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 6 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
6 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 250 186
Rank change year-on-year -88 -64 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 393 356 499
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.08% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.19% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 265 366
10th Percentile £381 £331 £363
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £647
90th Percentile £650 £675 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile - £62.80 £36.05
25th Percentile £35.00 £64.38 £36.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £67.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.84% +72.90% -48.33%
75th Percentile £64.25 - £40.63
90th Percentile £77.00 - £41.30
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 50,334 29,798 35,032
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 90.81% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,572 18,806 21,176
10th Percentile £325 £278 £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 £638 £620 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,026 1,619 1,521
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.76 £17.30 £20.50
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.74 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.44% -41.69% -2.16%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -85 322 £500 - 306
London -68 192 £520 - 142
UK excluding London -77 143 £495 +10.00% 182
Work from Home -83 114 £475 -5.00% 158
North of England -62 44 £500 +24.22% 53
South East -27 42 £500 +2.56% 42
Scotland -27 25 £400 -11.11% 14
Yorkshire -24 22 £575 +17.95% 25
South West -28 19 £525 -4.55% 16
North West -49 17 £484 +21.00% 26
Midlands -46 9 £450 +12.50% 27
West Midlands -44 7 £475 +18.75% 20
North East -37 5 £450 -10.00% 3
East of England -35 3 £350 -28.21% 18
East Midlands -15 2 £425 -6.08% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £375 - 10

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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.

1 393 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 191 (48.60%) React
3 188 (47.84%) CI/CD
4 152 (38.68%) TypeScript
5 150 (38.17%) Agile
6 146 (37.15%) AWS
7 144 (36.64%) JavaScript
8 128 (32.57%) Java
9 123 (31.30%) SQL
10 117 (29.77%) Microservices
10 117 (29.77%) Python
11 113 (28.75%) Azure
11 113 (28.75%) REST
12 100 (25.45%) DevOps
13 99 (25.19%) Node.js
14 91 (23.16%) Docker
14 91 (23.16%) RESTful
15 88 (22.39%) .NET
16 84 (21.37%) Kubernetes
17 82 (20.87%) Test Automation
18 78 (19.85%) Git
19 75 (19.08%) C#
20 73 (18.58%) AngularJS
21 69 (17.56%) Spring
22 67 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
23 65 (16.54%) CSS
23 65 (16.54%) HTML
23 65 (16.54%) Spring Boot
24 64 (16.28%) Security Cleared
25 61 (15.52%) 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 20 (5.09%) Confluence
2 8 (2.04%) Camunda
3 5 (1.27%) Apache
4 4 (1.02%) CMS
4 4 (1.02%) nginx
4 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.51%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 146 (37.15%) AWS
2 113 (28.75%) Azure
3 55 (13.99%) GitHub
4 53 (13.49%) Serverless
5 35 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (7.38%) GCP
7 28 (7.12%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (4.83%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.82%) GitHub Copilot
11 14 (3.56%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (3.56%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.31%) Entra ID
12 13 (3.31%) OpenShift
13 12 (3.05%) Azure AKS
13 12 (3.05%) Azure App Service
13 12 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.02%) HTTP
2 2 (0.51%) Firewall
3 1 (0.25%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (15.01%) SQL Server
3 39 (9.92%) Relational Database
4 38 (9.67%) NoSQL
5 34 (8.65%) MySQL
6 30 (7.63%) MongoDB
7 20 (5.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (3.56%) DynamoDB
9 12 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.80%) Redis
11 8 (2.04%) Power BI
12 4 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.02%) Flink
13 3 (0.76%) Parquet
13 3 (0.76%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.51%) Neo4j
15 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.25%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 78 (19.85%) Git
2 43 (10.94%) Jenkins
3 41 (10.43%) GitLab
4 24 (6.11%) JIRA
5 19 (4.83%) JUnit
6 13 (3.31%) Maven
7 12 (3.05%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.80%) Mockito
9 7 (1.78%) Claude Code
9 7 (1.78%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.78%) Gradle
10 6 (1.53%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.27%) Mocha
11 5 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.27%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.02%) JetBrains Rider
13 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.76%) Storybook
General
1 83 (21.12%) Finance
2 77 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 45 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 42 (10.69%) Banking
5 29 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.29%) Retail
8 8 (2.04%) Front Office
9 7 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.78%) Military
10 5 (1.27%) Advertising
11 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Back Office
12 3 (0.76%) Local Government
12 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.51%) Law
13 2 (0.51%) Legal
13 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.51%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (48.60%) React
2 113 (28.75%) REST
3 99 (25.19%) Node.js
4 91 (23.16%) RESTful
5 88 (22.39%) .NET
6 73 (18.58%) AngularJS
7 69 (17.56%) Spring
8 65 (16.54%) CSS
8 65 (16.54%) HTML
8 65 (16.54%) Spring Boot
9 49 (12.47%) Kafka
10 48 (12.21%) Terraform
11 42 (10.69%) Vue
12 32 (8.14%) .NET Core
13 30 (7.63%) OAuth
14 29 (7.38%) CSS3
14 29 (7.38%) HTML5
15 25 (6.36%) .NET Framework
16 23 (5.85%) Flask
17 22 (5.60%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 68 (17.30%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (6.62%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.05%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.04%) NHS
7 7 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.02%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.02%) Derivative
10 4 (1.02%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.76%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.76%) Life Science
11 3 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.33%) Linux
2 9 (2.29%) Unix
3 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 188 (47.84%) CI/CD
3 150 (38.17%) Agile
4 117 (29.77%) Microservices
5 100 (25.45%) DevOps
6 82 (20.87%) Test Automation
7 61 (15.52%) Software Engineering
8 60 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (14.25%) Front End Development
10 54 (13.74%) Event-Driven
11 53 (13.49%) Containerisation
12 52 (13.23%) AI
13 45 (11.45%) Code Quality
13 45 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (10.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 39 (9.92%) Mentoring
16 38 (9.67%) Scrum
17 37 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (8.40%) Observability
19 32 (8.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 152 (38.68%) TypeScript
2 144 (36.64%) JavaScript
3 128 (32.57%) Java
4 123 (31.30%) SQL
5 117 (29.77%) Python
6 75 (19.08%) C#
7 11 (2.80%) PHP
8 8 (2.04%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.78%) Bicep
10 6 (1.53%) Bash
10 6 (1.53%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.02%) Go
12 3 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.51%) Scala
14 1 (0.25%) Dart
14 1 (0.25%) PromQL
14 1 (0.25%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 48 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.11%) Degree
4 23 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.53%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.69%) QA
2 20 (5.09%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.29%) WCAG
4 4 (1.02%) GDPR
4 4 (1.02%) HL7
5 3 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.51%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.51%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 91 (23.16%) Docker
2 8 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (21.37%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.31%) Grafana
3 8 (2.04%) Argo
4 5 (1.27%) Kibana
5 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.76%) Ansible
6 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Consul
7 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 43 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.80%) Google
3 10 (2.54%) Databricks
4 9 (2.29%) Oracle
5 8 (2.04%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.53%) IBM
7 5 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.27%) Splunk
7 5 (1.27%) Veracode
8 3 (0.76%) Brio
8 3 (0.76%) Foundry
8 3 (0.76%) NEC
8 3 (0.76%) webMethods
9 2 (0.51%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.51%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.25%) Confluent
10 1 (0.25%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.25%) Snow
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