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 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 210 167
Rank change year-on-year -53 -43 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 438 371 592
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.27% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.38% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 295 476
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £618 £675
90th Percentile £650 £690 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £438
% change year-on-year -1.04% +9.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile £35.00 - £53.13
Median hourly rate £58.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
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 44,361 26,969 39,513
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.35% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,167 17,560 25,723
10th Percentile £325 £294 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -3.40%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,886 1,047 2,672
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.29
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.45% -23.29% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.38 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.90% -32.19% -5.88%

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 19 May 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 19 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 14 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 19 May 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 -43 371 £500 -1.72% 116
London -54 190 £521 -0.86% 30
UK excluding London -32 186 £475 -1.04% 100
Work from Home -70 121 £500 -1.48% 62
North of England -32 77 £475 +2.15% 34
North West -19 45 £455 -8.59% 13
South East -55 33 £550 - 26
West Midlands -38 28 £450 -12.62% 6
Midlands -49 28 £450 -10.45% 15
South West -10 21 £525 +8.47% 13
Yorkshire -44 20 £575 +24.32% 13
Scotland +2 19 £425 -3.63% 5
North East -15 12 £475 +2.70% 8
East of England -25 8 £538 +53.75% 8

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 438 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 208 (47.49%) React
3 166 (37.90%) CI/CD
4 161 (36.76%) AWS
5 155 (35.39%) Agile
6 146 (33.33%) Python
7 143 (32.65%) JavaScript
8 139 (31.74%) TypeScript
9 133 (30.37%) Java
10 131 (29.91%) Node.js
11 123 (28.08%) Azure
12 110 (25.11%) Security Cleared
13 104 (23.74%) DevOps
14 98 (22.37%) Docker
15 94 (21.46%) Microservices
16 92 (21.00%) SC Cleared
17 91 (20.78%) AngularJS
18 87 (19.86%) Spring
19 86 (19.63%) SQL
20 73 (16.67%) .NET
20 73 (16.67%) Containerisation
21 72 (16.44%) RESTful
21 72 (16.44%) Spring Boot
22 71 (16.21%) PostgreSQL
23 66 (15.07%) Git
24 64 (14.61%) Test Automation
25 62 (14.16%) REST
26 61 (13.93%) C#
27 58 (13.24%) HTML
28 57 (13.01%) Kubernetes

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 (4.79%) Confluence
2 7 (1.60%) CMS
3 4 (0.91%) Camunda
4 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 161 (36.76%) AWS
2 123 (28.08%) Azure
3 54 (12.33%) GitHub
4 51 (11.64%) Serverless
5 38 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (6.62%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (6.39%) GCP
8 22 (5.02%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 11 (2.51%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (2.28%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.83%) Figma
13 8 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (1.60%) Anthropic Claude
15 6 (1.37%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.60%) SSL
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.46%) HTTP
2 2 (0.46%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (16.21%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.45%) NoSQL
3 35 (7.99%) SQL Server
4 25 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.97%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.97%) MySQL
6 11 (2.51%) Power BI
7 10 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.05%) Redis
9 7 (1.60%) DocumentDB
10 5 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.14%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.14%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.91%) Metadata
12 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 66 (15.07%) Git
2 28 (6.39%) GitLab
2 28 (6.39%) Jenkins
3 23 (5.25%) JIRA
4 13 (2.97%) JUnit
5 9 (2.05%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.83%) Mocha
7 7 (1.60%) Jasmine
8 6 (1.37%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.37%) NUnit
9 5 (1.14%) Mockito
9 5 (1.14%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.91%) Postman
10 4 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.68%) Storybook
12 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.46%) git-flow
12 2 (0.46%) MSTest
General
1 67 (15.30%) Finance
2 63 (14.38%) Public Sector
3 47 (10.73%) Social Skills
4 27 (6.16%) Banking
5 21 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.20%) Front Office
7 6 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.91%) Advertising
9 3 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.68%) Legal
9 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.46%) Aviation
10 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.46%) Retail
11 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.23%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (47.49%) React
2 131 (29.91%) Node.js
3 91 (20.78%) AngularJS
4 87 (19.86%) Spring
5 73 (16.67%) .NET
6 72 (16.44%) RESTful
6 72 (16.44%) Spring Boot
7 62 (14.16%) REST
8 58 (13.24%) HTML
9 55 (12.56%) CSS
10 44 (10.05%) Kafka
11 41 (9.36%) Vue
12 28 (6.39%) Next.js
13 27 (6.16%) Jest
14 26 (5.94%) YAML
15 25 (5.71%) Redux
16 24 (5.48%) FastAPI
16 24 (5.48%) Flask
17 23 (5.25%) Django
17 23 (5.25%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.73%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.88%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.74%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.37%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.91%) NHS
12 3 (0.68%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.68%) Derivative
12 3 (0.68%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
14 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.23%) Equity Derivative
14 1 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.83%) Linux
2 3 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 166 (37.90%) CI/CD
3 155 (35.39%) Agile
4 104 (23.74%) DevOps
5 94 (21.46%) Microservices
6 73 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 64 (14.61%) Test Automation
8 54 (12.33%) Front End Development
9 50 (11.42%) AI
10 48 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (9.13%) Software Engineering
12 38 (8.68%) Scrum
13 36 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (7.53%) Event-Driven
15 32 (7.31%) API Design
16 31 (7.08%) User Experience
17 30 (6.85%) SDLC
18 29 (6.62%) TDD
19 27 (6.16%) Code Quality
19 27 (6.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 146 (33.33%) Python
2 143 (32.65%) JavaScript
3 139 (31.74%) TypeScript
4 133 (30.37%) Java
5 86 (19.63%) SQL
6 61 (13.93%) C#
7 8 (1.83%) Go
8 5 (1.14%) PHP
9 4 (0.91%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.91%) Bicep
9 4 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.23%) ABAP
12 1 (0.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.23%) SOQL
12 1 (0.23%) SOSL
12 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 110 (25.11%) Security Cleared
2 92 (21.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.20%) Degree
4 7 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.91%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.68%) 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 (7.99%) Accessibility
2 26 (5.94%) QA
3 12 (2.74%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 98 (22.37%) Docker
2 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.68%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (13.01%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.53%) Terraform
3 14 (3.20%) Grafana
4 10 (2.28%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.68%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (5.94%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.65%) Oracle
3 6 (1.37%) Adobe
4 5 (1.14%) Splunk
5 4 (0.91%) Databricks
5 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.91%) Sitecore
5 4 (0.91%) Virgin Media
6 3 (0.68%) NEC
6 3 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.46%) SAP
7 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.23%) Brio
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) Solace
8 1 (0.23%) Workday
8 1 (0.23%) Xero