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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 51 95
Rank change year-on-year -64 +44 +11
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 27 55 56
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.07% 3.47% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 3.74% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 44 43
10th Percentile £377 £407 £335
25th Percentile £441 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £644
90th Percentile - - £675
South East median daily rate £494 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.23% +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 2,132 1,470 2,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 84.81% 92.86% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 869 1,454
10th Percentile £271 £269 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £492
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +2.68% -1.63%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £664 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 48 164
10th Percentile £15.91 £18.64 £16.04
25th Percentile £19.34 £28.53 £20.12
Median hourly rate £35.00 £56.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.32% +26.10% -
75th Percentile £83.88 £64.95 £62.54
90th Percentile £97.00 £78.03 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £25.20 £45.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.81% +1.44% -

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -4 15 £550 +3.53% 23
Berkshire -61 8 £600 +4.35% 59
Oxfordshire -11 4 £575 +4.55% 25
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 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 13 (48.15%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) GitHub
4 6 (22.22%) GCP
5 5 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Storage
7 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.70%) Azure App Service
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.70%) IaaS
8 1 (3.70%) PaaS
8 1 (3.70%) SaaS
8 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) SQL Server
2 8 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (25.93%) MySQL
4 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
5 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.70%) Parquet
7 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
1 4 (14.81%) JUnit
1 4 (14.81%) Storybook
2 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) PHPUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Postman
General
1 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Electronics
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.11%) Marketing
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 23 (85.19%) Developer
2 18 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Developer
3 3 (11.11%) React Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Applications Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.70%) C# Web Application Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) React
2 13 (48.15%) .NET
3 8 (29.63%) CSS
4 7 (25.93%) RESTful
5 6 (22.22%) .NET Framework
5 6 (22.22%) Entity Framework
5 6 (22.22%) OAuth
5 6 (22.22%) REST
6 5 (18.52%) HTML
7 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
7 4 (14.81%) Spring
7 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
7 4 (14.81%) Vitest
8 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
8 3 (11.11%) Material-UI
8 3 (11.11%) Node.js
8 3 (11.11%) OpenID
8 3 (11.11%) SOAP
9 2 (7.41%) JSON
9 2 (7.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 9 (33.33%) DevOps
3 8 (29.63%) Agile
4 7 (25.93%) AI
5 6 (22.22%) API Integration
5 6 (22.22%) Microservices
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) User Experience
6 5 (18.52%) Front End Development
7 4 (14.81%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 4 (14.81%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Software Testing
8 3 (11.11%) API Management
8 3 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (11.11%) LLM
8 3 (11.11%) MLOps
8 3 (11.11%) Programme Management
8 3 (11.11%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) TypeScript
2 9 (33.33%) C#
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) SQL
4 7 (25.93%) Java
5 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) Bicep
6 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.70%) PHP
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) Swift
6 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Argo
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 3 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow