Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 221 197
Rank change year-on-year -41 -24 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 380 394 535
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.17% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.26% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 292 428
10th Percentile £328 £363 £325
25th Percentile £400 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £628
90th Percentile £649 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £48.28 £36.05 £34.25
25th Percentile £56.94 £36.50 £41.04
Median hourly rate £65.25 £38.75 £52.36
Median % change year-on-year +68.39% -25.99% -28.50%
75th Percentile £67.00 £40.63 £63.68
90th Percentile - £41.30 £70.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 - -

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 33,882 31,304 40,866
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 92.76% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,416 19,227 27,402
10th Percentile £294 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,989 974 1,553
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.12
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% -26.67% +46.39%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.75 £76.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.16% +83.52%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 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 -49 313 £500 -9.09% 359
London -11 172 £510 -11.30% 99
UK excluding London -71 142 £450 -10.00% 295
Work from Home -23 114 £460 -4.17% 264
North of England -58 48 £455 +1.11% 90
North West -15 31 £450 -14.29% 46
South East -38 30 £410 -34.40% 100
Scotland +10 23 £450 +9.09% 7
Midlands -43 18 £575 +15.00% 42
East of England -10 12 £525 +75.00% 29
South West -8 11 £425 -3.63% 25
Yorkshire -55 11 £500 +11.11% 32
West Midlands -33 10 £400 -23.81% 20
East Midlands -15 8 £600 +45.45% 20
North East -5 6 £475 +35.71% 12

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, 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.

