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 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 227 191
Rank change year-on-year -76 -36 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 437 392 507
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 1.18% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.30% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 298 393
10th Percentile £364 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £586 £650
90th Percentile £650 £693 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £482 £450
% change year-on-year +0.10% +7.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile - £62.80 £52.00
25th Percentile - £64.38 £53.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile £64.20 - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -47.76% +24.65% -

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 49,411 30,266 36,487
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 91.43% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,780 19,222 23,643
10th Percentile £331 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £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 3,407 1,492 2,092
10th Percentile £15.36 £13.65 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.89 £54.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -41.51% +10.19%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -71 361 £500 - 109
London -44 202 £521 +4.10% 36
UK excluding London -52 171 £483 +0.10% 88
Work from Home -99 123 £500 -2.91% 61
North of England -59 50 £500 +4.17% 22
South East -47 42 £525 -4.55% 25
South West -22 25 £525 -4.55% 15
Scotland -5 24 £403 -10.56% 5
Yorkshire -32 24 £575 +17.95% 9
Midlands -43 23 £425 +5.72% 17
West Midlands -44 21 £425 -17.48% 11
North West -54 18 £475 +18.75% 13
North East -40 8 £450 -6.25%
East of England -22 5 £350 -26.32% 3
Northern Ireland +3 2 £375 +3.09% 2
East Midlands -20 2 £425 +5.99% 6

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 437 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 213 (48.74%) React
3 201 (46.00%) CI/CD
4 168 (38.44%) TypeScript
5 163 (37.30%) Agile
6 157 (35.93%) AWS
7 151 (34.55%) JavaScript
8 144 (32.95%) Python
9 134 (30.66%) Azure
10 125 (28.60%) Node.js
11 123 (28.15%) Java
12 115 (26.32%) SQL
13 107 (24.49%) DevOps
14 101 (23.11%) Docker
15 100 (22.88%) Microservices
16 97 (22.20%) REST
17 91 (20.82%) Security Cleared
18 86 (19.68%) RESTful
19 81 (18.54%) .NET
20 79 (18.08%) AngularJS
20 79 (18.08%) PostgreSQL
21 75 (17.16%) Test Automation
22 74 (16.93%) SC Cleared
23 72 (16.48%) C#
23 72 (16.48%) Kubernetes
24 71 (16.25%) Git
25 65 (14.87%) Containerisation
26 64 (14.65%) Spring
27 59 (13.50%) Spring Boot
28 58 (13.27%) Serverless

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 (4.12%) Confluence
2 4 (0.92%) Camunda
2 4 (0.92%) CMS
2 4 (0.92%) nginx
3 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.23%) Apache
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.23%) IIS
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 157 (35.93%) AWS
2 134 (30.66%) Azure
3 58 (13.27%) Serverless
4 49 (11.21%) GitHub
5 45 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (7.78%) GCP
7 29 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (4.81%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (3.66%) Entra ID
11 14 (3.20%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (2.97%) Azure AKS
13 12 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.52%) Azure Functions
14 11 (2.52%) Power Platform
15 10 (2.29%) Azure App Service
15 10 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (2.29%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) HTTP
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (18.08%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (9.61%) SQL Server
3 34 (7.78%) NoSQL
3 34 (7.78%) Relational Database
4 25 (5.72%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.72%) MySQL
5 20 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (3.89%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.29%) Power BI
7 10 (2.29%) Redis
8 6 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.14%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.69%) Metadata
10 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.69%) Parquet
10 3 (0.69%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.46%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.46%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (16.25%) Git
2 35 (8.01%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.64%) GitLab
4 19 (4.35%) JIRA
5 13 (2.97%) JUnit
6 8 (1.83%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.83%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.60%) Mockito
8 6 (1.37%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.37%) Jasmine
8 6 (1.37%) Karma Test Runner
9 5 (1.14%) Maven
9 5 (1.14%) Mocha
9 5 (1.14%) NUnit
9 5 (1.14%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.92%) Gradle
10 4 (0.92%) JetBrains Rider
11 3 (0.69%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.69%) Postman
11 3 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 74 (16.93%) Finance
2 64 (14.65%) Public Sector
3 62 (14.19%) Social Skills
4 28 (6.41%) Banking
5 26 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.43%) Front Office
7 8 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.60%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.60%) Military
8 7 (1.60%) Retail
9 5 (1.14%) Advertising
10 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.69%) Legal
11 3 (0.69%) Local Government
12 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.23%) Marketing
12 1 (0.23%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (48.74%) React
2 125 (28.60%) Node.js
3 97 (22.20%) REST
4 86 (19.68%) RESTful
5 81 (18.54%) .NET
6 79 (18.08%) AngularJS
7 64 (14.65%) Spring
8 59 (13.50%) Spring Boot
9 52 (11.90%) Vue
10 51 (11.67%) CSS
11 50 (11.44%) HTML
12 41 (9.38%) Kafka
13 31 (7.09%) .NET Core
14 30 (6.86%) .NET Framework
15 28 (6.41%) OAuth
16 27 (6.18%) GraphQL
17 26 (5.95%) Flask
17 26 (5.95%) Jest
17 26 (5.95%) Next.js
18 24 (5.49%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 71 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.97%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.52%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.83%) NHS
9 6 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.92%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.69%) Derivative
12 3 (0.69%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.06%) Linux
2 4 (0.92%) Unix
3 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 201 (46.00%) CI/CD
3 163 (37.30%) Agile
4 107 (24.49%) DevOps
5 100 (22.88%) Microservices
6 75 (17.16%) Test Automation
7 65 (14.87%) Containerisation
8 56 (12.81%) Front End Development
8 56 (12.81%) Software Engineering
9 54 (12.36%) AI
10 51 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (8.92%) Code Quality
13 38 (8.70%) Event-Driven
13 38 (8.70%) Mentoring
14 33 (7.55%) API Design
15 31 (7.09%) SDLC
16 30 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (6.41%) Observability
18 27 (6.18%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 168 (38.44%) TypeScript
2 151 (34.55%) JavaScript
3 144 (32.95%) Python
4 123 (28.15%) Java
5 115 (26.32%) SQL
6 72 (16.48%) C#
7 11 (2.52%) Go
8 7 (1.60%) Bicep
8 7 (1.60%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.37%) PHP
10 4 (0.92%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.69%) Bash
11 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.46%) Ruby
12 2 (0.46%) Scala
13 1 (0.23%) Groovy
13 1 (0.23%) Korn
13 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 91 (20.82%) Security Cleared
2 74 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.49%) Degree
4 18 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.78%) QA
2 31 (7.09%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.06%) WCAG
4 4 (0.92%) HL7
5 3 (0.69%) GDPR
6 2 (0.46%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.46%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.46%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 101 (23.11%) Docker
2 9 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (16.48%) Kubernetes
2 52 (11.90%) Terraform
3 13 (2.97%) Grafana
4 7 (1.60%) Argo
5 6 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.92%) Ansible
8 2 (0.46%) Kibana
9 1 (0.23%) Consul
9 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 42 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.66%) Oracle
3 8 (1.83%) Google
4 7 (1.60%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.37%) Databricks
6 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.69%) NEC
8 2 (0.46%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.46%) Solace
8 2 (0.46%) Splunk
8 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe
9 1 (0.23%) Confluent
9 1 (0.23%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.23%) IBM
9 1 (0.23%) SAP
9 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.23%) Workday
9 1 (0.23%) Xero