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 5 May 2026.

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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 217 173
Rank change year-on-year -43 -44 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 444 370 587
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.26% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.37% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 297 475
10th Percentile £363 £357 £325
25th Percentile £413 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -3.75% -3.26%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £689 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £438
% change year-on-year -3.36% +12.34% -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 43,868 27,092 40,027
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.49% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,987 17,695 26,061
10th Percentile £316 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,833 1,048 2,666
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.18 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.25 £62.50 £61.29
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.70% -30.00% -5.35%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -43 380 £500 -2.20% 106
London -36 195 £521 -0.86% 27
UK excluding London -27 189 £475 -3.36% 95
Work from Home -67 119 £501 +0.25% 58
North of England -24 74 £465 - 30
North West -13 45 £455 -9.00% 13
South East -55 37 £550 - 31
Midlands -56 29 £450 -10.45% 9
West Midlands -40 28 £450 -12.62% 5
Scotland -3 19 £425 -3.63% 6
South West -24 19 £525 +19.05% 14
Yorkshire -41 17 £500 +14.29% 11
North East -12 12 £475 +2.70% 6
East of England -38 11 £525 +50.00% 6
East Midlands -37 1 £600 +49.25% 4

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 444 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 214 (48.20%) React
3 176 (39.64%) CI/CD
4 172 (38.74%) AWS
5 160 (36.04%) Agile
6 144 (32.43%) Python
7 142 (31.98%) Java
7 142 (31.98%) JavaScript
7 142 (31.98%) TypeScript
8 137 (30.86%) Node.js
9 125 (28.15%) Azure
10 116 (26.13%) Security Cleared
11 108 (24.32%) DevOps
12 105 (23.65%) Docker
13 99 (22.30%) SC Cleared
14 98 (22.07%) Microservices
15 96 (21.62%) AngularJS
16 92 (20.72%) Spring
16 92 (20.72%) SQL
17 79 (17.79%) PostgreSQL
18 76 (17.12%) Containerisation
19 75 (16.89%) Spring Boot
20 74 (16.67%) .NET
20 74 (16.67%) RESTful
21 71 (15.99%) Git
22 66 (14.86%) Kubernetes
23 65 (14.64%) REST
24 64 (14.41%) Test Automation
25 63 (14.19%) GitHub
26 62 (13.96%) 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 (4.50%) Confluence
2 8 (1.80%) CMS
3 4 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.90%) Camunda
3 4 (0.90%) 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%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 172 (38.74%) AWS
2 125 (28.15%) Azure
3 63 (14.19%) GitHub
4 54 (12.16%) Serverless
5 38 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (6.98%) GCP
9 22 (4.95%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (2.70%) Azure Functions
11 11 (2.48%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.25%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.03%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.80%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.58%) 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 79 (17.79%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (9.01%) NoSQL
3 32 (7.21%) MongoDB
3 32 (7.21%) SQL Server
4 27 (6.08%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.60%) MySQL
6 13 (2.93%) DynamoDB
6 13 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (2.48%) Power BI
9 10 (2.25%) Redis
10 7 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.58%) DocumentDB
11 5 (1.13%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.13%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.90%) Metadata
13 3 (0.68%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 71 (15.99%) Git
2 35 (7.88%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.31%) GitLab
4 23 (5.18%) JIRA
5 19 (4.28%) JUnit
6 9 (2.03%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.03%) Mocha
7 7 (1.58%) Jasmine
7 7 (1.58%) Mockito
8 6 (1.35%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.35%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.35%) JMeter
8 6 (1.35%) NUnit
9 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.13%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.90%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.68%) Postman
11 3 (0.68%) Storybook
General
1 68 (15.32%) Finance
2 66 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 52 (11.71%) Social Skills
4 28 (6.31%) Banking
5 21 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.38%) Front Office
7 6 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.90%) Advertising
9 3 (0.68%) Aviation
9 3 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.23%) French Language
11 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.23%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (48.20%) React
2 137 (30.86%) Node.js
3 96 (21.62%) AngularJS
4 92 (20.72%) Spring
5 75 (16.89%) Spring Boot
6 74 (16.67%) .NET
6 74 (16.67%) RESTful
7 65 (14.64%) REST
8 56 (12.61%) HTML
9 54 (12.16%) CSS
10 48 (10.81%) Kafka
11 39 (8.78%) Vue
12 30 (6.76%) Next.js
13 28 (6.31%) Jest
14 27 (6.08%) YAML
15 26 (5.86%) GraphQL
16 25 (5.63%) Redux
17 24 (5.41%) FastAPI
17 24 (5.41%) Flask
17 24 (5.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.60%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.93%) Fixed Income
3 13 (2.93%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.58%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.90%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.68%) Derivative
12 3 (0.68%) NHS
12 3 (0.68%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
14 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.23%) Equity Derivative
14 1 (0.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.93%) Linux
2 3 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 176 (39.64%) CI/CD
3 160 (36.04%) Agile
4 108 (24.32%) DevOps
5 98 (22.07%) Microservices
6 76 (17.12%) Containerisation
7 64 (14.41%) Test Automation
8 56 (12.61%) Front End Development
9 52 (11.71%) AI
10 48 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (9.23%) Software Engineering
12 40 (9.01%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (8.33%) Scrum
14 33 (7.43%) SDLC
15 32 (7.21%) Event-Driven
15 32 (7.21%) User Experience
16 30 (6.76%) TDD
17 28 (6.31%) API Design
17 28 (6.31%) API Development
17 28 (6.31%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 144 (32.43%) Python
2 142 (31.98%) Java
2 142 (31.98%) JavaScript
2 142 (31.98%) TypeScript
3 92 (20.72%) SQL
4 62 (13.96%) C#
5 8 (1.80%) Go
6 5 (1.13%) PHP
7 4 (0.90%) Apex Code
7 4 (0.90%) Bicep
7 4 (0.90%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.23%) ABAP
10 1 (0.23%) Bash
10 1 (0.23%) Ruby
10 1 (0.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 116 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 99 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.15%) Degree
4 7 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.90%) 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 36 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 25 (5.63%) QA
3 12 (2.70%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 105 (23.65%) 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 66 (14.86%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.66%) Terraform
3 15 (3.38%) Grafana
4 11 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.35%) Ansible
6 4 (0.90%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.45%) Argo
8 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.05%) Oracle
3 7 (1.58%) Adobe
4 5 (1.13%) Sitecore
4 5 (1.13%) Splunk
5 4 (0.90%) Databricks
5 4 (0.90%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.90%) VMware
6 3 (0.68%) Google
6 3 (0.68%) NEC
6 3 (0.68%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.68%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.68%) Virgin Media
7 2 (0.45%) SAP
7 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) Solace
8 1 (0.23%) Workday
8 1 (0.23%) Xero