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 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 225 183
Rank change year-on-year -29 -42 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 411 360 591
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.16% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.24% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 274 476
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.86% -8.09%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £481 £447
% change year-on-year -5.45% +7.66% -1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile - £36.05 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +30.38% -59.42%
75th Percentile £81.00 £40.63 -
90th Percentile - £41.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 35,817 28,937 41,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.92% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,569 17,745 27,379
10th Percentile £300 £292 £275
25th Percentile £405 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,156 846 2,282
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.57 £21.25 £16.54
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £61.31 £62.50 £61.52
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £32.13 £35.98
% change year-on-year -12.85% -10.69% +10.69%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -34 344 £500 -6.98% 181
London -16 185 £513 -6.82% 56
UK excluding London -35 159 £455 -5.45% 151
Work from Home -11 123 £465 -2.11% 113
North of England -37 64 £455 +1.11% 40
North West -3 45 £450 -4.81% 20
South East -52 31 £423 -32.40% 58
Midlands -46 23 £550 +18.92% 25
Scotland +19 18 £438 +2.94% 4
West Midlands -35 15 £493 +6.49% 13
East of England -11 12 £525 +50.00% 3
South West -11 11 £537 +21.66% 17
Yorkshire -62 11 £400 -11.11% 11
North East -7 8 £475 +58.33% 9
East Midlands -19 8 £600 +45.45% 12

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 411 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 212 (51.58%) React
3 180 (43.80%) CI/CD
4 168 (40.88%) AWS
5 158 (38.44%) Java
6 155 (37.71%) Agile
7 144 (35.04%) TypeScript
8 133 (32.36%) JavaScript
9 123 (29.93%) Python
10 121 (29.44%) Node.js
11 108 (26.28%) AngularJS
12 106 (25.79%) Spring
13 104 (25.30%) Security Cleared
14 102 (24.82%) Docker
15 101 (24.57%) Microservices
16 100 (24.33%) DevOps
17 92 (22.38%) SQL
18 91 (22.14%) Kubernetes
18 91 (22.14%) SC Cleared
19 90 (21.90%) Azure
20 83 (20.19%) Git
21 81 (19.71%) HTML
22 80 (19.46%) GitHub
23 78 (18.98%) CSS
23 78 (18.98%) RESTful
24 77 (18.73%) Spring Boot
25 76 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
26 75 (18.25%) .NET
26 75 (18.25%) PostgreSQL
27 73 (17.76%) Containerisation

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 (4.87%) Confluence
2 15 (3.65%) CMS
3 9 (2.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.95%) Sitecore CMS
5 7 (1.70%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.22%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.73%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.49%) IIS
9 2 (0.49%) SAS
10 1 (0.24%) Camunda
10 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.22%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 168 (40.88%) AWS
2 90 (21.90%) Azure
3 80 (19.46%) GitHub
4 47 (11.44%) Serverless
5 41 (9.98%) GCP
6 37 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.11%) OpenShift
9 18 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (4.14%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.19%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.70%) Azure Functions
13 7 (1.70%) Kontent
14 6 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.68%) SSL
2 6 (1.46%) VPN
3 2 (0.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) DNS
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (18.25%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (10.95%) NoSQL
3 30 (7.30%) MongoDB
4 29 (7.06%) SQL Server
5 27 (6.57%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (3.89%) MySQL
7 9 (2.19%) Power BI
8 8 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.95%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.95%) Redis
9 7 (1.70%) DocumentDB
10 6 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.97%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.49%) Metadata
14 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (20.19%) Git
2 32 (7.79%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.06%) GitLab
3 29 (7.06%) JUnit
4 22 (5.35%) JIRA
5 14 (3.41%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.92%) Cucumber
7 11 (2.68%) JMeter
8 9 (2.19%) Mocha
9 8 (1.95%) Mockito
9 8 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.46%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.46%) Storybook
11 4 (0.97%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.73%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.49%) git-flow
13 2 (0.49%) Postman
13 2 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 79 (19.22%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.52%) Finance
3 53 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.57%) Banking
5 21 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.95%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.70%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.46%) Front Office
8 6 (1.46%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (1.22%) Retail
9 5 (1.22%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.97%) Marketing
11 3 (0.73%) Aviation
11 3 (0.73%) Electronics
11 3 (0.73%) Military
11 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (51.58%) React
2 121 (29.44%) Node.js
3 108 (26.28%) AngularJS
4 106 (25.79%) Spring
5 81 (19.71%) HTML
6 78 (18.98%) CSS
6 78 (18.98%) RESTful
7 77 (18.73%) Spring Boot
8 75 (18.25%) .NET
9 61 (14.84%) REST
10 49 (11.92%) Next.js
11 42 (10.22%) Kafka
12 34 (8.27%) FastAPI
13 31 (7.54%) Jest
14 28 (6.81%) Playwright
15 26 (6.33%) Vue
16 21 (5.11%) .NET Framework
16 21 (5.11%) ASP.NET
16 21 (5.11%) Hibernate
16 21 (5.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.87%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.97%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.73%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.73%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.73%) Derivative
10 3 (0.73%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.49%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.49%) Life Science
11 2 (0.49%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.24%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.87%) Linux
2 6 (1.46%) Unix
3 4 (0.97%) Windows
4 3 (0.73%) CentOS
4 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 180 (43.80%) CI/CD
3 155 (37.71%) Agile
4 101 (24.57%) Microservices
5 100 (24.33%) DevOps
6 76 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (17.76%) Containerisation
8 54 (13.14%) AI
8 54 (13.14%) Front End Development
9 51 (12.41%) Test Automation
10 42 (10.22%) Scrum
11 41 (9.98%) Software Engineering
12 38 (9.25%) TDD
12 38 (9.25%) User Experience
13 36 (8.76%) API Development
13 36 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (8.03%) Code Quality
15 31 (7.54%) Event-Driven
16 28 (6.81%) Clean Code
16 28 (6.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 158 (38.44%) Java
2 144 (35.04%) TypeScript
3 133 (32.36%) JavaScript
4 123 (29.93%) Python
5 92 (22.38%) SQL
6 54 (13.14%) C#
7 9 (2.19%) Ruby
8 7 (1.70%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.46%) PHP
10 4 (0.97%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.97%) Bash
10 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.73%) C
11 3 (0.73%) Perl
11 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.49%) ABAP
12 2 (0.49%) Bicep
12 2 (0.49%) C++
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 104 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 91 (22.14%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.11%) Degree
4 13 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.57%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.41%) QA
2 14 (3.41%) WCAG
3 1 (0.24%) GDPR
System Software
1 102 (24.82%) Docker
2 5 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.73%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 91 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.84%) Terraform
3 14 (3.41%) Ansible
3 14 (3.41%) Grafana
4 11 (2.68%) Argo
5 8 (1.95%) Progress Chef
5 8 (1.95%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.49%) Kibana
7 1 (0.24%) Podman
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 24 (5.84%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.38%) Oracle
3 16 (3.89%) Google
4 15 (3.65%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.68%) Adobe
6 9 (2.19%) Sitecore
7 8 (1.95%) VMware
8 5 (1.22%) SAP
9 4 (0.97%) Cisco
9 4 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.73%) Splunk
11 2 (0.49%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.24%) Databricks
12 1 (0.24%) Okta
12 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.24%) Siemens
12 1 (0.24%) Sybase
12 1 (0.24%) Xero