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 28 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
28 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 213 209
Rank change year-on-year -63 -4 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 363 427 537
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.17% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.26% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 312 424
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -10.91%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £481 £425
% change year-on-year -6.49% +13.24% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £48.28 £36.05 £34.25
25th Percentile £56.94 £36.50 £41.04
Median hourly rate £65.25 £38.75 £52.36
Median % change year-on-year +68.39% -25.99% -31.53%
75th Percentile £67.00 £40.63 £63.68
90th Percentile - £41.30 £70.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 32,848 33,983 42,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 92.83% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,819 20,547 28,844
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £401 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £648
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,914 1,249 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +79.00%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 -51 297 £500 -9.09% 161
London -13 167 £511 -9.19% 59
UK excluding London -76 130 £450 -6.49% 136
Work from Home -24 119 £500 - 90
North of England -61 33 £450 - 16
South East -25 29 £413 -34.00% 52
Scotland -2 22 £450 +5.88% 3
Midlands -18 21 £400 -15.34% 28
North West -22 18 £400 -11.11% 7
East of England -6 14 £525 +90.91% 7
East Midlands -5 12 £550 +33.33% 7
South West -7 11 £550 +23.46% 25
Yorkshire -60 10 £500 +11.11% 4
West Midlands -37 9 £375 -28.57% 21
North East -3 5 £500 +42.86% 5

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

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, 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.

1 363 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 189 (52.07%) React
3 173 (47.66%) CI/CD
4 158 (43.53%) AWS
5 152 (41.87%) TypeScript
6 148 (40.77%) Agile
7 133 (36.64%) JavaScript
8 128 (35.26%) Java
9 118 (32.51%) Python
10 101 (27.82%) Node.js
11 100 (27.55%) AngularJS
12 99 (27.27%) SQL
13 94 (25.90%) Azure
14 89 (24.52%) Docker
15 87 (23.97%) Kubernetes
16 86 (23.69%) Microservices
17 85 (23.42%) DevOps
18 79 (21.76%) PostgreSQL
19 78 (21.49%) HTML
20 77 (21.21%) Git
21 76 (20.94%) CSS
22 75 (20.66%) Spring
23 74 (20.39%) Security Cleared
24 69 (19.01%) RESTful
25 67 (18.46%) .NET
25 67 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
26 65 (17.91%) SC Cleared
27 58 (15.98%) Containerisation
28 53 (14.60%) C#
28 53 (14.60%) GitHub

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 14 (3.86%) CMS
1 14 (3.86%) Confluence
2 9 (2.48%) Headless CMS
3 7 (1.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.38%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (1.38%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.55%) Moodle
6 2 (0.55%) nginx
6 2 (0.55%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) Camunda
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) Solana
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) Magento
2 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 158 (43.53%) AWS
2 94 (25.90%) Azure
3 53 (14.60%) GitHub
4 44 (12.12%) Serverless
5 38 (10.47%) GCP
6 26 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (6.06%) OpenShift
8 17 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (4.41%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.93%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.93%) Kontent
13 7 (1.93%) npm
13 7 (1.93%) SaaS
14 6 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.48%) SSL
2 5 (1.38%) HTTP
2 5 (1.38%) VPN
3 4 (1.10%) DNS
4 3 (0.83%) DHCP
4 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (21.76%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (11.85%) NoSQL
3 37 (10.19%) MongoDB
4 27 (7.44%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.34%) SQL Server
6 21 (5.79%) MySQL
7 10 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.48%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.93%) Redis
10 6 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.65%) Power BI
11 4 (1.10%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.55%) DocumentDB
13 2 (0.55%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (21.21%) Git
2 31 (8.54%) JUnit
3 29 (7.99%) Jenkins
4 25 (6.89%) JIRA
5 23 (6.34%) GitLab
6 17 (4.68%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.03%) JMeter
7 11 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (2.75%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.75%) Maven
9 9 (2.48%) Mockito
10 6 (1.65%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.38%) Selenium
11 5 (1.38%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.38%) Vite
11 5 (1.38%) webpack
12 4 (1.10%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.10%) SpecFlow
12 4 (1.10%) Storybook
General
1 79 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.63%) Finance
3 40 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.34%) Banking
5 22 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.58%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (2.75%) Front Office
9 8 (2.20%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.65%) Retail
12 5 (1.38%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (1.38%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Electronics
14 3 (0.83%) Marketing
14 3 (0.83%) Military
15 2 (0.55%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (52.07%) React
2 101 (27.82%) Node.js
3 100 (27.55%) AngularJS
4 78 (21.49%) HTML
5 76 (20.94%) CSS
6 75 (20.66%) Spring
7 69 (19.01%) RESTful
8 67 (18.46%) .NET
9 53 (14.60%) REST
9 53 (14.60%) Spring Boot
10 47 (12.95%) Next.js
11 34 (9.37%) Kafka
12 30 (8.26%) Vue
13 27 (7.44%) Hibernate
14 24 (6.61%) FastAPI
14 24 (6.61%) Jest
15 23 (6.34%) .NET Framework
16 21 (5.79%) GraphQL
17 18 (4.96%) .NET Core
18 16 (4.41%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.44%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.41%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.58%) Mobile App
3 13 (3.58%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.20%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.93%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.10%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.83%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.83%) Equities
10 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.16%) Linux
2 9 (2.48%) Unix
3 3 (0.83%) CentOS
3 3 (0.83%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 173 (47.66%) CI/CD
3 148 (40.77%) Agile
4 86 (23.69%) Microservices
5 85 (23.42%) DevOps
6 67 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (15.98%) Containerisation
8 50 (13.77%) Front End Development
9 48 (13.22%) AI
10 42 (11.57%) TDD
10 42 (11.57%) Test Automation
11 37 (10.19%) Software Engineering
12 35 (9.64%) Clean Code
13 34 (9.37%) Code Quality
14 30 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
14 30 (8.26%) User Experience
15 28 (7.71%) API Development
16 25 (6.89%) Design Patterns
16 25 (6.89%) SDLC
17 24 (6.61%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 152 (41.87%) TypeScript
2 133 (36.64%) JavaScript
3 128 (35.26%) Java
4 118 (32.51%) Python
5 99 (27.27%) SQL
6 53 (14.60%) C#
7 14 (3.86%) Ruby
8 9 (2.48%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.20%) Bash
9 8 (2.20%) C++
10 7 (1.93%) PHP
11 6 (1.65%) Perl
11 6 (1.65%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.10%) Go
12 4 (1.10%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.83%) Bicep
13 3 (0.83%) C
13 3 (0.83%) Cypher
13 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 74 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 65 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.61%) Degree
4 18 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.38%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) MCP
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.79%) QA
2 15 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 89 (24.52%) Docker
2 5 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 87 (23.97%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.06%) Terraform
3 15 (4.13%) Ansible
4 11 (3.03%) Argo
5 8 (2.20%) Grafana
5 8 (2.20%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.55%) Kibana
6 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.28%) Podman
7 1 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 27 (7.44%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.51%) Google
3 15 (4.13%) Oracle
3 15 (4.13%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.20%) VMware
5 7 (1.93%) Adobe
6 6 (1.65%) SAP
7 5 (1.38%) Sitecore
7 5 (1.38%) Virgin Media
8 4 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.10%) Cisco
8 4 (1.10%) Databricks
9 3 (0.83%) F5
9 3 (0.83%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.83%) Infoblox
9 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.83%) Okta
9 3 (0.83%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.55%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.55%) Veracode
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