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 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 213 178
Rank change year-on-year -62 -35 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 440 377 587
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.30% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.41% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 294 469
10th Percentile £363 £351 £325
25th Percentile £413 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -6.93% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £675
90th Percentile £674 £709 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £450
% change year-on-year -2.21% +7.94% -5.21%
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 45,608 26,825 40,003
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.39% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,789 17,300 25,804
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £403 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -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 3,038 1,097 2,862
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.39% -36.94% -5.88%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -46 373 £508 - 110
London -56 197 £521 -0.86% 28
UK excluding London -31 184 £475 -2.21% 92
Work from Home -86 119 £500 -3.85% 67
North of England -43 70 £470 +2.23% 27
North West -24 38 £455 +1.11% 15
South East -49 36 £550 - 29
Midlands -40 27 £450 -11.76% 14
West Midlands -38 26 £450 -35.71% 8
South West -10 22 £525 -4.55% 15
Scotland -1 20 £425 -7.21% 4
Yorkshire -55 20 £575 +24.32% 9
North East -22 12 £463 -0.54% 3
East of England -26 8 £538 +13.29% 2
Northern Ireland +2 1 - -
East Midlands -28 1 £425 +5.72% 6

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 440 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 216 (49.09%) React
3 172 (39.09%) CI/CD
4 157 (35.68%) Agile
5 156 (35.45%) AWS
6 153 (34.77%) JavaScript
6 153 (34.77%) Python
7 146 (33.18%) TypeScript
8 131 (29.77%) Java
9 130 (29.55%) Node.js
10 125 (28.41%) Azure
11 106 (24.09%) Security Cleared
12 103 (23.41%) DevOps
13 97 (22.05%) Docker
14 93 (21.14%) SC Cleared
15 91 (20.68%) SQL
16 89 (20.23%) Microservices
17 87 (19.77%) AngularJS
18 81 (18.41%) .NET
19 78 (17.73%) Spring
20 75 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
21 71 (16.14%) Containerisation
22 69 (15.68%) Git
22 69 (15.68%) REST
23 68 (15.45%) RESTful
24 67 (15.23%) C#
25 63 (14.32%) Spring Boot
25 63 (14.32%) Test Automation
26 58 (13.18%) CSS
26 58 (13.18%) 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 18 (4.09%) Confluence
2 7 (1.59%) CMS
3 4 (0.91%) Camunda
4 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.45%) IIS
5 2 (0.45%) nginx
5 2 (0.45%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Shopify
2 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 156 (35.45%) AWS
2 125 (28.41%) Azure
3 54 (12.27%) GitHub
4 52 (11.82%) Serverless
5 40 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.36%) GCP
8 21 (4.77%) Amazon S3
9 13 (2.95%) Power Platform
10 12 (2.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (2.50%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.05%) Figma
13 8 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.59%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.91%) SSL
2 2 (0.45%) Firewall
2 2 (0.45%) HTTP
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.41%) SQL Server
3 30 (6.82%) NoSQL
4 28 (6.36%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.23%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.18%) MySQL
7 13 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.95%) Power BI
8 11 (2.50%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.82%) Redis
12 5 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.14%) DocumentDB
12 5 (1.14%) Metadata
12 5 (1.14%) Neo4j
12 5 (1.14%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 69 (15.68%) Git
2 30 (6.82%) GitLab
3 28 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 20 (4.55%) JIRA
5 14 (3.18%) JUnit
6 9 (2.05%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.05%) Mocha
7 6 (1.36%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.36%) Mockito
7 6 (1.36%) NUnit
8 5 (1.14%) Jasmine
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
10 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.68%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.68%) git-flow
10 3 (0.68%) Storybook
10 3 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 75 (17.05%) Finance
2 59 (13.41%) Public Sector
3 51 (11.59%) Social Skills
4 31 (7.05%) Banking
5 27 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.18%) Front Office
7 9 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.91%) Advertising
8 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
8 4 (0.91%) Retail
9 3 (0.68%) Legal
9 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.45%) Aviation
10 2 (0.45%) Military
10 2 (0.45%) 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%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (49.09%) React
2 130 (29.55%) Node.js
3 87 (19.77%) AngularJS
4 81 (18.41%) .NET
5 78 (17.73%) Spring
6 69 (15.68%) REST
7 68 (15.45%) RESTful
8 63 (14.32%) Spring Boot
9 58 (13.18%) CSS
9 58 (13.18%) HTML
10 41 (9.32%) Kafka
11 40 (9.09%) Vue
12 26 (5.91%) Jest
13 25 (5.68%) Next.js
14 24 (5.45%) Django
14 24 (5.45%) Redux
14 24 (5.45%) YAML
15 22 (5.00%) .NET Framework
15 22 (5.00%) FastAPI
15 22 (5.00%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.68%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (2.73%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.36%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.91%) Derivative
10 4 (0.91%) NHS
11 3 (0.68%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.68%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.82%) Linux
2 3 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 172 (39.09%) CI/CD
3 157 (35.68%) Agile
4 103 (23.41%) DevOps
5 89 (20.23%) Microservices
6 71 (16.14%) Containerisation
7 63 (14.32%) Test Automation
8 58 (13.18%) Front End Development
9 54 (12.27%) AI
10 49 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 41 (9.32%) Scrum
13 35 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (7.27%) Event-Driven
14 32 (7.27%) SDLC
15 31 (7.05%) API Design
15 31 (7.05%) Code Quality
16 30 (6.82%) User Experience
17 28 (6.36%) Mentoring
18 26 (5.91%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 153 (34.77%) JavaScript
1 153 (34.77%) Python
2 146 (33.18%) TypeScript
3 131 (29.77%) Java
4 91 (20.68%) SQL
5 67 (15.23%) C#
6 9 (2.05%) Go
7 4 (0.91%) Apex Code
7 4 (0.91%) Bicep
7 4 (0.91%) Kotlin
7 4 (0.91%) PHP
8 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.23%) Bash
10 1 (0.23%) PromQL
10 1 (0.23%) SOQL
10 1 (0.23%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 106 (24.09%) Security Cleared
2 93 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.86%) Degree
4 11 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (0.91%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.95%) Accessibility
2 29 (6.59%) QA
3 11 (2.50%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 97 (22.05%) Docker
2 4 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 53 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 35 (7.95%) Terraform
3 14 (3.18%) Grafana
4 9 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.91%) Argo
7 3 (0.68%) Ansible
8 1 (0.23%) Consul
8 1 (0.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 27 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.86%) Oracle
3 4 (0.91%) Adobe
3 4 (0.91%) Databricks
3 4 (0.91%) OpenAI
3 4 (0.91%) Red Hat
3 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
3 4 (0.91%) Sitecore
4 3 (0.68%) Google
4 3 (0.68%) NEC
4 3 (0.68%) Splunk
5 2 (0.45%) SAP
5 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.45%) Solace
5 2 (0.45%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.23%) Brio
6 1 (0.23%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.23%) Workday
6 1 (0.23%) Xero