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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 69 83
Rank change year-on-year -29 +14 +59
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 20 60 54
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.10% 2.81% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 3.22% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 48 36
10th Percentile £348 £404 £313
25th Percentile £413 £423 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% +25.71%
75th Percentile £775 £650 £600
90th Percentile £950 £651 £650
South East median daily rate £488 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +6.36% +15.79%

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 1,628 1,861 2,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.30% 87.04% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,068 1,583
10th Percentile £271 £300 £244
25th Percentile £406 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £623
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.12% -1.76% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 69 100
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.00 £16.39
25th Percentile £15.91 £27.75 £24.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +159.74%
75th Percentile £38.42 £62.69 £66.11
90th Percentile £74.70 £70.72 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.30
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.47% +40.86%

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 1 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 1 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 -30 14 £725 +16.00% 96
Buckinghamshire +8 4 £450 -10.00% 21
Oxfordshire -11 2 £344 -31.25% 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 (10.00%) nginx
2 1 (5.00%) Gunicorn
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.00%) Prefect
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MySQL
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) GIS
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.00%) Gradle
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Maven
2 1 (5.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Storybook
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
4 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 3 (15.00%) React Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Gen AI Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.00%) JSP Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior C# Application Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) React
2 4 (20.00%) CSS
2 4 (20.00%) HTML
2 4 (20.00%) RESTful
3 3 (15.00%) REST
4 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.00%) Django
4 2 (10.00%) FastAPI
4 2 (10.00%) jQuery
4 2 (10.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.00%) Blazor
5 1 (5.00%) JDBC
5 1 (5.00%) JSP
5 1 (5.00%) NestJS
5 1 (5.00%) Next.js
5 1 (5.00%) Servlets
5 1 (5.00%) Vitest
5 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (10.00%) Robotics
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) AI
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Analytics
4 8 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (40.00%) Data Science
5 7 (35.00%) Computer Vision
5 7 (35.00%) LLM
5 7 (35.00%) Predictive Analytics
5 7 (35.00%) Prototyping
6 6 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
6 6 (30.00%) Visualisation
7 5 (25.00%) Code Quality
8 4 (20.00%) Digital Innovation
8 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
9 3 (15.00%) Mobile Development
9 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) PHP
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Databricks
1 3 (15.00%) Virgin Media
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) SAP