
5 8 (25.00%) Java
6 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.13%) Bicep
8 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.13%) PHP
8 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) SC Cleared
1 15 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Argo
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.38%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow