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 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 218 180
Rank change year-on-year -56 -38 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 440 369 583
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.26% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.36% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 298 478
10th Percentile £363 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -1.42% -5.12%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £675
90th Percentile £651 £691 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £480 £438
% change year-on-year -1.88% +9.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile £35.00 - £53.13
Median hourly rate £58.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -2.27%

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 43,571 27,048 40,454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.55% 92.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,878 17,685 26,353
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.87% -3.55% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,816 1,030 2,658
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.07 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.36% -19.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £38.50
% change year-on-year +58.12% -25.32% -9.41%

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 April 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 30 April 2026.

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 April 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 -46 376 £500 -2.91% 96
London -33 192 £521 -0.86% 28
UK excluding London -32 188 £471 -1.88% 84
Work from Home -64 122 £501 +0.25% 52
North of England -42 73 £455 -2.15% 23
North West -16 45 £455 -9.00% 9
South East -46 40 £550 - 28
Midlands -55 29 £450 -0.22% 9
West Midlands -42 28 £450 -11.33% 5
Scotland +6 19 £425 -3.63% 5
South West -20 16 £538 +21.88% 14
Yorkshire -52 16 £500 +14.29% 9
North East -11 12 £475 +2.70% 5
East of England -32 11 £525 +50.00% 6
East Midlands -31 1 £600 +49.25% 4

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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.

1 440 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 212 (48.18%) React
3 176 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 173 (39.32%) AWS
5 160 (36.36%) Agile
6 144 (32.73%) Java
7 142 (32.27%) TypeScript
8 141 (32.05%) Python
9 140 (31.82%) JavaScript
10 136 (30.91%) Node.js
11 124 (28.18%) Azure
12 119 (27.05%) Security Cleared
13 108 (24.55%) DevOps
14 104 (23.64%) Docker
15 102 (23.18%) SC Cleared
16 97 (22.05%) Microservices
17 96 (21.82%) AngularJS
18 95 (21.59%) Spring
19 94 (21.36%) SQL
20 81 (18.41%) PostgreSQL
21 77 (17.50%) Spring Boot
22 74 (16.82%) Containerisation
23 73 (16.59%) .NET
23 73 (16.59%) RESTful
24 71 (16.14%) Git
25 67 (15.23%) Kubernetes
26 65 (14.77%) GitHub
27 63 (14.32%) REST
28 62 (14.09%) Test Automation
29 61 (13.86%) C#

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 20 (4.55%) Confluence
2 8 (1.82%) CMS
3 4 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.91%) Camunda
3 4 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.68%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.68%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.45%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 173 (39.32%) AWS
2 124 (28.18%) Azure
3 65 (14.77%) GitHub
4 53 (12.05%) Serverless
5 37 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (7.50%) GCP
8 32 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (2.50%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.27%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.05%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (2.05%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.59%) SSL
2 2 (0.45%) Firewall
2 2 (0.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (18.41%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (9.32%) NoSQL
3 32 (7.27%) MongoDB
3 32 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 27 (6.14%) Relational Database
5 18 (4.09%) MySQL
6 13 (2.95%) DynamoDB
6 13 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.27%) Redis
9 9 (2.05%) Power BI
10 7 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.59%) DocumentDB
11 5 (1.14%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.14%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.91%) Metadata
13 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 71 (16.14%) Git
2 38 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.91%) GitLab
4 23 (5.23%) JIRA
5 22 (5.00%) JUnit
6 9 (2.05%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.05%) Mocha
7 7 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.59%) Jasmine
7 7 (1.59%) JMeter
7 7 (1.59%) Mockito
8 6 (1.36%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.36%) NUnit
9 5 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.14%) Storybook
9 5 (1.14%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.68%) Postman
General
1 67 (15.23%) Finance
1 67 (15.23%) Public Sector
2 52 (11.82%) Social Skills
3 25 (5.68%) Banking
4 19 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.18%) Front Office
6 6 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (0.91%) Advertising
8 3 (0.68%) Aviation
8 3 (0.68%) Marketing
8 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
8 3 (0.68%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.45%) Electronics
9 2 (0.45%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Legal
10 1 (0.23%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (48.18%) React
2 136 (30.91%) Node.js
3 96 (21.82%) AngularJS
4 95 (21.59%) Spring
5 77 (17.50%) Spring Boot
6 73 (16.59%) .NET
6 73 (16.59%) RESTful
7 63 (14.32%) REST
8 58 (13.18%) HTML
9 56 (12.73%) CSS
10 47 (10.68%) Kafka
11 39 (8.86%) Vue
12 30 (6.82%) Next.js
13 28 (6.36%) Jest
14 27 (6.14%) YAML
15 26 (5.91%) GraphQL
16 24 (5.45%) FastAPI
16 24 (5.45%) Flask
16 24 (5.45%) Playwright
17 22 (5.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.23%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.73%) Fixed Income
3 12 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.36%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.91%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.68%) Derivative
9 3 (0.68%) NHS
9 3 (0.68%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.18%) Linux
2 3 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 176 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 160 (36.36%) Agile
4 108 (24.55%) DevOps
5 97 (22.05%) Microservices
6 74 (16.82%) Containerisation
7 62 (14.09%) Test Automation
8 58 (13.18%) Front End Development
9 52 (11.82%) AI
10 49 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (9.09%) Software Engineering
12 37 (8.41%) Scrum
13 33 (7.50%) User Experience
14 31 (7.05%) SDLC
14 31 (7.05%) TDD
15 30 (6.82%) API Development
15 30 (6.82%) Event-Driven
16 28 (6.36%) Code Quality
17 26 (5.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 144 (32.73%) Java
2 142 (32.27%) TypeScript
3 141 (32.05%) Python
4 140 (31.82%) JavaScript
5 94 (21.36%) SQL
6 61 (13.86%) C#
7 8 (1.82%) Go
8 5 (1.14%) PHP
9 4 (0.91%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.91%) Bicep
9 4 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.23%) ABAP
12 1 (0.23%) Bash
12 1 (0.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.23%) Scala
12 1 (0.23%) SOQL
12 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 119 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 102 (23.18%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.18%) Degree
4 7 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.91%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.95%) Accessibility
2 25 (5.68%) QA
3 12 (2.73%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 104 (23.64%) Docker
2 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.68%) ISA Server
2 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (15.23%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.73%) Terraform
3 14 (3.18%) Grafana
4 11 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.59%) Ansible
6 5 (1.14%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Argo
8 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.09%) Oracle
3 7 (1.59%) Adobe
4 5 (1.14%) Sitecore
4 5 (1.14%) Splunk
4 5 (1.14%) VMware
5 4 (0.91%) Databricks
5 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.91%) SAP
6 3 (0.68%) Google
6 3 (0.68%) NEC
7 2 (0.45%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.45%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.45%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) Solace
8 1 (0.23%) Workday
8 1 (0.23%) Xero