Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 213 204
Rank change year-on-year -66 -9 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 357 403 535
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.18% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.27% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 300 429
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £553 £638 £625
90th Percentile £639 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £488 £442
% change year-on-year -8.97% +10.23% -5.15%
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% -28.50%
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 33,289 31,718 41,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.78% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,068 19,534 27,738
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 999 1,468
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.52 £15.14
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £72.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 18 December 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 -55 293 £500 -9.09% 296
London -13 163 £508 -8.76% 56
UK excluding London -82 130 £444 -8.97% 277
Work from Home -39 112 £475 - 170
North of England -61 39 £438 -2.78% 71
South East -47 30 £411 -34.20% 79
North West -12 26 £411 -17.75% 35
Scotland +8 22 £450 +5.88% 11
Midlands -35 18 £550 +16.40% 50
East of England -9 12 £525 +75.00% 35
West Midlands -32 10 £375 -20.63% 27
Yorkshire -58 10 £500 +11.11% 29
South West -10 9 £537 +21.66% 26
East Midlands -12 8 £600 +45.45% 22
North East -5 3 £475 +35.71% 7

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 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.

1 357 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 186 (52.10%) React
3 170 (47.62%) CI/CD
4 152 (42.58%) AWS
5 143 (40.06%) TypeScript
6 136 (38.10%) Agile
7 128 (35.85%) JavaScript
8 124 (34.73%) Java
9 111 (31.09%) Python
10 106 (29.69%) Node.js
11 99 (27.73%) AngularJS
12 97 (27.17%) SQL
13 92 (25.77%) Kubernetes
14 90 (25.21%) Docker
15 88 (24.65%) Microservices
16 86 (24.09%) Azure
16 86 (24.09%) DevOps
17 80 (22.41%) HTML
18 77 (21.57%) Git
19 76 (21.29%) Security Cleared
19 76 (21.29%) Spring
20 74 (20.73%) CSS
21 72 (20.17%) .NET
21 72 (20.17%) RESTful
22 71 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
23 64 (17.93%) SC Cleared
24 62 (17.37%) PostgreSQL
25 59 (16.53%) GitHub
26 58 (16.25%) Containerisation
27 56 (15.69%) Spring Boot

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 15 (4.20%) Confluence
2 13 (3.64%) CMS
3 9 (2.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (2.24%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.40%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.40%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) Moodle
6 2 (0.56%) nginx
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
6 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Magento
2 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 152 (42.58%) AWS
2 86 (24.09%) Azure
3 59 (16.53%) GitHub
4 38 (10.64%) Serverless
5 36 (10.08%) GCP
6 23 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (5.88%) OpenShift
9 16 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.08%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.96%) Kontent
13 7 (1.96%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.96%) SaaS
14 6 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.68%) npm
15 5 (1.40%) Azure Functions
15 5 (1.40%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.64%) SSL
2 6 (1.68%) VPN
3 4 (1.12%) DNS
3 4 (1.12%) HTTP
4 3 (0.84%) DHCP
4 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.37%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (12.61%) NoSQL
3 36 (10.08%) MongoDB
4 25 (7.00%) SQL Server
5 24 (6.72%) Relational Database
6 18 (5.04%) MySQL
7 8 (2.24%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.24%) Redis
8 7 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.96%) Power BI
9 6 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.68%) DocumentDB
10 5 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.12%) Tableau
12 3 (0.84%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.56%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 77 (21.57%) Git
2 31 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 23 (6.44%) JIRA
4 22 (6.16%) JUnit
5 21 (5.88%) GitLab
6 11 (3.08%) JMeter
7 10 (2.80%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.52%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.96%) Mockito
11 6 (1.68%) Artifactory
12 5 (1.40%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.40%) Vite
12 5 (1.40%) webpack
13 4 (1.12%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.84%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.84%) Maven
14 3 (0.84%) Selenium
14 3 (0.84%) Storybook
General
1 80 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.25%) Finance
3 38 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 22 (6.16%) Banking
5 21 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.64%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.68%) Retail
11 5 (1.40%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.40%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.12%) Front Office
12 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.84%) Electronics
13 3 (0.84%) Marketing
13 3 (0.84%) Military
14 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (52.10%) React
2 106 (29.69%) Node.js
3 99 (27.73%) AngularJS
4 80 (22.41%) HTML
5 76 (21.29%) Spring
6 74 (20.73%) CSS
7 72 (20.17%) .NET
7 72 (20.17%) RESTful
8 56 (15.69%) Spring Boot
9 52 (14.57%) REST
10 44 (12.32%) Next.js
11 36 (10.08%) Kafka
12 27 (7.56%) Vue
13 26 (7.28%) FastAPI
14 24 (6.72%) Hibernate
15 23 (6.44%) .NET Framework
16 22 (6.16%) Jest
17 21 (5.88%) GraphQL
18 19 (5.32%) .NET Core
18 19 (5.32%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.40%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.36%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.24%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.96%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.12%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.84%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.56%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.56%) Learning Management System
12 2 (0.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.56%) Linux
2 8 (2.24%) Unix
3 3 (0.84%) CentOS
3 3 (0.84%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.84%) Windows
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 170 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 136 (38.10%) Agile
4 88 (24.65%) Microservices
5 86 (24.09%) DevOps
6 71 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (16.25%) Containerisation
8 49 (13.73%) AI
9 46 (12.89%) Front End Development
10 42 (11.76%) Test Automation
11 38 (10.64%) TDD
12 33 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (8.96%) Clean Code
13 32 (8.96%) Software Engineering
13 32 (8.96%) User Experience
14 31 (8.68%) Code Quality
15 30 (8.40%) API Development
16 26 (7.28%) Design Patterns
16 26 (7.28%) OOP
17 24 (6.72%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 143 (40.06%) TypeScript
2 128 (35.85%) JavaScript
3 124 (34.73%) Java
4 111 (31.09%) Python
5 97 (27.17%) SQL
6 55 (15.41%) C#
7 14 (3.92%) Ruby
8 8 (2.24%) Bash
8 8 (2.24%) C++
8 8 (2.24%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.24%) PHP
9 6 (1.68%) Perl
9 6 (1.68%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.84%) Bicep
10 3 (0.84%) C
10 3 (0.84%) Go
10 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.84%) VB
11 2 (0.56%) Groovy
11 2 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 76 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.00%) Degree
4 19 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.56%) MCP
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.76%) QA
2 16 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.52%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 90 (25.21%) Docker
2 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.84%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 92 (25.77%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.72%) Terraform
3 15 (4.20%) Ansible
4 11 (3.08%) Argo
5 10 (2.80%) Grafana
6 8 (2.24%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.40%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.56%) Kibana
9 1 (0.28%) Podman
9 1 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 24 (6.72%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.76%) Google
2 17 (4.76%) Oracle
3 15 (4.20%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.52%) Adobe
5 8 (2.24%) VMware
6 6 (1.68%) SAP
6 6 (1.68%) Virgin Media
7 5 (1.40%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.12%) Cisco
8 4 (1.12%) Databricks
9 3 (0.84%) F5
9 3 (0.84%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.84%) Infoblox
9 3 (0.84%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.84%) Splunk
10 2 (0.56%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.56%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.28%) Okta