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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 221 193
Rank change year-on-year -88 -28 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 413 390 509
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 1.18% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.29% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 293 392
10th Percentile £372 £336 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £641 £690 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile - £62.80 £56.20
25th Percentile - £64.38 £58.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £64.00
90th Percentile £60.00 - £65.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -

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 49,398 30,125 36,175
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 91.38% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,694 19,103 23,309
10th Percentile £328 £282 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £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 3,473 1,514 2,025
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.12 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.68 £25.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year +70.20% -44.28% +27.66%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -76 341 £500 - 211
London -58 188 £525 +5.00% 86
UK excluding London -67 160 £475 - 155
Work from Home -92 119 £500 -1.57% 118
North of England -67 45 £500 +4.17% 45
South East -45 41 £500 -9.09% 31
South West -26 25 £525 -4.55% 25
Yorkshire -34 22 £575 +17.95% 20
Midlands -44 22 £425 +5.72% 22
Scotland -11 21 £415 -7.78% 16
West Midlands -32 20 £425 -17.48% 16
North West -50 15 £490 +22.50% 20
North East -42 8 £450 -8.16% 5
East of England -27 4 £350 -26.32% 9
Northern Ireland +7 2 £375 +3.09% 8
East Midlands -14 2 £425 +5.99% 6

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 413 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 201 (48.67%) React
3 190 (46.00%) CI/CD
4 158 (38.26%) Agile
5 156 (37.77%) TypeScript
6 147 (35.59%) AWS
7 144 (34.87%) JavaScript
8 135 (32.69%) Python
9 121 (29.30%) Azure
10 114 (27.60%) Java
10 114 (27.60%) Node.js
11 113 (27.36%) SQL
12 99 (23.97%) DevOps
13 96 (23.24%) REST
14 95 (23.00%) Docker
15 92 (22.28%) Microservices
16 85 (20.58%) Security Cleared
17 82 (19.85%) RESTful
18 75 (18.16%) .NET
19 71 (17.19%) Git
19 71 (17.19%) SC Cleared
19 71 (17.19%) Test Automation
20 69 (16.71%) AngularJS
20 69 (16.71%) PostgreSQL
21 68 (16.46%) C#
22 67 (16.22%) Kubernetes
23 62 (15.01%) Spring
24 58 (14.04%) Containerisation
24 58 (14.04%) Spring Boot
25 56 (13.56%) 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 17 (4.12%) Confluence
2 4 (0.97%) Camunda
2 4 (0.97%) CMS
2 4 (0.97%) nginx
3 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.48%) Apache
4 2 (0.48%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 147 (35.59%) AWS
2 121 (29.30%) Azure
3 56 (13.56%) Serverless
4 48 (11.62%) GitHub
5 41 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (6.05%) GCP
9 19 (4.60%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (3.39%) Anthropic Claude
11 14 (3.39%) Entra ID
12 13 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.42%) Azure App Service
14 10 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.18%) Azure Functions
15 9 (2.18%) Power Platform
15 9 (2.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) HTTP
2 2 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (16.71%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (10.65%) SQL Server
3 34 (8.23%) Relational Database
4 33 (7.99%) NoSQL
5 24 (5.81%) MongoDB
6 23 (5.57%) MySQL
7 18 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (3.63%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.42%) Redis
10 8 (1.94%) Power BI
11 6 (1.45%) Neo4j
12 5 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.73%) Metadata
13 3 (0.73%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.73%) Parquet
13 3 (0.73%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 71 (17.19%) Git
2 35 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.02%) GitLab
4 18 (4.36%) JIRA
5 13 (3.15%) JUnit
6 8 (1.94%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.94%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.69%) Mockito
8 6 (1.45%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.45%) Maven
8 6 (1.45%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.21%) Jasmine
9 5 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
9 5 (1.21%) Mocha
10 4 (0.97%) Gradle
10 4 (0.97%) JetBrains Rider
10 4 (0.97%) NUnit
11 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.73%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.73%) Postman
General
1 66 (15.98%) Finance
2 61 (14.77%) Public Sector
2 61 (14.77%) Social Skills
3 27 (6.54%) Banking
4 24 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.15%) Front Office
6 8 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (1.94%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.69%) Military
7 7 (1.69%) Retail
8 5 (1.21%) Advertising
9 4 (0.97%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.73%) Legal
10 3 (0.73%) Local Government
11 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.24%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.24%) Law
12 1 (0.24%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (48.67%) React
2 114 (27.60%) Node.js
3 96 (23.24%) REST
4 82 (19.85%) RESTful
5 75 (18.16%) .NET
6 69 (16.71%) AngularJS
7 62 (15.01%) Spring
8 58 (14.04%) Spring Boot
9 50 (12.11%) CSS
10 49 (11.86%) HTML
11 46 (11.14%) Vue
12 40 (9.69%) Kafka
13 29 (7.02%) .NET Core
14 27 (6.54%) .NET Framework
15 25 (6.05%) Flask
15 25 (6.05%) Jest
15 25 (6.05%) Next.js
15 25 (6.05%) OAuth
16 24 (5.81%) Django
17 23 (5.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 70 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.66%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.66%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.18%) NHS
7 6 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.21%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.97%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.73%) Derivative
10 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.48%) Life Science
11 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.18%) Linux
2 4 (0.97%) Unix
3 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 190 (46.00%) CI/CD
3 158 (38.26%) Agile
4 99 (23.97%) DevOps
5 92 (22.28%) Microservices
6 71 (17.19%) Test Automation
7 58 (14.04%) Containerisation
8 56 (13.56%) Front End Development
9 54 (13.08%) AI
10 51 (12.35%) Software Engineering
11 48 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (9.20%) Event-Driven
14 37 (8.96%) Code Quality
15 33 (7.99%) API Design
16 32 (7.75%) Mentoring
17 30 (7.26%) SDLC
18 28 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
19 27 (6.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 27 (6.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 156 (37.77%) TypeScript
2 144 (34.87%) JavaScript
3 135 (32.69%) Python
4 114 (27.60%) Java
5 113 (27.36%) SQL
6 68 (16.46%) C#
7 9 (2.18%) Go
8 7 (1.69%) Bicep
8 7 (1.69%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.45%) PHP
10 4 (0.97%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.73%) Bash
11 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.48%) Ruby
12 2 (0.48%) Scala
13 1 (0.24%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Korn
13 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 85 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 71 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.60%) Degree
4 15 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.23%) QA
2 28 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.18%) WCAG
4 4 (0.97%) HL7
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.48%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.48%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 95 (23.00%) Docker
2 8 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.14%) Terraform
3 11 (2.66%) Grafana
4 7 (1.69%) Argo
5 5 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.97%) Ansible
6 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.48%) Kibana
8 1 (0.24%) Consul
8 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.24%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 36 (8.72%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.39%) Oracle
3 8 (1.94%) Google
4 7 (1.69%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.21%) Databricks
6 4 (0.97%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.73%) NEC
8 2 (0.48%) Foundry
8 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.48%) Solace
8 2 (0.48%) Splunk
8 2 (0.48%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.24%) Confluent
9 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.24%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.24%) IBM
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.24%) Veracode
9 1 (0.24%) Workday