Full-Stack Developer Contracts

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 180 209
Rank change year-on-year -37 +29 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 370 583 764
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.27% 1.34% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.44% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 478 582
10th Percentile £363 £325 £401
25th Percentile £410 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £629
90th Percentile £691 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +9.71% -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £52.00 £45.75
25th Percentile - £53.13 £46.88
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile - £61.00 £54.38
90th Percentile - £64.60 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £53.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 -40 297 £515 -1.90% 225
London -44 173 £525 -4.55% 80
Work from Home -6 157 £500 -4.76% 169
UK excluding London -9 114 £480 +9.71% 157
North of England +33 39 £465 +9.41% 33
South East +24 36 £550 +10.00% 35
North West +17 23 £500 +17.65% 22
Midlands +22 15 £451 +28.86% 32
Scotland +2 12 £441 -6.72% 6
West Midlands +17 11 £508 +56.15% 14
Yorkshire +9 11 £438 +9.38% 8
North East - 6 £463 - 3
East of England +28 5 £350 -6.67% 26
South West +13 5 £441 +6.91% 21
East Midlands +7 4 £402 -1.95% 18
Northern Ireland - 4 £504 -

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Full-Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 370 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 215 (58.11%) React
3 152 (41.08%) AWS
4 147 (39.73%) JavaScript
5 128 (34.59%) TypeScript
6 123 (33.24%) Python
7 122 (32.97%) Java
8 114 (30.81%) Agile
9 109 (29.46%) CI/CD
10 107 (28.92%) Azure
11 103 (27.84%) Node.js
12 100 (27.03%) AngularJS
13 90 (24.32%) HTML
14 84 (22.70%) DevOps
15 80 (21.62%) CSS
16 79 (21.35%) .NET
17 76 (20.54%) Git
17 76 (20.54%) Microservices
18 69 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
19 65 (17.57%) Docker
19 65 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
20 62 (16.76%) RESTful
20 62 (16.76%) Security Cleared
21 61 (16.49%) Kubernetes
22 59 (15.95%) SQL
23 54 (14.59%) Front End Development
24 53 (14.32%) Finance
24 53 (14.32%) SC Cleared
24 53 (14.32%) Social Skills
25 52 (14.05%) C#

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.89%) Camunda
2 5 (1.35%) Apache
2 5 (1.35%) CMS
2 5 (1.35%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.54%) JBoss
4 1 (0.27%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.54%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 152 (41.08%) AWS
2 107 (28.92%) Azure
3 38 (10.27%) GCP
3 38 (10.27%) Serverless
4 22 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (5.95%) GitHub
5 21 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (4.59%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (4.05%) Azure Functions
8 12 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.16%) Figma
12 8 (2.16%) SaaS
13 7 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.89%) Azure API Management
13 7 (1.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.35%) HTTP
2 2 (0.54%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) POP3
3 1 (0.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.43%) MongoDB
3 40 (10.81%) MySQL
4 33 (8.92%) NoSQL
5 26 (7.03%) SQL Server
6 24 (6.49%) Relational Database
7 17 (4.59%) DynamoDB
8 15 (4.05%) Redis
9 8 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.81%) GIS
13 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.54%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.54%) InterSystems Cache
13 2 (0.54%) ObjectStore
13 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (20.54%) Git
2 29 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.59%) GitLab
4 12 (3.24%) Cypress.io
4 12 (3.24%) Maven
5 11 (2.97%) JUnit
5 11 (2.97%) Selenium
6 10 (2.70%) JIRA
7 8 (2.16%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.89%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.89%) gulp
8 7 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.62%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.62%) Gradle
9 6 (1.62%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.35%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.08%) Mockito
12 3 (0.81%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 53 (14.32%) Finance
1 53 (14.32%) Social Skills
2 39 (10.54%) Public Sector
3 25 (6.76%) Banking
4 24 (6.49%) Front Office
5 23 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.08%) Back Office
10 3 (0.81%) Military
10 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.54%) Marketing
11 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Retail
11 2 (0.54%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.54%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Aviation
12 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (58.11%) React
2 103 (27.84%) Node.js
3 100 (27.03%) AngularJS
4 90 (24.32%) HTML
5 80 (21.62%) CSS
6 79 (21.35%) .NET
7 62 (16.76%) RESTful
8 49 (13.24%) Spring
9 43 (11.62%) Vue
10 41 (11.08%) Spring Boot
11 29 (7.84%) Kafka
12 24 (6.49%) Redux
12 24 (6.49%) REST
13 23 (6.22%) Express.js
14 22 (5.95%) Next.js
15 20 (5.41%) .NET Core
15 20 (5.41%) GraphQL
15 20 (5.41%) Web Services
16 19 (5.14%) FastAPI
16 19 (5.14%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.59%) Hedge funds
2 16 (4.32%) Fixed Income
3 13 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (3.24%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.43%) Equities
6 9 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.62%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.62%) PKI
8 6 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.35%) Derivative
10 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.81%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.89%) Linux
2 4 (1.08%) Windows
3 3 (0.81%) Unix
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 114 (30.81%) Agile
3 109 (29.46%) CI/CD
4 84 (22.70%) DevOps
5 76 (20.54%) Microservices
6 69 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (14.59%) Front End Development
8 46 (12.43%) TDD
9 35 (9.46%) Artificial Intelligence
10 34 (9.19%) Software Engineering
10 34 (9.19%) Test Automation
11 33 (8.92%) Containerisation
11 33 (8.92%) Web Development
12 32 (8.65%) User Experience
13 31 (8.38%) API Development
13 31 (8.38%) Code Quality
14 27 (7.30%) Analytics
15 26 (7.03%) Event-Driven
15 26 (7.03%) Fintech
16 23 (6.22%) OO
Programming Languages
1 147 (39.73%) JavaScript
2 128 (34.59%) TypeScript
3 123 (33.24%) Python
4 122 (32.97%) Java
5 59 (15.95%) SQL
6 52 (14.05%) C#
7 19 (5.14%) PHP
8 14 (3.78%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.16%) Ruby
10 5 (1.35%) Go
10 5 (1.35%) Scala
11 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.54%) ABAP
12 2 (0.54%) C++
12 2 (0.54%) COBOL
12 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.54%) VB
12 2 (0.54%) VB6
Qualifications
1 62 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 53 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.51%) Degree
4 10 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.89%) Accessibility
1 7 (1.89%) QA
2 4 (1.08%) WCAG
3 2 (0.54%) EMIR
3 2 (0.54%) MiFID
3 2 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (17.57%) Docker
2 10 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (16.49%) Kubernetes
2 47 (12.70%) Terraform
3 6 (1.62%) Ansible
3 6 (1.62%) Kibana
4 5 (1.35%) Grafana
5 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) Istio
6 1 (0.27%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 23 (6.22%) Microsoft
1 23 (6.22%) Oracle
2 11 (2.97%) Virgin Media
3 9 (2.43%) Google
4 7 (1.89%) SAP
5 6 (1.62%) Splunk
6 5 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.08%) Zend
8 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.81%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.54%) Adobe
9 2 (0.54%) InterSystems
9 2 (0.54%) Mapbox
9 2 (0.54%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.54%) Solace
10 1 (0.27%) Databricks
10 1 (0.27%) Zuora
265 Full-Stack Developer jobs Nationwide