1 380 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 200 (52.63%) React
3 171 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 163 (42.89%) AWS
5 149 (39.21%) TypeScript
6 144 (37.89%) Agile
7 132 (34.74%) Java
7 132 (34.74%) JavaScript
8 120 (31.58%) Python
9 108 (28.42%) Node.js
10 107 (28.16%) AngularJS
11 99 (26.05%) SQL
12 94 (24.74%) Docker
13 93 (24.47%) Kubernetes
14 92 (24.21%) DevOps
14 92 (24.21%) Microservices
15 85 (22.37%) Azure
15 85 (22.37%) HTML
16 84 (22.11%) Spring
17 81 (21.32%) Git
17 81 (21.32%) Security Cleared
18 80 (21.05%) CSS
19 75 (19.74%) .NET
20 72 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
20 72 (18.95%) RESTful
21 70 (18.42%) SC Cleared
22 65 (17.11%) Containerisation
22 65 (17.11%) GitHub
23 64 (16.84%) Spring Boot
24 61 (16.05%) 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 15 (3.95%) Confluence
2 13 (3.42%) CMS
3 9 (2.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (2.11%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.32%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.53%) Moodle
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) SAS
8 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.26%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.53%) Magento
3 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 163 (42.89%) AWS
2 85 (22.37%) Azure
3 65 (17.11%) GitHub
4 44 (11.58%) Serverless
5 38 (10.00%) GCP
6 26 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (5.53%) OpenShift
8 17 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (3.42%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (1.84%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.84%) Kontent
12 7 (1.84%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.58%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.42%) SSL
2 6 (1.58%) VPN
3 4 (1.05%) DNS
3 4 (1.05%) HTTP
4 3 (0.79%) DHCP
4 3 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.11%) NoSQL
3 35 (9.21%) MongoDB
4 26 (6.84%) SQL Server
5 25 (6.58%) Relational Database
6 17 (4.47%) MySQL
7 8 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.11%) Redis
8 7 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.84%) Power BI
9 6 (1.58%) DocumentDB
10 5 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.05%) Tableau
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.26%) GIS
Development Applications
1 81 (21.32%) Git
2 31 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.32%) GitLab
3 24 (6.32%) JUnit
4 23 (6.05%) JIRA
5 11 (2.89%) Cucumber
5 11 (2.89%) Cypress.io
5 11 (2.89%) JMeter
6 8 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.84%) Mockito
8 6 (1.58%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.32%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.32%) Vite
10 4 (1.05%) Mocha
10 4 (1.05%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.05%) Storybook
10 4 (1.05%) webpack
11 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.79%) Jasmine
11 3 (0.79%) Maven
General
1 81 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.79%) Finance
3 42 (11.05%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.58%) Banking
5 21 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.42%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (1.84%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (1.32%) Retail
9 5 (1.32%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.05%) Marketing
11 3 (0.79%) Electronics
11 3 (0.79%) Front Office
11 3 (0.79%) Military
12 2 (0.53%) Aviation
12 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (52.63%) React
2 108 (28.42%) Node.js
3 107 (28.16%) AngularJS
4 85 (22.37%) HTML
5 84 (22.11%) Spring
6 80 (21.05%) CSS
7 75 (19.74%) .NET
8 72 (18.95%) RESTful
9 64 (16.84%) Spring Boot
10 53 (13.95%) REST
11 48 (12.63%) Next.js
12 38 (10.00%) Kafka
13 26 (6.84%) FastAPI
14 25 (6.58%) Vue
15 24 (6.32%) Hibernate
15 24 (6.32%) Jest
16 23 (6.05%) .NET Framework
17 21 (5.53%) Playwright
18 20 (5.26%) pytest
19 19 (5.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.16%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.84%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.84%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.79%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.79%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.53%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.53%) Learning Management System
12 2 (0.53%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.11%) Linux
2 8 (2.11%) Unix
3 3 (0.79%) CentOS
3 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.79%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 171 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 144 (37.89%) Agile
4 92 (24.21%) DevOps
4 92 (24.21%) Microservices
5 72 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (17.11%) Containerisation
7 53 (13.95%) AI
8 50 (13.16%) Front End Development
9 45 (11.84%) Test Automation
10 39 (10.26%) TDD
11 36 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (9.21%) Software Engineering
13 34 (8.95%) Clean Code
14 33 (8.68%) Code Quality
14 33 (8.68%) User Experience
15 31 (8.16%) API Development
16 26 (6.84%) Scrum
16 26 (6.84%) SDLC
17 24 (6.32%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 149 (39.21%) TypeScript
2 132 (34.74%) Java
2 132 (34.74%) JavaScript
3 120 (31.58%) Python
4 99 (26.05%) SQL
5 57 (15.00%) C#
6 14 (3.68%) Ruby
7 8 (2.11%) Bash
7 8 (2.11%) C++
7 8 (2.11%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.11%) PHP
8 6 (1.58%) Perl
8 6 (1.58%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.79%) Bicep
9 3 (0.79%) C
9 3 (0.79%) Go
9 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.79%) VB
10 2 (0.53%) Groovy
10 2 (0.53%) Korn
Qualifications
1 81 (21.32%) Security Cleared
2 70 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.32%) Degree
4 18 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.53%) MCP
7 1 (0.26%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.53%) Accessibility
2 17 (4.47%) QA
3 11 (2.89%) WCAG
4 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.26%) GDPR
4 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 94 (24.74%) Docker
2 5 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.79%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 93 (24.47%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.58%) Terraform
3 15 (3.95%) Ansible
4 11 (2.89%) Argo
5 10 (2.63%) Grafana
6 8 (2.11%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.32%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.53%) Kibana
9 1 (0.26%) Podman
9 1 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 24 (6.32%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.74%) Oracle
3 17 (4.47%) Google
4 15 (3.95%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.37%) Adobe
6 8 (2.11%) VMware
7 5 (1.32%) SAP
7 5 (1.32%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.05%) Cisco
8 4 (1.05%) Virgin Media
9 3 (0.79%) F5
9 3 (0.79%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.79%) Infoblox
9 3 (0.79%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.79%) Splunk
10 2 (0.53%) Databricks
10 2 (0.53%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.53%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.53%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.26%) Okta