Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 217 172
Rank change year-on-year -56 -45 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 436 374 584
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.25% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.35% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 290 464
10th Percentile £369 £350 £325
25th Percentile £416 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £670
90th Percentile £683 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year +0.05% +7.95% -4.61%
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 47,021 27,678 40,406
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.16% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,598 17,771 25,926
10th Percentile £325 £288 £281
25th Percentile £414 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -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 3,150 1,209 2,937
10th Percentile £15.38 £13.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.44 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.38 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.08% -27.00% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -54 371 £520 +4.05% 79
London -51 200 £521 +2.56% 21
UK excluding London -30 178 £475 +0.05% 82
Work from Home -93 119 £519 +0.24% 49
North of England -63 59 £475 +2.15% 15
South East -41 40 £550 - 19
North West -41 29 £466 +3.44% 9
Midlands -41 28 £438 +8.83% 17
West Midlands -37 26 £450 -12.62% 8
South West -17 21 £525 -4.55% 10
Scotland -6 20 £425 -5.35% 11
Yorkshire -44 20 £575 +22.67% 3
North East -35 10 £450 -4.76% 3
East of England -27 9 £526 +10.79% 3
East Midlands -24 2 £425 +5.99% 9
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 436 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 218 (50.00%) React
3 172 (39.45%) CI/CD
4 156 (35.78%) JavaScript
5 154 (35.32%) AWS
6 153 (35.09%) TypeScript
7 152 (34.86%) Agile
7 152 (34.86%) Python
8 128 (29.36%) Node.js
9 127 (29.13%) Java
10 126 (28.90%) Azure
11 106 (24.31%) Security Cleared
12 100 (22.94%) DevOps
13 95 (21.79%) SQL
14 92 (21.10%) Docker
15 91 (20.87%) SC Cleared
16 86 (19.72%) AngularJS
16 86 (19.72%) Microservices
17 85 (19.50%) PostgreSQL
18 80 (18.35%) .NET
19 72 (16.51%) RESTful
20 71 (16.28%) REST
21 70 (16.06%) Containerisation
21 70 (16.06%) Spring
22 68 (15.60%) C#
23 66 (15.14%) Git
24 60 (13.76%) Test Automation
25 56 (12.84%) Front End Development
26 55 (12.61%) AI
26 55 (12.61%) CSS

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 (3.44%) Confluence
2 7 (1.61%) CMS
3 4 (0.92%) Camunda
3 4 (0.92%) nginx
4 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Shopify
2 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 154 (35.32%) AWS
2 126 (28.90%) Azure
3 52 (11.93%) Serverless
4 46 (10.55%) GitHub
5 39 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (5.73%) GCP
9 21 (4.82%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (2.75%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.29%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (2.06%) Figma
13 9 (2.06%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.83%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Firewall
1 2 (0.46%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.23%) RTMP
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (19.50%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.49%) Relational Database
3 32 (7.34%) SQL Server
4 28 (6.42%) NoSQL
5 20 (4.59%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.90%) MySQL
7 13 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.75%) Power BI
9 11 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.52%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.52%) Redis
10 9 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.15%) Metadata
11 5 (1.15%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.15%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.69%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.46%) Parquet
13 2 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 66 (15.14%) Git
2 27 (6.19%) GitLab
2 27 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.13%) JIRA
4 11 (2.52%) JUnit
5 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.38%) Mocha
5 6 (1.38%) Mockito
5 6 (1.38%) NUnit
5 6 (1.38%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.92%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.92%) Jasmine
6 4 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (0.92%) Postman
7 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.69%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.69%) Storybook
7 3 (0.69%) webpack
8 2 (0.46%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 74 (16.97%) Finance
2 65 (14.91%) Public Sector
3 52 (11.93%) Social Skills
4 31 (7.11%) Banking
5 26 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.90%) Front Office
7 8 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.15%) Advertising
9 5 (1.15%) Military
10 4 (0.92%) Retail
11 3 (0.69%) Legal
11 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.46%) Aviation
12 2 (0.46%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (50.00%) React
2 128 (29.36%) Node.js
3 86 (19.72%) AngularJS
4 80 (18.35%) .NET
5 72 (16.51%) RESTful
6 71 (16.28%) REST
7 70 (16.06%) Spring
8 55 (12.61%) CSS
9 54 (12.39%) Spring Boot
10 52 (11.93%) HTML
11 43 (9.86%) Vue
12 38 (8.72%) Kafka
13 26 (5.96%) Redux
14 24 (5.50%) Django
15 23 (5.28%) .NET Framework
15 23 (5.28%) Flask
15 23 (5.28%) Jest
15 23 (5.28%) Next.js
16 22 (5.05%) .NET Core
16 22 (5.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (11.70%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.98%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.61%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.38%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.15%) Derivative
9 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.92%) NHS
11 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.06%) Linux
2 3 (0.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 172 (39.45%) CI/CD
3 152 (34.86%) Agile
4 100 (22.94%) DevOps
5 86 (19.72%) Microservices
6 70 (16.06%) Containerisation
7 60 (13.76%) Test Automation
8 56 (12.84%) Front End Development
9 55 (12.61%) AI
10 49 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (10.09%) Software Engineering
12 41 (9.40%) Scrum
13 35 (8.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (7.34%) API Design
14 32 (7.34%) SDLC
15 31 (7.11%) Code Quality
16 30 (6.88%) Event-Driven
17 28 (6.42%) API Development
17 28 (6.42%) Data Modelling
17 28 (6.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 156 (35.78%) JavaScript
2 153 (35.09%) TypeScript
3 152 (34.86%) Python
4 127 (29.13%) Java
5 95 (21.79%) SQL
6 68 (15.60%) C#
7 9 (2.06%) Go
8 5 (1.15%) PHP
9 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.92%) Bicep
9 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.46%) Bash
11 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.46%) Scala
11 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.23%) ABAP
12 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 106 (24.31%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.87%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.90%) Degree
4 11 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.03%) QA
2 31 (7.11%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.06%) WCAG
4 2 (0.46%) HL7
5 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 92 (21.10%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (11.24%) Kubernetes
2 37 (8.49%) Terraform
3 13 (2.98%) Grafana
4 7 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.92%) Argo
7 3 (0.69%) Ansible
8 1 (0.23%) Consul
8 1 (0.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 29 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.90%) Oracle
3 6 (1.38%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.92%) Databricks
5 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.92%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.69%) Adobe
6 3 (0.69%) Google
6 3 (0.69%) NEC
7 2 (0.46%) SAP
7 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.46%) Solace
7 2 (0.46%) Splunk
7 2 (0.46%) 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
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