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 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
6 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 220 203
Rank change year-on-year -56 -17 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 359 412 545
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.14% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.23% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 304 434
10th Percentile £320 £363 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -5.41% +8.82% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £48.28 £36.05 £34.25
25th Percentile £56.94 £36.50 £41.04
Median hourly rate £65.25 £38.75 £52.36
Median % change year-on-year +68.39% -25.99% -31.53%
75th Percentile £67.00 £40.63 £63.68
90th Percentile - £41.30 £70.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 33,145 33,385 42,274
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.77% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,040 20,359 28,495
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,147 1,515
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +39.88%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer 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 6 December 2025. 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 -51 294 £500 -7.41% 397
London -25 162 £510 -7.27% 61
UK excluding London -80 133 £438 -5.41% 383
Work from Home -37 110 £475 - 335
North of England -63 36 £450 - 100
South East -29 29 £413 -34.00% 108
Scotland +7 24 £450 +9.09% 15
North West -25 22 £401 -15.53% 50
Midlands -29 22 £400 -8.05% 61
East of England -2 12 £525 +90.91% 47
East Midlands -9 12 £550 +33.33% 21
South West -9 10 £537 +21.66% 44
West Midlands -25 10 £375 -20.63% 38
Yorkshire -53 10 £500 +11.11% 30
North East 0 4 £488 +39.29% 20

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2025, 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.

1 359 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 191 (53.20%) React
3 172 (47.91%) CI/CD
4 157 (43.73%) AWS
5 146 (40.67%) TypeScript
6 140 (39.00%) Agile
7 130 (36.21%) JavaScript
8 126 (35.10%) Java
9 114 (31.75%) Python
10 104 (28.97%) Node.js
11 101 (28.13%) SQL
12 100 (27.86%) AngularJS
13 88 (24.51%) Azure
14 87 (24.23%) Docker
14 87 (24.23%) Microservices
15 85 (23.68%) Kubernetes
16 83 (23.12%) DevOps
17 77 (21.45%) HTML
18 76 (21.17%) Git
18 76 (21.17%) Security Cleared
19 75 (20.89%) CSS
20 74 (20.61%) Spring
21 70 (19.50%) RESTful
22 69 (19.22%) .NET
22 69 (19.22%) PostgreSQL
23 67 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
24 64 (17.83%) SC Cleared
25 56 (15.60%) Containerisation
25 56 (15.60%) Spring Boot
26 53 (14.76%) C#

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 (4.18%) Confluence
2 13 (3.62%) CMS
3 8 (2.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (2.23%) Headless CMS
4 5 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (1.39%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) Moodle
6 2 (0.56%) nginx
6 2 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Magento
2 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 157 (43.73%) AWS
2 88 (24.51%) Azure
3 53 (14.76%) GitHub
4 39 (10.86%) Serverless
5 37 (10.31%) GCP
6 22 (6.13%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (6.13%) OpenShift
7 21 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (3.90%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (1.95%) Kontent
10 7 (1.95%) SaaS
11 6 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.67%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.67%) npm
11 6 (1.67%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.79%) SSL
2 6 (1.67%) VPN
3 4 (1.11%) DNS
3 4 (1.11%) HTTP
4 3 (0.84%) DHCP
4 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (19.22%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (12.26%) NoSQL
3 36 (10.03%) MongoDB
4 26 (7.24%) Relational Database
5 21 (5.85%) SQL Server
6 20 (5.57%) MySQL
7 8 (2.23%) Redis
8 7 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.67%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.67%) Power BI
10 4 (1.11%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.84%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.84%) DocumentDB
12 2 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.56%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (21.17%) Git
2 29 (8.08%) Jenkins
3 26 (7.24%) JUnit
4 25 (6.96%) JIRA
5 23 (6.41%) GitLab
6 13 (3.62%) Cucumber
7 11 (3.06%) JMeter
7 11 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.51%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.51%) Mockito
9 6 (1.67%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.67%) Maven
10 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.39%) Selenium
10 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.39%) Vite
10 5 (1.39%) webpack
11 4 (1.11%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.84%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.84%) Storybook
General
1 79 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.83%) Finance
3 43 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.41%) Banking
5 21 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.62%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.34%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (2.51%) Front Office
9 8 (2.23%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.67%) Retail
12 5 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (1.39%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.84%) Electronics
14 3 (0.84%) Marketing
14 3 (0.84%) Military
15 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (53.20%) React
2 104 (28.97%) Node.js
3 100 (27.86%) AngularJS
4 77 (21.45%) HTML
5 75 (20.89%) CSS
6 74 (20.61%) Spring
7 70 (19.50%) RESTful
8 69 (19.22%) .NET
9 56 (15.60%) Spring Boot
10 52 (14.48%) REST
11 45 (12.53%) Next.js
12 36 (10.03%) Kafka
13 28 (7.80%) Vue
14 27 (7.52%) Hibernate
15 26 (7.24%) FastAPI
16 23 (6.41%) .NET Framework
17 22 (6.13%) GraphQL
17 22 (6.13%) Jest
18 19 (5.29%) .NET Core
19 17 (4.74%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.08%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.18%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.34%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.23%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.67%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.84%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.84%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.56%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.24%) Linux
2 9 (2.51%) Unix
3 3 (0.84%) CentOS
3 3 (0.84%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.84%) Windows
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 172 (47.91%) CI/CD
3 140 (39.00%) Agile
4 87 (24.23%) Microservices
5 83 (23.12%) DevOps
6 67 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (15.60%) Containerisation
8 48 (13.37%) AI
9 47 (13.09%) Front End Development
10 39 (10.86%) TDD
11 37 (10.31%) Test Automation
12 33 (9.19%) Software Engineering
13 31 (8.64%) User Experience
14 30 (8.36%) API Development
14 30 (8.36%) Clean Code
14 30 (8.36%) Code Quality
14 30 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (7.52%) Design Patterns
16 26 (7.24%) OOP
17 25 (6.96%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 146 (40.67%) TypeScript
2 130 (36.21%) JavaScript
3 126 (35.10%) Java
4 114 (31.75%) Python
5 101 (28.13%) SQL
6 53 (14.76%) C#
7 14 (3.90%) Ruby
8 9 (2.51%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.23%) Bash
9 8 (2.23%) C++
9 8 (2.23%) PHP
10 6 (1.67%) Perl
10 6 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.11%) Go
12 3 (0.84%) Bicep
12 3 (0.84%) C
12 3 (0.84%) Cypher
12 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.84%) VB
13 2 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 76 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.69%) Degree
4 18 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.56%) MCP
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.74%) QA
2 13 (3.62%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.23%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 87 (24.23%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.56%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 85 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.41%) Terraform
3 15 (4.18%) Ansible
4 11 (3.06%) Argo
5 9 (2.51%) Grafana
6 8 (2.23%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.56%) Kibana
9 1 (0.28%) Podman
9 1 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 26 (7.24%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.01%) Google
3 15 (4.18%) Oracle
3 15 (4.18%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.23%) Adobe
4 8 (2.23%) VMware
5 6 (1.67%) SAP
5 6 (1.67%) Virgin Media
6 5 (1.39%) Sitecore
7 4 (1.11%) Cisco
7 4 (1.11%) Databricks
8 3 (0.84%) F5
8 3 (0.84%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.84%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.84%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.84%) Splunk
9 2 (0.56%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.56%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.56%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.56%) Veracode
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