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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 215 174
Rank change year-on-year -51 -41 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 444 374 582
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.28% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.38% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 300 477
10th Percentile £363 £362 £325
25th Percentile £413 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -1.90% -4.65%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £675
90th Percentile £650 £694 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £480 £438
% change year-on-year -1.46% +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 43,629 27,082 40,416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.55% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,928 17,690 26,310
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £492
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.46% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,807 1,034 2,664
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.15 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -20.37% -19.07%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year +62.36% -29.20% -6.94%

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 1 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 1 May 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 1 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 -42 380 £500 -2.91% 97
London -34 195 £521 -0.86% 28
UK excluding London -27 189 £473 -1.46% 85
Work from Home -61 121 £501 +0.25% 58
North of England -31 74 £465 - 25
North West -19 45 £455 -9.00% 9
South East -53 39 £550 - 28
Midlands -62 29 £450 -0.22% 9
West Midlands -45 28 £450 -11.33% 5
Scotland +3 19 £425 -3.63% 5
South West -18 17 £525 +19.05% 13
Yorkshire -46 17 £500 +14.29% 10
North East -13 12 £475 +2.70% 6
East of England -21 11 £525 +50.00% 6
East Midlands -33 1 £600 +49.25% 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 444 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 214 (48.20%) React
3 178 (40.09%) CI/CD
4 175 (39.41%) AWS
5 161 (36.26%) Agile
6 144 (32.43%) Java
6 144 (32.43%) Python
7 143 (32.21%) TypeScript
8 142 (31.98%) JavaScript
9 136 (30.63%) Node.js
10 127 (28.60%) Azure
11 119 (26.80%) Security Cleared
12 110 (24.77%) DevOps
13 105 (23.65%) Docker
14 102 (22.97%) SC Cleared
15 100 (22.52%) Microservices
16 96 (21.62%) AngularJS
17 95 (21.40%) Spring
18 94 (21.17%) SQL
19 82 (18.47%) PostgreSQL
20 77 (17.34%) Spring Boot
21 76 (17.12%) RESTful
22 75 (16.89%) .NET
22 75 (16.89%) Containerisation
23 71 (15.99%) Git
24 67 (15.09%) Kubernetes
25 66 (14.86%) GitHub
26 65 (14.64%) REST
26 65 (14.64%) Test Automation
27 62 (13.96%) C#

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 (4.50%) Confluence
2 8 (1.80%) CMS
3 4 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.90%) Camunda
3 4 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.68%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.45%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 175 (39.41%) AWS
2 127 (28.60%) Azure
3 66 (14.86%) GitHub
4 54 (12.16%) Serverless
5 38 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (7.43%) GCP
7 32 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (4.95%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 12 (2.70%) Azure Functions
10 11 (2.48%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.25%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.80%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.58%) SSL
2 2 (0.45%) Firewall
2 2 (0.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (18.47%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (9.23%) NoSQL
3 32 (7.21%) MongoDB
3 32 (7.21%) SQL Server
4 27 (6.08%) Relational Database
5 18 (4.05%) MySQL
6 13 (2.93%) DynamoDB
6 13 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.48%) Power BI
9 10 (2.25%) Redis
10 7 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.58%) DocumentDB
11 5 (1.13%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.13%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.90%) Metadata
13 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 71 (15.99%) Git
2 38 (8.56%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.31%) GitLab
4 23 (5.18%) JIRA
5 22 (4.95%) JUnit
6 9 (2.03%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.03%) Mocha
7 7 (1.58%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.58%) Jasmine
7 7 (1.58%) JMeter
7 7 (1.58%) Mockito
8 6 (1.35%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.35%) NUnit
9 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.13%) Storybook
9 5 (1.13%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.90%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.68%) Postman
General
1 71 (15.99%) Finance
2 67 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 52 (11.71%) Social Skills
4 27 (6.08%) Banking
5 21 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.15%) Front Office
7 6 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.90%) Advertising
9 3 (0.68%) Aviation
9 3 (0.68%) Marketing
9 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.45%) Electronics
10 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Legal
11 1 (0.23%) Military
11 1 (0.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (48.20%) React
2 136 (30.63%) Node.js
3 96 (21.62%) AngularJS
4 95 (21.40%) Spring
5 77 (17.34%) Spring Boot
6 76 (17.12%) RESTful
7 75 (16.89%) .NET
8 65 (14.64%) REST
9 57 (12.84%) HTML
10 55 (12.39%) CSS
11 49 (11.04%) Kafka
12 39 (8.78%) Vue
13 30 (6.76%) Next.js
14 28 (6.31%) Jest
15 27 (6.08%) YAML
16 26 (5.86%) GraphQL
17 24 (5.41%) FastAPI
17 24 (5.41%) Flask
17 24 (5.41%) Playwright
17 24 (5.41%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.60%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.70%) Fixed Income
3 12 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.58%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.90%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.68%) Derivative
11 3 (0.68%) NHS
11 3 (0.68%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.23%) Equity Derivative
13 1 (0.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.15%) Linux
2 3 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 178 (40.09%) CI/CD
3 161 (36.26%) Agile
4 110 (24.77%) DevOps
5 100 (22.52%) Microservices
6 75 (16.89%) Containerisation
7 65 (14.64%) Test Automation
8 58 (13.06%) Front End Development
9 53 (11.94%) AI
10 49 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (9.23%) Software Engineering
12 40 (9.01%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (8.33%) Scrum
14 34 (7.66%) User Experience
15 33 (7.43%) SDLC
16 32 (7.21%) Event-Driven
17 30 (6.76%) API Development
17 30 (6.76%) TDD
18 28 (6.31%) Code Quality
19 27 (6.08%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 144 (32.43%) Java
1 144 (32.43%) Python
2 143 (32.21%) TypeScript
3 142 (31.98%) JavaScript
4 94 (21.17%) SQL
5 62 (13.96%) C#
6 8 (1.80%) Go
7 5 (1.13%) PHP
8 4 (0.90%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.90%) Bicep
8 4 (0.90%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) SOQL
11 1 (0.23%) SOSL
11 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 119 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 102 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.15%) Degree
4 7 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.90%) 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 (7.88%) Accessibility
2 25 (5.63%) QA
3 12 (2.70%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 105 (23.65%) Docker
2 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.68%) ISA Server
2 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.66%) Terraform
3 14 (3.15%) Grafana
4 11 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.58%) Ansible
6 5 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Argo
8 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.05%) Oracle
3 7 (1.58%) Adobe
4 5 (1.13%) Sitecore
4 5 (1.13%) Splunk
4 5 (1.13%) VMware
5 4 (0.90%) Databricks
5 4 (0.90%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.90%) SAP
6 3 (0.68%) Google
6 3 (0.68%) NEC
6 3 (0.68%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.45%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.45%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) Solace
8 1 (0.23%) Workday
8 1 (0.23%) Xero