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 £486, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 221 241
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 110 183 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.90% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.98% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 156 168
10th Percentile £347 £313 £363
25th Percentile £403 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% -2.78% -8.86%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £556
90th Percentile £638 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.24% -4.55% -
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% -27.72%
75th Percentile - £54.69 £57.50
90th Percentile - £54.88 -
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -32.06%

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 11,749 18,731 21,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.50% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,490 11,452 15,051
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 826 2,272 1,106
10th Percentile £13.93 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.74 £18.04
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.56 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

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 22 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 22 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 +29 43 £465 +3.33% 78
South East +18 26 £550 -8.33% 96
North West +20 25 £498 +9.10% 52
Midlands +9 14 £505 +44.29% 43
Scotland +6 13 £441 -9.26% 12
Yorkshire +6 12 £463 +15.63% 22
West Midlands +10 9 £608 +86.92% 20
North East - 7 £465 - 5
East of England +22 6 £413 +10.00% 47
South West +5 6 £592 +57.87% 31
East Midlands +3 5 £402 -1.95% 22
Northern Ireland - 4 £504 - 3
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 22 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.

1 110 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (49.09%) Java
3 53 (48.18%) React
4 45 (40.91%) JavaScript
5 42 (38.18%) Agile
6 36 (32.73%) Microservices
7 35 (31.82%) CI/CD
8 34 (30.91%) AWS
9 33 (30.00%) Git
10 31 (28.18%) Node.js
11 30 (27.27%) AngularJS
12 29 (26.36%) Azure
13 28 (25.45%) TypeScript
14 27 (24.55%) Python
15 26 (23.64%) RESTful
15 26 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (22.73%) Spring
17 24 (21.82%) .NET
18 23 (20.91%) CSS
18 23 (20.91%) MongoDB
19 22 (20.00%) DevOps
20 21 (19.09%) Spring Boot
20 21 (19.09%) MySQL
20 21 (19.09%) HTML
21 20 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
22 19 (17.27%) Kubernetes
23 18 (16.36%) NoSQL
24 17 (15.45%) C#
24 17 (15.45%) Test Automation
24 17 (15.45%) Code Quality

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 (4.55%) Camunda
2 2 (1.82%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.91%) AWS
2 29 (26.36%) Azure
3 13 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (7.27%) Serverless
5 7 (6.36%) GitHub
6 6 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.55%) Azure API Management
7 5 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (4.55%) GCP
8 4 (3.64%) Kong
9 3 (2.73%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (2.73%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.82%) SaaS
11 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.91%) MongoDB
2 21 (19.09%) MySQL
3 20 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (16.36%) NoSQL
5 15 (13.64%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (6.36%) Redis
7 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.73%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.82%) GIS
9 2 (1.82%) ObjectStore
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.91%) Big Data
10 1 (0.91%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 33 (30.00%) Git
2 9 (8.18%) GitLab
2 9 (8.18%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.18%) JIRA
3 7 (6.36%) Selenium
4 6 (5.45%) Maven
4 6 (5.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.55%) JUnit
5 5 (4.55%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.64%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.64%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.64%) gulp
7 3 (2.73%) Subversion
7 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.82%) Mockito
8 2 (1.82%) Moq
8 2 (1.82%) Postman
8 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.91%) Vite
General
1 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
2 14 (12.73%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.82%) Finance
4 11 (10.00%) Banking
5 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.82%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Automotive
8 1 (0.91%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.91%) Military
8 1 (0.91%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (48.18%) React
2 31 (28.18%) Node.js
3 30 (27.27%) AngularJS
4 26 (23.64%) RESTful
5 25 (22.73%) Spring
6 24 (21.82%) .NET
7 23 (20.91%) CSS
8 21 (19.09%) HTML
8 21 (19.09%) Spring Boot
9 13 (11.82%) REST
10 10 (9.09%) Express.js
10 10 (9.09%) Kafka
11 8 (7.27%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (7.27%) Vue
12 7 (6.36%) ASP.NET
12 7 (6.36%) Laravel
13 6 (5.45%) Hibernate
13 6 (5.45%) HTML5
13 6 (5.45%) JAX-RS
13 6 (5.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (3.64%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.82%) Derivative
5 2 (1.82%) Equities
5 2 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.82%) NHS
6 1 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (38.18%) Agile
3 36 (32.73%) Microservices
4 35 (31.82%) CI/CD
5 26 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (20.00%) DevOps
7 17 (15.45%) Code Quality
7 17 (15.45%) Test Automation
8 16 (14.55%) Front End Development
9 15 (13.64%) SDLC
10 13 (11.82%) Software Engineering
11 12 (10.91%) Event-Driven
11 12 (10.91%) User Experience
12 11 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (10.00%) Scrum
13 10 (9.09%) API Development
13 10 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 10 (9.09%) MVC
14 9 (8.18%) Web Development
15 8 (7.27%) OO
Programming Languages
1 54 (49.09%) Java
2 45 (40.91%) JavaScript
3 28 (25.45%) TypeScript
4 27 (24.55%) Python
5 17 (15.45%) C#
6 15 (13.64%) SQL
7 9 (8.18%) PHP
8 6 (5.45%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.73%) Go
10 2 (1.82%) ABAP
10 2 (1.82%) COBOL
10 2 (1.82%) Ruby
10 2 (1.82%) Rust
10 2 (1.82%) Scala
10 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.36%) Degree
4 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (1.82%) PMO
3 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (14.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (17.27%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.09%) Terraform
3 3 (2.73%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (10.00%) Oracle
2 10 (9.09%) Virgin Media
3 7 (6.36%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.55%) Google
5 4 (3.64%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.64%) SAP
5 4 (3.64%) Zend
6 3 (2.73%) Splunk
7 2 (1.82%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.82%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.91%) Brio
8 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.91%) SendGrid