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 28 January 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 221 184
Rank change year-on-year -28 -37 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 411 362 577
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.16% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.25% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 274 462
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £409 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 £692 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £498 £429
% change year-on-year -8.59% +16.09% -4.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile - £36.05 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +30.38% -59.42%
75th Percentile £72.63 £40.63 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £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 35,104 29,073 41,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.45% 92.88% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,171 17,758 27,208
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £495
% change year-on-year -0.42% -3.64% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,077 858 2,114
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.98 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.23
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £61.18 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.53 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £30.98 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.23% -22.56% +33.33%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -43 343 £500 -4.76% 164
London -8 184 £513 -6.99% 52
UK excluding London -37 157 £455 -8.59% 140
Work from Home -25 124 £455 -6.67% 92
North of England -39 61 £455 +1.11% 31
North West -6 42 £450 -9.59% 19
South East -40 33 £418 -33.20% 56
Midlands -41 22 £550 +10.00% 26
Scotland +13 19 £438 +2.94% 2
West Midlands -33 14 £450 -10.00% 14
East of England -2 11 £525 +20.00% 6
South West -18 11 £537 +21.66% 16
Yorkshire -60 11 £425 -5.56% 9
North East -9 8 £475 +58.33% 3
East Midlands -27 8 £600 +45.45% 12

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

For the 6 months to 28 January 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
2 213 (51.82%) React
3 184 (44.77%) CI/CD
4 169 (41.12%) AWS
5 158 (38.44%) Agile
6 154 (37.47%) Java
7 145 (35.28%) TypeScript
8 137 (33.33%) JavaScript
9 125 (30.41%) Python
10 120 (29.20%) Node.js
11 107 (26.03%) AngularJS
12 103 (25.06%) Spring
13 102 (24.82%) Security Cleared
14 100 (24.33%) DevOps
14 100 (24.33%) Docker
15 95 (23.11%) Microservices
15 95 (23.11%) SQL
16 89 (21.65%) Azure
16 89 (21.65%) Kubernetes
16 89 (21.65%) SC Cleared
17 85 (20.68%) Git
18 84 (20.44%) HTML
19 80 (19.46%) CSS
19 80 (19.46%) RESTful
20 79 (19.22%) GitHub
21 76 (18.49%) .NET
21 76 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
22 75 (18.25%) Spring Boot
23 72 (17.52%) Containerisation
24 71 (17.27%) PostgreSQL

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%) nginx
9 2 (0.49%) SAS
10 1 (0.24%) Camunda
10 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.24%) Gunicorn
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
1 169 (41.12%) AWS
2 89 (21.65%) Azure
3 79 (19.22%) GitHub
4 47 (11.44%) Serverless
5 38 (9.25%) GCP
6 36 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.11%) OpenShift
9 18 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (3.89%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.95%) Azure Functions
12 8 (1.95%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.70%) Kontent
14 6 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.92%) SSL
2 6 (1.46%) VPN
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
3 2 (0.49%) HTTP
3 2 (0.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) DHCP
4 1 (0.24%) RTMP
4 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (17.27%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (10.95%) NoSQL
3 32 (7.79%) MongoDB
4 30 (7.30%) SQL Server
5 29 (7.06%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.89%) MySQL
7 15 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.19%) Redis
9 8 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.95%) Power BI
10 7 (1.70%) DocumentDB
10 7 (1.70%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.73%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.49%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (20.68%) Git
2 32 (7.79%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.06%) JUnit
4 28 (6.81%) GitLab
5 23 (5.60%) JIRA
6 14 (3.41%) Cypress.io
7 12 (2.92%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.68%) JMeter
9 8 (1.95%) 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
12 3 (0.73%) Vite
12 3 (0.73%) webpack
13 2 (0.49%) Postman
13 2 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 80 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.06%) Finance
3 53 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.81%) Banking
5 24 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.43%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (1.70%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.46%) Front Office
9 6 (1.46%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (1.22%) Retail
10 5 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.97%) Marketing
12 3 (0.73%) Aviation
12 3 (0.73%) Electronics
12 3 (0.73%) Military
12 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (51.82%) React
2 120 (29.20%) Node.js
3 107 (26.03%) AngularJS
4 103 (25.06%) Spring
5 84 (20.44%) HTML
6 80 (19.46%) CSS
6 80 (19.46%) RESTful
7 76 (18.49%) .NET
8 75 (18.25%) Spring Boot
9 60 (14.60%) REST
10 49 (11.92%) Next.js
11 43 (10.46%) Kafka
12 33 (8.03%) FastAPI
13 30 (7.30%) Jest
14 28 (6.81%) Playwright
15 23 (5.60%) 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 35 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.97%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.73%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.73%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.73%) Derivative
11 3 (0.73%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.49%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.49%) Life Science
12 2 (0.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.35%) Linux
2 7 (1.70%) 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
2 184 (44.77%) CI/CD
3 158 (38.44%) Agile
4 100 (24.33%) DevOps
5 95 (23.11%) Microservices
6 76 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (17.52%) Containerisation
8 56 (13.63%) AI
8 56 (13.63%) Front End Development
9 50 (12.17%) Test Automation
10 44 (10.71%) Scrum
11 40 (9.73%) TDD
11 40 (9.73%) User Experience
12 37 (9.00%) Software Engineering
13 36 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (8.52%) API Development
15 33 (8.03%) Code Quality
16 30 (7.30%) Event-Driven
17 29 (7.06%) Clean Code
18 27 (6.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 154 (37.47%) Java
2 145 (35.28%) TypeScript
3 137 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 125 (30.41%) Python
5 95 (23.11%) SQL
6 56 (13.63%) C#
7 12 (2.92%) Ruby
8 7 (1.70%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.46%) Bash
9 6 (1.46%) PHP
10 5 (1.22%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.97%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.97%) Perl
12 3 (0.73%) C
12 3 (0.73%) Go
12 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.49%) ABAP
13 2 (0.49%) Bicep
13 2 (0.49%) Groovy
13 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 102 (24.82%) Security Cleared
2 89 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.11%) Degree
4 14 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.97%) MCP
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.57%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.65%) QA
3 14 (3.41%) WCAG
4 1 (0.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 100 (24.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.73%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 89 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.08%) Terraform
3 14 (3.41%) Ansible
4 11 (2.68%) Argo
4 11 (2.68%) Grafana
5 8 (1.95%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.49%) Kibana
8 1 (0.24%) Podman
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 22 (5.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.38%) Oracle
3 17 (4.14%) 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%) GoldenSource
12 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.24%) Okta
12 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.24%) TIBCO