Full-Stack Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 124 134
Rank change year-on-year -26 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 220 378 476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.72% 1.82% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.15% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 306 364
10th Percentile £344 £313 £363
25th Percentile £403 £364 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £470 £491
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -4.18% +3.32%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £575
90th Percentile £616 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
25th Percentile - £54.06 £53.44
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +24.44% -14.12%
75th Percentile - £78.13 £58.44
90th Percentile - £80.75 £58.63
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £67.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -33.58% +34.00% -23.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Full-Stack Development
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 Development 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 +10 72 £463 -11.90% 280
South East +6 53 £550 +22.22% 362
North West +14 42 £456 -8.75% 183
Scotland +1 42 £475 +1.01% 66
Midlands +2 28 £463 +23.33% 160
Yorkshire -2 24 £466 -11.24% 73
West Midlands +1 20 £468 +33.57% 85
South West +2 12 £456 -4.11% 114
East Midlands +3 8 £446 +8.78% 63
East of England +12 7 £413 -13.88% 116
North East +4 7 £460 - 26
Wales -16 5 £425 -2.86% 19
Northern Ireland - 4 £504 - 8
Full-Stack Development
UK

Full-Stack Development
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 (2.27%) Camunda
1 5 (2.27%) Confluence
2 4 (1.82%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.36%) CMS
4 2 (0.91%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (33.64%) AWS
2 49 (22.27%) Azure
3 33 (15.00%) Serverless
4 18 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (8.18%) GitHub
5 16 (7.27%) GCP
6 14 (6.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.55%) Azure Functions
11 8 (3.64%) AWS CodeBuild
11 8 (3.64%) SaaS
12 7 (3.18%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (3.18%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.73%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.73%) Azure API Management
13 6 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.73%) Firewall
2 3 (1.36%) DNS
3 2 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.91%) DWDM
3 2 (0.91%) LAN
3 2 (0.91%) Network Security
3 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.91%) VPN
3 2 (0.91%) WAN
4 1 (0.45%) ATM
4 1 (0.45%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.09%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.91%) MongoDB
3 23 (10.45%) Relational Database
4 22 (10.00%) MySQL
4 22 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.55%) Redis
5 10 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.64%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.82%) ObjectStore
9 3 (1.36%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.91%) GIS
10 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.45%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.45%) Metadata
11 1 (0.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 52 (23.64%) Git
2 15 (6.82%) GitLab
3 14 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.36%) JIRA
4 11 (5.00%) Selenium
5 9 (4.09%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.18%) JUnit
6 7 (3.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (3.18%) Storybook
7 6 (2.73%) Postman
7 6 (2.73%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.27%) Maven
9 4 (1.82%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.82%) gulp
10 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.36%) Mockito
10 3 (1.36%) Subversion
10 3 (1.36%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.91%) Moq
General
1 31 (14.09%) Public Sector
2 27 (12.27%) Finance
3 24 (10.91%) Social Skills
4 13 (5.91%) Banking
5 8 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.36%) Advertising
8 2 (0.91%) Front Office
8 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.91%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Automotive
9 1 (0.45%) French Language
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 161 (73.18%) Developer
2 114 (51.82%) Full-Stack Developer
3 45 (20.45%) Java Developer
4 29 (13.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 27 (12.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 22 (10.00%) React Developer
7 21 (9.55%) Azure Developer
8 18 (8.18%) Senior
9 15 (6.82%) .NET Developer
9 15 (6.82%) Software Engineer
10 14 (6.36%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.45%) Lead
12 11 (5.00%) Python Developer
12 11 (5.00%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.55%) Architect
13 10 (4.55%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 10 (4.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 9 (4.09%) Node.js Developer
15 8 (3.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 7 (3.18%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (45.45%) React
2 51 (23.18%) Node.js
3 48 (21.82%) .NET
3 48 (21.82%) AngularJS
3 48 (21.82%) CSS
4 40 (18.18%) HTML
4 40 (18.18%) Spring
5 38 (17.27%) Spring Boot
6 35 (15.91%) RESTful
7 24 (10.91%) REST
8 16 (7.27%) Kafka
9 15 (6.82%) ASP.NET
10 13 (5.91%) HTML5
11 12 (5.45%) Jest
12 11 (5.00%) .NET Core
12 11 (5.00%) .NET Framework
12 11 (5.00%) Vue
13 10 (4.55%) GraphQL
14 9 (4.09%) CSS3
14 9 (4.09%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.73%) Public Cloud
3 6 (2.73%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.91%) Derivative
7 2 (0.91%) Equities
7 2 (0.91%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.45%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.45%) NHS
8 1 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.91%) Linux
1 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (0.91%) Unix
2 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (37.73%) Agile
2 79 (35.91%) CI/CD
3 61 (27.73%) Microservices
4 47 (21.36%) DevOps
5 45 (20.45%) Software Engineering
6 39 (17.73%) Test Automation
7 36 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (13.18%) Front End Development
9 25 (11.36%) Code Quality
9 25 (11.36%) User Experience
10 24 (10.91%) SDLC
11 23 (10.45%) Containerisation
11 23 (10.45%) Scrum
11 23 (10.45%) TDD
12 20 (9.09%) Design Patterns
13 18 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (7.73%) Event-Driven
15 16 (7.27%) API Development
15 16 (7.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 16 (7.27%) OO
Programming Languages
1 92 (41.82%) Java
2 86 (39.09%) JavaScript
3 63 (28.64%) Python
4 56 (25.45%) TypeScript
5 38 (17.27%) C#
6 33 (15.00%) SQL
7 13 (5.91%) PHP
8 10 (4.55%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.73%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.27%) ABAP
10 5 (2.27%) Bash
10 5 (2.27%) COBOL
11 4 (1.82%) Go
11 4 (1.82%) Ruby
12 3 (1.36%) Scala
13 2 (0.91%) Groovy
13 2 (0.91%) Rust
14 1 (0.45%) CoffeeScript
14 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.45%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 34 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.00%) Degree
4 9 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.91%) CCNA
6 2 (0.91%) CCNP
6 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.91%) JNCIA
6 2 (0.91%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.45%) CISA
7 1 (0.45%) CISSP
7 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.45%) SANS
7 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.00%) QA
2 4 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.36%) WCAG
4 2 (0.91%) PMO
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 34 (15.45%) Docker
2 10 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (17.73%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.09%) Terraform
3 5 (2.27%) Grafana
4 4 (1.82%) Ansible
4 4 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.45%) Avamar
5 1 (0.45%) vRealize
5 1 (0.45%) VxRail
5 1 (0.45%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 15 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.91%) Google
2 13 (5.91%) Oracle
3 10 (4.55%) Virgin Media
4 7 (3.18%) SAP
5 4 (1.82%) Zend
6 3 (1.36%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.36%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.91%) Arista
7 2 (0.91%) Cisco
7 2 (0.91%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.91%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.91%) Splunk
7 2 (0.91%) VMware
8 1 (0.45%) Dell
8 1 (0.45%) Imperva
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.45%) Siemens
8 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds