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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 224 179
Rank change year-on-year -39 -45 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 412 359 599
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.15% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.24% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 274 482
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% +3.86% -8.09%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £475 £447
% change year-on-year -4.21% +6.26% -1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile - £36.05 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +30.38% -59.42%
75th Percentile £81.00 £40.63 -
90th Percentile - £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 35,834 28,947 41,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 92.90% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,581 17,764 27,572
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £406 £408 £410
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 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,159 838 2,289
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.98 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.54 £21.25 £16.54
Median hourly rate £29.65 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £61.25 £62.64 £61.60
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £73.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.77 £31.76 £36.00
% change year-on-year -12.56% -11.78% +10.77%

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 February 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 February 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 6 February 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 -35 345 £500 -4.76% 186
London -13 186 £511 -7.05% 51
UK excluding London -51 159 £455 -4.21% 160
Work from Home -33 124 £460 -3.16% 115
North of England -30 64 £455 +1.11% 40
North West -4 45 £450 -4.81% 22
South East -55 31 £423 -32.13% 65
Midlands -45 23 £550 +18.92% 25
Scotland +13 18 £438 +2.94% 2
West Midlands -38 15 £493 +6.49% 13
East of England -15 12 £525 +50.00% 5
South West -12 11 £537 +21.66% 20
Yorkshire -61 11 £400 -11.11% 11
North East -8 8 £475 +58.33% 7
East Midlands -22 8 £600 +45.45% 12

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

For the 6 months to 6 February 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.

1 412 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 212 (51.46%) React
3 181 (43.93%) CI/CD
4 169 (41.02%) AWS
5 158 (38.35%) Java
6 156 (37.86%) Agile
7 144 (34.95%) TypeScript
8 133 (32.28%) JavaScript
9 123 (29.85%) Node.js
10 122 (29.61%) Python
11 109 (26.46%) AngularJS
12 107 (25.97%) Spring
13 105 (25.49%) Security Cleared
14 103 (25.00%) Docker
15 102 (24.76%) Microservices
16 101 (24.51%) DevOps
17 92 (22.33%) Kubernetes
18 91 (22.09%) Azure
18 91 (22.09%) SC Cleared
18 91 (22.09%) SQL
19 83 (20.15%) Git
20 81 (19.66%) HTML
21 79 (19.17%) CSS
21 79 (19.17%) GitHub
21 79 (19.17%) RESTful
22 78 (18.93%) Spring Boot
23 75 (18.20%) .NET
23 75 (18.20%) PostgreSQL
23 75 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
24 74 (17.96%) Containerisation

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 (4.85%) Confluence
2 15 (3.64%) CMS
3 9 (2.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.94%) Sitecore CMS
5 7 (1.70%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.21%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.73%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.49%) IIS
9 2 (0.49%) SAS
10 1 (0.24%) Camunda
10 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.73%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 169 (41.02%) AWS
2 91 (22.09%) Azure
3 79 (19.17%) GitHub
4 47 (11.41%) Serverless
5 40 (9.71%) GCP
6 37 (8.98%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.10%) OpenShift
9 18 (4.37%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.18%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.70%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.70%) Kontent
13 6 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.67%) SSL
2 6 (1.46%) VPN
3 2 (0.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) DNS
4 1 (0.24%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (18.20%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (10.92%) NoSQL
3 31 (7.52%) MongoDB
4 29 (7.04%) SQL Server
5 27 (6.55%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.88%) MySQL
7 15 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.18%) Power BI
9 8 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.94%) Redis
10 7 (1.70%) DocumentDB
11 6 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.97%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.49%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (20.15%) Git
2 33 (8.01%) Jenkins
3 30 (7.28%) GitLab
4 29 (7.04%) JUnit
5 22 (5.34%) JIRA
6 14 (3.40%) Cypress.io
7 12 (2.91%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.67%) JMeter
9 9 (2.18%) Mocha
10 8 (1.94%) Mockito
10 8 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (1.46%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.46%) Storybook
12 4 (0.97%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.73%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.49%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.49%) Snyk
14 2 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 78 (18.93%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.48%) Finance
3 54 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.80%) Banking
5 20 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.94%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.70%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.46%) Front Office
8 6 (1.46%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.21%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (1.21%) Retail
9 5 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.97%) Marketing
11 3 (0.73%) Aviation
11 3 (0.73%) Electronics
11 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.73%) Military
11 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (51.46%) React
2 123 (29.85%) Node.js
3 109 (26.46%) AngularJS
4 107 (25.97%) Spring
5 81 (19.66%) HTML
6 79 (19.17%) CSS
6 79 (19.17%) RESTful
7 78 (18.93%) Spring Boot
8 75 (18.20%) .NET
9 61 (14.81%) REST
10 49 (11.89%) Next.js
11 42 (10.19%) Kafka
12 34 (8.25%) FastAPI
13 31 (7.52%) Jest
14 28 (6.80%) Playwright
15 26 (6.31%) Vue
16 21 (5.10%) .NET Framework
16 21 (5.10%) ASP.NET
16 21 (5.10%) Hibernate
16 21 (5.10%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.64%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.97%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.73%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.73%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.73%) Derivative
10 3 (0.73%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.49%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.49%) Life Science
11 2 (0.49%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.24%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.85%) Linux
2 6 (1.46%) Unix
3 4 (0.97%) Windows
4 3 (0.73%) CentOS
4 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 181 (43.93%) CI/CD
3 156 (37.86%) Agile
4 102 (24.76%) Microservices
5 101 (24.51%) DevOps
6 75 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (17.96%) Containerisation
8 54 (13.11%) AI
8 54 (13.11%) Front End Development
9 51 (12.38%) Test Automation
10 43 (10.44%) Scrum
11 41 (9.95%) Software Engineering
12 39 (9.47%) User Experience
13 38 (9.22%) TDD
14 36 (8.74%) API Development
14 36 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (8.01%) Code Quality
16 31 (7.52%) Event-Driven
17 28 (6.80%) Clean Code
17 28 (6.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 158 (38.35%) Java
2 144 (34.95%) TypeScript
3 133 (32.28%) JavaScript
4 122 (29.61%) Python
5 91 (22.09%) SQL
6 53 (12.86%) C#
7 9 (2.18%) Ruby
8 7 (1.70%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.46%) PHP
10 4 (0.97%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.97%) Bash
10 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.73%) C
11 3 (0.73%) Perl
11 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.49%) ABAP
12 2 (0.49%) Bicep
12 2 (0.49%) C++
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 105 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 91 (22.09%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.10%) Degree
4 13 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.80%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.40%) QA
2 14 (3.40%) WCAG
3 1 (0.24%) GDPR
System Software
1 103 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.73%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 92 (22.33%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.83%) Terraform
3 14 (3.40%) Ansible
3 14 (3.40%) Grafana
4 11 (2.67%) Argo
5 8 (1.94%) Progress Chef
5 8 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.49%) Kibana
7 1 (0.24%) Podman
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 24 (5.83%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.37%) Oracle
3 16 (3.88%) Google
4 15 (3.64%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.91%) Adobe
6 9 (2.18%) Sitecore
7 8 (1.94%) VMware
8 5 (1.21%) SAP
9 4 (0.97%) Cisco
9 4 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.73%) Splunk
11 2 (0.49%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.24%) Databricks
12 1 (0.24%) Okta
12 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.24%) Siemens
12 1 (0.24%) Sybase
12 1 (0.24%) Xero