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 15 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
15 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 216 188
Rank change year-on-year -70 -28 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 433 402 562
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 1.24% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.35% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 303 447
10th Percentile £375 £340 £325
25th Percentile £413 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile - £62.80 £52.00
25th Percentile - £64.38 £53.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -47.76% +24.65% -

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 48,692 29,793 39,772
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.81% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,483 18,982 25,593
10th Percentile £325 £288 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,276 1,398 2,720
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% -33.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.19 £63.41
90th Percentile £80.07 £73.75 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.13% -37.13% +6.67%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -71 360 £521 +4.10% 190
London -54 201 £521 +3.07% 31
UK excluding London -62 169 £476 -0.94% 205
Work from Home -99 128 £500 -3.85% 178
North of England -66 49 £475 +0.53% 37
South East -49 37 £550 - 60
Midlands -45 26 £450 +11.94% 39
Scotland -2 24 £415 -10.27% 24
West Midlands -47 24 £450 -12.62% 22
North West -42 23 £470 +17.56% 19
South West -18 22 £525 -4.55% 13
Yorkshire -45 20 £575 +17.95% 12
East of England -26 9 £526 +10.79% 22
North East -43 6 £450 -4.76% 6
Northern Ireland +2 2 £375 +3.09% 6
East Midlands -19 2 £425 +5.99% 17

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 433 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 209 (48.27%) React
3 185 (42.73%) CI/CD
4 161 (37.18%) TypeScript
5 155 (35.80%) JavaScript
6 152 (35.10%) Agile
7 145 (33.49%) AWS
8 138 (31.87%) Python
9 134 (30.95%) Java
10 131 (30.25%) Azure
11 122 (28.18%) Node.js
12 105 (24.25%) SQL
13 102 (23.56%) DevOps
13 102 (23.56%) Security Cleared
14 92 (21.25%) Docker
15 91 (21.02%) Microservices
16 88 (20.32%) REST
17 85 (19.63%) SC Cleared
18 83 (19.17%) .NET
18 83 (19.17%) AngularJS
18 83 (19.17%) PostgreSQL
19 78 (18.01%) RESTful
20 71 (16.40%) C#
21 70 (16.17%) Spring
22 68 (15.70%) Git
23 67 (15.47%) Test Automation
24 60 (13.86%) Containerisation
25 58 (13.39%) Kubernetes
25 58 (13.39%) Spring Boot
26 56 (12.93%) Front End Development

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 (3.46%) Confluence
2 7 (1.62%) CMS
3 4 (0.92%) Camunda
3 4 (0.92%) nginx
4 3 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 145 (33.49%) AWS
2 131 (30.25%) Azure
3 51 (11.78%) Serverless
4 45 (10.39%) GitHub
5 42 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (7.16%) GCP
7 26 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (4.39%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.77%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (2.77%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.54%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.31%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (2.08%) SaaS
14 8 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.62%) Figma
15 7 (1.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) HTTP
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
3 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (19.17%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (9.01%) Relational Database
3 38 (8.78%) SQL Server
4 28 (6.47%) NoSQL
5 21 (4.85%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.39%) MySQL
7 14 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.77%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.77%) Power BI
9 11 (2.54%) Redis
10 10 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.15%) Neo4j
12 5 (1.15%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.69%) Metadata
13 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.69%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.46%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 68 (15.70%) Git
2 26 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 25 (5.77%) GitLab
4 18 (4.16%) JIRA
5 14 (3.23%) JUnit
6 10 (2.31%) Visual Studio
7 8 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.39%) Jasmine
8 6 (1.39%) Karma Test Runner
8 6 (1.39%) Mockito
8 6 (1.39%) NUnit
9 4 (0.92%) JetBrains Rider
9 4 (0.92%) Mocha
9 4 (0.92%) Postman
9 4 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.69%) Maven
10 3 (0.69%) Storybook
10 3 (0.69%) webpack
11 2 (0.46%) JMeter
General
1 79 (18.24%) Finance
2 65 (15.01%) Public Sector
3 55 (12.70%) Social Skills
4 27 (6.24%) Banking
5 26 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.93%) Front Office
7 10 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.39%) Military
10 5 (1.15%) Advertising
11 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.92%) Retail
12 3 (0.69%) Legal
12 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.46%) Local Government
14 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
14 1 (0.23%) Law
14 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (48.27%) React
2 122 (28.18%) Node.js
3 88 (20.32%) REST
4 83 (19.17%) .NET
4 83 (19.17%) AngularJS
5 78 (18.01%) RESTful
6 70 (16.17%) Spring
7 58 (13.39%) Spring Boot
8 48 (11.09%) CSS
8 48 (11.09%) Vue
9 47 (10.85%) HTML
10 39 (9.01%) Kafka
11 30 (6.93%) GraphQL
12 26 (6.00%) .NET Framework
13 25 (5.77%) .NET Core
13 25 (5.77%) Redux
14 24 (5.54%) Django
14 24 (5.54%) Jest
15 23 (5.31%) Flask
16 22 (5.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.00%) Fixed Income
4 12 (2.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.15%) Derivative
11 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.92%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.92%) NHS
12 3 (0.69%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.23%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.08%) Linux
2 5 (1.15%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 185 (42.73%) CI/CD
3 152 (35.10%) Agile
4 102 (23.56%) DevOps
5 91 (21.02%) Microservices
6 67 (15.47%) Test Automation
7 60 (13.86%) Containerisation
8 56 (12.93%) Front End Development
9 49 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (11.09%) AI
11 47 (10.85%) Software Engineering
12 36 (8.31%) API Design
13 35 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
14 34 (7.85%) Code Quality
14 34 (7.85%) Scrum
15 30 (6.93%) Mentoring
16 29 (6.70%) Event-Driven
17 27 (6.24%) API Integration
17 27 (6.24%) Data Modelling
17 27 (6.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 161 (37.18%) TypeScript
2 155 (35.80%) JavaScript
3 138 (31.87%) Python
4 134 (30.95%) Java
5 105 (24.25%) SQL
6 71 (16.40%) C#
7 11 (2.54%) Go
8 7 (1.62%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.15%) PHP
10 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.92%) Bicep
11 3 (0.69%) Bash
11 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.46%) Ruby
12 2 (0.46%) Scala
12 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 102 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 85 (19.63%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.08%) Degree
4 16 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.55%) QA
2 29 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.08%) WCAG
4 2 (0.46%) HL7
5 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 92 (21.25%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (13.39%) Kubernetes
2 39 (9.01%) Terraform
3 13 (3.00%) Grafana
4 7 (1.62%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.92%) Ansible
6 4 (0.92%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Consul
7 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 32 (7.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.93%) Oracle
3 6 (1.39%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.15%) Google
4 5 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.92%) Databricks
5 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.92%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.69%) NEC
7 2 (0.46%) Solace
7 2 (0.46%) Splunk
7 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe
8 1 (0.23%) Brio
8 1 (0.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.23%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) SAP
8 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.23%) Workday
232 Full-Stack Developer jobs Nationwide