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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 215 185
Rank change year-on-year -83 -30 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 439 399 546
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.83% 1.23% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.34% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 300 430
10th Percentile £371 £338 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £650 £694 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.05% +5.56% -1.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile - £62.80 £52.00
25th Percentile - £64.38 £53.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -47.76% +24.65% -

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 48,955 29,836 39,186
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 91.66% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,608 19,006 25,297
10th Percentile £325 £285 £288
25th Percentile £420 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,284 1,415 2,570
10th Percentile £15.82 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £43.69 £25.30 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.69% -36.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.72
% change year-on-year +78.93% -38.24% +4.34%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -68 366 £520 +4.00% 82
London -52 203 £521 +3.53% 22
UK excluding London -67 174 £475 +0.05% 71
Work from Home -91 128 £500 -2.91% 42
North of England -74 51 £475 +0.53% 12
South East -39 38 £550 - 25
Midlands -44 26 £450 +11.94% 18
Scotland -4 24 £415 -10.27% 5
West Midlands -42 24 £450 -12.62% 11
North West -49 24 £470 +17.56% 6
South West -24 23 £525 -4.55% 6
Yorkshire -35 21 £575 +17.95% 3
East of England -22 10 £526 +27.58% 6
North East -37 6 £450 -4.76% 3
Northern Ireland +1 2 £375 +3.09%
East Midlands -19 2 £425 +5.99% 7

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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.

1 439 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 217 (49.43%) React
3 192 (43.74%) CI/CD
4 167 (38.04%) TypeScript
5 160 (36.45%) JavaScript
6 156 (35.54%) Agile
7 146 (33.26%) AWS
8 139 (31.66%) Python
9 135 (30.75%) Azure
10 133 (30.30%) Java
11 125 (28.47%) Node.js
12 110 (25.06%) SQL
13 107 (24.37%) DevOps
14 100 (22.78%) Security Cleared
15 94 (21.41%) Docker
15 94 (21.41%) Microservices
16 92 (20.96%) REST
17 84 (19.13%) .NET
17 84 (19.13%) AngularJS
17 84 (19.13%) SC Cleared
18 82 (18.68%) PostgreSQL
19 81 (18.45%) RESTful
20 74 (16.86%) C#
21 72 (16.40%) Test Automation
22 69 (15.72%) Git
23 66 (15.03%) Spring
24 60 (13.67%) Containerisation
24 60 (13.67%) Kubernetes
25 58 (13.21%) Front End Development
26 57 (12.98%) Spring Boot

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 14 (3.19%) Confluence
2 7 (1.59%) CMS
3 5 (1.14%) Camunda
4 4 (0.91%) nginx
5 3 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.46%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 146 (33.26%) AWS
2 135 (30.75%) Azure
3 52 (11.85%) Serverless
4 48 (10.93%) GitHub
5 41 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (7.52%) GCP
7 26 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (4.33%) Amazon S3
9 13 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (2.73%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.51%) Anthropic Claude
11 11 (2.51%) Azure Functions
11 11 (2.51%) Entra ID
11 11 (2.51%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (2.05%) SaaS
13 8 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.82%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.91%) HTTP
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (18.68%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (9.11%) SQL Server
3 38 (8.66%) Relational Database
4 28 (6.38%) NoSQL
5 22 (5.01%) MySQL
6 21 (4.78%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (2.96%) DynamoDB
9 12 (2.73%) Power BI
10 10 (2.28%) Redis
11 9 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.14%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.14%) Star Schema
14 3 (0.68%) Metadata
14 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.68%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
15 2 (0.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 69 (15.72%) Git
2 28 (6.38%) GitLab
3 27 (6.15%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.10%) JIRA
5 15 (3.42%) JUnit
6 10 (2.28%) Visual Studio
7 8 (1.82%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.59%) Mockito
9 6 (1.37%) Jasmine
9 6 (1.37%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (1.14%) Mocha
10 5 (1.14%) NUnit
10 5 (1.14%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.91%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.91%) JetBrains Rider
11 4 (0.91%) Maven
11 4 (0.91%) Postman
12 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.68%) Storybook
12 3 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 79 (18.00%) Finance
2 64 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 58 (13.21%) Social Skills
4 27 (6.15%) Banking
5 26 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.64%) Front Office
7 10 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.37%) Military
8 6 (1.37%) Retail
9 5 (1.14%) Advertising
10 4 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.68%) Legal
11 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.46%) Local Government
13 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.23%) French Language
13 1 (0.23%) Law
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (49.43%) React
2 125 (28.47%) Node.js
3 92 (20.96%) REST
4 84 (19.13%) .NET
4 84 (19.13%) AngularJS
5 81 (18.45%) RESTful
6 66 (15.03%) Spring
7 57 (12.98%) Spring Boot
8 51 (11.62%) CSS
9 49 (11.16%) HTML
9 49 (11.16%) Vue
10 38 (8.66%) Kafka
11 30 (6.83%) GraphQL
12 27 (6.15%) .NET Framework
13 26 (5.92%) .NET Core
13 26 (5.92%) Jest
13 26 (5.92%) Redux
14 24 (5.47%) Django
14 24 (5.47%) Next.js
15 23 (5.24%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.10%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.73%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.37%) NHS
10 5 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.91%) Derivative
12 3 (0.68%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.68%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.68%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.23%) Legacy Applications
13 1 (0.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.05%) Linux
2 5 (1.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 192 (43.74%) CI/CD
3 156 (35.54%) Agile
4 107 (24.37%) DevOps
5 94 (21.41%) Microservices
6 72 (16.40%) Test Automation
7 60 (13.67%) Containerisation
8 58 (13.21%) Front End Development
9 51 (11.62%) AI
9 51 (11.62%) Software Engineering
10 48 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (8.88%) Code Quality
12 37 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (7.97%) API Design
14 34 (7.74%) Mentoring
14 34 (7.74%) Scrum
15 30 (6.83%) Event-Driven
16 28 (6.38%) User Experience
17 27 (6.15%) API Development
17 27 (6.15%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 167 (38.04%) TypeScript
2 160 (36.45%) JavaScript
3 139 (31.66%) Python
4 133 (30.30%) Java
5 110 (25.06%) SQL
6 74 (16.86%) C#
7 11 (2.51%) Go
8 7 (1.59%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.37%) PHP
10 4 (0.91%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.91%) Bicep
11 3 (0.68%) Bash
11 3 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.46%) Ruby
12 2 (0.46%) Scala
12 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 100 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 84 (19.13%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.24%) Degree
4 17 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.66%) QA
2 31 (7.06%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.05%) WCAG
4 4 (0.91%) HL7
5 3 (0.68%) GDPR
6 2 (0.46%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.46%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.46%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 94 (21.41%) Docker
2 4 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (13.67%) Kubernetes
2 41 (9.34%) Terraform
3 13 (2.96%) Grafana
4 7 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.14%) Argo
7 4 (0.91%) Ansible
8 1 (0.23%) Consul
8 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 36 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.87%) Oracle
3 6 (1.37%) Google
3 6 (1.37%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.14%) Databricks
4 5 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.91%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.91%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.68%) NEC
7 2 (0.46%) Solace
7 2 (0.46%) Splunk
7 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe
8 1 (0.23%) Brio
8 1 (0.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.23%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.23%) Veracode
8 1 (0.23%) Workday