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 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 211 209
Rank change year-on-year -48 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 368 435 541
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.18% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.28% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 319 428
10th Percentile £319 £363 £325
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -10.07%
75th Percentile £589 £638 £640
90th Percentile £654 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £48.28 £36.05 £34.25
25th Percentile £56.94 £36.50 £41.04
Median hourly rate £65.25 £38.75 £52.36
Median % change year-on-year +68.39% -25.99% -28.50%
75th Percentile £67.00 £40.63 £63.68
90th Percentile - £41.30 £70.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 32,680 34,083 43,648
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.77% 93.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,712 20,554 29,563
10th Percentile £281 £300 £292
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £647
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,932 1,297 1,552
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.21 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +50.00%
75th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.92 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.03% -24.44% +83.97%

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 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -60 303 £500 -9.09% 233
London -11 174 £515 -10.43% 91
UK excluding London -89 129 £450 -5.26% 172
Work from Home -40 120 £500 - 148
North of England -56 31 £420 -6.67% 25
South East -30 30 £413 -34.00% 55
Scotland -6 22 £450 +2.27% 6
Midlands -30 20 £475 +6.74% 39
North West -25 18 £400 -10.11% 11
East of England -2 14 £525 +90.91% 13
East Midlands -6 12 £550 +33.33% 13
South West -9 12 £550 +23.46% 28
Yorkshire -60 9 £500 +11.11% 8
West Midlands -26 8 £400 -27.27% 26
North East -1 4 £500 +42.86% 6

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, 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.

1 368 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 190 (51.63%) React
3 173 (47.01%) CI/CD
4 159 (43.21%) AWS
5 151 (41.03%) TypeScript
6 150 (40.76%) Agile
7 139 (37.77%) JavaScript
8 130 (35.33%) Java
9 118 (32.07%) Python
10 102 (27.72%) AngularJS
11 101 (27.45%) Node.js
12 100 (27.17%) Azure
12 100 (27.17%) SQL
13 91 (24.73%) Docker
14 85 (23.10%) DevOps
15 83 (22.55%) Kubernetes
16 82 (22.28%) Microservices
17 79 (21.47%) Git
17 79 (21.47%) HTML
17 79 (21.47%) PostgreSQL
18 78 (21.20%) CSS
19 73 (19.84%) Security Cleared
20 72 (19.57%) .NET
21 71 (19.29%) Spring
22 68 (18.48%) RESTful
23 67 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
24 66 (17.93%) SC Cleared
25 57 (15.49%) C#
26 54 (14.67%) Containerisation
26 54 (14.67%) REST

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 14 (3.80%) CMS
2 12 (3.26%) Confluence
3 9 (2.45%) Headless CMS
4 6 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (1.36%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.36%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.54%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.54%) Camunda
7 2 (0.54%) Moodle
7 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 2 (0.54%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.27%) Solana
8 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) Magento
2 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 159 (43.21%) AWS
2 100 (27.17%) Azure
3 51 (13.86%) GitHub
4 45 (12.23%) Serverless
5 39 (10.60%) GCP
6 27 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 21 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.90%) Kontent
14 7 (1.90%) npm
14 7 (1.90%) SaaS
15 6 (1.63%) Azure Functions
15 6 (1.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.90%) SSL
2 5 (1.36%) HTTP
3 4 (1.09%) DNS
3 4 (1.09%) VPN
4 3 (0.82%) DHCP
4 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (21.47%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (11.41%) NoSQL
3 37 (10.05%) MongoDB
4 27 (7.34%) Relational Database
5 24 (6.52%) SQL Server
6 22 (5.98%) MySQL
7 10 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.72%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.63%) Power BI
10 6 (1.63%) Redis
11 4 (1.09%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.54%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.54%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (21.47%) Git
2 32 (8.70%) JUnit
3 28 (7.61%) Jenkins
4 24 (6.52%) GitLab
4 24 (6.52%) JIRA
5 17 (4.62%) Cucumber
6 14 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (3.53%) Maven
8 11 (2.99%) JMeter
9 10 (2.72%) Cypress.io
10 9 (2.45%) Mockito
11 7 (1.90%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.63%) Artifactory
12 6 (1.63%) Visual Studio
13 5 (1.36%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.36%) Selenium
13 5 (1.36%) Vite
13 5 (1.36%) webpack
14 4 (1.09%) SpecFlow
14 4 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 68 (18.48%) Finance
3 38 (10.33%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.79%) Banking
5 13 (3.53%) Investment Banking
6 12 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (2.99%) Front Office
8 8 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.63%) Retail
11 5 (1.36%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.36%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Electronics
13 3 (0.82%) Marketing
13 3 (0.82%) Military
14 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (51.63%) React
2 102 (27.72%) AngularJS
3 101 (27.45%) Node.js
4 79 (21.47%) HTML
5 78 (21.20%) CSS
6 72 (19.57%) .NET
7 71 (19.29%) Spring
8 68 (18.48%) RESTful
9 54 (14.67%) REST
10 52 (14.13%) Spring Boot
11 46 (12.50%) Next.js
12 33 (8.97%) Kafka
12 33 (8.97%) Vue
13 27 (7.34%) Hibernate
14 24 (6.52%) FastAPI
14 24 (6.52%) Jest
15 23 (6.25%) .NET Framework
16 20 (5.43%) .NET Core
16 20 (5.43%) GraphQL
17 18 (4.89%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.53%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.17%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.36%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.09%) Equities
10 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.07%) Linux
2 12 (3.26%) Unix
3 3 (0.82%) CentOS
3 3 (0.82%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.82%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 173 (47.01%) CI/CD
3 150 (40.76%) Agile
4 85 (23.10%) DevOps
5 82 (22.28%) Microservices
6 67 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (14.67%) Containerisation
8 52 (14.13%) Front End Development
9 48 (13.04%) AI
10 43 (11.68%) TDD
11 39 (10.60%) Test Automation
12 37 (10.05%) Software Engineering
13 36 (9.78%) Clean Code
14 34 (9.24%) Code Quality
15 30 (8.15%) User Experience
16 29 (7.88%) API Development
16 29 (7.88%) Design Patterns
16 29 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (7.07%) MVC
17 26 (7.07%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 151 (41.03%) TypeScript
2 139 (37.77%) JavaScript
3 130 (35.33%) Java
4 118 (32.07%) Python
5 100 (27.17%) SQL
6 57 (15.49%) C#
7 14 (3.80%) Ruby
8 9 (2.45%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.17%) Bash
9 8 (2.17%) C++
10 7 (1.90%) PHP
11 6 (1.63%) Perl
11 6 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.09%) Bicep
12 4 (1.09%) Go
12 4 (1.09%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.82%) Cypher
13 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 66 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.25%) Degree
4 18 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.54%) MCP
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.71%) QA
2 14 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 91 (24.73%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.98%) Terraform
3 15 (4.08%) Ansible
4 11 (2.99%) Argo
5 8 (2.17%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.90%) Grafana
7 3 (0.82%) Kibana
8 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) Podman
9 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 30 (8.15%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.43%) Google
3 15 (4.08%) Oracle
3 15 (4.08%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.17%) VMware
5 6 (1.63%) Adobe
5 6 (1.63%) SAP
6 5 (1.36%) Databricks
6 5 (1.36%) Sitecore
6 5 (1.36%) Virgin Media
7 4 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.09%) Cisco
8 3 (0.82%) F5
8 3 (0.82%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.82%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.82%) Okta
8 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.54%) Veracode