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 28 April 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 215 180
Rank change year-on-year -45 -35 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 439 372 576
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.27% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.37% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 300 471
10th Percentile £363 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £506
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -0.64% -5.86%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £675
90th Percentile £650 £690 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £488 £435
% change year-on-year -6.67% +12.07% -3.33%
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
% change year-on-year - - -2.27%

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 43,373 27,176 40,178
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.58% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,766 17,790 26,166
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -1.82% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £491
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.19% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,810 1,031 2,642
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.39 £29.25 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +48.35% -18.36% -20.38%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.52% -23.33% -11.76%

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 28 April 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 28 April 2026.

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 28 April 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 -45 376 £500 -2.68% 123
UK excluding London -29 190 £455 -6.67% 114
London -42 190 £521 -0.86% 35
Work from Home -53 121 £500 - 68
North of England -43 72 £455 -2.15% 32
North West -11 45 £455 -9.00% 13
South East -57 42 £531 -3.45% 41
Midlands -50 31 £450 -0.22% 9
West Midlands -43 28 £450 -11.33% 5
Scotland +5 19 £425 -3.63% 6
South West -26 15 £550 +24.72% 18
Yorkshire -58 15 £500 +6.67% 12
North East -13 12 £475 +2.70% 7
East of England -25 11 £525 +50.00% 9
East Midlands -37 3 £600 +49.25% 4

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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
2 214 (48.75%) React
3 178 (40.55%) CI/CD
4 172 (39.18%) AWS
5 161 (36.67%) Agile
6 149 (33.94%) Java
7 141 (32.12%) JavaScript
8 140 (31.89%) TypeScript
9 137 (31.21%) Python
10 136 (30.98%) Node.js
11 123 (28.02%) Azure
12 119 (27.11%) Security Cleared
13 108 (24.60%) DevOps
14 105 (23.92%) Docker
15 102 (23.23%) SC Cleared
16 101 (23.01%) AngularJS
17 100 (22.78%) Spring
18 98 (22.32%) SQL
19 97 (22.10%) Microservices
20 82 (18.68%) PostgreSQL
20 82 (18.68%) Spring Boot
21 76 (17.31%) RESTful
22 75 (17.08%) .NET
23 72 (16.40%) Containerisation
24 71 (16.17%) Git
25 68 (15.49%) GitHub
25 68 (15.49%) Kubernetes
26 64 (14.58%) REST
27 61 (13.90%) HTML
28 60 (13.67%) C#

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 21 (4.78%) Confluence
2 10 (2.28%) CMS
3 6 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.37%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (1.14%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.91%) Camunda
6 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.68%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.46%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) Apache
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 172 (39.18%) AWS
2 123 (28.02%) Azure
3 68 (15.49%) GitHub
4 53 (12.07%) Serverless
5 37 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (7.74%) GCP
8 33 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (5.24%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (2.51%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.05%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.05%) Power Platform
13 8 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (1.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.59%) SSL
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.46%) HTTP
2 2 (0.46%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (18.68%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (10.02%) NoSQL
3 32 (7.29%) MongoDB
3 32 (7.29%) SQL Server
4 30 (6.83%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.42%) MySQL
6 14 (3.19%) DynamoDB
6 14 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.28%) Redis
8 9 (2.05%) Power BI
9 7 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.59%) DocumentDB
10 5 (1.14%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.14%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.91%) Metadata
12 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 71 (16.17%) Git
2 39 (8.88%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.15%) GitLab
4 24 (5.47%) JIRA
4 24 (5.47%) JUnit
5 9 (2.05%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.05%) Mocha
6 7 (1.59%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.59%) Jasmine
6 7 (1.59%) JMeter
6 7 (1.59%) Mockito
7 6 (1.37%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.37%) NUnit
8 5 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.14%) Storybook
8 5 (1.14%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (0.91%) Postman
9 4 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 67 (15.26%) Finance
2 66 (15.03%) Public Sector
3 55 (12.53%) Social Skills
4 26 (5.92%) Banking
5 21 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.19%) Front Office
7 6 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.68%) Aviation
8 3 (0.68%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.68%) Marketing
8 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
8 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.46%) Electronics
9 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Advertising
10 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Legal
10 1 (0.23%) Military
10 1 (0.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (48.75%) React
2 136 (30.98%) Node.js
3 101 (23.01%) AngularJS
4 100 (22.78%) Spring
5 82 (18.68%) Spring Boot
6 76 (17.31%) RESTful
7 75 (17.08%) .NET
8 64 (14.58%) REST
9 61 (13.90%) HTML
10 59 (13.44%) CSS
11 49 (11.16%) Kafka
12 34 (7.74%) Vue
13 30 (6.83%) Next.js
14 28 (6.38%) Jest
15 27 (6.15%) GraphQL
15 27 (6.15%) YAML
16 24 (5.47%) Playwright
17 22 (5.01%) FastAPI
17 22 (5.01%) Flask
17 22 (5.01%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.25%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.73%) Fixed Income
3 12 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.51%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.91%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.68%) Derivative
10 3 (0.68%) NHS
10 3 (0.68%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.23%) Equity Derivative
12 1 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.51%) Linux
2 3 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 178 (40.55%) CI/CD
3 161 (36.67%) Agile
4 108 (24.60%) DevOps
5 97 (22.10%) Microservices
6 72 (16.40%) Containerisation
7 60 (13.67%) Test Automation
8 57 (12.98%) Front End Development
9 52 (11.85%) AI
10 47 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (9.11%) Scrum
12 39 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (8.66%) Software Engineering
14 35 (7.97%) User Experience
15 31 (7.06%) API Development
15 31 (7.06%) SDLC
15 31 (7.06%) TDD
16 30 (6.83%) Event-Driven
17 28 (6.38%) Code Quality
18 26 (5.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 149 (33.94%) Java
2 141 (32.12%) JavaScript
3 140 (31.89%) TypeScript
4 137 (31.21%) Python
5 98 (22.32%) SQL
6 60 (13.67%) C#
7 8 (1.82%) Go
8 4 (0.91%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.91%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.46%) Bicep
10 2 (0.46%) PHP
10 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) Bash
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.23%) SOQL
11 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 119 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 102 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.19%) Degree
4 7 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.91%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.74%) Accessibility
2 20 (4.56%) QA
3 12 (2.73%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 105 (23.92%) Docker
2 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.68%) ISA Server
2 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.29%) Terraform
3 13 (2.96%) Grafana
4 11 (2.51%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.59%) Ansible
6 5 (1.14%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.33%) Oracle
3 9 (2.05%) Adobe
4 7 (1.59%) Sitecore
5 5 (1.14%) Splunk
5 5 (1.14%) VMware
6 4 (0.91%) Databricks
6 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.91%) SAP
7 3 (0.68%) Google
7 3 (0.68%) NEC
8 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.23%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.23%) Solace
9 1 (0.23%) Sybase
9 1 (0.23%) Workday
9 1 (0.23%) Xero