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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 207 208
Rank change year-on-year -55 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 366 430 530
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.17% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.26% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 314 418
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £406 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £637
90th Percentile £650 £700 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -7.69% +14.71% -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% -31.53%
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 32,869 34,044 42,453
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 92.79% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,808 20,593 28,688
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £401 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £649
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,928 1,258 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.12
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £56.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +81.52%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -52 300 £500 -9.09% 241
London -23 169 £511 -9.19% 63
UK excluding London -83 131 £450 -7.69% 219
Work from Home -32 121 £500 - 103
North of England -55 33 £450 - 31
South East -34 30 £413 -34.00% 78
Scotland 0 22 £450 +5.88% 6
Midlands -21 20 £475 +0.53% 43
North West -22 19 £401 -10.34% 15
East of England -3 14 £525 +90.91% 18
East Midlands -5 12 £550 +33.33% 14
South West -8 12 £550 +23.46% 35
Yorkshire -59 9 £500 +11.11% 10
West Midlands -30 8 £400 -23.81% 28
North East -4 5 £500 +42.86% 6

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 366 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 189 (51.64%) React
3 173 (47.27%) CI/CD
4 159 (43.44%) AWS
5 152 (41.53%) TypeScript
6 150 (40.98%) Agile
7 135 (36.89%) JavaScript
8 128 (34.97%) Java
9 118 (32.24%) Python
10 104 (28.42%) Node.js
11 101 (27.60%) AngularJS
12 100 (27.32%) SQL
13 97 (26.50%) Azure
14 90 (24.59%) Docker
15 87 (23.77%) DevOps
15 87 (23.77%) Kubernetes
16 86 (23.50%) Microservices
17 82 (22.40%) HTML
18 80 (21.86%) PostgreSQL
19 79 (21.58%) CSS
20 76 (20.77%) Git
21 75 (20.49%) Security Cleared
22 74 (20.22%) Spring
23 70 (19.13%) .NET
24 69 (18.85%) RESTful
25 67 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
25 67 (18.31%) SC Cleared
26 57 (15.57%) Containerisation
27 56 (15.30%) REST
28 55 (15.03%) C#

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 (3.83%) CMS
2 13 (3.55%) Confluence
3 9 (2.46%) Headless CMS
4 7 (1.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (1.37%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.37%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.55%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.55%) Camunda
7 2 (0.55%) Moodle
7 2 (0.55%) nginx
7 2 (0.55%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) Solana
8 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) Magento
2 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 159 (43.44%) AWS
2 97 (26.50%) Azure
3 53 (14.48%) GitHub
4 45 (12.30%) Serverless
5 38 (10.38%) GCP
6 27 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (6.01%) OpenShift
8 18 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.64%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.91%) Kontent
13 7 (1.91%) npm
13 7 (1.91%) SaaS
14 6 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.19%) SSL
2 5 (1.37%) HTTP
3 4 (1.09%) DNS
3 4 (1.09%) VPN
4 3 (0.82%) DHCP
4 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (21.86%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (12.30%) NoSQL
3 38 (10.38%) MongoDB
4 28 (7.65%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.28%) SQL Server
6 22 (6.01%) MySQL
7 10 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.73%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.64%) Power BI
9 6 (1.64%) Redis
10 4 (1.09%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.55%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (20.77%) Git
2 32 (8.74%) JUnit
3 29 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 25 (6.83%) JIRA
5 23 (6.28%) GitLab
6 17 (4.64%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.01%) JMeter
7 11 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (2.73%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.73%) Maven
9 9 (2.46%) Mockito
10 6 (1.64%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.64%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.37%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.37%) Selenium
11 5 (1.37%) Vite
11 5 (1.37%) webpack
12 4 (1.09%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.09%) SpecFlow
12 4 (1.09%) Storybook
General
1 80 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.49%) Finance
3 40 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.28%) Banking
5 22 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.55%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (2.73%) Front Office
9 8 (2.19%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.64%) Retail
12 5 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (1.37%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Electronics
14 3 (0.82%) Marketing
14 3 (0.82%) Military
15 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (51.64%) React
2 104 (28.42%) Node.js
3 101 (27.60%) AngularJS
4 82 (22.40%) HTML
5 79 (21.58%) CSS
6 74 (20.22%) Spring
7 70 (19.13%) .NET
8 69 (18.85%) RESTful
9 56 (15.30%) REST
10 53 (14.48%) Spring Boot
11 48 (13.11%) Next.js
12 34 (9.29%) Kafka
13 32 (8.74%) Vue
14 27 (7.38%) Hibernate
15 25 (6.83%) Jest
16 24 (6.56%) FastAPI
17 23 (6.28%) .NET Framework
18 21 (5.74%) GraphQL
19 19 (5.19%) .NET Core
20 18 (4.92%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.55%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.19%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.19%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.91%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.91%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.09%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.82%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.82%) Equities
10 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.10%) Linux
2 9 (2.46%) 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
1 366 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 173 (47.27%) CI/CD
3 150 (40.98%) Agile
4 87 (23.77%) DevOps
5 86 (23.50%) Microservices
6 67 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (15.57%) Containerisation
8 51 (13.93%) Front End Development
9 48 (13.11%) AI
10 43 (11.75%) TDD
11 42 (11.48%) Test Automation
12 37 (10.11%) Software Engineering
13 36 (9.84%) Clean Code
14 33 (9.02%) Code Quality
15 30 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (8.20%) User Experience
16 28 (7.65%) API Development
17 27 (7.38%) Design Patterns
17 27 (7.38%) MVC
18 26 (7.10%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 152 (41.53%) TypeScript
2 135 (36.89%) JavaScript
3 128 (34.97%) Java
4 118 (32.24%) Python
5 100 (27.32%) SQL
6 55 (15.03%) C#
7 14 (3.83%) Ruby
8 9 (2.46%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.19%) Bash
9 8 (2.19%) C++
10 7 (1.91%) PHP
11 6 (1.64%) Perl
11 6 (1.64%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.09%) Go
12 4 (1.09%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.82%) Bicep
13 3 (0.82%) C
13 3 (0.82%) Cypher
13 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 67 (18.31%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.28%) Degree
4 18 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) 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 (5.74%) QA
2 15 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.19%) 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 90 (24.59%) Docker
2 5 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 87 (23.77%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.01%) Terraform
3 15 (4.10%) Ansible
4 11 (3.01%) Argo
5 8 (2.19%) Grafana
5 8 (2.19%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.55%) Kibana
6 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Podman
7 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 28 (7.65%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.46%) Google
3 15 (4.10%) Oracle
3 15 (4.10%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.19%) VMware
5 7 (1.91%) Adobe
6 6 (1.64%) SAP
7 5 (1.37%) Sitecore
7 5 (1.37%) Virgin Media
8 4 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.09%) Cisco
8 4 (1.09%) Databricks
9 3 (0.82%) F5
9 3 (0.82%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.82%) Infoblox
9 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.82%) Okta
9 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.55%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.55%) Veracode