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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 231 188
Rank change year-on-year -108 -43 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 386 384 511
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.16% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.28% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 288 381
10th Percentile £370 £336 £363
25th Percentile £425 £401 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 £691 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £464
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.96% +9.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile - £62.80 £36.05
25th Percentile - £64.38 £36.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +67.50% -46.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £45.06
90th Percentile £77.00 - £51.03
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 50,596 30,108 35,619
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 91.02% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,877 19,013 21,671
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.62%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,928 1,616 1,603
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £69.20 £74.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -0.38%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -95 318 £503 +0.50% 311
London -72 189 £520 - 145
UK excluding London -82 138 £500 +11.11% 190
Work from Home -77 111 £475 -5.00% 165
North of England -67 44 £500 +19.05% 61
South East -47 36 £500 +2.56% 41
South West -28 23 £525 -4.55% 19
Yorkshire -29 22 £575 +17.95% 24
Scotland -29 22 £425 -5.56% 13
North West -48 17 £490 +22.50% 33
Midlands -50 9 £425 +6.25% 26
West Midlands -43 7 £450 +12.50% 18
North East -43 5 £450 -6.25% 6
East of England -44 3 £350 -26.32% 17
East Midlands -22 2 £425 +5.99% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £375 - 11

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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.

1 386 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 185 (47.93%) React
3 180 (46.63%) CI/CD
4 151 (39.12%) Agile
5 150 (38.86%) TypeScript
6 149 (38.60%) AWS
7 145 (37.56%) JavaScript
8 126 (32.64%) Java
9 119 (30.83%) SQL
10 112 (29.02%) Microservices
11 111 (28.76%) REST
12 110 (28.50%) Python
13 106 (27.46%) Azure
14 102 (26.42%) Node.js
15 96 (24.87%) DevOps
16 90 (23.32%) Docker
17 86 (22.28%) RESTful
18 82 (21.24%) .NET
19 78 (20.21%) Kubernetes
19 78 (20.21%) Test Automation
20 73 (18.91%) Git
21 69 (17.88%) AngularJS
21 69 (17.88%) C#
21 69 (17.88%) PostgreSQL
22 68 (17.62%) Spring
23 66 (17.10%) Spring Boot
24 65 (16.84%) HTML
24 65 (16.84%) Security Cleared
25 64 (16.58%) CSS
26 60 (15.54%) Software Engineering

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 (4.40%) Confluence
2 8 (2.07%) Camunda
3 5 (1.30%) Apache
3 5 (1.30%) CMS
3 5 (1.30%) nginx
4 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 149 (38.60%) AWS
2 106 (27.46%) Azure
3 56 (14.51%) GitHub
4 53 (13.73%) Serverless
5 32 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (6.48%) GCP
8 23 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (5.18%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.15%) GitHub Copilot
11 15 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (3.89%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (3.11%) OpenShift
14 11 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.85%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (2.59%) SaaS
16 9 (2.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.04%) HTTP
2 2 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (17.88%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (15.28%) SQL Server
3 39 (10.10%) Relational Database
4 36 (9.33%) MySQL
5 33 (8.55%) NoSQL
6 28 (7.25%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (3.63%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (2.59%) Redis
11 8 (2.07%) Power BI
12 5 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.04%) Flink
14 3 (0.78%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.78%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
16 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
16 1 (0.26%) Parquet
16 1 (0.26%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 73 (18.91%) Git
2 43 (11.14%) Jenkins
3 40 (10.36%) GitLab
4 20 (5.18%) JIRA
5 18 (4.66%) JUnit
6 13 (3.37%) Maven
7 12 (3.11%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.85%) Mockito
9 7 (1.81%) Claude Code
9 7 (1.81%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.81%) Gradle
10 6 (1.55%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.30%) Mocha
11 5 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.30%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.04%) JetBrains Rider
13 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.78%) Storybook
General
1 78 (20.21%) Finance
2 75 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 46 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 40 (10.36%) Banking
5 28 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.63%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.33%) Retail
8 8 (2.07%) Front Office
8 8 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.81%) Military
10 5 (1.30%) Advertising
11 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Back Office
12 3 (0.78%) Local Government
12 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Legal
13 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.52%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (47.93%) React
2 111 (28.76%) REST
3 102 (26.42%) Node.js
4 86 (22.28%) RESTful
5 82 (21.24%) .NET
6 69 (17.88%) AngularJS
7 68 (17.62%) Spring
8 66 (17.10%) Spring Boot
9 65 (16.84%) HTML
10 64 (16.58%) CSS
11 45 (11.66%) Terraform
12 43 (11.14%) Kafka
12 43 (11.14%) Vue
13 29 (7.51%) CSS3
13 29 (7.51%) HTML5
14 28 (7.25%) .NET Core
14 28 (7.25%) OAuth
15 25 (6.48%) Jest
16 22 (5.70%) .NET Framework
16 22 (5.70%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 68 (17.62%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.96%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (5.96%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.11%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.07%) NHS
6 8 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.04%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.78%) Derivative
10 3 (0.78%) Life Science
10 3 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.63%) Linux
2 8 (2.07%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 180 (46.63%) CI/CD
3 151 (39.12%) Agile
4 112 (29.02%) Microservices
5 96 (24.87%) DevOps
6 78 (20.21%) Test Automation
7 60 (15.54%) Software Engineering
8 58 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (13.73%) AI
9 53 (13.73%) Containerisation
9 53 (13.73%) Event-Driven
10 52 (13.47%) Front End Development
11 45 (11.66%) Code Quality
12 43 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (10.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 39 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (10.10%) Mentoring
15 36 (9.33%) Scrum
16 35 (9.07%) SDLC
17 32 (8.29%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 150 (38.86%) TypeScript
2 145 (37.56%) JavaScript
3 126 (32.64%) Java
4 119 (30.83%) SQL
5 110 (28.50%) Python
6 69 (17.88%) C#
7 11 (2.85%) PHP
8 8 (2.07%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.30%) Bash
9 5 (1.30%) Bicep
10 4 (1.04%) Go
10 4 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.52%) Scala
13 1 (0.26%) C++
13 1 (0.26%) Korn
13 1 (0.26%) PromQL
13 1 (0.26%) Ruby
13 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 51 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.96%) Degree
4 22 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.40%) QA
2 19 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.07%) WCAG
4 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.78%) HL7
5 2 (0.52%) GDPR
5 2 (0.52%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.52%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 90 (23.32%) Docker
2 7 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (20.21%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.37%) Grafana
3 8 (2.07%) Argo
4 5 (1.30%) Kibana
5 4 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.78%) Ansible
7 1 (0.26%) Consul
7 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.26%) Istio
7 1 (0.26%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 45 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.59%) Databricks
3 9 (2.33%) Google
3 9 (2.33%) Oracle
4 8 (2.07%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.55%) IBM
6 5 (1.30%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.30%) Veracode
7 4 (1.04%) Splunk
8 3 (0.78%) Brio
8 3 (0.78%) Foundry
8 3 (0.78%) NEC
8 3 (0.78%) webMethods
9 2 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.52%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.26%) Confluent
10 1 (0.26%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.26%) Snow
10 1 (0.26%) Workday