Full-Stack Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

As of 13 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 122 144
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.049% 0.095% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.10% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £528 -
25th Percentile - £569 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +35.29%
75th Percentile - £744 £588
90th Percentile - £793 -
South East median daily rate £370 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -43.08% +13.04% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,843 1,935 2,407
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 91.88% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,140 1,570
10th Percentile £263 £254 £213
25th Percentile £400 £402 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £609
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 63 109
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.32 £16.37
25th Percentile £17.48 £23.00 £24.34
Median hourly rate £25.15 £48.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.80% -3.64% +150.00%
75th Percentile £69.88 £62.62 £65.25
90th Percentile £93.85 £66.80 £72.91
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £51.42
% change year-on-year -52.38% +2.10% +38.49%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 - 1 - - 2
Full-Stack Engineer
South East

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Full-Stack Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform