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 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 207 174
Rank change year-on-year -68 -33 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 435 374 589
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.30% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.41% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 295 474
10th Percentile £363 £351 £325
25th Percentile £413 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £534
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.39% -2.95%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £675
90th Percentile £663 £708 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £450
% change year-on-year -2.21% +7.94% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile £35.00 - £53.13
Median hourly rate £58.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -2.27%

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 45,089 26,570 40,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.35% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,438 17,201 25,885
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,017 1,072 2,851
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.85 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £59.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.39% -36.94% -5.88%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -59 367 £508 -0.25% 109
London -65 193 £521 -0.86% 26
UK excluding London -29 182 £475 -2.21% 95
Work from Home -83 119 £500 -3.85% 61
North of England -46 69 £475 +3.26% 24
North West -18 38 £455 +1.11% 8
South East -51 35 £550 - 28
Midlands -41 27 £450 -11.33% 17
West Midlands -39 26 £450 -35.71% 9
South West -13 22 £525 -4.55% 17
Scotland +6 20 £425 -3.63% 4
Yorkshire -51 20 £575 +24.32% 10
North East -26 11 £475 +2.15% 6
East of England -30 8 £538 +13.29% 4
Northern Ireland +1 1 - -
East Midlands -31 1 £425 +5.72% 8

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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.

1 435 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 211 (48.51%) React
3 165 (37.93%) CI/CD
4 155 (35.63%) AWS
5 154 (35.40%) Agile
6 150 (34.48%) Python
7 148 (34.02%) JavaScript
8 141 (32.41%) TypeScript
9 130 (29.89%) Java
10 129 (29.66%) Node.js
11 120 (27.59%) Azure
12 104 (23.91%) Security Cleared
13 99 (22.76%) DevOps
14 95 (21.84%) Docker
15 93 (21.38%) SQL
16 91 (20.92%) SC Cleared
17 85 (19.54%) AngularJS
17 85 (19.54%) Microservices
18 78 (17.93%) Spring
19 76 (17.47%) .NET
20 73 (16.78%) PostgreSQL
21 69 (15.86%) RESTful
22 68 (15.63%) Containerisation
22 68 (15.63%) Git
23 64 (14.71%) REST
24 63 (14.48%) C#
24 63 (14.48%) Spring Boot
25 61 (14.02%) Test Automation
26 57 (13.10%) CSS
26 57 (13.10%) Front End Development

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 18 (4.14%) Confluence
2 7 (1.61%) CMS
3 4 (0.92%) Camunda
4 3 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.46%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.46%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 155 (35.63%) AWS
2 120 (27.59%) Azure
3 52 (11.95%) GitHub
4 50 (11.49%) Serverless
5 38 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.21%) GCP
9 20 (4.60%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (2.53%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.30%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.07%) Figma
14 8 (1.84%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.84%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (1.61%) OpenShift
16 6 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (1.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) SSL
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (16.78%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.05%) SQL Server
3 30 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 26 (5.98%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (2.99%) MySQL
7 11 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.53%) Power BI
8 10 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.84%) Redis
11 5 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.15%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.15%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.92%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.92%) Metadata
13 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 68 (15.63%) Git
2 28 (6.44%) GitLab
2 28 (6.44%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.60%) JIRA
4 14 (3.22%) JUnit
5 9 (2.07%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.07%) Mocha
6 6 (1.38%) CircleCI
6 6 (1.38%) Mockito
6 6 (1.38%) NUnit
7 5 (1.15%) Jasmine
7 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (0.92%) Postman
8 4 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.69%) git-flow
9 3 (0.69%) Storybook
9 3 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 73 (16.78%) Finance
2 57 (13.10%) Public Sector
3 49 (11.26%) Social Skills
4 30 (6.90%) Banking
5 23 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.22%) Front Office
7 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.92%) Advertising
9 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.69%) Legal
9 3 (0.69%) Retail
9 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.46%) Aviation
10 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.23%) Law
11 1 (0.23%) Military
11 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (48.51%) React
2 129 (29.66%) Node.js
3 85 (19.54%) AngularJS
4 78 (17.93%) Spring
5 76 (17.47%) .NET
6 69 (15.86%) RESTful
7 64 (14.71%) REST
8 63 (14.48%) Spring Boot
9 57 (13.10%) CSS
9 57 (13.10%) HTML
10 40 (9.20%) Vue
11 39 (8.97%) Kafka
12 25 (5.75%) Jest
12 25 (5.75%) Next.js
13 24 (5.52%) Django
13 24 (5.52%) FastAPI
13 24 (5.52%) Flask
13 24 (5.52%) Redux
13 24 (5.52%) YAML
14 20 (4.60%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.68%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (2.76%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.92%) Derivative
11 4 (0.92%) NHS
12 3 (0.69%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.84%) Linux
2 3 (0.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 165 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 154 (35.40%) Agile
4 99 (22.76%) DevOps
5 85 (19.54%) Microservices
6 68 (15.63%) Containerisation
7 61 (14.02%) Test Automation
8 57 (13.10%) Front End Development
9 53 (12.18%) AI
10 46 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (9.89%) Software Engineering
12 39 (8.97%) Scrum
13 34 (7.82%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (7.36%) SDLC
14 32 (7.36%) User Experience
15 31 (7.13%) Event-Driven
16 30 (6.90%) API Design
17 28 (6.44%) Code Quality
18 27 (6.21%) Mentoring
19 26 (5.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 150 (34.48%) Python
2 148 (34.02%) JavaScript
3 141 (32.41%) TypeScript
4 130 (29.89%) Java
5 93 (21.38%) SQL
6 63 (14.48%) C#
7 9 (2.07%) Go
8 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.92%) Bicep
8 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.92%) PHP
9 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.23%) ABAP
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) SOQL
11 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 104 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.92%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.68%) Degree
4 10 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.82%) Accessibility
2 27 (6.21%) QA
3 11 (2.53%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 95 (21.84%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 51 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.05%) Terraform
3 14 (3.22%) Grafana
4 9 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.92%) Argo
7 3 (0.69%) Ansible
8 1 (0.23%) Consul
8 1 (0.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 25 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.91%) Oracle
3 4 (0.92%) Adobe
3 4 (0.92%) Databricks
3 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
3 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
3 4 (0.92%) Salesforce
3 4 (0.92%) Sitecore
4 3 (0.69%) Google
4 3 (0.69%) NEC
4 3 (0.69%) Splunk
5 2 (0.46%) SAP
5 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.46%) Solace
5 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.23%) Brio
6 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.23%) Workday
6 1 (0.23%) Xero