Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 221 193
Rank change year-on-year -44 -28 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 372 370 529
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.16% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.25% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 276 427
10th Percentile £346 £363 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £659 £688 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £494 £433
% change year-on-year -8.86% +14.16% -8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £36.05 -
25th Percentile - £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +30.38% -59.42%
75th Percentile £41.25 £40.63 -
90th Percentile £45.00 £41.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 33,434 29,568 39,993
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.68% 93.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,144 18,103 26,697
10th Percentile £300 £291 £280
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% -4.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 890 1,643
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.22 £18.95
Median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -26.97% +35.79%
75th Percentile £59.38 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -29.42% +66.64%

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 10 January 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
Top 15 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 10 January 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 -53 308 £500 -9.09% 155
London -9 165 £513 -10.87% 58
UK excluding London -67 140 £450 -8.86% 117
Work from Home -27 109 £455 -4.21% 104
North of England -37 51 £455 +1.11% 34
North West -15 33 £450 -10.00% 15
South East -51 31 £411 -34.20% 44
Scotland +6 19 £438 +6.06% 4
Midlands -37 19 £575 +15.00% 17
South West -16 12 £425 -3.63% 7
West Midlands -35 11 £400 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire -62 11 £463 +2.78% 10
East of England -14 8 £525 +75.00% 8
East Midlands -16 8 £600 +45.45% 11
North East -1 7 £475 +35.71% 9

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

For the 6 months to 10 January 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.

1 372 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 200 (53.76%) React
3 165 (44.35%) AWS
4 163 (43.82%) CI/CD
5 140 (37.63%) Agile
6 138 (37.10%) TypeScript
7 129 (34.68%) Java
8 121 (32.53%) JavaScript
9 118 (31.72%) Python
10 102 (27.42%) Node.js
11 94 (25.27%) AngularJS
12 90 (24.19%) SQL
13 88 (23.66%) Docker
14 85 (22.85%) Kubernetes
15 83 (22.31%) Spring
16 82 (22.04%) DevOps
16 82 (22.04%) Security Cleared
17 81 (21.77%) Microservices
18 80 (21.51%) Git
19 76 (20.43%) HTML
20 73 (19.62%) Azure
21 72 (19.35%) CSS
21 72 (19.35%) SC Cleared
22 69 (18.55%) GitHub
22 69 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
23 67 (18.01%) .NET
24 66 (17.74%) RESTful
25 64 (17.20%) Containerisation
26 63 (16.94%) Spring Boot
27 58 (15.59%) PostgreSQL

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 (4.03%) Confluence
2 13 (3.49%) CMS
3 9 (2.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (2.15%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.34%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.34%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.81%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.54%) Moodle
8 2 (0.54%) nginx
8 2 (0.54%) SAS
9 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.54%) Magento
4 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 165 (44.35%) AWS
2 73 (19.62%) Azure
3 69 (18.55%) GitHub
4 47 (12.63%) Serverless
5 36 (9.68%) GCP
6 30 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.65%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.76%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.15%) Azure Functions
13 7 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.88%) Kontent
13 7 (1.88%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.96%) SSL
2 6 (1.61%) VPN
3 2 (0.54%) DNS
3 2 (0.54%) HTTP
3 2 (0.54%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (15.59%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (11.02%) NoSQL
3 32 (8.60%) MongoDB
4 26 (6.99%) Relational Database
4 26 (6.99%) SQL Server
5 17 (4.57%) MySQL
6 8 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.15%) Redis
7 7 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.88%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.88%) Power BI
8 6 (1.61%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.54%) Metadata
11 2 (0.54%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (21.51%) Git
2 26 (6.99%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.45%) JUnit
4 19 (5.11%) GitLab
4 19 (5.11%) JIRA
5 12 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 12 (3.23%) Cypress.io
6 11 (2.96%) JMeter
7 8 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.61%) Mockito
9 5 (1.34%) Mocha
9 5 (1.34%) Storybook
9 5 (1.34%) Vite
10 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.08%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.08%) webpack
11 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.81%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.54%) Eclipse
General
1 73 (19.62%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.52%) Finance
3 44 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.11%) Banking
6 12 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.88%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.08%) Marketing
10 4 (1.08%) Retail
10 4 (1.08%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.81%) Aviation
11 3 (0.81%) Electronics
11 3 (0.81%) Front Office
11 3 (0.81%) Military
11 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (53.76%) React
2 102 (27.42%) Node.js
3 94 (25.27%) AngularJS
4 83 (22.31%) Spring
5 76 (20.43%) HTML
6 72 (19.35%) CSS
7 67 (18.01%) .NET
8 66 (17.74%) RESTful
9 63 (16.94%) Spring Boot
10 49 (13.17%) Next.js
11 47 (12.63%) REST
12 37 (9.95%) Kafka
13 27 (7.26%) FastAPI
14 25 (6.72%) Jest
15 23 (6.18%) Hibernate
15 23 (6.18%) Playwright
16 21 (5.65%) pytest
16 21 (5.65%) Vue
17 19 (5.11%) .NET Framework
18 18 (4.84%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (3.76%) Mobile App
3 14 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.61%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.81%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.81%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.54%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.54%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.54%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.65%) Linux
2 6 (1.61%) Unix
3 3 (0.81%) CentOS
3 3 (0.81%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.81%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 163 (43.82%) CI/CD
3 140 (37.63%) Agile
4 82 (22.04%) DevOps
5 81 (21.77%) Microservices
6 69 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (17.20%) Containerisation
8 57 (15.32%) AI
9 51 (13.71%) Front End Development
10 44 (11.83%) Test Automation
11 37 (9.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (9.68%) Software Engineering
13 35 (9.41%) TDD
14 32 (8.60%) Code Quality
14 32 (8.60%) User Experience
15 30 (8.06%) Clean Code
16 28 (7.53%) API Development
17 26 (6.99%) Event-Driven
17 26 (6.99%) Scrum
18 24 (6.45%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 138 (37.10%) TypeScript
2 129 (34.68%) Java
3 121 (32.53%) JavaScript
4 118 (31.72%) Python
5 90 (24.19%) SQL
6 49 (13.17%) C#
7 12 (3.23%) Ruby
8 7 (1.88%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.61%) Bash
9 6 (1.61%) PHP
9 6 (1.61%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.08%) Perl
11 3 (0.81%) Bicep
11 3 (0.81%) C
11 3 (0.81%) Go
11 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.54%) ABAP
12 2 (0.54%) C++
12 2 (0.54%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (22.04%) Security Cleared
2 72 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.65%) Degree
4 15 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.54%) MCP
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.91%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.23%) WCAG
3 10 (2.69%) QA
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 88 (23.66%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.81%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 85 (22.85%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.72%) Terraform
3 14 (3.76%) Ansible
4 11 (2.96%) Argo
5 10 (2.69%) Grafana
6 8 (2.15%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.34%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.54%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) Podman
9 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 21 (5.65%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.57%) Google
2 17 (4.57%) Oracle
3 15 (4.03%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.42%) Adobe
5 8 (2.15%) VMware
6 5 (1.34%) SAP
6 5 (1.34%) Sitecore
7 4 (1.08%) Cisco
8 3 (0.81%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.81%) Splunk
8 3 (0.81%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.54%) Databricks
9 2 (0.54%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.54%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.27%) F5
10 1 (0.27%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.27%) Siemens
10 1 (0.27%) Sybase