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 1 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 217 199
Rank change year-on-year -49 -18 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 360 423 554
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.18% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.27% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 313 440
10th Percentile £316 £363 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -10.26% +14.71% -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 32,486 33,393 42,696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.81% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,605 20,273 28,801
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £647
90th Percentile £723 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,896 1,201 1,522
10th Percentile £14.15 £15.25 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +43.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -63 294 £500 -9.09% 159
London -12 163 £511 -7.05% 55
UK excluding London -79 133 £438 -10.26% 139
Work from Home -43 114 £496 -0.75% 89
North of England -60 36 £435 -3.33% 17
South East -32 29 £413 -34.00% 55
Scotland +8 24 £450 +9.09% 3
Midlands -27 22 £400 -15.34% 28
North West -21 21 £400 -20.00% 7
East Midlands -5 12 £550 +33.33% 8
East of England -5 12 £525 +90.91% 9
South West -5 10 £537 +20.43% 23
West Midlands -23 10 £375 -28.57% 20
Yorkshire -58 10 £500 +11.11% 5
North East -4 5 £500 +42.86% 5

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 360 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 192 (53.33%) React
3 173 (48.06%) CI/CD
4 155 (43.06%) AWS
5 146 (40.56%) TypeScript
6 140 (38.89%) Agile
7 131 (36.39%) JavaScript
8 125 (34.72%) Java
9 114 (31.67%) Python
10 101 (28.06%) Node.js
11 100 (27.78%) AngularJS
11 100 (27.78%) SQL
12 93 (25.83%) Azure
13 86 (23.89%) Microservices
14 85 (23.61%) Kubernetes
15 84 (23.33%) DevOps
16 83 (23.06%) Docker
17 76 (21.11%) Git
17 76 (21.11%) HTML
18 75 (20.83%) CSS
19 74 (20.56%) Security Cleared
20 71 (19.72%) PostgreSQL
20 71 (19.72%) Spring
21 70 (19.44%) .NET
22 68 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
22 68 (18.89%) RESTful
23 64 (17.78%) SC Cleared
24 55 (15.28%) Containerisation
25 54 (15.00%) C#
25 54 (15.00%) 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 14 (3.89%) CMS
1 14 (3.89%) Confluence
2 9 (2.50%) Headless CMS
3 7 (1.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (1.39%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) Moodle
6 2 (0.56%) nginx
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) Solana
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Magento
2 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 155 (43.06%) AWS
2 93 (25.83%) Azure
3 53 (14.72%) GitHub
4 40 (11.11%) Serverless
5 38 (10.56%) GCP
6 22 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (6.11%) OpenShift
7 16 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.61%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (1.94%) Kontent
10 7 (1.94%) SaaS
11 6 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.67%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.67%) npm
11 6 (1.67%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.50%) SSL
2 5 (1.39%) VPN
3 4 (1.11%) DNS
3 4 (1.11%) HTTP
4 3 (0.83%) DHCP
4 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (19.72%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (12.22%) NoSQL
3 36 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 26 (7.22%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.11%) SQL Server
6 20 (5.56%) MySQL
7 7 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.94%) Redis
8 6 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.67%) Power BI
9 5 (1.39%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.11%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.56%) DocumentDB
12 2 (0.56%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (21.11%) Git
2 28 (7.78%) Jenkins
3 26 (7.22%) JUnit
4 24 (6.67%) JIRA
5 23 (6.39%) GitLab
6 13 (3.61%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.06%) JMeter
7 11 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.50%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.50%) Mockito
9 6 (1.67%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.67%) Maven
10 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.39%) Selenium
10 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.39%) Vite
10 5 (1.39%) webpack
11 4 (1.11%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.83%) Storybook
General
1 78 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.22%) Finance
3 42 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.39%) Banking
5 22 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.61%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (2.50%) Front Office
9 8 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.67%) Retail
12 5 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (1.39%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Electronics
14 3 (0.83%) Marketing
14 3 (0.83%) Military
15 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (53.33%) React
2 101 (28.06%) Node.js
3 100 (27.78%) AngularJS
4 76 (21.11%) HTML
5 75 (20.83%) CSS
6 71 (19.72%) Spring
7 70 (19.44%) .NET
8 68 (18.89%) RESTful
9 54 (15.00%) Spring Boot
10 52 (14.44%) REST
11 48 (13.33%) Next.js
12 35 (9.72%) Kafka
13 30 (8.33%) Vue
14 27 (7.50%) Hibernate
15 24 (6.67%) FastAPI
16 23 (6.39%) .NET Framework
17 21 (5.83%) GraphQL
18 20 (5.56%) Jest
19 19 (5.28%) .NET Core
20 15 (4.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.61%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.67%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.83%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.83%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.22%) Linux
2 9 (2.50%) 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
1 360 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 173 (48.06%) CI/CD
3 140 (38.89%) Agile
4 86 (23.89%) Microservices
5 84 (23.33%) DevOps
6 68 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (15.28%) Containerisation
8 48 (13.33%) AI
9 47 (13.06%) Front End Development
10 40 (11.11%) TDD
11 38 (10.56%) Test Automation
12 32 (8.89%) Software Engineering
13 31 (8.61%) Clean Code
14 30 (8.33%) Code Quality
14 30 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (8.06%) API Development
15 29 (8.06%) User Experience
16 27 (7.50%) Design Patterns
17 26 (7.22%) OOP
18 25 (6.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 146 (40.56%) TypeScript
2 131 (36.39%) JavaScript
3 125 (34.72%) Java
4 114 (31.67%) Python
5 100 (27.78%) SQL
6 54 (15.00%) C#
7 14 (3.89%) Ruby
8 9 (2.50%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.22%) Bash
9 8 (2.22%) C++
9 8 (2.22%) PHP
10 6 (1.67%) Perl
10 6 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.11%) Go
12 3 (0.83%) Bicep
12 3 (0.83%) C
12 3 (0.83%) Cypher
12 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.83%) VB
13 2 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 74 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.67%) Degree
4 18 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.56%) 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 18 (5.00%) QA
2 14 (3.89%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.22%) 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 83 (23.06%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 85 (23.61%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.11%) Terraform
3 15 (4.17%) Ansible
4 11 (3.06%) Argo
5 8 (2.22%) Grafana
5 8 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.56%) Kibana
6 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.28%) Podman
7 1 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 27 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.56%) Google
3 15 (4.17%) Oracle
3 15 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.22%) VMware
5 7 (1.94%) Adobe
6 6 (1.67%) SAP
6 6 (1.67%) Virgin Media
7 5 (1.39%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.11%) Cisco
8 4 (1.11%) Databricks
9 3 (0.83%) F5
9 3 (0.83%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.83%) Infoblox
9 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.56%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.56%) Splunk
10 2 (0.56%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.56%) Veracode
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