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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 238 190
Rank change year-on-year -97 -48 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 382 373 499
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.14% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.25% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 279 379
10th Percentile £367 £331 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £450 £461
% change year-on-year +8.89% -2.44% +8.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile - £62.80 £38.58
25th Percentile - £64.38 £41.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +43.32% -37.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £51.31
90th Percentile £77.00 - £53.53
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 49,990 29,768 35,726
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 91.07% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,655 18,799 22,146
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £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 3,750 1,555 1,711
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.69 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.27 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.72 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +8.43%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -86 316 £500 - 250
London -66 189 £516 -0.72% 152
UK excluding London -82 134 £490 +8.89% 132
Work from Home -93 112 £475 -5.00% 124
North of England -70 44 £500 +9.89% 39
South East -31 35 £500 - 21
Yorkshire -24 21 £575 +16.46% 12
South West -34 21 £525 +8.47% 17
Scotland -28 20 £425 -5.56% 10
North West -54 17 £478 +27.47% 20
Midlands -54 8 £425 +6.25% 21
North East -42 6 £450 -6.25% 8
West Midlands -46 6 £438 +9.38% 17
East of England -39 4 £350 -26.32% 14
Northern Ireland +5 2 £375 -7.98% 10
East Midlands -23 2 £425 +5.99% 4

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 382 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 183 (47.91%) React
3 175 (45.81%) CI/CD
4 152 (39.79%) TypeScript
5 147 (38.48%) Agile
6 143 (37.43%) JavaScript
7 142 (37.17%) AWS
8 121 (31.68%) Java
9 117 (30.63%) SQL
10 114 (29.84%) Python
11 107 (28.01%) Azure
12 106 (27.75%) Microservices
12 106 (27.75%) REST
13 100 (26.18%) Node.js
14 92 (24.08%) DevOps
15 88 (23.04%) Docker
15 88 (23.04%) RESTful
16 79 (20.68%) .NET
16 79 (20.68%) Test Automation
17 73 (19.11%) Kubernetes
18 71 (18.59%) Git
19 70 (18.32%) AngularJS
20 68 (17.80%) Spring
21 67 (17.54%) HTML
21 67 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
22 66 (17.28%) Security Cleared
22 66 (17.28%) Spring Boot
23 65 (17.02%) C#
23 65 (17.02%) CSS
24 58 (15.18%) SQL Server

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 17 (4.45%) Confluence
2 8 (2.09%) Camunda
3 5 (1.31%) CMS
4 4 (1.05%) nginx
4 4 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
5 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 142 (37.17%) AWS
2 107 (28.01%) Azure
3 55 (14.40%) GitHub
4 51 (13.35%) Serverless
5 32 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.50%) GCP
9 18 (4.71%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.19%) Anthropic Claude
10 16 (4.19%) GitHub Copilot
11 15 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (2.88%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.88%) OpenShift
14 10 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.62%) SaaS
15 9 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.36%) Azure AKS
15 9 (2.36%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.05%) HTTP
2 2 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (15.18%) SQL Server
3 38 (9.95%) Relational Database
4 34 (8.90%) NoSQL
5 32 (8.38%) MySQL
6 27 (7.07%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (4.19%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.88%) Redis
10 8 (2.09%) Power BI
11 6 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.05%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.79%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.52%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.52%) Parquet
15 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 71 (18.59%) Git
2 36 (9.42%) GitLab
2 36 (9.42%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.76%) JIRA
4 18 (4.71%) JUnit
5 11 (2.88%) Maven
6 10 (2.62%) Mockito
6 10 (2.62%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.09%) Claude Code
7 8 (2.09%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.57%) Gradle
9 5 (1.31%) Mocha
9 5 (1.31%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.31%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.05%) JetBrains Rider
10 4 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.79%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 76 (19.90%) Finance
2 67 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 49 (12.83%) Public Sector
4 35 (9.16%) Banking
5 25 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.40%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.09%) Front Office
7 8 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.83%) Military
8 7 (1.83%) Retail
9 5 (1.31%) Advertising
10 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Local Government
11 3 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.52%) Back Office
12 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Legal
12 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.52%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (47.91%) React
2 106 (27.75%) REST
3 100 (26.18%) Node.js
4 88 (23.04%) RESTful
5 79 (20.68%) .NET
6 70 (18.32%) AngularJS
7 68 (17.80%) Spring
8 67 (17.54%) HTML
9 66 (17.28%) Spring Boot
10 65 (17.02%) CSS
11 45 (11.78%) Terraform
12 43 (11.26%) Kafka
12 43 (11.26%) Vue
13 29 (7.59%) HTML5
14 28 (7.33%) CSS3
15 27 (7.07%) .NET Core
15 27 (7.07%) OAuth
16 26 (6.81%) Jest
17 22 (5.76%) Next.js
17 22 (5.76%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.28%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.14%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.36%) NHS
7 8 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.05%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.79%) Derivative
11 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.79%) Life Science
11 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.52%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.40%) Linux
2 8 (2.09%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 175 (45.81%) CI/CD
3 147 (38.48%) Agile
4 106 (27.75%) Microservices
5 92 (24.08%) DevOps
6 79 (20.68%) Test Automation
7 55 (14.40%) Containerisation
7 55 (14.40%) Software Engineering
8 53 (13.87%) AI
8 53 (13.87%) Front End Development
8 53 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (13.35%) Event-Driven
10 41 (10.73%) Code Quality
11 39 (10.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 39 (10.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (9.42%) Mentoring
13 35 (9.16%) SDLC
14 32 (8.38%) Scrum
15 31 (8.12%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 152 (39.79%) TypeScript
2 143 (37.43%) JavaScript
3 121 (31.68%) Java
4 117 (30.63%) SQL
5 114 (29.84%) Python
6 65 (17.02%) C#
7 11 (2.88%) PHP
8 7 (1.83%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.31%) Bash
9 5 (1.31%) Bicep
10 3 (0.79%) Go
10 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.79%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.52%) Scala
12 1 (0.26%) Groovy
12 1 (0.26%) Korn
12 1 (0.26%) Ruby
12 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 66 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 54 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.28%) Degree
4 20 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.47%) QA
2 23 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.09%) WCAG
4 3 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.79%) HL7
5 2 (0.52%) GDPR
5 2 (0.52%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.52%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 88 (23.04%) Docker
2 7 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (19.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.14%) Grafana
3 8 (2.09%) Argo
4 4 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.79%) Ansible
5 3 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.52%) Kibana
7 1 (0.26%) Consul
7 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.26%) Istio
7 1 (0.26%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 41 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.88%) Databricks
2 11 (2.88%) Oracle
3 8 (2.09%) Google
3 8 (2.09%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.31%) IBM
4 5 (1.31%) Splunk
5 4 (1.05%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.05%) Veracode
6 3 (0.79%) Foundry
6 3 (0.79%) NEC
7 2 (0.52%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.52%) Solace
7 2 (0.52%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.26%) Brio
8 1 (0.26%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.26%) Workday