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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 217 187
Rank change year-on-year -33 -30 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 405 365 592
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.17% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.26% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 277 478
10th Percentile £353 £363 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.86% -8.09%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £488 £440
% change year-on-year -6.67% +10.92% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile - £36.05 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +30.38% -59.42%
75th Percentile £72.63 £40.63 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £41.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 35,158 28,873 41,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.93% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,167 17,619 27,765
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £405 £408 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £495
% change year-on-year -0.84% -3.23% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,109 850 2,268
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.86
Median hourly rate £29.61 £33.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -8.21% +2.71%
75th Percentile £61.25 £62.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.77 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £36.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -12.99% +15.54%

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 February 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 February 2026.

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 2 February 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 -37 341 £500 -4.76% 176
London -17 184 £513 -6.82% 56
UK excluding London -52 155 £455 -6.67% 145
Work from Home -22 122 £465 -2.11% 99
North of England -30 62 £455 +1.11% 37
North West -6 44 £450 -9.18% 22
South East -50 31 £418 -33.20% 59
Midlands -42 23 £550 +18.92% 26
Scotland +10 17 £438 +2.94%
West Midlands -34 15 £493 +6.49% 13
East of England -12 11 £525 +50.00% 5
South West -17 11 £537 +21.66% 16
Yorkshire -64 10 £413 -8.33% 10
North East -8 8 £475 +58.33% 5
East Midlands -18 8 £600 +45.45% 13

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

For the 6 months to 2 February 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.

1 405 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 206 (50.86%) React
3 177 (43.70%) CI/CD
4 164 (40.49%) AWS
5 153 (37.78%) Java
6 152 (37.53%) Agile
7 141 (34.81%) TypeScript
8 131 (32.35%) JavaScript
9 121 (29.88%) Python
10 118 (29.14%) Node.js
11 106 (26.17%) AngularJS
12 103 (25.43%) Spring
13 102 (25.19%) Security Cleared
14 99 (24.44%) Docker
15 97 (23.95%) DevOps
15 97 (23.95%) Microservices
16 93 (22.96%) SQL
17 90 (22.22%) SC Cleared
18 89 (21.98%) Kubernetes
19 86 (21.23%) Azure
20 82 (20.25%) Git
21 81 (20.00%) HTML
22 80 (19.75%) GitHub
23 78 (19.26%) CSS
23 78 (19.26%) RESTful
24 75 (18.52%) .NET
25 74 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
25 74 (18.27%) Spring Boot
26 71 (17.53%) Containerisation
27 70 (17.28%) PostgreSQL

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 20 (4.94%) Confluence
2 15 (3.70%) CMS
3 9 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (1.98%) Sitecore CMS
5 7 (1.73%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.23%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.99%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.74%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.49%) IIS
9 2 (0.49%) SAS
10 1 (0.25%) Camunda
10 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 164 (40.49%) AWS
2 86 (21.23%) Azure
3 80 (19.75%) GitHub
4 47 (11.60%) Serverless
5 37 (9.14%) GCP
5 37 (9.14%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (5.19%) OpenShift
8 18 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.95%) Amazon S3
10 10 (2.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.98%) Azure Functions
12 8 (1.98%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.73%) Kontent
14 6 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.72%) SSL
2 6 (1.48%) VPN
3 2 (0.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (17.28%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 30 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 30 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 28 (6.91%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (3.70%) MySQL
7 8 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.98%) Power BI
7 8 (1.98%) Redis
8 7 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.73%) DocumentDB
8 7 (1.73%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.74%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.49%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 82 (20.25%) Git
2 32 (7.90%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.16%) GitLab
3 29 (7.16%) JUnit
4 22 (5.43%) JIRA
5 14 (3.46%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.96%) Cucumber
7 11 (2.72%) JMeter
8 9 (2.22%) Mocha
9 8 (1.98%) Mockito
9 8 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.48%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.48%) Storybook
11 4 (0.99%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.74%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.49%) Postman
13 2 (0.49%) Snyk
13 2 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 77 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.54%) Finance
3 53 (13.09%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.42%) Banking
5 22 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.98%) Investment Banking
6 8 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (1.73%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.48%) Front Office
8 6 (1.48%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (1.23%) Retail
9 5 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.99%) Marketing
11 3 (0.74%) Aviation
11 3 (0.74%) Electronics
11 3 (0.74%) Military
11 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (50.86%) React
2 118 (29.14%) Node.js
3 106 (26.17%) AngularJS
4 103 (25.43%) Spring
5 81 (20.00%) HTML
6 78 (19.26%) CSS
6 78 (19.26%) RESTful
7 75 (18.52%) .NET
8 74 (18.27%) Spring Boot
9 60 (14.81%) REST
10 49 (12.10%) Next.js
11 42 (10.37%) Kafka
12 33 (8.15%) FastAPI
13 31 (7.65%) Jest
14 28 (6.91%) Playwright
15 23 (5.68%) Vue
16 21 (5.19%) .NET Framework
16 21 (5.19%) ASP.NET
16 21 (5.19%) Hibernate
16 21 (5.19%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.74%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.74%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.74%) Derivative
10 3 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.49%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.49%) Life Science
11 2 (0.49%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.25%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.94%) Linux
2 6 (1.48%) Unix
3 4 (0.99%) Windows
4 3 (0.74%) CentOS
4 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 177 (43.70%) CI/CD
3 152 (37.53%) Agile
4 97 (23.95%) DevOps
4 97 (23.95%) Microservices
5 74 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (17.53%) Containerisation
7 54 (13.33%) AI
8 53 (13.09%) Front End Development
9 49 (12.10%) Test Automation
10 42 (10.37%) Scrum
11 38 (9.38%) TDD
11 38 (9.38%) User Experience
12 37 (9.14%) Software Engineering
13 36 (8.89%) API Development
14 35 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (8.15%) Code Quality
16 30 (7.41%) Event-Driven
17 28 (6.91%) Clean Code
18 27 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 153 (37.78%) Java
2 141 (34.81%) TypeScript
3 131 (32.35%) JavaScript
4 121 (29.88%) Python
5 93 (22.96%) SQL
6 55 (13.58%) C#
7 9 (2.22%) Ruby
8 7 (1.73%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.48%) PHP
10 4 (0.99%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.99%) Bash
10 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.74%) C
11 3 (0.74%) Perl
11 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.49%) ABAP
12 2 (0.49%) Bicep
12 2 (0.49%) C++
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 102 (25.19%) Security Cleared
2 90 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.44%) Degree
4 11 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.46%) QA
2 14 (3.46%) WCAG
3 1 (0.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 99 (24.44%) Docker
2 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.74%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 89 (21.98%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.93%) Terraform
3 14 (3.46%) Ansible
4 12 (2.96%) Grafana
5 11 (2.72%) Argo
6 8 (1.98%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.48%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.49%) Kibana
9 1 (0.25%) Podman
9 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 22 (5.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.95%) Google
2 16 (3.95%) Oracle
3 15 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 11 (2.72%) Adobe
5 9 (2.22%) Sitecore
6 8 (1.98%) VMware
7 5 (1.23%) SAP
8 4 (0.99%) Cisco
8 4 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.74%) Splunk
10 2 (0.49%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.49%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.25%) Databricks
11 1 (0.25%) Okta
11 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.25%) Siemens
11 1 (0.25%) Sybase