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 29 October 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 195 214
Rank change year-on-year -58 +19 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 363 473 538
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.29% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.38% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 344 419
10th Percentile £325 £363 £335
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -5.26% +8.57% -10.39%
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% -30.19%
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 31,067 34,177 44,069
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.89% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,662 20,632 30,031
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,719 1,308 1,535
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.05 £14.69
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.92% -12.78% +62.28%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.49 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% -10.11% +89.36%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 29 October 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 -73 285 £500 -9.09% 155
London -41 175 £513 -10.87% 57
Work from Home -24 131 £500 -4.76% 85
UK excluding London -82 115 £450 -5.26% 130
North of England -53 31 £420 -6.67% 31
Scotland -2 26 £450 +2.27% 1
Midlands -21 18 £400 -20.00% 23
North West -25 17 £400 -11.11% 20
South East -37 15 £513 -18.00% 47
South West +5 13 £550 +22.22% 12
East of England -3 12 £500 +81.82% 15
East Midlands -8 10 £510 +23.64% 11
Yorkshire -46 9 £494 +9.72% 8
West Midlands -23 8 £400 -27.27% 12
North East -3 5 £500 +42.86% 4

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

For the 6 months to 29 October 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.

1 363 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 192 (52.89%) React
3 160 (44.08%) CI/CD
4 159 (43.80%) TypeScript
5 154 (42.42%) AWS
6 151 (41.60%) Agile
7 147 (40.50%) JavaScript
8 122 (33.61%) Python
9 120 (33.06%) Java
10 101 (27.82%) Azure
10 101 (27.82%) Node.js
11 97 (26.72%) AngularJS
12 94 (25.90%) SQL
13 87 (23.97%) Docker
14 84 (23.14%) DevOps
15 81 (22.31%) HTML
16 79 (21.76%) Microservices
17 77 (21.21%) Git
17 77 (21.21%) Kubernetes
18 75 (20.66%) CSS
19 74 (20.39%) PostgreSQL
20 72 (19.83%) Security Cleared
21 66 (18.18%) .NET
21 66 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
22 64 (17.63%) Spring
23 63 (17.36%) SC Cleared
24 60 (16.53%) RESTful
25 54 (14.88%) C#
25 54 (14.88%) REST
26 52 (14.33%) 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 12 (3.31%) Confluence
2 11 (3.03%) CMS
3 6 (1.65%) Headless CMS
4 4 (1.10%) Alfresco
4 4 (1.10%) Camunda
5 3 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.83%) Apache
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.55%) Moodle
6 2 (0.55%) nginx
6 2 (0.55%) SAS
6 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) Solana
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) Magento
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 154 (42.42%) AWS
2 101 (27.82%) Azure
3 41 (11.29%) Serverless
4 37 (10.19%) GCP
5 35 (9.64%) GitHub
6 22 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (5.23%) OpenShift
8 15 (4.13%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (2.48%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.93%) npm
13 7 (1.93%) SaaS
14 5 (1.38%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (1.38%) Azure AKS
14 5 (1.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.93%) SSL
2 5 (1.38%) HTTP
3 4 (1.10%) DNS
3 4 (1.10%) VPN
4 3 (0.83%) DHCP
4 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (20.39%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (11.57%) NoSQL
3 37 (10.19%) MongoDB
4 26 (7.16%) SQL Server
5 20 (5.51%) MySQL
5 20 (5.51%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.75%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.65%) Redis
9 5 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.38%) Power BI
10 4 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.10%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.83%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.55%) Big Data
12 2 (0.55%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (21.21%) Git
2 27 (7.44%) JUnit
3 24 (6.61%) JIRA
4 22 (6.06%) GitLab
5 21 (5.79%) Jenkins
6 14 (3.86%) Cypress.io
6 14 (3.86%) Maven
7 12 (3.31%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.03%) Mockito
8 11 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.93%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.93%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.65%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.65%) JMeter
11 5 (1.38%) Vite
12 4 (1.10%) Gradle
12 4 (1.10%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.10%) Selenium
12 4 (1.10%) SpecFlow
12 4 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 75 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.91%) Finance
3 38 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.44%) Banking
5 22 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.13%) Front Office
6 15 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.20%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.20%) Retail
10 7 (1.93%) Corporate Banking
10 7 (1.93%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.10%) Military
13 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.28%) Aviation
14 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (52.89%) React
2 101 (27.82%) Node.js
3 97 (26.72%) AngularJS
4 81 (22.31%) HTML
5 75 (20.66%) CSS
6 66 (18.18%) .NET
7 64 (17.63%) Spring
8 60 (16.53%) RESTful
9 54 (14.88%) REST
10 49 (13.50%) Spring Boot
11 46 (12.67%) Next.js
12 35 (9.64%) Vue
13 28 (7.71%) FastAPI
13 28 (7.71%) Kafka
14 27 (7.44%) Jest
15 22 (6.06%) .NET Framework
16 20 (5.51%) .NET Core
16 20 (5.51%) Express.js
16 20 (5.51%) Redux
17 19 (5.23%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.31%) Hedge funds
4 11 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.48%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.20%) Equities
7 8 (2.20%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.93%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.55%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.06%) Linux
2 12 (3.31%) Unix
3 3 (0.83%) CentOS
3 3 (0.83%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 160 (44.08%) CI/CD
3 151 (41.60%) Agile
4 84 (23.14%) DevOps
5 79 (21.76%) Microservices
6 66 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (14.33%) Containerisation
8 51 (14.05%) Software Engineering
9 50 (13.77%) Front End Development
10 49 (13.50%) TDD
11 44 (12.12%) AI
12 35 (9.64%) Clean Code
12 35 (9.64%) Test Automation
13 31 (8.54%) Code Quality
14 30 (8.26%) Design Patterns
14 30 (8.26%) Web Development
15 28 (7.71%) API Development
16 24 (6.61%) Computer Science
16 24 (6.61%) SDLC
16 24 (6.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 159 (43.80%) TypeScript
2 147 (40.50%) JavaScript
3 122 (33.61%) Python
4 120 (33.06%) Java
5 94 (25.90%) SQL
6 54 (14.88%) C#
7 15 (4.13%) Ruby
8 9 (2.48%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.20%) Bash
9 8 (2.20%) C++
10 7 (1.93%) Perl
10 7 (1.93%) PHP
11 6 (1.65%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.10%) Bicep
13 4 (1.10%) Go
13 4 (1.10%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.83%) Cypher
14 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 72 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 63 (17.36%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.61%) Degree
4 18 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.28%) MCP
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.34%) QA
2 13 (3.58%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.93%) WCAG
4 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.28%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 87 (23.97%) Docker
2 8 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 77 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.79%) Terraform
3 11 (3.03%) Argo
4 9 (2.48%) Ansible
5 6 (1.65%) Grafana
6 5 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.83%) Kibana
7 3 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 28 (7.71%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.96%) Oracle
3 17 (4.68%) Google
4 14 (3.86%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.65%) Okta
6 5 (1.38%) Autodesk
6 5 (1.38%) Databricks
6 5 (1.38%) Virgin Media
7 4 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.10%) Cisco
7 4 (1.10%) SAP
8 3 (0.83%) Adobe
8 3 (0.83%) F5
8 3 (0.83%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.83%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.83%) VMware
9 2 (0.55%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.55%) TIBCO