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 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 213 181
Rank change year-on-year -72 -32 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 426 389 578
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.83% 1.24% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.35% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 300 460
10th Percentile £365 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £650
90th Percentile £650 £701 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £482 £440
% change year-on-year -1.45% +9.55% -2.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile - - £53.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 - £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 47,626 28,777 40,436
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.02% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,832 18,386 25,995
10th Percentile £325 £288 £285
25th Percentile £416 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -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 3,230 1,296 2,846
10th Percentile £15.70 £13.93 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.49 £16.65
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.26% -29.33% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.50 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -64 359 £513 +2.50% 123
London -59 197 £521 +2.81% 36
UK excluding London -47 171 £475 -1.45% 104
Work from Home -87 122 £501 -3.61% 80
North of England -59 55 £475 +2.15% 20
South East -45 37 £550 - 27
Midlands -51 26 £450 +11.94% 25
North West -39 25 £470 +0.32% 13
West Midlands -45 24 £450 -12.62% 15
Scotland +2 22 £415 -14.87% 8
Yorkshire -42 22 £575 +22.67% 4
South West -14 20 £525 -4.55% 13
East of England -22 9 £526 +10.79% 7
North East -39 8 £450 -4.76% 3
Northern Ireland +3 2 £375 +3.09% 3
East Midlands -21 2 £425 +5.99% 10

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 426 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 210 (49.30%) React
3 175 (41.08%) CI/CD
4 159 (37.32%) TypeScript
5 156 (36.62%) JavaScript
6 146 (34.27%) Agile
7 142 (33.33%) AWS
8 140 (32.86%) Python
9 132 (30.99%) Java
10 130 (30.52%) Azure
11 126 (29.58%) Node.js
12 101 (23.71%) Security Cleared
13 99 (23.24%) DevOps
13 99 (23.24%) SQL
14 94 (22.07%) Docker
15 91 (21.36%) Microservices
16 86 (20.19%) PostgreSQL
16 86 (20.19%) SC Cleared
17 81 (19.01%) AngularJS
18 80 (18.78%) REST
19 78 (18.31%) .NET
20 77 (18.08%) RESTful
21 74 (17.37%) Spring
22 69 (16.20%) C#
23 64 (15.02%) Git
24 63 (14.79%) Containerisation
25 62 (14.55%) Test Automation
26 58 (13.62%) Kubernetes
26 58 (13.62%) Spring Boot
27 53 (12.44%) Front End Development

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 (3.52%) Confluence
2 7 (1.64%) CMS
3 4 (0.94%) Camunda
3 4 (0.94%) nginx
4 3 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.47%) IIS
5 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.70%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 142 (33.33%) AWS
2 130 (30.52%) Azure
3 48 (11.27%) Serverless
4 45 (10.56%) GitHub
5 40 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (6.57%) GCP
7 25 (5.87%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (4.23%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (2.82%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.35%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (2.11%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.11%) Figma
13 9 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (1.88%) SaaS
15 7 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) Firewall
1 2 (0.47%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.23%) RTMP
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (20.19%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (8.45%) Relational Database
3 33 (7.75%) SQL Server
4 29 (6.81%) NoSQL
5 21 (4.93%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.46%) MySQL
7 13 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.82%) Power BI
9 11 (2.58%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.58%) Redis
10 7 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.17%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.17%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.70%) Metadata
12 3 (0.70%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.70%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.47%) Parquet
13 2 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 64 (15.02%) Git
2 27 (6.34%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.10%) GitLab
4 18 (4.23%) JIRA
5 14 (3.29%) JUnit
6 8 (1.88%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.64%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.41%) Jasmine
8 6 (1.41%) Karma Test Runner
8 6 (1.41%) Mocha
8 6 (1.41%) Mockito
8 6 (1.41%) NUnit
9 4 (0.94%) Postman
10 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.70%) webpack
11 2 (0.47%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.47%) Moq
11 2 (0.47%) MSTest
11 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 77 (18.08%) Finance
2 64 (15.02%) Public Sector
3 52 (12.21%) Social Skills
4 33 (7.75%) Banking
5 25 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.99%) Front Office
7 9 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.17%) Advertising
10 4 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.94%) Military
10 4 (0.94%) Retail
11 3 (0.70%) Legal
11 3 (0.70%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.23%) French Language
12 1 (0.23%) Law
12 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (49.30%) React
2 126 (29.58%) Node.js
3 81 (19.01%) AngularJS
4 80 (18.78%) REST
5 78 (18.31%) .NET
6 77 (18.08%) RESTful
7 74 (17.37%) Spring
8 58 (13.62%) Spring Boot
9 49 (11.50%) CSS
10 48 (11.27%) HTML
11 45 (10.56%) Vue
12 39 (9.15%) Kafka
13 26 (6.10%) Redux
14 25 (5.87%) GraphQL
15 24 (5.63%) .NET Framework
15 24 (5.63%) Django
15 24 (5.63%) Jest
16 23 (5.40%) .NET Core
16 23 (5.40%) Flask
17 22 (5.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.05%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.64%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.17%) Derivative
10 5 (1.17%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.94%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.94%) NHS
12 3 (0.70%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.47%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.47%) Public Cloud
14 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.11%) Linux
2 3 (0.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 175 (41.08%) CI/CD
3 146 (34.27%) Agile
4 99 (23.24%) DevOps
5 91 (21.36%) Microservices
6 63 (14.79%) Containerisation
7 62 (14.55%) Test Automation
8 53 (12.44%) Front End Development
9 49 (11.50%) AI
10 47 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (10.80%) Software Engineering
12 38 (8.92%) Scrum
13 34 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (7.75%) API Design
15 30 (7.04%) User Experience
16 29 (6.81%) Code Quality
17 28 (6.57%) Mentoring
18 27 (6.34%) Event-Driven
19 26 (6.10%) API Development
20 25 (5.87%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 159 (37.32%) TypeScript
2 156 (36.62%) JavaScript
3 140 (32.86%) Python
4 132 (30.99%) Java
5 99 (23.24%) SQL
6 69 (16.20%) C#
7 10 (2.35%) Go
8 5 (1.17%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.17%) PHP
9 4 (0.94%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.94%) Bicep
10 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.70%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.47%) Bash
11 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.47%) Scala
11 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.23%) SOQL
12 1 (0.23%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 101 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 86 (20.19%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.69%) Degree
4 14 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.69%) QA
2 32 (7.51%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.11%) WCAG
4 2 (0.47%) HL7
5 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 94 (22.07%) Docker
2 4 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (13.62%) Kubernetes
2 38 (8.92%) Terraform
3 13 (3.05%) Grafana
4 7 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.94%) Ansible
6 4 (0.94%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Consul
7 1 (0.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 31 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.99%) Oracle
3 6 (1.41%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.17%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.94%) Databricks
5 4 (0.94%) Google
5 4 (0.94%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.94%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.70%) Adobe
6 3 (0.70%) NEC
7 2 (0.47%) SAP
7 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.47%) Solace
7 2 (0.47%) Splunk
7 2 (0.47%) 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