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 2 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
2 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 239 198
Rank change year-on-year -85 -41 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 401 367 497
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 1.13% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.24% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 276 384
10th Percentile £372 £333 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £577 £650
90th Percentile £641 £689 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £450 £461
% change year-on-year +5.89% -2.44% +8.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile - £62.80 -
25th Percentile - £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile £63.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -

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 49,539 29,677 35,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.24% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,564 18,735 22,669
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,586 1,552 1,836
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.89 £53.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.95
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.78% +11.13%

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 2 September 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 2 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 2 September 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 -67 331 £500 - 223
London -54 192 £520 +1.46% 116
UK excluding London -75 144 £477 +5.89% 147
Work from Home -93 113 £475 -5.00% 119
North of England -71 45 £500 +8.11% 52
South East -41 37 £500 - 26
South West -25 24 £525 +8.47% 17
Yorkshire -30 22 £575 +22.67% 18
Scotland -30 19 £425 -5.56% 11
North West -50 16 £478 +27.47% 26
Midlands -57 13 £425 +6.25% 21
West Midlands -42 11 £407 +1.75% 18
North East -47 7 £450 -6.25% 9
East of England -32 4 £350 -26.32% 10
Northern Ireland +4 2 £375 -7.98% 10
East Midlands -22 2 £425 +5.99% 3

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

For the 6 months to 2 September 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.

1 401 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 191 (47.63%) React
3 184 (45.89%) CI/CD
4 154 (38.40%) Agile
5 151 (37.66%) TypeScript
6 143 (35.66%) JavaScript
7 141 (35.16%) AWS
8 122 (30.42%) Python
9 119 (29.68%) SQL
10 118 (29.43%) Java
11 113 (28.18%) Azure
12 104 (25.94%) REST
13 102 (25.44%) Node.js
14 101 (25.19%) Microservices
15 96 (23.94%) DevOps
16 92 (22.94%) Docker
17 86 (21.45%) RESTful
18 80 (19.95%) .NET
19 77 (19.20%) Security Cleared
19 77 (19.20%) Test Automation
20 75 (18.70%) Git
21 70 (17.46%) AngularJS
21 70 (17.46%) Kubernetes
22 68 (16.96%) Spring
23 67 (16.71%) C#
24 66 (16.46%) Spring Boot
25 65 (16.21%) PostgreSQL
26 64 (15.96%) CSS
26 64 (15.96%) HTML
27 63 (15.71%) SC Cleared

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 16 (3.99%) Confluence
2 7 (1.75%) Camunda
3 5 (1.25%) CMS
4 4 (1.00%) nginx
4 4 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.50%) Apache
5 2 (0.50%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 141 (35.16%) AWS
2 113 (28.18%) Azure
3 53 (13.22%) GitHub
3 53 (13.22%) Serverless
4 38 (9.48%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (4.74%) Amazon S3
7 19 (4.74%) GCP
8 16 (3.99%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (3.99%) Anthropic Claude
9 15 (3.74%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (2.74%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (2.49%) OpenShift
12 10 (2.49%) SaaS
13 9 (2.24%) Azure AKS
13 9 (2.24%) Azure App Service
13 9 (2.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) HTTP
2 2 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (16.21%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (13.97%) SQL Server
3 35 (8.73%) Relational Database
4 33 (8.23%) NoSQL
5 27 (6.73%) MySQL
6 25 (6.23%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (4.24%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.74%) Redis
9 8 (2.00%) Power BI
10 7 (1.75%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.00%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.50%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.50%) Parquet
15 1 (0.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 75 (18.70%) Git
2 40 (9.98%) Jenkins
3 32 (7.98%) GitLab
4 21 (5.24%) JIRA
5 17 (4.24%) JUnit
6 9 (2.24%) Maven
6 9 (2.24%) Mockito
6 9 (2.24%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.00%) Claude Code
7 8 (2.00%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.75%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.25%) Gradle
9 5 (1.25%) Mocha
10 4 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.00%) JetBrains Rider
10 4 (1.00%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
11 3 (0.75%) Postman
11 3 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 73 (18.20%) Finance
2 66 (16.46%) Social Skills
3 55 (13.72%) Public Sector
4 32 (7.98%) Banking
5 25 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.99%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.24%) Front Office
8 8 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.75%) Military
9 7 (1.75%) Retail
10 5 (1.25%) Advertising
11 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.75%) Legal
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
12 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.50%) Marketing
14 1 (0.25%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (47.63%) React
2 104 (25.94%) REST
3 102 (25.44%) Node.js
4 86 (21.45%) RESTful
5 80 (19.95%) .NET
6 70 (17.46%) AngularJS
7 68 (16.96%) Spring
8 66 (16.46%) Spring Boot
9 64 (15.96%) CSS
9 64 (15.96%) HTML
10 46 (11.47%) Terraform
11 43 (10.72%) Vue
12 39 (9.73%) Kafka
13 27 (6.73%) .NET Core
13 27 (6.73%) HTML5
14 26 (6.48%) CSS3
15 25 (6.23%) OAuth
16 24 (5.99%) .NET Framework
17 23 (5.74%) Jest
17 23 (5.74%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 67 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.99%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.24%) NHS
7 8 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.00%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.75%) Derivative
11 3 (0.75%) Life Science
11 3 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.50%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.24%) Linux
2 8 (2.00%) Unix
3 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 184 (45.89%) CI/CD
3 154 (38.40%) Agile
4 101 (25.19%) Microservices
5 96 (23.94%) DevOps
6 77 (19.20%) Test Automation
7 58 (14.46%) Containerisation
7 58 (14.46%) Front End Development
8 53 (13.22%) AI
8 53 (13.22%) Software Engineering
9 52 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (11.22%) Event-Driven
11 40 (9.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (9.73%) Code Quality
13 36 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (8.98%) Mentoring
14 34 (8.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 34 (8.48%) SDLC
15 30 (7.48%) API Design
16 29 (7.23%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 151 (37.66%) TypeScript
2 143 (35.66%) JavaScript
3 122 (30.42%) Python
4 119 (29.68%) SQL
5 118 (29.43%) Java
6 67 (16.71%) C#
7 9 (2.24%) PHP
8 6 (1.50%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.25%) Bash
9 5 (1.25%) Bicep
10 3 (0.75%) Go
10 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.50%) Ruby
11 2 (0.50%) Scala
12 1 (0.25%) Korn
12 1 (0.25%) PromQL
12 1 (0.25%) Rust
12 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 77 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 63 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.24%) Degree
4 17 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.98%) QA
2 26 (6.48%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.00%) WCAG
4 3 (0.75%) HL7
5 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
5 2 (0.50%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.50%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 92 (22.94%) Docker
2 7 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.99%) Grafana
3 8 (2.00%) Argo
4 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.00%) Ansible
6 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.50%) Kibana
8 1 (0.25%) Consul
8 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.25%) Istio
8 1 (0.25%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 41 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.49%) Oracle
3 10 (2.49%) Databricks
4 8 (2.00%) Google
4 8 (2.00%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.00%) IBM
5 4 (1.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.00%) Splunk
6 3 (0.75%) Foundry
6 3 (0.75%) NEC
6 3 (0.75%) Veracode
7 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.50%) Solace
7 2 (0.50%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.25%) Brio
8 1 (0.25%) Confluent
8 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.25%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.25%) Workday
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