Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 209 178
Rank change year-on-year -66 -31 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 450 382 588
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.30% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.41% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 297 470
10th Percentile £364 £350 £325
25th Percentile £416 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.32% -2.95%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £675
90th Percentile £679 £716 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £440
% change year-on-year -2.21% +10.40% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile £35.00 - £53.13
Median hourly rate £58.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -2.27%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 46,156 27,173 40,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.32% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,087 17,480 26,089
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,077 1,137 2,938
10th Percentile £15.19 £13.94 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.64 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.57% -26.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £61.71
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -4.76%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
England -51 383 £511 +0.99% 73
London -46 205 £521 -0.86% 17
UK excluding London -13 186 £475 -2.21% 67
Work from Home -92 119 £501 -2.67% 55
North of England -44 68 £466 +0.11% 21
South East -57 38 £550 - 22
North West -15 36 £455 +1.11% 10
Midlands -49 27 £450 -11.33% 5
West Midlands -39 26 £450 -35.71% 1
South West -8 22 £525 -4.55% 10
Scotland -1 20 £425 -7.21% 5
Yorkshire -44 20 £575 +24.32% 6
North East -32 12 £463 -2.12% 5
East of England -20 10 £526 +10.79% 3
Northern Ireland +1 1 - -
East Midlands -27 1 £425 +5.72% 4

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2026, Full-Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 450 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 223 (49.56%) React
3 175 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 158 (35.11%) AWS
5 157 (34.89%) Python
6 156 (34.67%) Agile
7 154 (34.22%) JavaScript
8 149 (33.11%) TypeScript
9 135 (30.00%) Java
10 132 (29.33%) Node.js
11 127 (28.22%) Azure
12 106 (23.56%) Security Cleared
13 103 (22.89%) DevOps
14 95 (21.11%) Docker
15 92 (20.44%) SC Cleared
16 91 (20.22%) SQL
17 90 (20.00%) Microservices
18 88 (19.56%) AngularJS
19 82 (18.22%) .NET
20 80 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
21 78 (17.33%) Spring
22 72 (16.00%) Containerisation
22 72 (16.00%) REST
23 68 (15.11%) C#
23 68 (15.11%) Git
23 68 (15.11%) RESTful
24 63 (14.00%) Spring Boot
25 60 (13.33%) Test Automation
26 59 (13.11%) Front End Development
27 57 (12.67%) AI

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.56%) Confluence
2 7 (1.56%) CMS
3 4 (0.89%) Camunda
4 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.44%) IIS
5 2 (0.44%) nginx
5 2 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Shopify
2 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 158 (35.11%) AWS
2 127 (28.22%) Azure
3 53 (11.78%) Serverless
4 49 (10.89%) GitHub
5 39 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (6.44%) GCP
7 29 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (4.67%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.11%) Power Platform
10 12 (2.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (2.44%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (2.00%) Figma
13 8 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) Firewall
1 2 (0.44%) HTTP
1 2 (0.44%) SSL
2 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.22%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 30 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 29 (6.44%) NoSQL
5 22 (4.89%) MongoDB
6 15 (3.33%) MySQL
7 14 (3.11%) Power BI
8 13 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.22%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.00%) Redis
11 5 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.11%) Metadata
11 5 (1.11%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.11%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.67%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 68 (15.11%) Git
2 30 (6.67%) GitLab
3 27 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.00%) JIRA
5 13 (2.89%) JUnit
6 8 (1.78%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.78%) Mocha
7 6 (1.33%) Mockito
7 6 (1.33%) NUnit
8 5 (1.11%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.11%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.89%) Jasmine
9 4 (0.89%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (0.89%) Postman
9 4 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.67%) Storybook
10 3 (0.67%) webpack
11 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
General
1 77 (17.11%) Finance
2 60 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 52 (11.56%) Social Skills
4 34 (7.56%) Banking
5 27 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.33%) Front Office
7 9 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.89%) Advertising
9 4 (0.89%) Retail
10 3 (0.67%) Legal
10 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.44%) Aviation
11 2 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.44%) Military
11 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.22%) Law
12 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (49.56%) React
2 132 (29.33%) Node.js
3 88 (19.56%) AngularJS
4 82 (18.22%) .NET
5 78 (17.33%) Spring
6 72 (16.00%) REST
7 68 (15.11%) RESTful
8 63 (14.00%) Spring Boot
9 57 (12.67%) CSS
10 55 (12.22%) HTML
11 41 (9.11%) Kafka
11 41 (9.11%) Vue
12 25 (5.56%) Next.js
12 25 (5.56%) Redux
13 24 (5.33%) Django
13 24 (5.33%) Jest
14 23 (5.11%) YAML
15 22 (4.89%) .NET Framework
15 22 (4.89%) FastAPI
15 22 (4.89%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.78%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.89%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.33%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.89%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.89%) Derivative
11 4 (0.89%) NHS
12 3 (0.67%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.44%) Algorithms
14 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.56%) Linux
2 3 (0.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 175 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 156 (34.67%) Agile
4 103 (22.89%) DevOps
5 90 (20.00%) Microservices
6 72 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 60 (13.33%) Test Automation
8 59 (13.11%) Front End Development
9 57 (12.67%) AI
10 51 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (10.22%) Software Engineering
12 42 (9.33%) Scrum
13 36 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (7.33%) SDLC
15 32 (7.11%) API Design
15 32 (7.11%) Code Quality
15 32 (7.11%) Event-Driven
16 29 (6.44%) API Development
17 28 (6.22%) User Experience
18 27 (6.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 157 (34.89%) Python
2 154 (34.22%) JavaScript
3 149 (33.11%) TypeScript
4 135 (30.00%) Java
5 91 (20.22%) SQL
6 68 (15.11%) C#
7 9 (2.00%) Go
8 4 (0.89%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.89%) Bicep
8 4 (0.89%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.89%) PHP
9 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) Bash
11 1 (0.22%) Ruby
11 1 (0.22%) SOQL
11 1 (0.22%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 106 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 92 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.78%) Degree
4 11 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.89%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.56%) Accessibility
2 30 (6.67%) QA
3 11 (2.44%) WCAG
4 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) HL7
System Software
1 95 (21.11%) Docker
2 4 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.00%) Terraform
3 13 (2.89%) Grafana
4 8 (1.78%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.89%) Argo
7 3 (0.67%) Ansible
8 1 (0.22%) Consul
8 1 (0.22%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 27 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.78%) Oracle
3 5 (1.11%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.89%) Databricks
4 4 (0.89%) Red Hat
4 4 (0.89%) Salesforce
4 4 (0.89%) Sitecore
5 3 (0.67%) Adobe
5 3 (0.67%) Google
5 3 (0.67%) NEC
6 2 (0.44%) SAP
6 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.44%) Solace
6 2 (0.44%) Splunk
6 2 (0.44%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.22%) Brio
7 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.22%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.22%) Workday
7 1 (0.22%) Xero