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 30 December 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 211 204
Rank change year-on-year -57 -7 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 374 388 524
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.17% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.26% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 287 420
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £559 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £48.28 £36.05 -
25th Percentile £56.94 £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.25 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +68.39% +30.38% -59.42%
75th Percentile £67.00 £40.63 -
90th Percentile - £41.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 - -

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 33,741 30,870 40,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.72% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,345 18,959 27,051
10th Percentile £298 £300 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,972 954 1,548
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.51 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +40.82%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.41 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +77.62%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -50 309 £500 -9.09% 718
London -20 168 £510 -11.30% 109
UK excluding London -69 140 £450 -10.00% 663
Work from Home -32 113 £455 -4.71% 496
North of England -53 48 £455 +1.11% 162
North West -13 31 £450 -14.29% 73
South East -40 29 £410 -34.40% 176
Scotland +8 21 £438 +6.06% 24
Midlands -39 18 £575 +15.00% 120
South West -2 12 £425 -3.63% 67
East of England -5 12 £525 +75.00% 99
Yorkshire -59 11 £500 +11.11% 72
West Midlands -28 10 £400 -23.81% 59
East Midlands -15 8 £600 +45.45% 54
North East -2 6 £475 +35.71% 17

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 374 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 199 (53.21%) React
3 168 (44.92%) CI/CD
4 163 (43.58%) AWS
5 148 (39.57%) TypeScript
6 140 (37.43%) Agile
7 129 (34.49%) Java
8 127 (33.96%) JavaScript
9 117 (31.28%) Python
10 107 (28.61%) Node.js
11 103 (27.54%) AngularJS
12 98 (26.20%) SQL
13 94 (25.13%) Docker
14 93 (24.87%) Kubernetes
15 92 (24.60%) Microservices
16 89 (23.80%) DevOps
17 83 (22.19%) Azure
17 83 (22.19%) HTML
17 83 (22.19%) Spring
18 80 (21.39%) Security Cleared
19 78 (20.86%) CSS
20 77 (20.59%) Git
21 74 (19.79%) .NET
22 70 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
23 69 (18.45%) RESTful
23 69 (18.45%) SC Cleared
24 65 (17.38%) Containerisation
24 65 (17.38%) GitHub
25 63 (16.84%) Spring Boot
26 61 (16.31%) PostgreSQL

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 (4.01%) Confluence
2 13 (3.48%) CMS
3 9 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (2.14%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.34%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.34%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.53%) Moodle
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.53%) Magento
3 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 163 (43.58%) AWS
2 83 (22.19%) Azure
3 65 (17.38%) GitHub
4 44 (11.76%) Serverless
5 38 (10.16%) GCP
6 26 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (6.95%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (5.61%) OpenShift
8 16 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (3.48%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (1.87%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.87%) Kontent
12 7 (1.87%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.60%) npm
13 6 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.94%) SSL
2 6 (1.60%) VPN
3 2 (0.53%) DNS
3 2 (0.53%) HTTP
3 2 (0.53%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (16.31%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.30%) NoSQL
3 35 (9.36%) MongoDB
4 26 (6.95%) SQL Server
5 25 (6.68%) Relational Database
6 17 (4.55%) MySQL
7 8 (2.14%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.14%) Redis
8 7 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.87%) Power BI
9 6 (1.60%) DocumentDB
10 5 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.07%) Tableau
12 3 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.27%) GIS
Development Applications
1 77 (20.59%) Git
2 29 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.42%) JUnit
4 23 (6.15%) GitLab
4 23 (6.15%) JIRA
5 11 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 11 (2.94%) Cypress.io
5 11 (2.94%) JMeter
6 8 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.87%) Mockito
8 6 (1.60%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.34%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.34%) Vite
10 4 (1.07%) Mocha
10 4 (1.07%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.07%) Storybook
10 4 (1.07%) webpack
11 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.80%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.80%) Jasmine
General
1 80 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.51%) Finance
3 42 (11.23%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.15%) Banking
5 21 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.87%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.34%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (1.34%) Retail
9 5 (1.34%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.07%) Marketing
11 3 (0.80%) Electronics
11 3 (0.80%) Front Office
11 3 (0.80%) Military
12 2 (0.53%) Aviation
12 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (53.21%) React
2 107 (28.61%) Node.js
3 103 (27.54%) AngularJS
4 83 (22.19%) HTML
4 83 (22.19%) Spring
5 78 (20.86%) CSS
6 74 (19.79%) .NET
7 69 (18.45%) RESTful
8 63 (16.84%) Spring Boot
9 49 (13.10%) REST
10 48 (12.83%) Next.js
11 37 (9.89%) Kafka
12 26 (6.95%) FastAPI
13 25 (6.68%) Vue
14 24 (6.42%) Hibernate
14 24 (6.42%) Jest
15 23 (6.15%) .NET Framework
16 21 (5.61%) Playwright
17 20 (5.35%) pytest
18 19 (5.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.02%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (3.21%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.14%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.87%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.07%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.80%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.80%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.53%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.53%) Life Science
12 2 (0.53%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.68%) Linux
2 6 (1.60%) Unix
3 3 (0.80%) CentOS
3 3 (0.80%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 168 (44.92%) CI/CD
3 140 (37.43%) Agile
4 92 (24.60%) Microservices
5 89 (23.80%) DevOps
6 70 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (17.38%) Containerisation
8 53 (14.17%) AI
9 50 (13.37%) Front End Development
10 45 (12.03%) Test Automation
11 39 (10.43%) TDD
12 36 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (9.36%) Software Engineering
14 33 (8.82%) User Experience
15 32 (8.56%) Clean Code
15 32 (8.56%) Code Quality
16 31 (8.29%) API Development
17 25 (6.68%) SDLC
18 24 (6.42%) Design Patterns
18 24 (6.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 148 (39.57%) TypeScript
2 129 (34.49%) Java
3 127 (33.96%) JavaScript
4 117 (31.28%) Python
5 98 (26.20%) SQL
6 56 (14.97%) C#
7 13 (3.48%) Ruby
8 7 (1.87%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.87%) PHP
9 6 (1.60%) Bash
9 6 (1.60%) C++
9 6 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.07%) Perl
11 3 (0.80%) Bicep
11 3 (0.80%) C
11 3 (0.80%) Go
11 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.53%) Groovy
12 2 (0.53%) VB
13 1 (0.27%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 80 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 69 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.42%) Degree
4 18 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.34%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.53%) MCP
7 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.61%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.74%) QA
3 11 (2.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 94 (25.13%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.80%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 93 (24.87%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.68%) Terraform
3 15 (4.01%) Ansible
4 11 (2.94%) Argo
5 10 (2.67%) Grafana
6 8 (2.14%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.34%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.53%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) Podman
9 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 24 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.81%) Oracle
3 17 (4.55%) Google
4 15 (4.01%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.41%) Adobe
6 8 (2.14%) VMware
7 5 (1.34%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.07%) Cisco
8 4 (1.07%) SAP
9 3 (0.80%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.80%) Splunk
9 3 (0.80%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.53%) Databricks
10 2 (0.53%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.53%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.53%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.27%) F5
11 1 (0.27%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.27%) Siemens