Full-Stack Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 377 437
Rank change year-on-year +31 +60 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer 9 21 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.098% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.11% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 0
10th Percentile - £256 -
25th Percentile £470 £270 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% - -
75th Percentile £644 £523 -
90th Percentile - £575 -
UK median daily rate £625 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 12,351 19,848 21,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 92.45% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,722 11,791 14,900
10th Percentile £220 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 960 2,571 1,111
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.70 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

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

Full-Stack Software 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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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 +6 3 £500 -9.09% 56
Midlands - 3 £490 - 25
South West +44 2 £638 +96.15% 27
Yorkshire +6 2 £500 - 21
East Midlands - 2 £490 - 7
North West +9 1 - - 34
Scotland -1 1 - - 24
West Midlands - 1 - - 17
Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Full-Stack Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (77.78%) TypeScript
2 7 (77.78%) React
3 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) JIRA
4 4 (44.44%) AWS
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
5 3 (33.33%) Git
5 3 (33.33%) Python
5 3 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (33.33%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (22.22%) Terraform
6 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
6 2 (22.22%) Docker
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) Confluence
6 2 (22.22%) Node.js
6 2 (22.22%) REST
6 2 (22.22%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) MySQL
6 2 (22.22%) Oracle
6 2 (22.22%) CSS
6 2 (22.22%) Service Management
6 2 (22.22%) Finance
6 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL

Full-Stack Software 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 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CodeBuild
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Apigee
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (11.11%) Datadog
3 1 (11.11%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Babel
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (11.11%) Mockito
3 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) React
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) JWT
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Next.js
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 3 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Service Management
5 2 (22.22%) Software Asset Management
6 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
6 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 1 (11.11%) Creative Thinking
6 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (11.11%) Micro Frontends
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) TypeScript
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Go
5 1 (11.11%) C++
5 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk