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 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 224 183
Rank change year-on-year -86 -41 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 410 386 512
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.17% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.28% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 288 396
10th Percentile £379 £331 £353
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £638 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £455
% change year-on-year +2.15% +2.20% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile - £62.80 £56.20
25th Percentile - £64.38 £58.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £64.00
90th Percentile £60.00 - £65.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -

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 49,408 30,056 36,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.31% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,654 19,017 23,287
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,477 1,528 2,029
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.59 £14.23
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%
75th Percentile £67.98 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.13 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +71.50% -44.11% +23.29%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -71 339 £500 - 122
London -58 188 £520 +4.00% 38
UK excluding London -63 157 £475 +2.15% 103
Work from Home -87 116 £490 -2.00% 76
North of England -59 45 £500 +4.17% 25
South East -49 39 £500 -9.09% 25
South West -30 25 £525 +8.47% 20
Yorkshire -30 22 £575 +17.95% 13
Midlands -38 22 £425 +13.33% 15
Scotland -14 20 £425 -5.56% 13
West Midlands -36 20 £425 +25.93% 9
North West -46 15 £490 +22.50% 12
North East -43 8 £450 -8.16%
East of England -28 4 £350 -26.32% 5
Northern Ireland +6 2 £375 +3.09% 1
East Midlands -27 2 £425 +5.99% 6

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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.

1 410 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 196 (47.80%) React
3 188 (45.85%) CI/CD
4 159 (38.78%) Agile
5 156 (38.05%) TypeScript
6 144 (35.12%) AWS
7 143 (34.88%) JavaScript
8 128 (31.22%) Python
9 120 (29.27%) Azure
10 115 (28.05%) Java
10 115 (28.05%) SQL
11 113 (27.56%) Node.js
12 98 (23.90%) DevOps
13 97 (23.66%) REST
14 92 (22.44%) Docker
14 92 (22.44%) Microservices
15 84 (20.49%) RESTful
16 81 (19.76%) Security Cleared
17 75 (18.29%) .NET
18 74 (18.05%) Git
19 73 (17.80%) Test Automation
20 70 (17.07%) AngularJS
21 69 (16.83%) SC Cleared
22 68 (16.59%) C#
22 68 (16.59%) PostgreSQL
23 65 (15.85%) Kubernetes
23 65 (15.85%) Spring
24 61 (14.88%) Spring Boot
25 57 (13.90%) Containerisation
26 56 (13.66%) Front End Development

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 (3.90%) Confluence
2 4 (0.98%) Camunda
2 4 (0.98%) CMS
2 4 (0.98%) nginx
3 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 144 (35.12%) AWS
2 120 (29.27%) Azure
3 55 (13.41%) Serverless
4 51 (12.44%) GitHub
5 39 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (5.61%) GCP
9 19 (4.63%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (3.66%) Anthropic Claude
12 14 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
13 13 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (3.17%) Entra ID
14 11 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (2.44%) Azure App Service
16 9 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.20%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.20%) Power Platform
16 9 (2.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.98%) HTTP
2 2 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (16.59%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (11.22%) SQL Server
3 36 (8.78%) Relational Database
4 33 (8.05%) NoSQL
5 24 (5.85%) MongoDB
6 23 (5.61%) MySQL
7 18 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (3.66%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.20%) Redis
11 8 (1.95%) Power BI
12 6 (1.46%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.73%) Metadata
14 3 (0.73%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.73%) Parquet
14 3 (0.73%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 74 (18.05%) Git
2 35 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.07%) GitLab
4 19 (4.63%) JIRA
5 15 (3.66%) JUnit
6 8 (1.95%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.95%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.71%) Mockito
8 6 (1.46%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.46%) Maven
8 6 (1.46%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.22%) Mocha
10 4 (0.98%) Gradle
10 4 (0.98%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.98%) JetBrains Rider
10 4 (0.98%) Karma Test Runner
11 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.73%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.73%) Postman
12 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
General
1 68 (16.59%) Finance
2 63 (15.37%) Social Skills
3 58 (14.15%) Public Sector
4 29 (7.07%) Banking
5 25 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.17%) Front Office
7 10 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.71%) Military
9 7 (1.71%) Retail
10 5 (1.22%) Advertising
11 4 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.73%) Legal
12 3 (0.73%) Local Government
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.24%) Back Office
14 1 (0.24%) Law
14 1 (0.24%) Marketing
14 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (47.80%) React
2 113 (27.56%) Node.js
3 97 (23.66%) REST
4 84 (20.49%) RESTful
5 75 (18.29%) .NET
6 70 (17.07%) AngularJS
7 65 (15.85%) Spring
8 61 (14.88%) Spring Boot
9 52 (12.68%) CSS
10 51 (12.44%) HTML
11 44 (10.73%) Vue
12 38 (9.27%) Kafka
13 28 (6.83%) .NET Core
14 26 (6.34%) .NET Framework
15 25 (6.10%) Flask
15 25 (6.10%) Next.js
16 24 (5.85%) Django
16 24 (5.85%) OAuth
17 23 (5.61%) Jest
18 21 (5.12%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 69 (16.83%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.20%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.20%) NHS
7 6 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.73%) Derivative
10 3 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.49%) Life Science
11 2 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.68%) Linux
2 6 (1.46%) Unix
3 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 188 (45.85%) CI/CD
3 159 (38.78%) Agile
4 98 (23.90%) DevOps
5 92 (22.44%) Microservices
6 73 (17.80%) Test Automation
7 57 (13.90%) Containerisation
8 56 (13.66%) Front End Development
9 55 (13.41%) AI
10 53 (12.93%) Software Engineering
11 50 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (9.27%) Code Quality
13 38 (9.27%) Event-Driven
14 33 (8.05%) Mentoring
15 32 (7.80%) API Design
15 32 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (7.56%) SDLC
17 27 (6.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 27 (6.59%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 156 (38.05%) TypeScript
2 143 (34.88%) JavaScript
3 128 (31.22%) Python
4 115 (28.05%) Java
4 115 (28.05%) SQL
5 68 (16.59%) C#
6 7 (1.71%) Go
6 7 (1.71%) Kotlin
7 6 (1.46%) Bicep
7 6 (1.46%) PHP
8 4 (0.98%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.73%) Bash
9 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.49%) Ruby
10 2 (0.49%) Scala
11 1 (0.24%) Groovy
11 1 (0.24%) Korn
11 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 81 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 69 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.63%) Degree
4 15 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.71%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.54%) QA
2 28 (6.83%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.20%) WCAG
4 4 (0.98%) HL7
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.49%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.49%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 92 (22.44%) Docker
2 8 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.22%) Terraform
3 11 (2.68%) Grafana
4 7 (1.71%) Argo
5 5 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.98%) Ansible
6 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.49%) Kibana
8 1 (0.24%) Consul
8 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.24%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 37 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.41%) Oracle
3 8 (1.95%) Google
3 8 (1.95%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.22%) Databricks
5 4 (0.98%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.73%) NEC
7 2 (0.49%) Foundry
7 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.49%) Solace
7 2 (0.49%) Splunk
7 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.24%) Confluent
8 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.24%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.24%) IBM
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.24%) Veracode
8 1 (0.24%) Workday