Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
22 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 220 185
Rank change year-on-year -45 -35 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 398 370 560
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.17% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.26% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 281 451
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £409 £419 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £566 £638 £636
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £494 £429
% change year-on-year -7.85% +15.16% -5.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £36.05 -
25th Percentile - £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +30.38% -59.42%
75th Percentile £38.13 £40.63 -
90th Percentile £43.75 £41.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 34,562 29,431 40,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 92.83% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,880 18,000 26,627
10th Percentile £300 £289 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £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 £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.58% -4.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 885 1,927
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £62.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £74.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.41
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.58% +34.71%

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 22 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
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 22 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 -32 331 £500 -9.09% 236
London -15 181 £511 -11.09% 55
UK excluding London -73 148 £455 -7.85% 213
Work from Home -20 118 £450 -8.86% 143
North of England -52 56 £455 +1.11% 51
North West -11 37 £450 -10.00% 31
South East -55 31 £411 -34.20% 74
Midlands -41 21 £550 +10.00% 30
Scotland +9 20 £438 +2.94% 5
West Midlands -40 13 £400 -20.00% 11
South West -12 11 £537 +21.66% 21
Yorkshire -67 11 £425 -5.56% 14
East of England -10 9 £525 +20.00% 25
North East -6 8 £475 +35.71% 6
East Midlands -18 8 £600 +45.45% 19

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 398 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 212 (53.27%) React
3 177 (44.47%) CI/CD
4 169 (42.46%) AWS
5 152 (38.19%) Agile
6 146 (36.68%) Java
7 142 (35.68%) TypeScript
8 132 (33.17%) JavaScript
9 123 (30.90%) Python
10 117 (29.40%) Node.js
11 103 (25.88%) AngularJS
12 97 (24.37%) Docker
12 97 (24.37%) Spring
13 96 (24.12%) Security Cleared
13 96 (24.12%) SQL
14 95 (23.87%) Microservices
15 94 (23.62%) DevOps
16 90 (22.61%) Kubernetes
17 85 (21.36%) Azure
18 83 (20.85%) SC Cleared
19 81 (20.35%) Git
19 81 (20.35%) HTML
20 77 (19.35%) CSS
20 77 (19.35%) RESTful
21 75 (18.84%) GitHub
22 73 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
23 71 (17.84%) .NET
23 71 (17.84%) Containerisation
23 71 (17.84%) Spring Boot
24 65 (16.33%) 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 18 (4.52%) Confluence
2 15 (3.77%) CMS
3 9 (2.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (2.01%) Headless CMS
5 7 (1.76%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (1.26%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.75%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.50%) IIS
9 2 (0.50%) nginx
9 2 (0.50%) SAS
10 1 (0.25%) Camunda
10 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.25%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 169 (42.46%) AWS
2 85 (21.36%) Azure
3 75 (18.84%) GitHub
4 47 (11.81%) Serverless
5 37 (9.30%) GCP
6 33 (8.29%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.28%) OpenShift
9 17 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.52%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.01%) Azure Functions
13 7 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (1.76%) Kontent
13 7 (1.76%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.02%) SSL
2 6 (1.51%) VPN
3 2 (0.50%) DNS
3 2 (0.50%) HTTP
3 2 (0.50%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) DHCP
4 1 (0.25%) RTMP
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (11.31%) NoSQL
3 33 (8.29%) MongoDB
4 29 (7.29%) SQL Server
5 25 (6.28%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.02%) MySQL
7 13 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.26%) Redis
9 8 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.76%) DocumentDB
10 7 (1.76%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.76%) Power BI
11 5 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.50%) Metadata
13 2 (0.50%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 81 (20.35%) Git
2 31 (7.79%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.53%) GitLab
