Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 217 180
Rank change year-on-year -63 -37 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 448 375 584
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.25% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.36% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 290 464
10th Percentile £375 £350 £325
25th Percentile £416 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -6.32% -2.95%
75th Percentile £575 £609 £670
90th Percentile £688 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £440
% change year-on-year -0.52% +8.52% -7.27%
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

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 46,817 27,571 40,801
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.17% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,459 17,717 26,128
10th Percentile £325 £289 £281
25th Percentile £414 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £492
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.36% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,118 1,192 3,003
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.58 £16.45
Median hourly rate £43.69 £27.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.16% -26.80% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -52 380 £520 +4.00% 71
London -51 202 £521 +2.56% 15
UK excluding London -20 185 £475 -0.52% 76
Work from Home -81 123 £519 +0.24% 47
North of England -51 64 £475 +2.15% 16
South East -44 41 £550 - 17
North West -29 33 £455 +1.11% 8
Midlands -44 28 £438 +8.83% 15
West Midlands -36 26 £450 -35.71% 6
South West -15 22 £525 -4.55% 12
Yorkshire -47 21 £575 +27.78% 3
Scotland +2 20 £425 -5.35% 6
North East -36 10 £450 -4.76% 5
East of England -26 9 £526 +10.79% 2
East Midlands -24 2 £425 +5.99% 9
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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.

1 448 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 223 (49.78%) React
3 174 (38.84%) CI/CD
4 158 (35.27%) JavaScript
5 157 (35.04%) AWS
6 156 (34.82%) Python
7 155 (34.60%) Agile
8 153 (34.15%) TypeScript
9 133 (29.69%) Java
10 131 (29.24%) Node.js
11 126 (28.13%) Azure
12 106 (23.66%) Security Cleared
13 101 (22.54%) DevOps
14 94 (20.98%) Docker
14 94 (20.98%) SQL
15 91 (20.31%) SC Cleared
16 89 (19.87%) AngularJS
16 89 (19.87%) Microservices
17 86 (19.20%) PostgreSQL
18 80 (17.86%) .NET
19 74 (16.52%) Spring
20 73 (16.29%) Containerisation
21 72 (16.07%) REST
21 72 (16.07%) RESTful
22 68 (15.18%) Git
23 67 (14.96%) C#
24 60 (13.39%) Test Automation
25 58 (12.95%) Spring Boot
26 57 (12.72%) AI
26 57 (12.72%) 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 15 (3.35%) Confluence
2 7 (1.56%) CMS
3 4 (0.89%) Camunda
3 4 (0.89%) nginx
4 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.45%) IIS
5 2 (0.45%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Shopify
2 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 157 (35.04%) AWS
2 126 (28.13%) Azure
3 53 (11.83%) Serverless
4 47 (10.49%) GitHub
5 39 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (5.80%) GCP
9 21 (4.69%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (2.68%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.23%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (2.01%) Figma
13 9 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.79%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) Firewall
1 2 (0.45%) HTTP
2 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.22%) RTMP
2 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (19.20%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (8.04%) Relational Database
3 32 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 29 (6.47%) NoSQL
5 21 (4.69%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.79%) MySQL
7 13 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.68%) Power BI
9 11 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.46%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.46%) Redis
10 9 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.12%) Metadata
11 5 (1.12%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.12%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.67%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.45%) Parquet
13 2 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 68 (15.18%) Git
2 29 (6.47%) GitLab
3 27 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.02%) JIRA
5 12 (2.68%) JUnit
6 7 (1.56%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.56%) Mocha
7 6 (1.34%) Mockito
7 6 (1.34%) NUnit
7 6 (1.34%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.89%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.89%) Jasmine
8 4 (0.89%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (0.89%) Postman
9 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.67%) Storybook
9 3 (0.67%) webpack
10 2 (0.45%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.45%) MSTest
General
1 77 (17.19%) Finance
2 66 (14.73%) Public Sector
3 52 (11.61%) Social Skills
4 34 (7.59%) Banking
5 26 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.79%) Front Office
7 8 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.34%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.12%) Advertising
9 5 (1.12%) Military
10 4 (0.89%) Retail
11 3 (0.67%) Legal
11 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.45%) Aviation
12 2 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.22%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.22%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (49.78%) React
2 131 (29.24%) Node.js
3 89 (19.87%) AngularJS
4 80 (17.86%) .NET
5 74 (16.52%) Spring
6 72 (16.07%) REST
6 72 (16.07%) RESTful
7 58 (12.95%) Spring Boot
8 57 (12.72%) CSS
9 54 (12.05%) HTML
10 43 (9.60%) Vue
11 39 (8.71%) Kafka
12 26 (5.80%) Redux
13 24 (5.36%) Django
13 24 (5.36%) Jest
14 23 (5.13%) Flask
14 23 (5.13%) Next.js
15 22 (4.91%) .NET Core
15 22 (4.91%) .NET Framework
15 22 (4.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.90%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.34%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.12%) Derivative
11 4 (0.89%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.89%) NHS
12 3 (0.67%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
14 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.01%) Linux
2 3 (0.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 174 (38.84%) CI/CD
3 155 (34.60%) Agile
4 101 (22.54%) DevOps
5 89 (19.87%) Microservices
6 73 (16.29%) Containerisation
7 60 (13.39%) Test Automation
8 57 (12.72%) AI
8 57 (12.72%) Front End Development
9 49 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (10.27%) Software Engineering
11 42 (9.38%) Scrum
12 36 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (7.59%) SDLC
14 32 (7.14%) API Design
15 31 (6.92%) Code Quality
16 30 (6.70%) Event-Driven
17 29 (6.47%) Data Modelling
18 28 (6.25%) API Development
18 28 (6.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 158 (35.27%) JavaScript
2 156 (34.82%) Python
3 153 (34.15%) TypeScript
4 133 (29.69%) Java
5 94 (20.98%) SQL
6 67 (14.96%) C#
7 9 (2.01%) Go
8 5 (1.12%) PHP
9 4 (0.89%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.89%) Bicep
9 4 (0.89%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.67%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.45%) Bash
11 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Scala
12 1 (0.22%) SOQL
12 1 (0.22%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 106 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.79%) Degree
4 11 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.81%) QA
2 32 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.23%) WCAG
4 2 (0.45%) HL7
5 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 94 (20.98%) Docker
2 4 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 38 (8.48%) Terraform
3 13 (2.90%) Grafana
4 7 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.89%) Argo
7 3 (0.67%) Ansible
8 1 (0.22%) Consul
8 1 (0.22%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 29 (6.47%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.79%) Oracle
3 6 (1.34%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.12%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.89%) Databricks
5 4 (0.89%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.89%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.67%) Adobe
6 3 (0.67%) Google
6 3 (0.67%) NEC
7 2 (0.45%) SAP
7 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.45%) Solace
7 2 (0.45%) Splunk
7 2 (0.45%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.22%) Confluent
8 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.22%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.22%) Workday
8 1 (0.22%) Xero