Full-Stack Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £478, 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 309 343 445
Rank change year-on-year +34 +102 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 27 56 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.27% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.29% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 39 13
10th Percentile £351 £275 -
25th Percentile £428 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £508 £551 £550
90th Percentile £519 £600 -
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.68% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £66.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +15.22% -28.13%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +18 12 £466 +16.50% 137
Yorkshire +12 8 £478 +9.26% 51
Midlands +26 6 £435 +45.00% 91
West Midlands +16 4 £435 +45.00% 46
Scotland -1 4 £480 +10.34% 22
South East +42 3 £513 -14.58% 181
North West +14 3 £438 +9.38% 73
East Midlands - 2 £490 - 40
South West +43 1 - - 62
Wales +1 1 £400 -18.37% 15
North East -2 1 £370 - 13
Full-Stack Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Full-Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (62.96%) JavaScript
2 17 (62.96%) Software Engineering
3 16 (59.26%) Python
4 14 (51.85%) Agile
5 13 (48.15%) React
6 11 (40.74%) AWS
6 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
7 9 (33.33%) TypeScript
7 9 (33.33%) Git
8 8 (29.63%) Java
8 8 (29.63%) C#
9 7 (25.93%) .NET
10 6 (22.22%) Architectural Design
10 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
10 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
10 6 (22.22%) OO
10 6 (22.22%) Microservices
10 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (18.52%) GCP
11 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
11 5 (18.52%) Docker
11 5 (18.52%) DevOps
11 5 (18.52%) Node.js
11 5 (18.52%) Google
11 5 (18.52%) TDD
12 4 (14.81%) Finance
12 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
12 4 (14.81%) JIRA
12 4 (14.81%) Shell Script

Full-Stack Engineer 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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) GCP
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
3 4 (14.81%) CloudBees
3 4 (14.81%) GitHub
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.11%) Serverless
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.70%) Apigee
6 1 (3.70%) Azure
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.70%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) DWDM
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) LAN
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
2 2 (7.41%) MySQL
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
3 2 (7.41%) JUnit
3 2 (7.41%) Mockito
4 1 (3.70%) Babel
4 1 (3.70%) git-flow
4 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 4 (14.81%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Advertising
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) French Language
3 1 (3.70%) Front Office
3 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) React
2 7 (25.93%) .NET
3 5 (18.52%) Node.js
4 4 (14.81%) CSS
4 4 (14.81%) HTML
4 4 (14.81%) REST
5 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
5 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.41%) RESTful
5 2 (7.41%) Spring
5 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
6 1 (3.70%) Flask
6 1 (3.70%) HTML5
6 1 (3.70%) JWT
6 1 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (3.70%) Next.js
6 1 (3.70%) Swagger
6 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (62.96%) Software Engineering
3 14 (51.85%) Agile
4 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
5 6 (22.22%) Architectural Design
5 6 (22.22%) Microservices
5 6 (22.22%) OO
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) TDD
7 4 (14.81%) API Development
7 4 (14.81%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
7 4 (14.81%) Design Patterns
7 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
8 3 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
8 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (11.11%) Software Delivery
8 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) JavaScript
2 16 (59.26%) Python
3 9 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 8 (29.63%) C#
4 8 (29.63%) Java
5 4 (14.81%) Kotlin
5 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
6 3 (11.11%) PHP
6 3 (11.11%) SQL
7 2 (7.41%) Groovy
8 1 (3.70%) Scala
8 1 (3.70%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) CCNA
4 1 (3.70%) CCNP
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.70%) JNCIA
4 1 (3.70%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Grafana
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Arista
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco