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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 231 192
Rank change year-on-year -110 -39 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 383 377 499
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.15% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.27% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 280 377
10th Percentile £363 £331 £363
25th Percentile £421 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £577 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £464
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.96% +9.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 3
10th Percentile - £62.80 £37.65
25th Percentile - £64.38 £39.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +61.45% -44.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £48.38
90th Percentile £77.00 - £52.35
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 50,606 29,766 35,027
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 91.04% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,920 18,783 21,484
10th Percentile £325 £276 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,907 1,587 1,616
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.79
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.69
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.70 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.08 £43.97
% change year-on-year +69.49% -42.97% +0.50%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -79 315 £500 - 307
London -75 185 £520 - 141
UK excluding London -88 138 £500 +11.11% 180
Work from Home -94 113 £475 -5.00% 163
North of England -72 46 £500 +11.11% 62
South East -40 36 £500 +2.56% 37
South West -23 23 £525 +8.47% 19
Yorkshire -33 23 £575 +16.46% 24
Scotland -28 21 £425 -5.56% 10
North West -52 17 £478 +27.47% 34
Midlands -55 8 £425 +6.25% 27
West Midlands -39 6 £438 +9.38% 20
North East -41 6 £450 -6.25% 5
East of England -39 3 £350 -26.32% 13
East Midlands -26 2 £425 +5.99% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £375 - 11

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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.

1 383 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 184 (48.04%) React
3 176 (45.95%) CI/CD
4 149 (38.90%) TypeScript
5 148 (38.64%) Agile
6 147 (38.38%) AWS
7 142 (37.08%) JavaScript
8 127 (33.16%) Java
9 119 (31.07%) SQL
10 111 (28.98%) Microservices
10 111 (28.98%) Python
11 110 (28.72%) REST
12 106 (27.68%) Azure
13 102 (26.63%) Node.js
14 93 (24.28%) DevOps
15 89 (23.24%) Docker
16 88 (22.98%) RESTful
17 79 (20.63%) Test Automation
18 78 (20.37%) .NET
19 77 (20.10%) Kubernetes
20 73 (19.06%) Git
21 72 (18.80%) Spring
22 71 (18.54%) AngularJS
23 69 (18.02%) Spring Boot
24 68 (17.75%) PostgreSQL
25 66 (17.23%) HTML
26 65 (16.97%) C#
27 64 (16.71%) CSS
28 62 (16.19%) Security Cleared
29 60 (15.67%) SQL Server

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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 8 (2.09%) Camunda
3 5 (1.31%) Apache
3 5 (1.31%) CMS
4 4 (1.04%) nginx
4 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 147 (38.38%) AWS
2 106 (27.68%) Azure
3 54 (14.10%) GitHub
4 53 (13.84%) Serverless
5 32 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (6.27%) GCP
8 20 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.18%) Anthropic Claude
10 15 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (3.92%) GitHub Copilot
11 14 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (3.13%) OpenShift
13 11 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.87%) Entra ID
14 10 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.61%) SaaS
15 9 (2.35%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.04%) HTTP
2 2 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (17.75%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (15.67%) SQL Server
3 41 (10.70%) Relational Database
4 35 (9.14%) MySQL
5 33 (8.62%) NoSQL
6 28 (7.31%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.39%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.87%) Redis
10 8 (2.09%) Power BI
11 5 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.04%) Flink
13 3 (0.78%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.78%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
15 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
15 1 (0.26%) Parquet
15 1 (0.26%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 73 (19.06%) Git
2 39 (10.18%) Jenkins
3 36 (9.40%) GitLab
4 20 (5.22%) JIRA
5 18 (4.70%) JUnit
6 12 (3.13%) Maven
7 11 (2.87%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.61%) Mockito
9 8 (2.09%) Claude Code
10 7 (1.83%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.57%) Gradle
12 5 (1.31%) Mocha
12 5 (1.31%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.31%) Visual Studio
13 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.04%) JetBrains Rider
13 4 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.78%) Storybook
General
1 79 (20.63%) Finance
2 72 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 47 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.66%) Banking
5 26 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.66%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.09%) Front Office
7 8 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.09%) Retail
8 7 (1.83%) Military
9 5 (1.31%) Advertising
10 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Back Office
11 3 (0.78%) Local Government
11 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Legal
12 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.52%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (48.04%) React
2 110 (28.72%) REST
3 102 (26.63%) Node.js
4 88 (22.98%) RESTful
5 78 (20.37%) .NET
6 72 (18.80%) Spring
7 71 (18.54%) AngularJS
8 69 (18.02%) Spring Boot
9 66 (17.23%) HTML
10 64 (16.71%) CSS
11 43 (11.23%) Kafka
11 43 (11.23%) Terraform
12 42 (10.97%) Vue
13 30 (7.83%) HTML5
14 29 (7.57%) CSS3
15 28 (7.31%) .NET Core
15 28 (7.31%) OAuth
16 26 (6.79%) Jest
17 21 (5.48%) GraphQL
17 21 (5.48%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 68 (17.75%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (6.01%) Product Ownership
3 11 (2.87%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.35%) NHS
6 8 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.09%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.04%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.78%) Derivative
10 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.78%) Life Science
10 3 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.39%) Linux
2 8 (2.09%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 176 (45.95%) CI/CD
3 148 (38.64%) Agile
4 111 (28.98%) Microservices
5 93 (24.28%) DevOps
6 79 (20.63%) Test Automation
7 58 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (15.14%) Software Engineering
8 55 (14.36%) AI
8 55 (14.36%) Containerisation
9 53 (13.84%) Event-Driven
10 50 (13.05%) Front End Development
11 43 (11.23%) Code Quality
12 41 (10.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 38 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (9.40%) Mentoring
14 36 (9.40%) Scrum
15 35 (9.14%) SDLC
16 32 (8.36%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 149 (38.90%) TypeScript
2 142 (37.08%) JavaScript
3 127 (33.16%) Java
4 119 (31.07%) SQL
5 111 (28.98%) Python
6 65 (16.97%) C#
7 11 (2.87%) PHP
8 6 (1.57%) Bash
8 6 (1.57%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.31%) Bicep
10 4 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.78%) Go
11 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.26%) Perl
13 1 (0.26%) PromQL
13 1 (0.26%) Ruby
13 1 (0.26%) Rust
13 1 (0.26%) Scala
13 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.27%) Degree
4 21 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.23%) QA
2 20 (5.22%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.09%) WCAG
4 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.78%) HL7
5 2 (0.52%) GDPR
5 2 (0.52%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.52%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 89 (23.24%) Docker
2 7 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (20.10%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.39%) Grafana
3 8 (2.09%) Argo
4 4 (1.04%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.78%) Ansible
6 2 (0.52%) Kibana
7 1 (0.26%) Consul
7 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.26%) Istio
7 1 (0.26%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 45 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.87%) Oracle
3 10 (2.61%) Databricks
4 9 (2.35%) Google
5 8 (2.09%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.31%) IBM
6 5 (1.31%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.04%) Splunk
7 4 (1.04%) Veracode
8 3 (0.78%) Foundry
8 3 (0.78%) NEC
8 3 (0.78%) webMethods
9 2 (0.52%) Brio
9 2 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.52%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.26%) Confluent
10 1 (0.26%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.26%) Workday