Full-Stack Development Contracts in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Development
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Full-Stack Development over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 90 104
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 +9
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 21 48 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.40% 1.84% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 2.12% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 45 25
10th Percentile £445 £375 £413
25th Percentile £479 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +9.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile - £675 £653
South East median daily rate £550 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +7.32%

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 1,393 2,265 2,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.87% 87.01% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 1,261 1,761
10th Percentile £290 £213 £316
25th Percentile £404 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 167 63
10th Percentile - £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £19.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £31.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -10.00% +194.12%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.31 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.63 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.83% -5.00% +132.56%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Development in the Thames Valley

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +11 19 £550 -12.00% 26
Buckinghamshire +10 1 £575 +27.78% 8
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 33
Full-Stack Development
South East

Full-Stack Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 7 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) Serverless
4 5 (23.81%) Azure API Management
4 5 (23.81%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 3 (14.29%) SaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (9.52%) Figma
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.52%) MySQL
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Vite
General
1 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
2 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (85.71%) Developer
2 15 (71.43%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (38.10%) React Developer
4 7 (33.33%) Azure Developer
5 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 5 (23.81%) Python Developer
6 4 (19.05%) .NET Developer
7 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (9.52%) AWS Developer
8 2 (9.52%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
8 2 (9.52%) Sitecore Developer
9 1 (4.76%) .NET Architect
9 1 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 1 (4.76%) HTML Developer
9 1 (4.76%) Node.js Developer
9 1 (4.76%) UI Developer
9 1 (4.76%) Umbraco Developer
9 1 (4.76%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) React
2 7 (33.33%) .NET
3 5 (23.81%) ADO
3 5 (23.81%) Node.js
4 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
5 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (14.29%) CSS
5 3 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 3 (14.29%) HTML
5 3 (14.29%) REST
6 2 (9.52%) Framer.js
6 2 (9.52%) OAuth
6 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 2 (9.52%) SOAP
6 2 (9.52%) TanStack
7 1 (4.76%) Django
7 1 (4.76%) Express.js
7 1 (4.76%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (4.76%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) DevOps
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
5 4 (19.05%) Microservices
5 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) API Integration
6 3 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (9.52%) API Design
7 2 (9.52%) API Development
7 2 (9.52%) API Management
7 2 (9.52%) Customer Experience
7 2 (9.52%) Front End Development
7 2 (9.52%) Migration
7 2 (9.52%) Product Management
7 2 (9.52%) SDLC
7 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.52%) User Experience
7 2 (9.52%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 9 (42.86%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) C#
3 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 3 (14.29%) Virgin Media
2 2 (9.52%) Sitecore