3 26 (6.53%) JUnit
4 21 (5.28%) JIRA
5 13 (3.27%) Cypress.io
6 12 (3.02%) Cucumber
7 11 (2.76%) JMeter
8 8 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.76%) Mocha
9 7 (1.76%) Mockito
10 5 (1.26%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.26%) Storybook
11 4 (1.01%) SpecFlow
11 4 (1.01%) Vite
11 4 (1.01%) webpack
12 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.75%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.50%) git-flow
13 2 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 79 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.58%) Finance
3 51 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.78%) Banking
5 22 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.51%) Investment Banking
6 10 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (1.76%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.51%) Front Office
9 5 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (1.26%) Retail
9 5 (1.26%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.26%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.01%) Marketing
11 3 (0.75%) Aviation
11 3 (0.75%) Electronics
11 3 (0.75%) Military
11 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (53.27%) React
2 117 (29.40%) Node.js
3 103 (25.88%) AngularJS
4 97 (24.37%) Spring
5 81 (20.35%) HTML
6 77 (19.35%) CSS
6 77 (19.35%) RESTful
7 71 (17.84%) .NET
7 71 (17.84%) Spring Boot
8 56 (14.07%) REST
9 50 (12.56%) Next.js
10 43 (10.80%) Kafka
11 30 (7.54%) FastAPI
12 29 (7.29%) Jest
13 27 (6.78%) Playwright
14 23 (5.78%) Vue
15 21 (5.28%) .NET Framework
15 21 (5.28%) Hibernate
15 21 (5.28%) pytest
16 20 (5.03%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.77%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.77%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.75%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.75%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.75%) Derivative
10 3 (0.75%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (0.75%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.50%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.28%) Linux
2 7 (1.76%) Unix
3 3 (0.75%) CentOS
3 3 (0.75%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 177 (44.47%) CI/CD
3 152 (38.19%) Agile
4 95 (23.87%) Microservices
5 94 (23.62%) DevOps
6 73 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (17.84%) Containerisation
8 54 (13.57%) AI
9 53 (13.32%) Front End Development
10 47 (11.81%) Test Automation
11 40 (10.05%) Scrum
12 39 (9.80%) TDD
13 37 (9.30%) Software Engineering
13 37 (9.30%) User Experience
14 36 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (8.29%) Code Quality
16 32 (8.04%) API Development
17 29 (7.29%) Clean Code
18 28 (7.04%) Event-Driven
19 27 (6.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 146 (36.68%) Java
2 142 (35.68%) TypeScript
3 132 (33.17%) JavaScript
4 123 (30.90%) Python
5 96 (24.12%) SQL
6 52 (13.07%) C#
7 12 (3.02%) Ruby
8 7 (1.76%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.51%) Bash
9 6 (1.51%) PHP
10 5 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.01%) Perl
12 3 (0.75%) C
12 3 (0.75%) Go
12 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.50%) ABAP
13 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.50%) Bicep
13 2 (0.50%) C++
13 2 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 96 (24.12%) Security Cleared
2 83 (20.85%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.53%) Degree
4 16 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.50%) MCP
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.53%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.27%) QA
2 13 (3.27%) WCAG
3 1 (0.25%) GDPR
3 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 97 (24.37%) Docker
2 5 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.75%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (22.61%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.28%) Terraform
3 14 (3.52%) Ansible
4 11 (2.76%) Argo
4 11 (2.76%) Grafana
5 8 (2.01%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.50%) Kibana
8 1 (0.25%) Podman
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 21 (5.28%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.52%) Oracle
3 17 (4.27%) Google
4 15 (3.77%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.76%) Adobe
6 8 (2.01%) VMware
7 7 (1.76%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.26%) SAP
9 4 (1.01%) Cisco
10 3 (0.75%) Splunk
11 2 (0.50%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.50%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.50%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.25%) F5
12 1 (0.25%) Infoblox
12 1 (0.25%) Okta
12 1 (0.25%) Siemens
12 1 (0.25%) Sybase
12 1 (0.25%) TIBCO
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