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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 56 95
Rank change year-on-year -53 +39 +18
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 25 54 55
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.09% 3.26% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 3.53% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 44 39
10th Percentile £360 £407 £325
25th Percentile £409 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile - - £678
South East median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% -3.85%

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 1,945 1,530 2,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.16% 92.34% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 891 1,489
10th Percentile £270 £261 £213
25th Percentile £394 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £501
% change year-on-year -0.10% -0.10% -0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 42 154
10th Percentile £15.67 £24.79 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £42.60 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.24 £60.25 £46.36
Median % change year-on-year -58.11% +29.97% +34.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.73 £63.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £79.72 £82.11
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

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 February 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 February 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 +6 15 £538 +10.26% 18
Berkshire -55 6 £556 -4.91% 14
Oxfordshire - 4 £575 - 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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) GitHub
3 6 (24.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (28.00%) MySQL
4 5 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (16.00%) JUnit
1 4 (16.00%) Storybook
2 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.00%) PHPUnit
3 1 (4.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Electronics
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (12.00%) Marketing
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Developer
2 15 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Developer
4 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.00%) React Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) .NET
1 11 (44.00%) React
2 8 (32.00%) CSS
3 7 (28.00%) RESTful
4 6 (24.00%) HTML
5 5 (20.00%) OAuth
5 5 (20.00%) REST
6 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
6 4 (16.00%) Entity Framework
6 4 (16.00%) Spring
6 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (16.00%) Vitest
7 3 (12.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (12.00%) Node.js
7 3 (12.00%) SOAP
8 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
8 2 (8.00%) Material-UI
8 2 (8.00%) OpenID
8 2 (8.00%) Swagger
9 1 (4.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) AI
4 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 5 (20.00%) Microservices
5 5 (20.00%) User Experience
6 4 (16.00%) API Integration
6 4 (16.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 4 (16.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (12.00%) API Management
7 3 (12.00%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (12.00%) LLM
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Testing
7 3 (12.00%) Programme Management
7 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) TypeScript
2 8 (32.00%) Python
3 7 (28.00%) C#
3 7 (28.00%) Java
3 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) Swift
5 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Argo
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft