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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 219 170
Rank change year-on-year -44 -49 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 441 376 587
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.29% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.39% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 300 475
10th Percentile £363 £358 £325
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £675
90th Percentile £650 £690 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £438
% change year-on-year -1.04% +9.71% -2.78%
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 43,836 26,998 39,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.47% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,861 17,609 25,964
10th Percentile £319 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,872 1,048 2,673
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -23.73% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66.63 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.65% -31.25% -5.73%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 14 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 May 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 -54 373 £500 -1.48% 124
London -38 193 £521 -0.86% 35
UK excluding London -37 184 £475 -1.04% 104
Work from Home -74 122 £500 - 61
North of England -34 74 £460 -1.02% 34
North West -15 45 £455 -9.00% 12
South East -49 36 £550 - 34
Midlands -42 28 £450 -10.45% 18
West Midlands -46 28 £450 -12.62% 10
Scotland +4 19 £425 -3.63% 4
South West -19 19 £525 +13.51% 14
Yorkshire -49 17 £500 +8.11% 13
North East -12 12 £475 +2.70% 9
East of England -25 8 £538 +53.75% 3

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 441 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 215 (48.75%) React
3 174 (39.46%) CI/CD
4 168 (38.10%) AWS
5 156 (35.37%) Agile
6 145 (32.88%) Python
7 142 (32.20%) JavaScript
8 141 (31.97%) TypeScript
9 140 (31.75%) Java
10 138 (31.29%) Node.js
11 124 (28.12%) Azure
12 113 (25.62%) Security Cleared
13 109 (24.72%) DevOps
14 105 (23.81%) Docker
15 99 (22.45%) Microservices
16 95 (21.54%) SC Cleared
17 92 (20.86%) AngularJS
18 91 (20.63%) Spring
19 89 (20.18%) SQL
20 80 (18.14%) PostgreSQL
21 77 (17.46%) Containerisation
22 76 (17.23%) Spring Boot
23 75 (17.01%) RESTful
24 72 (16.33%) .NET
25 71 (16.10%) Git
26 66 (14.97%) REST
27 65 (14.74%) Kubernetes
28 63 (14.29%) Test Automation
29 61 (13.83%) GitHub
30 60 (13.61%) C#

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 20 (4.54%) Confluence
2 7 (1.59%) CMS
3 4 (0.91%) Camunda
4 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.45%) IIS
5 2 (0.45%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 168 (38.10%) AWS
2 124 (28.12%) Azure
3 61 (13.83%) GitHub
4 52 (11.79%) Serverless
5 39 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (6.80%) GCP
9 21 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (2.49%) Azure Functions
11 11 (2.49%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.81%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (1.81%) Figma
14 8 (1.81%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (1.81%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.59%) SSL
2 2 (0.45%) Firewall
2 2 (0.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (18.14%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (8.84%) NoSQL
3 34 (7.71%) SQL Server
4 32 (7.26%) MongoDB
5 29 (6.58%) Relational Database
6 18 (4.08%) MySQL
7 13 (2.95%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.49%) Power BI
9 10 (2.27%) Redis
10 8 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.59%) DocumentDB
12 5 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.13%) Neo4j
12 5 (1.13%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.91%) Metadata
14 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 71 (16.10%) Git
2 32 (7.26%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.58%) GitLab
4 22 (4.99%) JIRA
5 16 (3.63%) JUnit
6 9 (2.04%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.04%) Mocha
7 7 (1.59%) Jasmine
7 7 (1.59%) Mockito
8 6 (1.36%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.36%) NUnit
9 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.13%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.68%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.68%) JMeter
11 3 (0.68%) Postman
11 3 (0.68%) Storybook
12 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
General
1 67 (15.19%) Finance
2 64 (14.51%) Public Sector
3 49 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 28 (6.35%) Banking
5 22 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.17%) Front Office
7 6 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.91%) Advertising
9 3 (0.68%) Aviation
9 3 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.45%) Legal
10 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.23%) French Language
11 1 (0.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.23%) Military
11 1 (0.23%) Retail
11 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (48.75%) React
2 138 (31.29%) Node.js
3 92 (20.86%) AngularJS
4 91 (20.63%) Spring
5 76 (17.23%) Spring Boot
6 75 (17.01%) RESTful
7 72 (16.33%) .NET
8 66 (14.97%) REST
9 56 (12.70%) HTML
10 53 (12.02%) CSS
11 46 (10.43%) Kafka
12 39 (8.84%) Vue
13 29 (6.58%) Next.js
14 28 (6.35%) Jest
15 27 (6.12%) YAML
16 26 (5.90%) GraphQL
17 25 (5.67%) Redux
18 24 (5.44%) FastAPI
18 24 (5.44%) Playwright
19 23 (5.22%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.88%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.63%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (2.72%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.36%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.68%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.68%) Derivative
10 3 (0.68%) NHS
10 3 (0.68%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.23%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.27%) Linux
2 3 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 174 (39.46%) CI/CD
3 156 (35.37%) Agile
4 109 (24.72%) DevOps
5 99 (22.45%) Microservices
6 77 (17.46%) Containerisation
7 63 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 54 (12.24%) Front End Development
9 51 (11.56%) AI
10 50 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (9.30%) Software Engineering
12 40 (9.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (8.62%) Scrum
14 34 (7.71%) SDLC
15 33 (7.48%) Event-Driven
16 31 (7.03%) API Design
16 31 (7.03%) User Experience
17 29 (6.58%) TDD
18 28 (6.35%) API Development
18 28 (6.35%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 145 (32.88%) Python
2 142 (32.20%) JavaScript
3 141 (31.97%) TypeScript
4 140 (31.75%) Java
5 89 (20.18%) SQL
6 60 (13.61%) C#
7 8 (1.81%) Go
8 5 (1.13%) PHP
9 4 (0.91%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.91%) Bicep
9 4 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.23%) ABAP
12 1 (0.23%) Bash
12 1 (0.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.23%) Scala
12 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 113 (25.62%) Security Cleared
2 95 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.17%) Degree
4 7 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.91%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.16%) Accessibility
2 25 (5.67%) QA
3 12 (2.72%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 105 (23.81%) Docker
2 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.68%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.71%) Terraform
3 16 (3.63%) Grafana
4 11 (2.49%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.68%) Ansible
6 3 (0.68%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Podman
7 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (5.90%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.08%) Oracle
3 6 (1.36%) Adobe
4 5 (1.13%) Splunk
5 4 (0.91%) Databricks
5 4 (0.91%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.91%) Sitecore
5 4 (0.91%) Virgin Media
6 3 (0.68%) NEC
7 2 (0.45%) Google
7 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.45%) SAP
7 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) Solace
8 1 (0.23%) VMware
8 1 (0.23%) Workday
8 1 (0.23%) Xero