Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £504, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 213 181
Rank change year-on-year -82 -32 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 428 380 575
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.25% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.36% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 293 456
10th Percentile £366 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -6.32% -2.95%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £674 £710 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £440
% change year-on-year -0.99% +9.09% -2.81%
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

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 47,106 27,940 40,291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.14% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,573 17,914 25,878
10th Percentile £325 £289 £281
25th Percentile £415 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,158 1,233 2,861
10th Percentile £15.38 £13.76 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.25 £26.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.21% -29.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -71 363 £520 +4.00% 102
London -51 201 £521 +1.56% 28
UK excluding London -57 169 £475 -0.99% 99
Work from Home -96 122 £508 -2.40% 62
North of England -58 55 £475 +2.15% 16
South East -43 39 £550 - 27
North West -45 27 £466 +3.44% 11
Midlands -51 26 £438 +8.83% 20
West Midlands -45 24 £450 -12.62% 9
Yorkshire -32 20 £575 +22.67% 3
Scotland +1 19 £415 -12.63% 9
South West -25 19 £525 -4.55% 16
East of England -27 9 £526 +10.79% 5
North East -38 8 £450 -4.76% 2
Northern Ireland +1 2 £375 +3.09% 3
East Midlands -20 2 £425 +5.99% 11

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

For the 6 months to 27 June 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
2 212 (49.53%) React
3 174 (40.65%) CI/CD
4 155 (36.21%) JavaScript
5 154 (35.98%) TypeScript
6 150 (35.05%) Agile
7 148 (34.58%) AWS
8 146 (34.11%) Python
9 128 (29.91%) Azure
10 127 (29.67%) Node.js
11 126 (29.44%) Java
12 103 (24.07%) Security Cleared
13 100 (23.36%) DevOps
14 98 (22.90%) SQL
15 94 (21.96%) Docker
16 89 (20.79%) Microservices
17 88 (20.56%) SC Cleared
18 85 (19.86%) PostgreSQL
19 83 (19.39%) AngularJS
20 80 (18.69%) .NET
21 74 (17.29%) REST
21 74 (17.29%) RESTful
22 69 (16.12%) C#
22 69 (16.12%) Spring
23 68 (15.89%) Containerisation
24 65 (15.19%) Git
25 61 (14.25%) Test Automation
26 56 (13.08%) Front End Development
27 53 (12.38%) Spring Boot
28 52 (12.15%) AI

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 15 (3.50%) Confluence
2 7 (1.64%) CMS
3 4 (0.93%) Camunda
3 4 (0.93%) nginx
4 3 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.47%) IIS
5 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 148 (34.58%) AWS
2 128 (29.91%) Azure
3 51 (11.92%) Serverless
4 46 (10.75%) GitHub
5 40 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (6.31%) GCP
7 26 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (4.44%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 12 (2.80%) Power Platform
10 11 (2.57%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (2.34%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.10%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (2.10%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.10%) Figma
12 9 (2.10%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.64%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) Firewall
1 2 (0.47%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.23%) RTMP
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (19.86%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.64%) Relational Database
3 34 (7.94%) SQL Server
4 29 (6.78%) NoSQL
5 21 (4.91%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.21%) MySQL
7 13 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.80%) Power BI
9 11 (2.57%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.57%) Redis
10 8 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.17%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.17%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.93%) Metadata
13 3 (0.70%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.70%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (15.19%) Git
2 27 (6.31%) GitLab
2 27 (6.31%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.21%) JIRA
4 12 (2.80%) JUnit
5 8 (1.87%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.40%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.40%) Mocha
6 6 (1.40%) Mockito
6 6 (1.40%) NUnit
7 5 (1.17%) Jasmine
7 5 (1.17%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (0.93%) Postman
9 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.70%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.70%) webpack
10 2 (0.47%) Moq
10 2 (0.47%) MSTest
10 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 76 (17.76%) Finance
2 63 (14.72%) Public Sector
3 52 (12.15%) Social Skills
4 31 (7.24%) Banking
5 26 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.97%) Front Office
7 9 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.40%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.17%) Advertising
10 4 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.93%) Military
10 4 (0.93%) Retail
11 3 (0.70%) Legal
11 3 (0.70%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.23%) Aviation
12 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.23%) French Language
12 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (49.53%) React
2 127 (29.67%) Node.js
3 83 (19.39%) AngularJS
4 80 (18.69%) .NET
5 74 (17.29%) REST
5 74 (17.29%) RESTful
6 69 (16.12%) Spring
7 53 (12.38%) Spring Boot
8 52 (12.15%) CSS
9 50 (11.68%) HTML
10 44 (10.28%) Vue
11 39 (9.11%) Kafka
12 26 (6.07%) Redux
13 24 (5.61%) .NET Framework
13 24 (5.61%) Django
14 23 (5.37%) .NET Core
14 23 (5.37%) Flask
14 23 (5.37%) GraphQL
14 23 (5.37%) Jest
15 22 (5.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (12.85%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.04%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.17%) Derivative
10 4 (0.93%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.93%) NHS
11 3 (0.70%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.47%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.10%) Linux
2 3 (0.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 174 (40.65%) CI/CD
3 150 (35.05%) Agile
4 100 (23.36%) DevOps
5 89 (20.79%) Microservices
6 68 (15.89%) Containerisation
7 61 (14.25%) Test Automation
8 56 (13.08%) Front End Development
9 52 (12.15%) AI
10 48 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (10.75%) Software Engineering
12 40 (9.35%) Scrum
13 36 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (7.71%) API Design
15 31 (7.24%) Code Quality
16 29 (6.78%) Event-Driven
16 29 (6.78%) SDLC
17 28 (6.54%) Mentoring
18 27 (6.31%) API Development
18 27 (6.31%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 155 (36.21%) JavaScript
2 154 (35.98%) TypeScript
3 146 (34.11%) Python
4 126 (29.44%) Java
5 98 (22.90%) SQL
6 69 (16.12%) C#
7 10 (2.34%) Go
8 5 (1.17%) PHP
9 4 (0.93%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.93%) Bicep
9 4 (0.93%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.70%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.47%) Bash
11 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.47%) Scala
11 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.23%) PromQL
12 1 (0.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 103 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 88 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.44%) Degree
4 13 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.41%) QA
2 30 (7.01%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.10%) WCAG
4 2 (0.47%) HL7
5 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 94 (21.96%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (12.15%) Kubernetes
2 38 (8.88%) Terraform
3 13 (3.04%) Grafana
4 7 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.93%) Ansible
6 4 (0.93%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Consul
7 1 (0.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 30 (7.01%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.97%) Oracle
3 6 (1.40%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.17%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.93%) Databricks
5 4 (0.93%) Google
5 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.93%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.70%) Adobe
6 3 (0.70%) NEC
7 2 (0.47%) SAP
7 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.47%) Solace
7 2 (0.47%) Splunk
7 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.23%) Confluent
8 1 (0.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) Workday
8 1 (0.23%) Xero