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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 245 185
Rank change year-on-year -97 -60 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 389 366 512
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.12% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.23% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 275 377
10th Percentile £369 £331 £363
25th Percentile £424 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £638
90th Percentile £650 £683 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £470
% change year-on-year +17.65% -9.57% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile - £62.80 £35.95
25th Percentile £35.00 £64.38 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £67.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.84% +74.03% -48.67%
75th Percentile £64.25 - £41.00
90th Percentile £77.00 - £41.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -32.84% - -

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 50,372 29,667 35,213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 91.00% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,736 18,751 21,351
10th Percentile £325 £275 £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 £623 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,923 1,598 1,565
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.50
Median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.68% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.61 £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.69% -2.82%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -93 320 £503 +0.50% 259
London -65 190 £520 - 107
UK excluding London -76 141 £500 +17.65% 165
Work from Home -83 111 £475 -5.00% 143
North of England -64 45 £500 +25.00% 54
South East -44 37 £500 +2.56% 30
Scotland -30 24 £413 -8.33% 11
Yorkshire -28 22 £575 +17.95% 23
South West -29 22 £525 -4.55% 16
North West -52 18 £490 +22.50% 29
Midlands -47 9 £425 +6.25% 24
West Midlands -42 7 £450 +12.50% 17
North East -40 5 £450 -10.00% 4
East of England -37 3 £350 -26.32% 17
East Midlands -24 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 29 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.

1 389 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 187 (48.07%) React
3 185 (47.56%) CI/CD
4 153 (39.33%) Agile
5 152 (39.07%) TypeScript
6 151 (38.82%) AWS
7 144 (37.02%) JavaScript
8 128 (32.90%) Java
9 121 (31.11%) SQL
10 116 (29.82%) Microservices
11 113 (29.05%) REST
12 109 (28.02%) Azure
12 109 (28.02%) Python
13 103 (26.48%) Node.js
14 96 (24.68%) DevOps
15 94 (24.16%) Docker
16 89 (22.88%) RESTful
17 83 (21.34%) Kubernetes
18 82 (21.08%) .NET
19 80 (20.57%) Test Automation
20 76 (19.54%) Git
21 71 (18.25%) AngularJS
22 70 (17.99%) PostgreSQL
23 69 (17.74%) C#
23 69 (17.74%) Spring
24 66 (16.97%) Spring Boot
25 64 (16.45%) HTML
25 64 (16.45%) Security Cleared
26 63 (16.20%) CSS
27 61 (15.68%) Software Engineering

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 17 (4.37%) Confluence
2 8 (2.06%) Camunda
3 5 (1.29%) Apache
3 5 (1.29%) nginx
4 4 (1.03%) CMS
4 4 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.51%) 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 (1.03%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 151 (38.82%) AWS
2 109 (28.02%) Azure
3 56 (14.40%) GitHub
4 54 (13.88%) Serverless
5 32 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (7.20%) GCP
6 28 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (5.14%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.11%) GitHub Copilot
10 15 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (3.86%) Anthropic Claude
11 13 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (3.08%) OpenShift
13 11 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.83%) Entra ID
14 10 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.57%) SaaS
15 9 (2.31%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.03%) HTTP
2 2 (0.51%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (17.99%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (15.17%) SQL Server
3 39 (10.03%) Relational Database
4 35 (9.00%) NoSQL
5 34 (8.74%) MySQL
6 29 (7.46%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (3.60%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.83%) Redis
11 8 (2.06%) Power BI
12 5 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.03%) Flink
14 3 (0.77%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.77%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
16 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
16 1 (0.26%) Parquet
16 1 (0.26%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 76 (19.54%) Git
2 44 (11.31%) Jenkins
3 41 (10.54%) GitLab
4 21 (5.40%) JIRA
5 19 (4.88%) JUnit
6 13 (3.34%) Maven
7 12 (3.08%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.83%) Mockito
9 7 (1.80%) Claude Code
9 7 (1.80%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.80%) Gradle
10 6 (1.54%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.29%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.29%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.29%) Mocha
11 5 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.29%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.03%) JetBrains Rider
13 3 (0.77%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.77%) Storybook
General
1 79 (20.31%) Finance
2 75 (19.28%) Social Skills
3 46 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 41 (10.54%) Banking
5 28 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.86%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.31%) Retail
8 8 (2.06%) Front Office
8 8 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.80%) Military
10 5 (1.29%) Advertising
11 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Back Office
12 3 (0.77%) Local Government
12 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Legal
13 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.51%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (48.07%) React
2 113 (29.05%) REST
3 103 (26.48%) Node.js
4 89 (22.88%) RESTful
5 82 (21.08%) .NET
6 71 (18.25%) AngularJS
7 69 (17.74%) Spring
8 66 (16.97%) Spring Boot
9 64 (16.45%) HTML
10 63 (16.20%) CSS
11 47 (12.08%) Kafka
12 46 (11.83%) Terraform
13 43 (11.05%) Vue
14 28 (7.20%) CSS3
14 28 (7.20%) HTML5
14 28 (7.20%) OAuth
15 27 (6.94%) .NET Core
16 23 (5.91%) Jest
17 22 (5.66%) .NET Framework
18 21 (5.40%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 70 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (5.91%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.06%) NHS
6 8 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.29%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.03%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.77%) Derivative
10 3 (0.77%) Life Science
10 3 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.77%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.86%) Linux
2 9 (2.31%) Unix
3 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 185 (47.56%) CI/CD
3 153 (39.33%) Agile
4 116 (29.82%) Microservices
5 96 (24.68%) DevOps
6 80 (20.57%) Test Automation
7 61 (15.68%) Software Engineering
8 58 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (13.88%) AI
9 54 (13.88%) Containerisation
9 54 (13.88%) Event-Driven
10 52 (13.37%) Front End Development
11 44 (11.31%) Code Quality
11 44 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (10.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 39 (10.03%) Mentoring
14 38 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (9.51%) Scrum
16 34 (8.74%) Observability
17 33 (8.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 152 (39.07%) TypeScript
2 144 (37.02%) JavaScript
3 128 (32.90%) Java
4 121 (31.11%) SQL
5 109 (28.02%) Python
6 69 (17.74%) C#
7 11 (2.83%) PHP
8 8 (2.06%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.54%) Bash
10 5 (1.29%) Bicep
11 4 (1.03%) Go
11 4 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.51%) Scala
13 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) Korn
14 1 (0.26%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 64 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.85%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.91%) Degree
4 22 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.03%) 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 45 (11.57%) QA
2 20 (5.14%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.31%) WCAG
4 4 (1.03%) HL7
5 3 (0.77%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.77%) GDPR
6 2 (0.51%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.51%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 94 (24.16%) Docker
2 7 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (21.34%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.60%) Grafana
3 8 (2.06%) Argo
4 5 (1.29%) Kibana
5 4 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.77%) Ansible
7 1 (0.26%) Consul
7 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.26%) Istio
7 1 (0.26%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 43 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.57%) Databricks
2 10 (2.57%) Google
3 9 (2.31%) Oracle
4 8 (2.06%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.54%) IBM
6 5 (1.29%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.29%) Splunk
6 5 (1.29%) Veracode
7 3 (0.77%) Brio
7 3 (0.77%) Foundry
7 3 (0.77%) NEC
7 3 (0.77%) webMethods
8 2 (0.51%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.51%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.26%) Confluent
9 1 (0.26%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.26%) Snow
9 1 (0.26%) Workday