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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 222 189
Rank change year-on-year -84 -33 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 425 394 524
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 1.20% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.31% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 299 412
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £585 £650
90th Percentile £650 £692 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile - £62.80 £52.00
25th Percentile - £64.38 £53.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75.75 - £61.00
90th Percentile £81.00 - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -47.76% +24.65% -

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 48,898 30,175 37,360
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.56% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,518 19,205 24,201
10th Percentile £329 £284 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £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 3,323 1,465 2,247
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.71 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.32
Median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +70.97% -40.16% -2.26%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.17 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +8.72%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -72 353 £500 - 111
London -52 195 £521 +4.10% 31
UK excluding London -53 167 £475 - 96
Work from Home -90 118 £500 -2.91% 60
North of England -67 49 £500 +7.53% 21
South East -50 41 £525 -4.55% 30
South West -25 24 £525 -4.55% 16
Midlands -44 23 £425 +5.72% 15
Scotland -2 22 £405 -10.00% 5
West Midlands -36 21 £450 -12.62% 8
Yorkshire -39 21 £575 +22.67% 8
North West -48 20 £475 +18.75% 12
North East -41 8 £450 -6.25% 1
East of England -27 6 £350 -15.15% 8
Northern Ireland +2 2 £375 +3.09% 3
East Midlands -19 2 £425 +5.99% 7

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 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.

1 425 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 206 (48.47%) React
3 188 (44.24%) CI/CD
4 161 (37.88%) TypeScript
5 149 (35.06%) AWS
6 148 (34.82%) JavaScript
7 147 (34.59%) Agile
8 139 (32.71%) Python
9 131 (30.82%) Azure
10 122 (28.71%) Java
11 121 (28.47%) Node.js
12 112 (26.35%) SQL
13 101 (23.76%) DevOps
14 96 (22.59%) Docker
15 95 (22.35%) Microservices
16 94 (22.12%) REST
17 90 (21.18%) Security Cleared
18 82 (19.29%) RESTful
19 79 (18.59%) .NET
20 76 (17.88%) PostgreSQL
21 75 (17.65%) AngularJS
22 74 (17.41%) Test Automation
23 73 (17.18%) SC Cleared
24 70 (16.47%) C#
25 68 (16.00%) Git
26 67 (15.76%) Kubernetes
27 63 (14.82%) Containerisation
28 62 (14.59%) Spring
29 56 (13.18%) Serverless
29 56 (13.18%) Spring Boot

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 18 (4.24%) Confluence
2 4 (0.94%) Camunda
2 4 (0.94%) CMS
2 4 (0.94%) nginx
3 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 149 (35.06%) AWS
2 131 (30.82%) Azure
3 56 (13.18%) Serverless
4 44 (10.35%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (10.12%) GitHub
6 33 (7.76%) GCP
7 27 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (4.71%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.76%) Entra ID
11 15 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (2.82%) Anthropic Claude
12 12 (2.82%) Azure AKS
12 12 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.59%) Azure Functions
14 10 (2.35%) Azure App Service
14 10 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.12%) Power Platform
15 9 (2.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.94%) HTTP
2 2 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (17.88%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (9.18%) SQL Server
3 34 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 33 (7.76%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.88%) MySQL
6 23 (5.41%) MongoDB
7 20 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (3.53%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.35%) Redis
10 9 (2.12%) Power BI
11 7 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.18%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.71%) Metadata
13 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.71%) Parquet
13 3 (0.71%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (16.00%) Git
2 31 (7.29%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.12%) GitLab
4 18 (4.24%) JIRA
5 10 (2.35%) JUnit
6 9 (2.12%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.65%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.41%) Jasmine
8 6 (1.41%) Karma Test Runner
9 5 (1.18%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.18%) Maven
9 5 (1.18%) Mocha
9 5 (1.18%) Mockito
9 5 (1.18%) NUnit
9 5 (1.18%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.94%) JetBrains Rider
11 3 (0.71%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.71%) Gradle
11 3 (0.71%) Postman
11 3 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 70 (16.47%) Finance
2 64 (15.06%) Public Sector
3 57 (13.41%) Social Skills
4 25 (5.88%) Banking
5 24 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.53%) Front Office
7 8 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.65%) Military
9 6 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.41%) Retail
10 5 (1.18%) Advertising
11 4 (0.94%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.71%) Legal
13 2 (0.47%) Local Government
14 1 (0.24%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.24%) Dutch Language
14 1 (0.24%) French Language
14 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (48.47%) React
2 121 (28.47%) Node.js
3 94 (22.12%) REST
4 82 (19.29%) RESTful
5 79 (18.59%) .NET
6 75 (17.65%) AngularJS
7 62 (14.59%) Spring
8 56 (13.18%) Spring Boot
9 50 (11.76%) Vue
10 49 (11.53%) CSS
11 48 (11.29%) HTML
12 38 (8.94%) Kafka
13 30 (7.06%) .NET Framework
14 29 (6.82%) .NET Core
15 28 (6.59%) GraphQL
16 27 (6.35%) OAuth
17 25 (5.88%) Flask
17 25 (5.88%) Jest
17 25 (5.88%) Next.js
18 24 (5.65%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 64 (15.06%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.06%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.88%) NHS
8 7 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.71%) Derivative
11 3 (0.71%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.71%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.71%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.12%) Linux
2 4 (0.94%) Unix
3 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 188 (44.24%) CI/CD
3 147 (34.59%) Agile
4 101 (23.76%) DevOps
5 95 (22.35%) Microservices
6 74 (17.41%) Test Automation
7 63 (14.82%) Containerisation
8 55 (12.94%) Front End Development
9 52 (12.24%) Software Engineering
10 50 (11.76%) AI
11 48 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 39 (9.18%) Code Quality
14 34 (8.00%) Event-Driven
15 32 (7.53%) API Design
15 32 (7.53%) Mentoring
16 28 (6.59%) SDLC
17 26 (6.12%) Data Modelling
17 26 (6.12%) Observability
18 25 (5.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 161 (37.88%) TypeScript
2 148 (34.82%) JavaScript
3 139 (32.71%) Python
4 122 (28.71%) Java
5 112 (26.35%) SQL
6 70 (16.47%) C#
7 11 (2.59%) Go
8 7 (1.65%) Bicep
8 7 (1.65%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.41%) PHP
10 4 (0.94%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.71%) Bash
11 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.47%) Ruby
12 2 (0.47%) Scala
13 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.24%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Rust
13 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 90 (21.18%) Security Cleared
2 73 (17.18%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.94%) Degree
4 16 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.47%) 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 33 (7.76%) QA
2 30 (7.06%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.88%) WCAG
4 4 (0.94%) HL7
5 3 (0.71%) GDPR
6 2 (0.47%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.47%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 96 (22.59%) Docker
2 9 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (15.76%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.29%) Terraform
3 13 (3.06%) Grafana
4 6 (1.41%) Argo
4 6 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.94%) Ansible
7 1 (0.24%) Consul
7 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.24%) Kibana
7 1 (0.24%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 38 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.76%) Oracle
3 8 (1.88%) Google
4 6 (1.41%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.18%) Databricks
6 4 (0.94%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.71%) NEC
8 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.47%) Solace
8 2 (0.47%) Splunk
8 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe
9 1 (0.24%) Confluent
9 1 (0.24%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.24%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.24%) IBM
9 1 (0.24%) SAP
9 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.24%) Workday
9 1 (0.24%) Xero