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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 220 186
Rank change year-on-year -76 -34 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 432 397 536
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 1.22% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.33% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 300 420
10th Percentile £365 £338 £339
25th Percentile £413 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £583 £650
90th Percentile £650 £690 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile - £62.80 £52.00
25th Percentile - £64.38 £53.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -47.76% +24.65% -

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 48,798 29,864 38,453
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 91.64% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,431 18,992 24,873
10th Percentile £325 £285 £293
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £735 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,294 1,429 2,439
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £13.49
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £44.10 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.33% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £80.17 £73.75 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.81
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.85% +5.65%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -51 359 £520 +4.00% 106
London -52 199 £521 +4.10% 28
UK excluding London -61 171 £475 - 92
Work from Home -100 125 £500 -2.91% 56
North of England -68 50 £488 +3.17% 17
South East -53 38 £550 - 31
Midlands -37 26 £450 +11.94% 20
Scotland -9 24 £415 -10.27% 5
West Midlands -36 24 £450 -12.62% 13
South West -23 23 £525 -4.55% 12
North West -45 23 £466 +16.38% 7
Yorkshire -47 20 £575 +17.95% 8
East of England -27 8 £526 +27.58% 5
North East -45 7 £450 -4.76% 2
Northern Ireland +2 2 £375 +3.09% 3
East Midlands -19 2 £425 +5.99% 7

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 432 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 209 (48.38%) React
3 188 (43.52%) CI/CD
4 165 (38.19%) TypeScript
5 155 (35.88%) JavaScript
6 151 (34.95%) Agile
7 146 (33.80%) AWS
8 136 (31.48%) Python
9 132 (30.56%) Azure
10 129 (29.86%) Java
11 122 (28.24%) Node.js
12 106 (24.54%) SQL
13 100 (23.15%) DevOps
14 96 (22.22%) Docker
15 94 (21.76%) Security Cleared
16 91 (21.06%) Microservices
17 90 (20.83%) REST
18 83 (19.21%) PostgreSQL
19 80 (18.52%) AngularJS
20 79 (18.29%) SC Cleared
21 78 (18.06%) .NET
21 78 (18.06%) RESTful
22 70 (16.20%) C#
23 69 (15.97%) Test Automation
24 68 (15.74%) Git
25 64 (14.81%) Spring
26 63 (14.58%) Kubernetes
27 58 (13.43%) Containerisation
28 56 (12.96%) Front End Development
28 56 (12.96%) Spring Boot

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 14 (3.24%) Confluence
2 5 (1.16%) Camunda
2 5 (1.16%) CMS
3 4 (0.93%) nginx
4 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 146 (33.80%) AWS
2 132 (30.56%) Azure
3 52 (12.04%) Serverless
4 48 (11.11%) GitHub
5 40 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (7.41%) GCP
7 26 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (4.40%) Amazon S3
9 15 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (2.55%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (2.55%) Azure Functions
10 11 (2.55%) Entra ID
10 11 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (2.31%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.08%) SaaS
13 8 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.85%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.62%) Azure AKS
14 7 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.93%) HTTP
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (19.21%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (9.03%) SQL Server
3 37 (8.56%) Relational Database
4 28 (6.48%) NoSQL
5 25 (5.79%) MySQL
6 23 (5.32%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.47%) DynamoDB
8 14 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.31%) Power BI
9 10 (2.31%) Redis
10 8 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.16%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.69%) Metadata
13 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.69%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.69%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.46%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 68 (15.74%) Git
2 30 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.71%) GitLab
4 18 (4.17%) JIRA
5 14 (3.24%) JUnit
6 9 (2.08%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.62%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.62%) Mockito
8 6 (1.39%) Jasmine
8 6 (1.39%) Karma Test Runner
8 6 (1.39%) Mocha
9 5 (1.16%) Maven
9 5 (1.16%) NUnit
9 5 (1.16%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.93%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.93%) JetBrains Rider
11 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.69%) Gradle
11 3 (0.69%) Postman
11 3 (0.69%) Storybook
General
1 77 (17.82%) Finance
2 60 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 56 (12.96%) Social Skills
4 27 (6.25%) Banking
5 26 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.24%) Front Office
7 10 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.39%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.39%) Military
8 6 (1.39%) Retail
9 5 (1.16%) Advertising
10 4 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.69%) Legal
11 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.46%) Local Government
13 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.23%) Law
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (48.38%) React
2 122 (28.24%) Node.js
3 90 (20.83%) REST
4 80 (18.52%) AngularJS
5 78 (18.06%) .NET
5 78 (18.06%) RESTful
6 64 (14.81%) Spring
7 56 (12.96%) Spring Boot
8 49 (11.34%) CSS
9 48 (11.11%) HTML
10 47 (10.88%) Vue
11 39 (9.03%) Kafka
12 28 (6.48%) GraphQL
13 27 (6.25%) Jest
14 25 (5.79%) .NET Framework
14 25 (5.79%) Redux
15 24 (5.56%) .NET Core
15 24 (5.56%) Django
15 24 (5.56%) Next.js
16 23 (5.32%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.78%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.39%) NHS
10 5 (1.16%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.69%) Derivative
11 3 (0.69%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.69%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.23%) Replication
12 1 (0.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.08%) Linux
2 4 (0.93%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 188 (43.52%) CI/CD
3 151 (34.95%) Agile
4 100 (23.15%) DevOps
5 91 (21.06%) Microservices
6 69 (15.97%) Test Automation
7 58 (13.43%) Containerisation
8 56 (12.96%) Front End Development
9 51 (11.81%) AI
10 50 (11.57%) Software Engineering
11 46 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (8.80%) Code Quality
13 37 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (8.10%) API Design
15 33 (7.64%) Mentoring
16 32 (7.41%) Event-Driven
17 31 (7.18%) Scrum
18 27 (6.25%) API Integration
18 27 (6.25%) Data Modelling
18 27 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 165 (38.19%) TypeScript
2 155 (35.88%) JavaScript
3 136 (31.48%) Python
4 129 (29.86%) Java
5 106 (24.54%) SQL
6 70 (16.20%) C#
7 11 (2.55%) Go
8 7 (1.62%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.39%) PHP
10 4 (0.93%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.93%) Bicep
11 3 (0.69%) Bash
11 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.46%) Ruby
12 2 (0.46%) Scala
13 1 (0.23%) SOQL
13 1 (0.23%) SOSL
13 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 94 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 79 (18.29%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.09%) Degree
4 16 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.33%) QA
2 30 (6.94%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.85%) WCAG
4 4 (0.93%) HL7
5 3 (0.69%) GDPR
6 2 (0.46%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.46%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.46%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 96 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (14.58%) Kubernetes
2 41 (9.49%) Terraform
3 12 (2.78%) Grafana
4 6 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.16%) Argo
5 5 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.93%) Ansible
7 1 (0.23%) Consul
7 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 34 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.70%) Oracle
3 6 (1.39%) Google
3 6 (1.39%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.16%) Databricks
4 5 (1.16%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.69%) NEC
7 2 (0.46%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.46%) Solace
7 2 (0.46%) Splunk
7 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe
8 1 (0.23%) Brio
8 1 (0.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.23%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.23%) Veracode
8 1 (0.23%) Workday