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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 231 192
Rank change year-on-year -92 -39 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 412 379 505
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.15% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.26% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 282 394
10th Percentile £379 £326 £358
25th Percentile £413 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £638 £686 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £461
% change year-on-year +2.70% +0.27% +5.43%
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 49,538 30,006 36,016
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.28% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,704 18,935 23,189
10th Percentile £325 £281 £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 £621 £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 3,506 1,542 1,988
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.56 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.02
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.87% +22.28%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -85 338 £500 - 98
London -54 189 £520 +4.00% 24
UK excluding London -67 156 £475 +2.70% 89
Work from Home -83 119 £490 -2.00% 61
North of England -72 46 £500 +5.82% 19
South East -52 39 £500 +2.56% 26
South West -24 25 £525 +8.47% 19
Yorkshire -35 22 £575 +17.95% 11
Scotland -18 20 £425 -5.56% 8
Midlands -44 20 £425 +13.33% 14
West Midlands -31 18 £416 +23.26% 8
North West -49 16 £484 +21.00% 8
North East -39 8 £450 -8.16%
East of England -32 4 £350 -26.32% 4
Northern Ireland +5 2 £375 +3.09%
East Midlands -25 2 £425 +5.99% 6

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 412 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 197 (47.82%) React
3 189 (45.87%) CI/CD
4 160 (38.83%) Agile
5 158 (38.35%) TypeScript
6 147 (35.68%) AWS
7 143 (34.71%) JavaScript
8 129 (31.31%) Python
9 120 (29.13%) Azure
10 116 (28.16%) SQL
11 115 (27.91%) Java
12 110 (26.70%) Node.js
13 102 (24.76%) REST
14 99 (24.03%) DevOps
15 96 (23.30%) Microservices
16 94 (22.82%) Docker
17 85 (20.63%) RESTful
18 80 (19.42%) Security Cleared
19 78 (18.93%) Git
20 77 (18.69%) .NET
21 74 (17.96%) Test Automation
22 73 (17.72%) AngularJS
23 69 (16.75%) C#
24 68 (16.50%) Kubernetes
25 67 (16.26%) PostgreSQL
25 67 (16.26%) SC Cleared
26 65 (15.78%) Spring
27 62 (15.05%) Spring Boot
28 57 (13.83%) AI
28 57 (13.83%) Containerisation

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 16 (3.88%) Confluence
2 4 (0.97%) Camunda
2 4 (0.97%) CMS
2 4 (0.97%) nginx
2 4 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.49%) Apache
3 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 147 (35.68%) AWS
2 120 (29.13%) Azure
3 54 (13.11%) Serverless
4 51 (12.38%) GitHub
5 39 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (5.83%) GCP
9 20 (4.85%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (3.64%) Anthropic Claude
12 14 (3.40%) GitHub Copilot
13 13 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (3.16%) Entra ID
14 11 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.67%) SaaS
15 10 (2.43%) Azure App Service
16 9 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.18%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) HTTP
2 2 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (16.26%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (11.65%) SQL Server
3 36 (8.74%) Relational Database
4 34 (8.25%) NoSQL
5 25 (6.07%) MongoDB
6 23 (5.58%) MySQL
7 18 (4.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (3.88%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.43%) Redis
10 8 (1.94%) Power BI
11 7 (1.70%) Neo4j
12 6 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.73%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.73%) Parquet
14 3 (0.73%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 78 (18.93%) Git
2 37 (8.98%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.04%) GitLab
4 20 (4.85%) JIRA
5 16 (3.88%) JUnit
6 8 (1.94%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.94%) Mockito
6 8 (1.94%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.70%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.46%) Maven
8 6 (1.46%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.21%) Mocha
10 4 (0.97%) Gradle
10 4 (0.97%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.97%) JetBrains Rider
10 4 (0.97%) Karma Test Runner
11 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.73%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.73%) Postman
General
1 69 (16.75%) Finance
2 65 (15.78%) Social Skills
3 58 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.28%) Banking
5 25 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.16%) Front Office
7 10 (2.43%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.70%) Military
9 7 (1.70%) Retail
10 5 (1.21%) Advertising
11 4 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.73%) Legal
12 3 (0.73%) Local Government
13 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.24%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.24%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (47.82%) React
2 110 (26.70%) Node.js
3 102 (24.76%) REST
4 85 (20.63%) RESTful
5 77 (18.69%) .NET
6 73 (17.72%) AngularJS
7 65 (15.78%) Spring
8 62 (15.05%) Spring Boot
9 55 (13.35%) CSS
10 54 (13.11%) HTML
11 44 (10.68%) Vue
12 38 (9.22%) Kafka
13 28 (6.80%) .NET Core
14 26 (6.31%) .NET Framework
15 25 (6.07%) Next.js
16 24 (5.83%) Flask
17 23 (5.58%) Jest
17 23 (5.58%) OAuth
18 22 (5.34%) Django
19 21 (5.10%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 69 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.43%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.18%) Fixed Income
5 9 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.18%) NHS
6 6 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.21%) AI Agents
8 4 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.73%) Derivative
9 3 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.73%) Life Science
9 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.91%) Linux
2 7 (1.70%) Unix
3 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 189 (45.87%) CI/CD
3 160 (38.83%) Agile
4 99 (24.03%) DevOps
5 96 (23.30%) Microservices
6 74 (17.96%) Test Automation
7 57 (13.83%) AI
7 57 (13.83%) Containerisation
8 56 (13.59%) Front End Development
9 54 (13.11%) Software Engineering
10 51 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (9.47%) Event-Driven
13 37 (8.98%) Code Quality
14 33 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (8.01%) Mentoring
15 32 (7.77%) API Design
16 31 (7.52%) SDLC
17 28 (6.80%) Clean Code
18 27 (6.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 158 (38.35%) TypeScript
2 143 (34.71%) JavaScript
3 129 (31.31%) Python
4 116 (28.16%) SQL
5 115 (27.91%) Java
6 69 (16.75%) C#
7 7 (1.70%) Go
7 7 (1.70%) Kotlin
7 7 (1.70%) PHP
8 6 (1.46%) Bicep
9 4 (0.97%) Bash
9 4 (0.97%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
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 80 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 67 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.61%) Degree
4 15 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.97%) 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 (8.74%) QA
2 28 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.18%) WCAG
4 4 (0.97%) 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 (22.82%) Docker
2 8 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.17%) Terraform
3 12 (2.91%) Grafana
4 7 (1.70%) Argo
5 5 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.97%) Ansible
6 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.49%) Kibana
8 1 (0.24%) Consul
8 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.24%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 38 (9.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.64%) Oracle
3 8 (1.94%) Google
3 8 (1.94%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.21%) Databricks
5 4 (0.97%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.73%) Foundry
6 3 (0.73%) Splunk
7 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.49%) Solace
7 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.24%) Brio
8 1 (0.24%) Confluent
8 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.24%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.24%) IBM
8 1 (0.24%) NEC
8 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.24%) Veracode
8 1 (0.24%) Workday