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 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 223 190
Rank change year-on-year -34 -33 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 407 365 587
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.16% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.25% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 277 474
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.70% -7.95%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 £690 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £498 £435
% change year-on-year -8.59% +14.43% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile - £36.05 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +30.38% -59.42%
75th Percentile £72.63 £40.63 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £41.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 35,445 29,208 41,662
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 92.89% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,347 17,858 27,594
10th Percentile £300 £296 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £495
% change year-on-year -0.84% -3.23% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,112 858 2,186
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -10.96% +4.29%
75th Percentile £61.18 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.52 £38.00
% change year-on-year -12.75% -17.05% +26.67%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -38 342 £500 -4.76% 173
London -14 183 £513 -6.82% 52
UK excluding London -45 157 £455 -8.59% 146
Work from Home -17 123 £460 -4.91% 91
North of England -35 61 £455 +1.11% 38
North West -8 43 £450 -9.18% 23
South East -46 34 £418 -33.20% 58
Midlands -36 22 £550 +10.00% 26
Scotland +12 18 £438 +2.94%
West Midlands -39 14 £450 -10.00% 13
East of England -5 11 £525 +20.00% 5
South West -17 11 £537 +21.66% 17
Yorkshire -56 10 £413 -12.00% 11
North East -11 8 £475 +58.33% 4
East Midlands -18 8 £600 +45.45% 13

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

For the 6 months to 31 January 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.

1 407 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 211 (51.84%) React
3 182 (44.72%) CI/CD
4 167 (41.03%) AWS
5 155 (38.08%) Agile
6 152 (37.35%) Java
7 143 (35.14%) TypeScript
8 134 (32.92%) JavaScript
9 123 (30.22%) Python
10 120 (29.48%) Node.js
11 106 (26.04%) AngularJS
12 104 (25.55%) Spring
13 102 (25.06%) Security Cleared
14 100 (24.57%) DevOps
14 100 (24.57%) Docker
15 97 (23.83%) Microservices
16 94 (23.10%) SQL
17 90 (22.11%) SC Cleared
18 89 (21.87%) Kubernetes
19 88 (21.62%) Azure
20 83 (20.39%) Git
21 82 (20.15%) HTML
22 80 (19.66%) GitHub
22 80 (19.66%) RESTful
23 79 (19.41%) CSS
24 76 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
24 76 (18.67%) Spring Boot
25 75 (18.43%) .NET
26 72 (17.69%) Containerisation
27 71 (17.44%) PostgreSQL

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 (4.91%) Confluence
2 15 (3.69%) CMS
3 9 (2.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.97%) Sitecore CMS
5 7 (1.72%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.23%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.98%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.74%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.49%) IIS
9 2 (0.49%) nginx
9 2 (0.49%) SAS
10 1 (0.25%) Camunda
10 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.25%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 167 (41.03%) AWS
2 88 (21.62%) Azure
3 80 (19.66%) GitHub
4 48 (11.79%) Serverless
5 37 (9.09%) GCP
5 37 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (7.13%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (5.16%) OpenShift
8 18 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.93%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (2.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (1.97%) Azure Functions
11 8 (1.97%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.72%) Kontent
13 6 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.70%) SSL
2 6 (1.47%) VPN
3 2 (0.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (17.44%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (11.06%) NoSQL
3 31 (7.62%) MongoDB
4 30 (7.37%) SQL Server
5 28 (6.88%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (3.69%) MySQL
7 9 (2.21%) Redis
8 8 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.97%) Power BI
9 7 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.72%) DocumentDB
9 7 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.74%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.49%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (20.39%) Git
2 32 (7.86%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.13%) GitLab
3 29 (7.13%) JUnit
4 23 (5.65%) JIRA
5 14 (3.44%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.95%) Cucumber
7 11 (2.70%) JMeter
8 9 (2.21%) Mocha
9 8 (1.97%) Mockito
9 8 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.47%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.47%) Storybook
11 4 (0.98%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.74%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.74%) Vite
12 3 (0.74%) webpack
13 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.49%) git-flow
General
1 80 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 65 (15.97%) Finance
3 52 (12.78%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.63%) Banking
5 24 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.21%) Investment Banking
7 8 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.47%) Front Office
9 6 (1.47%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (1.23%) Retail
10 5 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.98%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.98%) Marketing
12 3 (0.74%) Aviation
12 3 (0.74%) Electronics
12 3 (0.74%) Military
12 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (51.84%) React
2 120 (29.48%) Node.js
3 106 (26.04%) AngularJS
4 104 (25.55%) Spring
5 82 (20.15%) HTML
6 80 (19.66%) RESTful
7 79 (19.41%) CSS
8 76 (18.67%) Spring Boot
9 75 (18.43%) .NET
10 60 (14.74%) REST
11 49 (12.04%) Next.js
12 43 (10.57%) Kafka
13 33 (8.11%) FastAPI
14 31 (7.62%) Jest
15 28 (6.88%) Playwright
16 23 (5.65%) Vue
17 21 (5.16%) .NET Framework
17 21 (5.16%) ASP.NET
17 21 (5.16%) Hibernate
17 21 (5.16%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.69%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.98%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.74%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.74%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.74%) Derivative
11 3 (0.74%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.74%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.49%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.49%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.16%) Linux
2 6 (1.47%) Unix
3 4 (0.98%) Windows
4 3 (0.74%) CentOS
4 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 182 (44.72%) CI/CD
3 155 (38.08%) Agile
4 100 (24.57%) DevOps
5 97 (23.83%) Microservices
6 76 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (17.69%) Containerisation
8 54 (13.27%) AI
8 54 (13.27%) Front End Development
9 50 (12.29%) Test Automation
10 43 (10.57%) Scrum
11 39 (9.58%) TDD
11 39 (9.58%) User Experience
12 38 (9.34%) Software Engineering
13 36 (8.85%) API Development
14 35 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (8.11%) Code Quality
16 30 (7.37%) Event-Driven
17 29 (7.13%) Clean Code
18 27 (6.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 152 (37.35%) Java
2 143 (35.14%) TypeScript
3 134 (32.92%) JavaScript
4 123 (30.22%) Python
5 94 (23.10%) SQL
6 56 (13.76%) C#
7 11 (2.70%) Ruby
8 7 (1.72%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.47%) PHP
10 5 (1.23%) Bash
11 4 (0.98%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.74%) C
12 3 (0.74%) Go
12 3 (0.74%) Perl
12 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.49%) ABAP
13 2 (0.49%) C++
13 2 (0.49%) Groovy
13 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 102 (25.06%) Security Cleared
2 90 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.91%) Degree
4 13 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.63%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.69%) QA
3 14 (3.44%) WCAG
4 1 (0.25%) GDPR
4 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 100 (24.57%) Docker
2 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.74%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 89 (21.87%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.90%) Terraform
3 14 (3.44%) Ansible
4 12 (2.95%) Grafana
5 11 (2.70%) Argo
6 8 (1.97%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.47%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.49%) Kibana
9 1 (0.25%) Podman
9 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 22 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.18%) Oracle
3 16 (3.93%) Google
4 15 (3.69%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.70%) Adobe
6 9 (2.21%) Sitecore
7 8 (1.97%) VMware
8 5 (1.23%) SAP
9 4 (0.98%) Cisco
9 4 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.74%) Splunk
11 2 (0.49%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.25%) Databricks
12 1 (0.25%) Okta
12 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.25%) Siemens
12 1 (0.25%) Sybase
12 1 (0.25%) TIBCO