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 31 May 2026.

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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 209 176
Rank change year-on-year -70 -33 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 436 376 572
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.29% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.40% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 296 459
10th Percentile £364 £351 £325
25th Percentile £416 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £675
90th Percentile £663 £706 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £440
% change year-on-year -2.21% +10.40% -7.32%
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 45,355 26,885 39,823
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.36% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,657 17,423 25,822
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,017 1,065 2,805
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.88 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -24.85% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £26.28 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.25% -34.30% -6.98%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -53 369 £505 -0.74% 66
London -56 193 £521 -0.86% 16
UK excluding London -31 182 £475 -2.21% 63
Work from Home -83 119 £500 -3.85% 44
North of England -46 71 £470 +2.23% 15
North West -25 40 £455 +1.11% 4
South East -48 34 £550 - 25
Midlands -41 27 £450 -11.33% 11
West Midlands -41 26 £450 -35.71% 4
South West -17 22 £525 -4.55% 7
Yorkshire -50 20 £575 +24.32% 7
Scotland +3 19 £425 -3.63% 3
North East -19 11 £475 +2.15% 4
East of England -31 8 £538 +13.29% 2
Northern Ireland +3 1 - -
East Midlands -28 1 £425 +5.72% 7

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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
2 211 (48.39%) React
3 168 (38.53%) CI/CD
4 157 (36.01%) Agile
4 157 (36.01%) AWS
5 149 (34.17%) Python
6 147 (33.72%) JavaScript
7 143 (32.80%) TypeScript
8 132 (30.28%) Java
8 132 (30.28%) Node.js
9 119 (27.29%) Azure
10 106 (24.31%) Security Cleared
11 102 (23.39%) DevOps
12 98 (22.48%) Docker
13 91 (20.87%) SC Cleared
13 91 (20.87%) SQL
14 89 (20.41%) Microservices
15 86 (19.72%) AngularJS
16 81 (18.58%) Spring
17 74 (16.97%) .NET
18 73 (16.74%) PostgreSQL
19 71 (16.28%) Containerisation
19 71 (16.28%) RESTful
20 68 (15.60%) Git
21 66 (15.14%) Spring Boot
22 64 (14.68%) REST
23 63 (14.45%) C#
23 63 (14.45%) Test Automation
24 58 (13.30%) HTML
25 57 (13.07%) 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 19 (4.36%) Confluence
2 7 (1.61%) CMS
3 4 (0.92%) Camunda
4 3 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.46%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
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 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.46%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 157 (36.01%) AWS
2 119 (27.29%) Azure
3 52 (11.93%) GitHub
4 51 (11.70%) Serverless
5 38 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.19%) GCP
9 21 (4.82%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (2.52%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.29%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.06%) Figma
14 8 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) SSL
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
3 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (16.74%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.03%) SQL Server
3 31 (7.11%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.73%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.28%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (2.98%) MySQL
7 12 (2.75%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.52%) Power BI
9 10 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.06%) Redis
11 5 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.15%) DocumentDB
11 5 (1.15%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.15%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.92%) Metadata
13 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 68 (15.60%) Git
2 29 (6.65%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.42%) GitLab
4 21 (4.82%) JIRA
5 14 (3.21%) JUnit
6 9 (2.06%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.06%) Mocha
7 6 (1.38%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.38%) Jasmine
7 6 (1.38%) Mockito
7 6 (1.38%) NUnit
8 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (0.92%) Postman
9 4 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.69%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.69%) git-flow
10 3 (0.69%) Storybook
10 3 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 74 (16.97%) Finance
2 59 (13.53%) Public Sector
3 50 (11.47%) Social Skills
4 30 (6.88%) Banking
5 23 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.21%) Front Office
7 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.92%) Advertising
9 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.69%) Legal
9 3 (0.69%) Retail
9 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.46%) Aviation
10 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.23%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (48.39%) React
2 132 (30.28%) Node.js
3 86 (19.72%) AngularJS
4 81 (18.58%) Spring
5 74 (16.97%) .NET
6 71 (16.28%) RESTful
7 66 (15.14%) Spring Boot
8 64 (14.68%) REST
9 58 (13.30%) HTML
10 57 (13.07%) CSS
11 40 (9.17%) Kafka
11 40 (9.17%) Vue
12 27 (6.19%) Jest
13 26 (5.96%) Next.js
14 25 (5.73%) Redux
14 25 (5.73%) YAML
15 24 (5.50%) FastAPI
15 24 (5.50%) Flask
16 23 (5.28%) Django
17 21 (4.82%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (2.75%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.38%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.92%) Derivative
10 4 (0.92%) NHS
11 3 (0.69%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.83%) Linux
2 3 (0.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 168 (38.53%) CI/CD
3 157 (36.01%) Agile
4 102 (23.39%) DevOps
5 89 (20.41%) Microservices
6 71 (16.28%) Containerisation
7 63 (14.45%) Test Automation
8 56 (12.84%) Front End Development
9 51 (11.70%) AI
10 47 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (10.09%) Software Engineering
12 39 (8.94%) Scrum
13 35 (8.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (7.34%) Event-Driven
14 32 (7.34%) SDLC
15 31 (7.11%) API Design
15 31 (7.11%) User Experience
16 28 (6.42%) Mentoring
17 27 (6.19%) TDD
18 26 (5.96%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 149 (34.17%) Python
2 147 (33.72%) JavaScript
3 143 (32.80%) TypeScript
4 132 (30.28%) Java
5 91 (20.87%) SQL
6 63 (14.45%) C#
7 9 (2.06%) Go
8 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.92%) Bicep
8 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.92%) PHP
9 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) SOQL
11 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 106 (24.31%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.87%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.67%) Degree
4 10 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.46%) 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%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.03%) Accessibility
2 27 (6.19%) QA
3 11 (2.52%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 98 (22.48%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (12.39%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.03%) Terraform
3 15 (3.44%) Grafana
4 10 (2.29%) 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 25 (5.73%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.90%) Oracle
3 5 (1.15%) Adobe
4 4 (0.92%) Databricks
4 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
4 4 (0.92%) Salesforce
4 4 (0.92%) Sitecore
4 4 (0.92%) Splunk
5 3 (0.69%) Google
5 3 (0.69%) NEC
5 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.46%) SAP
6 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.46%) Solace
6 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.23%) Brio
7 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.23%) Workday
7 1 (0.23%) Xero