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 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 215 179
Rank change year-on-year -39 -36 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 428 367 597
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.21% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.31% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 285 481
10th Percentile £358 £356 £325
25th Percentile £411 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £663 £683 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile - £36.05 £34.03
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.50 £40.49
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -26.19% -28.31%
75th Percentile £81.00 £40.63 £60.38
90th Percentile - £41.30 £64.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 37,601 28,063 41,310
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 92.89% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,630 17,563 27,190
10th Percentile £306 £293 £275
25th Percentile £408 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,287 822 2,342
10th Percentile £14.61 £16.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -10.88%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £71.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -5.74%

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 24 February 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 24 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 15 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 24 February 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 -33 366 £500 -4.76% 166
London -12 199 £513 -2.38% 34
UK excluding London -43 167 £465 -7.00% 148
Work from Home -28 122 £493 +3.14% 96
North of England -41 66 £455 +1.11% 41
North West -9 46 £455 -9.00% 24
South East -60 34 £538 -6.52% 46
Midlands -43 28 £496 -0.75% 31
West Midlands -45 20 £459 -9.61% 26
Scotland +16 16 £438 +2.94% 5
East of England -11 12 £525 +50.00% 4
Yorkshire -56 12 £413 -5.71% 10
South West -15 11 £574 -6.29% 21
North East -10 8 £475 +35.71% 7
East Midlands -25 8 £600 +45.45% 5

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

For the 6 months to 24 February 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.

1 428 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 218 (50.93%) React
3 187 (43.69%) CI/CD
4 172 (40.19%) AWS
5 162 (37.85%) Agile
5 162 (37.85%) Java
6 147 (34.35%) TypeScript
7 137 (32.01%) JavaScript
8 135 (31.54%) Python
9 134 (31.31%) Node.js
10 114 (26.64%) AngularJS
11 112 (26.17%) DevOps
12 111 (25.93%) Security Cleared
13 105 (24.53%) Docker
13 105 (24.53%) Spring
14 104 (24.30%) Azure
15 100 (23.36%) Microservices
16 94 (21.96%) SC Cleared
16 94 (21.96%) SQL
17 88 (20.56%) Kubernetes
18 80 (18.69%) Git
19 79 (18.46%) GitHub
19 79 (18.46%) PostgreSQL
20 77 (17.99%) .NET
20 77 (17.99%) Containerisation
20 77 (17.99%) RESTful
21 76 (17.76%) CSS
21 76 (17.76%) Spring Boot
22 75 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
23 74 (17.29%) HTML

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 21 (4.91%) Confluence
2 15 (3.50%) CMS
3 8 (1.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.87%) Sitecore CMS
4 7 (1.64%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.17%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.47%) IIS
7 2 (0.47%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.70%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 172 (40.19%) AWS
2 104 (24.30%) Azure
3 79 (18.46%) GitHub
4 46 (10.75%) GCP
5 42 (9.81%) Serverless
6 37 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (4.91%) OpenShift
10 16 (3.74%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (2.34%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.87%) Power Platform
15 7 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.64%) Azure AKS
15 7 (1.64%) Kontent
16 6 (1.40%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.34%) SSL
2 5 (1.17%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Internet
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (18.46%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (10.98%) NoSQL
3 29 (6.78%) MongoDB
3 29 (6.78%) SQL Server
4 26 (6.07%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (3.74%) MySQL
6 11 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.10%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.10%) Redis
8 8 (1.87%) Power BI
9 7 (1.64%) DocumentDB
10 6 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.17%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.70%) Metadata
12 3 (0.70%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 80 (18.69%) Git
2 33 (7.71%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.78%) JUnit
4 28 (6.54%) GitLab
5 22 (5.14%) JIRA
6 12 (2.80%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.34%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.34%) JMeter
8 9 (2.10%) Mocha
8 9 (2.10%) Mockito
9 8 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.40%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.40%) Storybook
11 5 (1.17%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.93%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.93%) NUnit
12 4 (0.93%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.47%) Karma Test Runner
13 2 (0.47%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 76 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.52%) Finance
3 59 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.78%) Banking
5 21 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.04%) Front Office
7 8 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.40%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.17%) Retail
10 5 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.93%) Marketing
12 3 (0.70%) Aviation
12 3 (0.70%) Electronics
12 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (50.93%) React
2 134 (31.31%) Node.js
3 114 (26.64%) AngularJS
4 105 (24.53%) Spring
5 77 (17.99%) .NET
5 77 (17.99%) RESTful
6 76 (17.76%) CSS
6 76 (17.76%) Spring Boot
7 74 (17.29%) HTML
8 60 (14.02%) REST
9 46 (10.75%) Kafka
10 45 (10.51%) Next.js
11 35 (8.18%) FastAPI
12 33 (7.71%) Jest
13 32 (7.48%) Vue
14 26 (6.07%) ASP.NET
14 26 (6.07%) GraphQL
15 25 (5.84%) .NET Framework
15 25 (5.84%) Playwright
16 21 (4.91%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.58%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.27%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.10%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.70%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.70%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.70%) Derivative
12 3 (0.70%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.70%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.23%) Equity Derivative
13 1 (0.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.97%) Linux
2 5 (1.17%) Unix
3 4 (0.93%) Windows
4 3 (0.70%) CentOS
4 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 187 (43.69%) CI/CD
3 162 (37.85%) Agile
4 112 (26.17%) DevOps
5 100 (23.36%) Microservices
6 77 (17.99%) Containerisation
7 75 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (12.62%) AI
8 54 (12.62%) Front End Development
9 49 (11.45%) Test Automation
10 44 (10.28%) Scrum
10 44 (10.28%) Software Engineering
11 40 (9.35%) User Experience
12 37 (8.64%) Code Quality
13 36 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 36 (8.41%) TDD
14 35 (8.18%) API Development
15 30 (7.01%) Clean Code
16 26 (6.07%) SDLC
17 24 (5.61%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 162 (37.85%) Java
2 147 (34.35%) TypeScript
3 137 (32.01%) JavaScript
4 135 (31.54%) Python
5 94 (21.96%) SQL
6 58 (13.55%) C#
7 8 (1.87%) Ruby
8 7 (1.64%) Go
9 6 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.93%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.93%) Bash
10 4 (0.93%) Bicep
11 3 (0.70%) C
11 3 (0.70%) Perl
11 3 (0.70%) PHP
11 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.70%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.47%) ABAP
12 2 (0.47%) C++
12 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 94 (21.96%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.67%) Degree
4 12 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.07%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.80%) WCAG
3 11 (2.57%) QA
System Software
1 105 (24.53%) Docker
2 5 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 88 (20.56%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.54%) Terraform
3 14 (3.27%) Grafana
4 13 (3.04%) Ansible
5 11 (2.57%) Argo
6 8 (1.87%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.87%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.47%) Kibana
8 1 (0.23%) Podman
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (6.31%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.44%) Oracle
3 15 (3.50%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.04%) Google
5 11 (2.57%) Adobe
6 9 (2.10%) Sitecore
7 8 (1.87%) VMware
8 6 (1.40%) SAP
9 4 (0.93%) Databricks
9 4 (0.93%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.70%) Cisco
10 3 (0.70%) NEC
10 3 (0.70%) Splunk
11 2 (0.47%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
12 1 (0.23%) Okta
12 1 (0.23%) Siemens
12 1 (0.23%) Xero