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 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 208 215
Rank change year-on-year -59 +7 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 369 432 534
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.19% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.28% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 317 423
10th Percentile £319 £363 £325
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.99%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £654 £700 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.41% -10.53%
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% -28.50%
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 32,472 33,653 43,373
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.85% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,595 20,286 29,396
10th Percentile £279 £300 £290
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 £648
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,912 1,252 1,544
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +55.71%
75th Percentile £55.12 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.14 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +86.55%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -60 303 £501 -9.00% 229
London -20 172 £519 -9.78% 94
UK excluding London -81 131 £450 -3.23% 159
Work from Home -37 122 £500 +0.60% 150
North of England -58 31 £420 -6.67% 24
South East -24 30 £413 -34.00% 56
Scotland -7 22 £450 +2.27% 4
Midlands -28 20 £475 +0.53% 35
North West -25 17 £400 -10.11% 12
East of England -6 15 £525 +90.91% 8
South West -2 13 £550 +23.46% 26
East Midlands -13 12 £550 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire -62 9 £500 +11.11% 6
West Midlands -26 8 £400 -27.27% 24
North East -3 5 £500 +42.86% 6

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

For the 6 months to 19 November 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.

1 369 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 189 (51.22%) React
3 173 (46.88%) CI/CD
4 159 (43.09%) AWS
5 152 (41.19%) Agile
6 151 (40.92%) TypeScript
7 139 (37.67%) JavaScript
8 129 (34.96%) Java
9 119 (32.25%) Python
10 102 (27.64%) SQL
11 101 (27.37%) AngularJS
11 101 (27.37%) Node.js
12 100 (27.10%) Azure
13 91 (24.66%) Docker
14 85 (23.04%) DevOps
15 83 (22.49%) Kubernetes
16 81 (21.95%) HTML
16 81 (21.95%) Microservices
16 81 (21.95%) PostgreSQL
17 80 (21.68%) CSS
17 80 (21.68%) Git
18 75 (20.33%) Security Cleared
19 72 (19.51%) .NET
19 72 (19.51%) Spring
20 68 (18.43%) RESTful
20 68 (18.43%) SC Cleared
21 67 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
22 58 (15.72%) C#
23 54 (14.63%) Containerisation
23 54 (14.63%) REST

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 14 (3.79%) CMS
2 13 (3.52%) Confluence
3 9 (2.44%) Headless CMS
4 6 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (1.36%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.36%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.54%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.54%) Camunda
7 2 (0.54%) Moodle
7 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 2 (0.54%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) Magento
2 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 159 (43.09%) AWS
2 100 (27.10%) Azure
3 52 (14.09%) GitHub
4 44 (11.92%) Serverless
5 38 (10.30%) GCP
6 27 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (6.23%) OpenShift
8 21 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.34%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.90%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.90%) Kontent
14 7 (1.90%) npm
14 7 (1.90%) SaaS
15 6 (1.63%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.90%) SSL
2 5 (1.36%) HTTP
3 4 (1.08%) DNS
3 4 (1.08%) VPN
4 3 (0.81%) DHCP
4 3 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (21.95%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (11.38%) NoSQL
3 38 (10.30%) MongoDB
4 27 (7.32%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.78%) SQL Server
6 23 (6.23%) MySQL
7 10 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.71%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.63%) Power BI
10 6 (1.63%) Redis
11 4 (1.08%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.54%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.54%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (21.68%) Git
2 32 (8.67%) JUnit
3 28 (7.59%) Jenkins
4 25 (6.78%) JIRA
5 24 (6.50%) GitLab
6 17 (4.61%) Cucumber
7 14 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (3.52%) Maven
9 11 (2.98%) JMeter
10 10 (2.71%) Cypress.io
11 9 (2.44%) Mockito
12 7 (1.90%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.90%) Visual Studio
13 6 (1.63%) Artifactory
14 5 (1.36%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.36%) Selenium
14 5 (1.36%) Vite
14 5 (1.36%) webpack
15 4 (1.08%) SpecFlow
15 4 (1.08%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (21.41%) Social Skills
2 68 (18.43%) Finance
3 38 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.78%) Banking
6 13 (3.52%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (2.98%) Front Office
9 8 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.63%) Retail
12 5 (1.36%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (1.36%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Electronics
14 3 (0.81%) Marketing
14 3 (0.81%) Military
15 2 (0.54%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (51.22%) React
2 101 (27.37%) AngularJS
2 101 (27.37%) Node.js
3 81 (21.95%) HTML
4 80 (21.68%) CSS
5 72 (19.51%) .NET
5 72 (19.51%) Spring
6 68 (18.43%) RESTful
7 54 (14.63%) REST
8 53 (14.36%) Spring Boot
9 46 (12.47%) Next.js
10 33 (8.94%) Kafka
10 33 (8.94%) Vue
11 27 (7.32%) Hibernate
12 24 (6.50%) .NET Framework
12 24 (6.50%) FastAPI
12 24 (6.50%) Jest
13 20 (5.42%) GraphQL
14 19 (5.15%) .NET Core
14 19 (5.15%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.61%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.52%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.98%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.17%) Hedge funds
8 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.36%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.08%) Equities
11 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.81%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.05%) Linux
2 12 (3.25%) 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
1 369 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 173 (46.88%) CI/CD
3 152 (41.19%) Agile
4 85 (23.04%) DevOps
5 81 (21.95%) Microservices
6 67 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (14.63%) Containerisation
8 52 (14.09%) Front End Development
9 48 (13.01%) AI
10 43 (11.65%) TDD
11 39 (10.57%) Software Engineering
11 39 (10.57%) Test Automation
12 36 (9.76%) Clean Code
13 33 (8.94%) Code Quality
14 30 (8.13%) User Experience
15 29 (7.86%) API Development
15 29 (7.86%) Design Patterns
16 28 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (7.32%) MVC
18 26 (7.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 151 (40.92%) TypeScript
2 139 (37.67%) JavaScript
3 129 (34.96%) Java
4 119 (32.25%) Python
5 102 (27.64%) SQL
6 58 (15.72%) C#
7 14 (3.79%) Ruby
8 9 (2.44%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.17%) Bash
9 8 (2.17%) C++
10 7 (1.90%) Perl
10 7 (1.90%) PHP
11 6 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.08%) Bicep
13 4 (1.08%) Go
13 4 (1.08%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.81%) Cypher
14 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.43%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.23%) Degree
4 18 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.54%) MCP
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.96%) QA
2 14 (3.79%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.90%) WCAG
4 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 91 (24.66%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (22.49%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.96%) Terraform
3 15 (4.07%) Ansible
4 11 (2.98%) Argo
5 8 (2.17%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.90%) Grafana
7 3 (0.81%) Kibana
7 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.27%) Podman
9 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 29 (7.86%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.42%) Google
3 16 (4.34%) Oracle
4 15 (4.07%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.17%) VMware
6 6 (1.63%) Adobe
6 6 (1.63%) SAP
7 5 (1.36%) Databricks
7 5 (1.36%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.08%) Cisco
8 4 (1.08%) Okta
8 4 (1.08%) Virgin Media
9 3 (0.81%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.81%) F5
9 3 (0.81%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.81%) Infoblox
9 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.54%) Veracode