Full-Stack Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 219 253
Rank change year-on-year -3 +34 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 114 188 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.91% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.98% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 162 183
10th Percentile £359 £313 £352
25th Percentile £402 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £581
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -1.46% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £51.63 -
25th Percentile - £52.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -
75th Percentile - £54.69 £57.50
90th Percentile - £54.88 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +25 39 £465 +9.41% 40
South East +27 36 £550 +10.00% 48
North West +24 23 £500 +14.29% 27
Midlands +20 15 £451 +28.86% 33
Scotland +6 12 £441 -6.72% 7
West Midlands +15 11 £508 +56.15% 14
Yorkshire +2 11 £438 +9.38% 11
North East - 6 £463 - 3
East of England +25 5 £350 -6.67% 28
South West +14 5 £441 +6.91% 23
East Midlands +7 4 £402 -1.95% 18
Northern Ireland - 4 £504 -
Full-Stack Developer
UK

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Full-Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 114 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 56 (49.12%) React
3 55 (48.25%) Java
4 45 (39.47%) JavaScript
5 40 (35.09%) Agile
5 40 (35.09%) CI/CD
6 39 (34.21%) Microservices
7 35 (30.70%) Azure
8 34 (29.82%) AWS
9 33 (28.95%) Git
10 30 (26.32%) Python
11 29 (25.44%) Node.js
11 29 (25.44%) DevOps
12 27 (23.68%) AngularJS
12 27 (23.68%) CSS
13 26 (22.81%) TypeScript
14 25 (21.93%) HTML
15 24 (21.05%) .NET
15 24 (21.05%) RESTful
15 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (20.18%) Spring
17 20 (17.54%) NoSQL
17 20 (17.54%) Test Automation
17 20 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
18 19 (16.67%) Kubernetes
18 19 (16.67%) Spring Boot
19 18 (15.79%) MongoDB
19 18 (15.79%) MySQL
20 17 (14.91%) Docker
20 17 (14.91%) SDLC

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (4.39%) Camunda
2 3 (2.63%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.70%) Azure
2 34 (29.82%) AWS
3 13 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 12 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (10.53%) Serverless
5 8 (7.02%) Azure Functions
6 7 (6.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (6.14%) GCP
7 6 (5.26%) Azure API Management
7 6 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (5.26%) GitHub
8 5 (4.39%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.51%) Kong
10 2 (1.75%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (1.75%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.75%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.75%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.54%) NoSQL
1 20 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 18 (15.79%) MySQL
3 15 (13.16%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.02%) Redis
5 6 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.75%) GIS
7 2 (1.75%) ObjectStore
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.88%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 33 (28.95%) Git
2 10 (8.77%) Selenium
3 9 (7.89%) GitLab
4 8 (7.02%) Jenkins
5 7 (6.14%) JIRA
6 5 (4.39%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.51%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.51%) gulp
7 4 (3.51%) Maven
7 4 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.63%) Subversion
9 2 (1.75%) JUnit
9 2 (1.75%) Moq
9 2 (1.75%) Postman
9 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.88%) NUnit
10 1 (0.88%) Vite
General
1 13 (11.40%) Public Sector
2 12 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.65%) Finance
4 10 (8.77%) Banking
5 7 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.75%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Automotive
8 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (49.12%) React
2 29 (25.44%) Node.js
3 27 (23.68%) AngularJS
3 27 (23.68%) CSS
4 25 (21.93%) HTML
5 24 (21.05%) .NET
5 24 (21.05%) RESTful
6 23 (20.18%) Spring
7 19 (16.67%) Spring Boot
8 11 (9.65%) Kafka
8 11 (9.65%) REST
9 9 (7.89%) Express.js
10 8 (7.02%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (7.02%) Vue
11 7 (6.14%) ASP.NET
11 7 (6.14%) Laravel
12 6 (5.26%) ADO
12 6 (5.26%) Hibernate
12 6 (5.26%) HTML5
13 5 (4.39%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.75%) Derivative
5 2 (1.75%) Equities
5 2 (1.75%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) NHS
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 40 (35.09%) Agile
2 40 (35.09%) CI/CD
3 39 (34.21%) Microservices
4 29 (25.44%) DevOps
5 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (17.54%) Test Automation
7 17 (14.91%) Code Quality
7 17 (14.91%) SDLC
8 16 (14.04%) Front End Development
9 13 (11.40%) Event-Driven
9 13 (11.40%) User Experience
10 12 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 10 (8.77%) API Development
12 10 (8.77%) MVC
12 10 (8.77%) Scrum
12 10 (8.77%) Unit Testing
13 9 (7.89%) Web Development
14 8 (7.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (48.25%) Java
2 45 (39.47%) JavaScript
3 30 (26.32%) Python
4 26 (22.81%) TypeScript
5 16 (14.04%) C#
6 15 (13.16%) SQL
7 9 (7.89%) PHP
8 6 (5.26%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.63%) Go
9 3 (2.63%) Ruby
10 2 (1.75%) ABAP
10 2 (1.75%) COBOL
10 2 (1.75%) Rust
10 2 (1.75%) Scala
11 1 (0.88%) CoffeeScript
11 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.26%) Degree
4 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.51%) QA
2 2 (1.75%) PMO
3 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (14.91%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.53%) Terraform
3 2 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (0.88%) Ansible
4 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.88%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 10 (8.77%) Virgin Media
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.14%) Oracle
3 5 (4.39%) Google
4 4 (3.51%) SAP
4 4 (3.51%) Zend
5 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.75%) Mapbox
6 2 (1.75%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.75%) Splunk
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) SendGrid