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 27 August 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 239 186
Rank change year-on-year -82 -53 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 409 364 505
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.11% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.22% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 271 393
10th Percentile £369 £331 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £650
90th Percentile £645 £690 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +4.40% +1.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile - £62.80 -
25th Percentile - £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £41.25 - -
90th Percentile £60.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -

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 49,647 29,883 36,109
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.23% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,658 18,862 22,923
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,547 1,583 1,920
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.66 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.08 £19.50
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +7.50%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -55 339 £500 - 74
London -54 194 £520 +1.46% 24
UK excluding London -59 150 £475 +4.40% 61
Work from Home -87 115 £475 -5.00% 47
North of England -61 45 £500 +7.53% 20
South East -30 38 £500 - 8
South West -25 25 £525 +8.47% 14
Yorkshire -39 22 £575 +17.95% 9
Scotland -23 19 £425 -5.56% 5
Midlands -48 17 £425 +13.33% 10
West Midlands -37 15 £425 +25.93% 5
North West -47 15 £478 +27.47% 10
North East -41 8 £450 -8.16% 2
East of England -31 4 £350 -26.32% 3
Northern Ireland +2 2 £375 -7.98%
East Midlands -22 2 £425 +5.99% 5

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 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.

1 409 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 197 (48.17%) React
3 189 (46.21%) CI/CD
4 157 (38.39%) Agile
4 157 (38.39%) TypeScript
5 146 (35.70%) AWS
6 145 (35.45%) JavaScript
7 128 (31.30%) Python
8 119 (29.10%) SQL
9 118 (28.85%) Azure
10 117 (28.61%) Java
11 106 (25.92%) Node.js
12 103 (25.18%) REST
13 100 (24.45%) DevOps
13 100 (24.45%) Microservices
14 94 (22.98%) Docker
15 89 (21.76%) RESTful
16 79 (19.32%) Security Cleared
17 78 (19.07%) .NET
18 75 (18.34%) Git
18 75 (18.34%) Test Automation
19 73 (17.85%) Kubernetes
20 71 (17.36%) AngularJS
21 68 (16.63%) C#
21 68 (16.63%) Spring
22 66 (16.14%) Spring Boot
23 65 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
24 64 (15.65%) SC Cleared
25 61 (14.91%) CSS
26 60 (14.67%) HTML

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 (3.67%) Confluence
2 6 (1.47%) Camunda
3 4 (0.98%) CMS
3 4 (0.98%) nginx
3 4 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 146 (35.70%) AWS
2 118 (28.85%) Azure
3 54 (13.20%) GitHub
4 52 (12.71%) Serverless
5 40 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (5.62%) GCP
9 20 (4.89%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (3.91%) Anthropic Claude
11 15 (3.67%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.93%) Entra ID
14 11 (2.69%) SaaS
15 10 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.20%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.20%) OpenShift
16 9 (2.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.98%) HTTP
2 2 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (12.96%) SQL Server
3 36 (8.80%) Relational Database
4 34 (8.31%) NoSQL
5 27 (6.60%) MongoDB
6 25 (6.11%) MySQL
7 17 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (4.16%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.69%) Redis
9 8 (1.96%) Power BI
10 7 (1.71%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.98%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.49%) Parquet
15 1 (0.24%) Flink
Development Applications
1 75 (18.34%) Git
2 40 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 31 (7.58%) GitLab
4 20 (4.89%) JIRA
5 16 (3.91%) JUnit
6 8 (1.96%) Claude Code
6 8 (1.96%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.96%) Maven
6 8 (1.96%) Mockito
6 8 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.96%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.22%) Mocha
8 4 (0.98%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.98%) Gradle
8 4 (0.98%) JetBrains Rider
9 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.73%) Jasmine
9 3 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
9 3 (0.73%) Postman
9 3 (0.73%) REST Assured
General
1 71 (17.36%) Finance
2 64 (15.65%) Social Skills
3 56 (13.69%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.58%) Banking
5 24 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.93%) Investment Banking
7 11 (2.69%) Front Office
8 8 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.71%) Military
9 7 (1.71%) Retail
10 5 (1.22%) Advertising
11 4 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.73%) Legal
12 3 (0.73%) Local Government
12 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.49%) Marketing
14 1 (0.24%) Dutch Language
14 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (48.17%) React
2 106 (25.92%) Node.js
3 103 (25.18%) REST
4 89 (21.76%) RESTful
5 78 (19.07%) .NET
6 71 (17.36%) AngularJS
7 68 (16.63%) Spring
8 66 (16.14%) Spring Boot
9 61 (14.91%) CSS
10 60 (14.67%) HTML
11 46 (11.25%) Terraform
12 43 (10.51%) Vue
13 40 (9.78%) Kafka
14 27 (6.60%) .NET Core
15 25 (6.11%) .NET Framework
15 25 (6.11%) HTML5
15 25 (6.11%) Next.js
16 24 (5.87%) CSS3
16 24 (5.87%) Flask
17 23 (5.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 68 (16.63%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.69%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.20%) NHS
7 7 (1.71%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.22%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.73%) Derivative
11 3 (0.73%) Life Science
11 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.49%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.18%) Linux
2 8 (1.96%) Unix
3 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 189 (46.21%) CI/CD
3 157 (38.39%) Agile
4 100 (24.45%) DevOps
4 100 (24.45%) Microservices
5 75 (18.34%) Test Automation
6 59 (14.43%) Containerisation
7 56 (13.69%) AI
7 56 (13.69%) Front End Development
8 54 (13.20%) Software Engineering
9 50 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (10.51%) Event-Driven
11 42 (10.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (9.29%) Code Quality
13 35 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (8.56%) Mentoring
14 33 (8.07%) SDLC
15 32 (7.82%) API Design
15 32 (7.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 30 (7.33%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 157 (38.39%) TypeScript
2 145 (35.45%) JavaScript
3 128 (31.30%) Python
4 119 (29.10%) SQL
5 117 (28.61%) Java
6 68 (16.63%) C#
7 8 (1.96%) PHP
8 6 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.22%) Bash
9 5 (1.22%) Bicep
9 5 (1.22%) Go
10 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.73%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.49%) Ruby
11 2 (0.49%) Scala
12 1 (0.24%) Korn
12 1 (0.24%) PromQL
12 1 (0.24%) Rust
12 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 79 (19.32%) Security Cleared
2 64 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.13%) Degree
4 17 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.80%) QA
2 27 (6.60%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.20%) WCAG
4 4 (0.98%) HL7
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.49%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.49%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 94 (22.98%) Docker
2 7 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (17.85%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.18%) Grafana
3 8 (1.96%) Argo
4 5 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.98%) Ansible
5 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.49%) Kibana
7 1 (0.24%) Consul
7 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.24%) Istio
7 1 (0.24%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 41 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.42%) Oracle
3 8 (1.96%) Databricks
3 8 (1.96%) Google
3 8 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.98%) Red Hat
4 4 (0.98%) Splunk
5 3 (0.73%) Foundry
5 3 (0.73%) IBM
5 3 (0.73%) NEC
6 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.49%) Solace
6 2 (0.49%) Veracode
6 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.24%) Brio
7 1 (0.24%) Confluent
7 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.24%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.24%) Workday