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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 220 179
Rank change year-on-year -46 -41 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 428 349 585
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.20% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.29% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 280 478
10th Percentile £357 £358 £325
25th Percentile £412 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £651 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile - - £34.03
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £40.49
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -25.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £81.00 £39.50 £60.38
90th Percentile - - £64.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 40,577 26,954 41,100
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 92.86% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,287 17,764 26,916
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.18%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,523 918 2,518
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.19 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.41 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.20% -24.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.74 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.73 £76.53 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.63 £31.88 £32.90
% change year-on-year +21.17% -3.09% -21.31%

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 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -50 369 £500 -4.76% 164
London -40 188 £510 -2.86% 43
UK excluding London -42 182 £475 -5.00% 139
Work from Home -53 125 £505 +1.00% 97
North of England -39 67 £455 -6.71% 45
North West -13 42 £455 -13.33% 22
South East -53 39 £550 -2.22% 38
Midlands -39 38 £483 -4.93% 21
West Midlands -39 30 £450 -11.33% 12
Scotland +4 14 £438 +2.94% 7
Yorkshire -52 14 £500 - 22
South West -16 12 £563 +6.79% 17
East of England -22 12 £525 +50.00% 10
North East -6 11 £475 +2.15% 1
East Midlands - 8 £600 - 9

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

For the 6 months to 27 March 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.

1 428 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 215 (50.23%) React
3 186 (43.46%) CI/CD
4 162 (37.85%) AWS
5 159 (37.15%) Agile
6 147 (34.35%) Java
7 134 (31.31%) JavaScript
7 134 (31.31%) Python
7 134 (31.31%) TypeScript
8 127 (29.67%) Node.js
9 115 (26.87%) Azure
10 113 (26.40%) DevOps
11 112 (26.17%) Security Cleared
12 110 (25.70%) AngularJS
13 102 (23.83%) Docker
14 101 (23.60%) SQL
15 97 (22.66%) Spring
16 94 (21.96%) Microservices
17 93 (21.73%) SC Cleared
18 81 (18.93%) Spring Boot
19 80 (18.69%) .NET
19 80 (18.69%) PostgreSQL
20 78 (18.22%) Git
21 77 (17.99%) RESTful
22 72 (16.82%) Kubernetes
23 70 (16.36%) Containerisation
24 68 (15.89%) CSS
24 68 (15.89%) HTML
25 67 (15.65%) GitHub
26 61 (14.25%) 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 21 (4.91%) Confluence
2 14 (3.27%) CMS
3 8 (1.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.87%) Sitecore CMS
4 7 (1.64%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.17%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.70%) IIS
6 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.47%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 162 (37.85%) AWS
2 115 (26.87%) Azure
3 67 (15.65%) GitHub
4 51 (11.92%) Serverless
5 38 (8.88%) GCP
6 37 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (4.67%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 10 (2.34%) Azure Functions
11 10 (2.34%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.87%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (1.64%) Datadog
14 7 (1.64%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.10%) SSL
2 4 (0.93%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Internet
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (18.69%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (11.21%) NoSQL
3 34 (7.94%) SQL Server
4 32 (7.48%) MongoDB
5 29 (6.78%) Relational Database
6 14 (3.27%) DynamoDB
6 14 (3.27%) MySQL
7 13 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.87%) Power BI
9 8 (1.87%) Redis
10 7 (1.64%) DocumentDB
11 6 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.17%) Neo4j
12 5 (1.17%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.93%) Metadata
14 3 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.70%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 78 (18.22%) Git
2 35 (8.18%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.31%) JUnit
4 24 (5.61%) JIRA
5 23 (5.37%) GitLab
6 10 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.10%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.10%) Mocha
8 8 (1.87%) JMeter
8 8 (1.87%) Mockito
9 7 (1.64%) Jasmine
10 6 (1.40%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.40%) NUnit
10 6 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.40%) Storybook
11 5 (1.17%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.93%) Karma Test Runner
12 4 (0.93%) Postman
13 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 71 (16.59%) Finance
2 62 (14.49%) Public Sector
3 57 (13.32%) Social Skills
4 28 (6.54%) Banking
5 22 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.27%) Front Office
7 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 4 (0.93%) Marketing
8 4 (0.93%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.70%) Aviation
9 3 (0.70%) Electronics
9 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.47%) Military
10 2 (0.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (50.23%) React
2 127 (29.67%) Node.js
3 110 (25.70%) AngularJS
4 97 (22.66%) Spring
5 81 (18.93%) Spring Boot
6 80 (18.69%) .NET
7 77 (17.99%) RESTful
8 68 (15.89%) CSS
8 68 (15.89%) HTML
9 61 (14.25%) REST
10 46 (10.75%) Kafka
11 39 (9.11%) Next.js
12 33 (7.71%) Vue
13 30 (7.01%) YAML
14 28 (6.54%) ASP.NET
15 27 (6.31%) .NET Framework
15 27 (6.31%) FastAPI
15 27 (6.31%) GraphQL
15 27 (6.31%) Jest
16 26 (6.07%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.04%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.80%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.70%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.70%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.47%) Derivative
10 2 (0.47%) NHS
11 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.23%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.34%) Linux
2 2 (0.47%) Unix
2 2 (0.47%) Windows
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 186 (43.46%) CI/CD
3 159 (37.15%) Agile
4 113 (26.40%) DevOps
5 94 (21.96%) Microservices
6 70 (16.36%) Containerisation
7 58 (13.55%) Front End Development
8 55 (12.85%) AI
9 54 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (12.15%) Test Automation
11 42 (9.81%) User Experience
12 41 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (9.58%) Software Engineering
13 40 (9.35%) Scrum
14 37 (8.64%) API Development
15 33 (7.71%) TDD
16 28 (6.54%) SDLC
17 27 (6.31%) Code Quality
18 26 (6.07%) Unit Testing
19 25 (5.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 147 (34.35%) Java
2 134 (31.31%) JavaScript
2 134 (31.31%) Python
2 134 (31.31%) TypeScript
3 101 (23.60%) SQL
4 59 (13.79%) C#
5 8 (1.87%) Go
6 4 (0.93%) Apex Code
6 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.70%) Bicep
7 3 (0.70%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.47%) PHP
8 2 (0.47%) Scala
8 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.23%) ABAP
9 1 (0.23%) Bash
9 1 (0.23%) Korn
9 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 112 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 93 (21.73%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.50%) Degree
4 6 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.40%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.71%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.80%) WCAG
3 11 (2.57%) QA
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 102 (23.83%) Docker
2 3 (0.70%) ISA Server
2 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 72 (16.82%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.78%) Terraform
3 12 (2.80%) Grafana
4 10 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.87%) Ansible
6 6 (1.40%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Argo
8 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (5.37%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.14%) Oracle
3 11 (2.57%) Adobe
4 9 (2.10%) Sitecore
5 6 (1.40%) SAP
5 6 (1.40%) VMware
6 5 (1.17%) Databricks
6 5 (1.17%) Google
7 4 (0.93%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.93%) Splunk
8 3 (0.70%) NEC
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco
9 2 (0.47%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.23%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.23%) Siemens
10 1 (0.23%) Solace
10 1 (0.23%) Xero