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 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 242 198
Rank change year-on-year -84 -44 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 407 369 504
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 1.12% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.23% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 273 391
10th Percentile £366 £331 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £650
90th Percentile £638 £690 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £460 £460
% change year-on-year +3.59% - +8.24%
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 49,592 30,105 36,124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.25% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,685 19,016 22,990
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 £623 £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 3,534 1,573 1,935
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.67 £17.30 £19.59
Median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.49 £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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -72 334 £500 - 81
London -56 189 £503 -1.95% 27
UK excluding London -64 152 £477 +3.59% 69
Work from Home -91 118 £478 -4.50% 49
North of England -58 45 £500 +7.53% 14
South East -41 38 £500 - 18
South West -25 25 £525 +8.47% 19
Yorkshire -27 22 £575 +17.95% 6
Scotland -25 20 £425 -5.56% 4
Midlands -40 18 £425 +13.33% 12
West Midlands -33 16 £438 +29.63% 7
North West -48 15 £478 +23.35% 8
North East -39 8 £450 -8.16%
East of England -33 4 £350 -26.32% 3
Northern Ireland +4 2 £375 -7.98%
East Midlands -19 2 £425 +5.99% 5

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 407 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 195 (47.91%) React
3 188 (46.19%) CI/CD
4 160 (39.31%) Agile
5 158 (38.82%) TypeScript
6 144 (35.38%) AWS
7 142 (34.89%) JavaScript
8 126 (30.96%) Python
9 118 (28.99%) Azure
10 115 (28.26%) SQL
11 113 (27.76%) Java
12 106 (26.04%) Node.js
13 103 (25.31%) REST
14 98 (24.08%) Microservices
15 96 (23.59%) DevOps
15 96 (23.59%) Docker
16 88 (21.62%) RESTful
17 80 (19.66%) Security Cleared
18 78 (19.16%) Git
19 77 (18.92%) .NET
20 74 (18.18%) Test Automation
21 72 (17.69%) AngularJS
21 72 (17.69%) Kubernetes
22 68 (16.71%) C#
23 67 (16.46%) PostgreSQL
24 65 (15.97%) SC Cleared
24 65 (15.97%) Spring
25 62 (15.23%) Spring Boot
26 58 (14.25%) Containerisation
26 58 (14.25%) CSS

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 (3.69%) Confluence
2 5 (1.23%) 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 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 144 (35.38%) AWS
2 118 (28.99%) Azure
3 55 (13.51%) Serverless
4 53 (13.02%) GitHub
5 37 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (5.65%) GCP
9 20 (4.91%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (3.69%) Anthropic Claude
12 14 (3.44%) GitHub Copilot
13 13 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (2.95%) Entra ID
15 11 (2.70%) SaaS
16 10 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (2.21%) Azure AKS
17 9 (2.21%) Azure App Service
17 9 (2.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.98%) HTTP
2 2 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (16.46%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (12.29%) SQL Server
3 36 (8.85%) NoSQL
4 35 (8.60%) Relational Database
5 29 (7.13%) MongoDB
6 24 (5.90%) MySQL
7 17 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (4.18%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.70%) Redis
9 8 (1.97%) Power BI
10 7 (1.72%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.74%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.49%) Metadata
14 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.49%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 78 (19.16%) Git
2 38 (9.34%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.13%) GitLab
4 20 (4.91%) JIRA
5 15 (3.69%) JUnit
6 8 (1.97%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.97%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.72%) Claude Code
7 7 (1.72%) Mockito
8 6 (1.47%) Maven
8 6 (1.47%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.23%) Mocha
10 4 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.98%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.98%) JetBrains Rider
10 4 (0.98%) Karma Test Runner
11 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.74%) Gradle
11 3 (0.74%) Postman
12 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
General
1 68 (16.71%) Finance
2 63 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 57 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 29 (7.13%) Banking
5 24 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.70%) Front Office
7 10 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.72%) Military
9 7 (1.72%) Retail
10 5 (1.23%) Advertising
11 4 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) Legal
12 3 (0.74%) Local Government
13 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.49%) Marketing
13 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.25%) Dutch Language
14 1 (0.25%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (47.91%) React
2 106 (26.04%) Node.js
3 103 (25.31%) REST
4 88 (21.62%) RESTful
5 77 (18.92%) .NET
6 72 (17.69%) AngularJS
7 65 (15.97%) Spring
8 62 (15.23%) Spring Boot
9 58 (14.25%) CSS
10 57 (14.00%) HTML
11 45 (11.06%) Terraform
12 43 (10.57%) Vue
13 36 (8.85%) Kafka
14 27 (6.63%) .NET Core
15 25 (6.14%) .NET Framework
15 25 (6.14%) Next.js
16 23 (5.65%) Jest
16 23 (5.65%) OAuth
17 22 (5.41%) Flask
17 22 (5.41%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 68 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.46%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.21%) NHS
7 7 (1.72%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.23%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.74%) Derivative
11 3 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.74%) Life Science
11 3 (0.74%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.19%) Linux
2 8 (1.97%) Unix
3 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 188 (46.19%) CI/CD
3 160 (39.31%) Agile
4 98 (24.08%) Microservices
5 96 (23.59%) DevOps
6 74 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 58 (14.25%) Containerisation
8 56 (13.76%) AI
8 56 (13.76%) Front End Development
9 53 (13.02%) Software Engineering
10 50 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (10.32%) Event-Driven
11 42 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 37 (9.09%) Code Quality
13 34 (8.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (8.11%) Mentoring
15 32 (7.86%) API Design
15 32 (7.86%) SDLC
16 29 (7.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 28 (6.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 158 (38.82%) TypeScript
2 142 (34.89%) JavaScript
3 126 (30.96%) Python
4 115 (28.26%) SQL
5 113 (27.76%) Java
6 68 (16.71%) C#
7 8 (1.97%) PHP
8 7 (1.72%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.23%) Bash
9 5 (1.23%) Bicep
9 5 (1.23%) Go
10 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.49%) Ruby
11 2 (0.49%) Scala
12 1 (0.25%) Korn
12 1 (0.25%) PromQL
12 1 (0.25%) Rust
12 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 80 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 65 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.67%) Degree
4 15 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.85%) QA
2 28 (6.88%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.21%) WCAG
4 4 (0.98%) HL7
5 3 (0.74%) GDPR
6 2 (0.49%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.49%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 96 (23.59%) Docker
2 7 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (17.69%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.19%) Grafana
3 8 (1.97%) Argo
4 5 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.98%) Ansible
5 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.49%) Kibana
7 1 (0.25%) Consul
7 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 39 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.44%) Oracle
3 8 (1.97%) Google
3 8 (1.97%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.72%) Databricks
5 4 (0.98%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.98%) Splunk
6 3 (0.74%) Foundry
7 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.49%) Solace
7 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.25%) Brio
8 1 (0.25%) Confluent
8 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.25%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.25%) IBM
8 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.25%) Veracode
8 1 (0.25%) Workday