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 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 206 174
Rank change year-on-year -65 -32 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 437 365 577
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.25% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.35% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 292 473
10th Percentile £358 £358 £325
25th Percentile £409 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £675
90th Percentile £651 £686 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £492 £447
% change year-on-year -7.43% +9.96% -0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - £36.18
25th Percentile £35.00 - £45.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £53.75
75th Percentile £81.00 - £58.00
90th Percentile - - £63.40
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 42,318 27,076 40,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.68% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,340 17,810 26,699
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,659 966 2,580
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.95 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.12 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.54 £31.58 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.37% -9.77% -21.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £30.20 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.87% -13.71% -17.38%

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 10 April 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 10 April 2026.

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 10 April 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 -42 376 £500 -4.76% 164
UK excluding London -33 192 £455 -7.43% 139
London -51 186 £521 -0.86% 43
Work from Home -61 121 £500 - 97
North of England -42 72 £455 -5.21% 45
North West -7 45 £455 -13.33% 22
South East -46 40 £550 - 38
Midlands -42 35 £450 -0.22% 21
West Midlands -43 31 £450 -11.33% 12
Scotland +14 18 £425 -1.85% 7
South West -17 16 £525 +19.05% 17
Yorkshire -50 15 £500 - 22
North East -11 12 £475 +2.70% 1
East of England -28 11 £525 +61.54% 10
East Midlands -31 4 £600 +49.25% 9

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 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.

1 437 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 221 (50.57%) React
3 185 (42.33%) CI/CD
4 176 (40.27%) AWS
5 162 (37.07%) Agile
6 152 (34.78%) Java
7 140 (32.04%) TypeScript
8 139 (31.81%) JavaScript
9 137 (31.35%) Node.js
9 137 (31.35%) Python
10 122 (27.92%) Azure
11 115 (26.32%) Security Cleared
12 109 (24.94%) Docker
13 108 (24.71%) DevOps
14 101 (23.11%) Spring
15 100 (22.88%) AngularJS
15 100 (22.88%) SQL
16 98 (22.43%) SC Cleared
17 95 (21.74%) Microservices
18 85 (19.45%) PostgreSQL
19 83 (18.99%) Spring Boot
20 75 (17.16%) RESTful
21 74 (16.93%) .NET
21 74 (16.93%) Containerisation
21 74 (16.93%) Git
21 74 (16.93%) Kubernetes
22 69 (15.79%) GitHub
23 64 (14.65%) REST
24 63 (14.42%) HTML
25 62 (14.19%) 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 20 (4.58%) Confluence
2 7 (1.60%) CMS
3 6 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.37%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.69%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.69%) IIS
4 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.69%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.46%) Camunda
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 176 (40.27%) AWS
2 122 (27.92%) Azure
3 69 (15.79%) GitHub
4 53 (12.13%) Serverless
5 38 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (8.47%) GCP
7 34 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (4.81%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (2.52%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.29%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (1.83%) Power Platform
15 7 (1.60%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (1.60%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (1.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.83%) SSL
2 3 (0.69%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) HTTP
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (19.45%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (11.21%) NoSQL
3 33 (7.55%) MongoDB
4 30 (6.86%) Relational Database
4 30 (6.86%) SQL Server
5 17 (3.89%) MySQL
6 14 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.97%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.29%) Redis
9 8 (1.83%) Power BI
10 7 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.60%) DocumentDB
11 5 (1.14%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.14%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.92%) Metadata
13 3 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 74 (16.93%) Git
2 38 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 25 (5.72%) JUnit
4 24 (5.49%) GitLab
5 23 (5.26%) JIRA
6 9 (2.06%) Mocha
7 8 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.83%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.83%) JMeter
8 7 (1.60%) Jasmine
9 6 (1.37%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.37%) Mockito
9 6 (1.37%) NUnit
9 6 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.37%) Storybook
10 5 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.14%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (0.92%) Postman
12 2 (0.46%) Claude Code
General
1 68 (15.56%) Finance
2 65 (14.87%) Public Sector
3 58 (13.27%) Social Skills
4 26 (5.95%) Banking
5 21 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.20%) Front Office
7 6 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.92%) Marketing
8 4 (0.92%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.69%) Aviation
9 3 (0.69%) Electronics
9 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Advertising
11 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Military
11 1 (0.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (50.57%) React
2 137 (31.35%) Node.js
3 101 (23.11%) Spring
4 100 (22.88%) AngularJS
5 83 (18.99%) Spring Boot
6 75 (17.16%) RESTful
7 74 (16.93%) .NET
8 64 (14.65%) REST
9 63 (14.42%) HTML
10 62 (14.19%) CSS
11 47 (10.76%) Kafka
12 35 (8.01%) Next.js
13 34 (7.78%) Vue
14 31 (7.09%) Jest
15 27 (6.18%) FastAPI
15 27 (6.18%) YAML
16 26 (5.95%) GraphQL
17 24 (5.49%) Playwright
18 23 (5.26%) Flask
19 22 (5.03%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.75%) Fixed Income
4 11 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.06%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.60%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.69%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.69%) Derivative
10 3 (0.69%) NHS
10 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.75%) Linux
2 3 (0.69%) Unix
3 2 (0.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 185 (42.33%) CI/CD
3 162 (37.07%) Agile
4 108 (24.71%) DevOps
5 95 (21.74%) Microservices
6 74 (16.93%) Containerisation
7 59 (13.50%) Front End Development
8 58 (13.27%) Test Automation
9 54 (12.36%) AI
9 54 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (8.92%) Scrum
10 39 (8.92%) Software Engineering
10 39 (8.92%) User Experience
11 38 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 37 (8.47%) TDD
13 35 (8.01%) API Development
14 32 (7.32%) Code Quality
15 30 (6.86%) SDLC
16 27 (6.18%) Event-Driven
17 24 (5.49%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 152 (34.78%) Java
2 140 (32.04%) TypeScript
3 139 (31.81%) JavaScript
4 137 (31.35%) Python
5 100 (22.88%) SQL
6 55 (12.59%) C#
7 8 (1.83%) Go
8 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.69%) PHP
9 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.46%) Bicep
10 2 (0.46%) Scala
10 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.23%) Bash
11 1 (0.23%) Julia
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) SOQL
11 1 (0.23%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 115 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 98 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.20%) Degree
4 7 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.01%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.43%) QA
3 13 (2.97%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 109 (24.94%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.69%) ISA Server
2 3 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (16.93%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.64%) Terraform
3 13 (2.97%) Grafana
4 11 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.83%) Ansible
6 6 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Argo
8 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (6.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.35%) Oracle
3 9 (2.06%) Adobe
4 7 (1.60%) Sitecore
5 6 (1.37%) SAP
5 6 (1.37%) VMware
6 4 (0.92%) Databricks
6 4 (0.92%) Google
6 4 (0.92%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.92%) Splunk
7 3 (0.69%) NEC
8 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco
9 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.23%) Sybase
9 1 (0.23%) Workday
9 1 (0.23%) Xero