Senior Full-Stack Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 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
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 366 419
Rank change year-on-year +7 +53 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 9 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.065% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.071% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 5
10th Percentile £459 - -
25th Percentile £496 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +29.41% -27.97%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £438
90th Percentile £700 - £561
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -12.00%

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 13,770 16,993 21,221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.01% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,432 10,367 14,371
10th Percentile £215 £220 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.83%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £684 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,208 1,773 1,162
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.48 £18.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +17.07% +76.80%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

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

Senior 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 Senior Full-Stack Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
South West +30 5 £550 -
Midlands -8 3 £700 +40.70% 1
West Midlands -2 2 £700 +40.70% 1
North West -8 2 £500 -9.09% 2
North of England -20 2 £500 -9.09% 2
Scotland -4 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £400 -
Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 2025, Senior 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 Senior Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) Docker
3 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 4 (44.44%) React
4 4 (44.44%) GCP
4 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
4 4 (44.44%) SDLC
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) Node.js
4 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) JIRA
5 3 (33.33%) HTML
5 3 (33.33%) Java
5 3 (33.33%) REST
5 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
6 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
6 2 (22.22%) SOLID
6 2 (22.22%) Terraform
6 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Next.js

Senior 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 2 (22.22%) Alfresco
1 2 (22.22%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) JUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 2 (22.22%) JPA
3 2 (22.22%) Kafka
3 2 (22.22%) Keycloak
3 2 (22.22%) Next.js
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) Express.js
4 1 (11.11%) HTML5
4 1 (11.11%) Jest
4 1 (11.11%) OAuth
4 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
4 1 (11.11%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) API Design
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) SOLID
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Review
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Go
4 2 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Facebook