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 15 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
15 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 212 173
Rank change year-on-year -48 -39 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 436 371 584
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.28% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.38% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 295 472
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £689 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £438
% change year-on-year -0.52% +9.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile £35.00 - £53.13
Median hourly rate £58.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -2.27%

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 44,018 26,871 39,592
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.45% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,969 17,507 25,749
10th Percentile £320 £296 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,868 1,042 2,669
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.09 £28.60 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.66% -23.08% -17.38%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.64% -31.25% -5.88%

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 15 May 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 15 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 14 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 15 May 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 -58 368 £500 -1.96% 122
London -49 191 £521 -0.86% 33
UK excluding London -29 181 £475 -0.52% 100
Work from Home -55 121 £500 -1.48% 426
North of England -32 73 £466 +0.11% 37
North West -14 44 £455 -8.59% 16
South East -52 33 £550 - 26
West Midlands -43 28 £450 -12.62% 7
Midlands -53 28 £450 -10.45% 18
South West -15 20 £525 +8.47% 13
Scotland +7 19 £425 -3.63% 4
Yorkshire -52 17 £500 +8.11% 13
North East -13 12 £475 +2.70% 8
East of England -29 8 £538 +53.75% 4

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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.

1 436 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 209 (47.94%) React
3 168 (38.53%) CI/CD
4 162 (37.16%) AWS
5 156 (35.78%) Agile
6 142 (32.57%) Python
7 141 (32.34%) JavaScript
8 139 (31.88%) TypeScript
9 133 (30.50%) Java
9 133 (30.50%) Node.js
10 122 (27.98%) Azure
11 112 (25.69%) Security Cleared
12 106 (24.31%) DevOps
13 101 (23.17%) Docker
14 95 (21.79%) Microservices
15 94 (21.56%) SC Cleared
16 90 (20.64%) AngularJS
17 89 (20.41%) SQL
18 87 (19.95%) Spring
19 75 (17.20%) Containerisation
20 73 (16.74%) RESTful
21 72 (16.51%) .NET
21 72 (16.51%) PostgreSQL
21 72 (16.51%) Spring Boot
22 68 (15.60%) Git
23 64 (14.68%) Test Automation
24 61 (13.99%) REST
25 60 (13.76%) C#
25 60 (13.76%) Kubernetes
26 55 (12.61%) GitHub

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 21 (4.82%) Confluence
2 7 (1.61%) CMS
3 4 (0.92%) Camunda
4 3 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 162 (37.16%) AWS
2 122 (27.98%) Azure
3 55 (12.61%) GitHub
4 52 (11.93%) Serverless
5 39 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (6.65%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (6.42%) GCP
8 22 (5.05%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 11 (2.52%) Azure Functions
10 11 (2.52%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (1.83%) Figma
13 8 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (1.61%) Anthropic Claude
14 7 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.61%) SSL
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.46%) HTTP
2 2 (0.46%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (16.51%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (8.72%) NoSQL
3 35 (8.03%) SQL Server
4 25 (5.73%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.73%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.98%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.98%) MySQL
6 11 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (2.52%) Power BI
7 9 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.06%) Redis
8 7 (1.61%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.15%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.15%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.92%) Metadata
11 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 68 (15.60%) Git
2 29 (6.65%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.42%) GitLab
4 23 (5.28%) JIRA
5 13 (2.98%) JUnit
6 9 (2.06%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.83%) Mocha
8 7 (1.61%) Jasmine
9 6 (1.38%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.38%) NUnit
10 5 (1.15%) Mockito
10 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (0.92%) Postman
11 4 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.69%) Storybook
13 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.46%) MSTest
13 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 66 (15.14%) Finance
2 63 (14.45%) Public Sector
3 47 (10.78%) Social Skills
4 27 (6.19%) Banking
5 20 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.21%) Front Office
7 6 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.92%) Advertising
9 3 (0.69%) Aviation
9 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.46%) Legal
10 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.23%) French Language
11 1 (0.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.23%) Military
11 1 (0.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (47.94%) React
2 133 (30.50%) Node.js
3 90 (20.64%) AngularJS
4 87 (19.95%) Spring
5 73 (16.74%) RESTful
6 72 (16.51%) .NET
6 72 (16.51%) Spring Boot
7 61 (13.99%) REST
8 55 (12.61%) HTML
9 52 (11.93%) CSS
10 44 (10.09%) Kafka
11 38 (8.72%) Vue
12 29 (6.65%) Next.js
13 27 (6.19%) Jest
13 27 (6.19%) YAML
14 25 (5.73%) Redux
15 24 (5.50%) FastAPI
15 24 (5.50%) Flask
15 24 (5.50%) Playwright
16 23 (5.28%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.01%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.90%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.98%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.75%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.61%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.38%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.92%) NHS
13 3 (0.69%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.69%) Derivative
13 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
14 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
15 1 (0.23%) Distributed Architecture
15 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
15 1 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.06%) Linux
2 3 (0.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 168 (38.53%) CI/CD
3 156 (35.78%) Agile
4 106 (24.31%) DevOps
5 95 (21.79%) Microservices
6 75 (17.20%) Containerisation
7 64 (14.68%) Test Automation
8 53 (12.16%) Front End Development
9 51 (11.70%) AI
10 48 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (9.17%) Software Engineering
12 38 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (8.72%) Scrum
13 34 (7.80%) Event-Driven
14 32 (7.34%) API Design
15 31 (7.11%) SDLC
15 31 (7.11%) User Experience
16 29 (6.65%) TDD
17 28 (6.42%) Mentoring
18 27 (6.19%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 142 (32.57%) Python
2 141 (32.34%) JavaScript
3 139 (31.88%) TypeScript
4 133 (30.50%) Java
5 89 (20.41%) SQL
6 60 (13.76%) C#
7 8 (1.83%) Go
8 5 (1.15%) PHP
9 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.92%) Bicep
9 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.23%) Bash
12 1 (0.23%) Ruby
12 1 (0.23%) SOQL
12 1 (0.23%) SOSL
12 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 112 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 94 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.21%) Degree
4 7 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.26%) Accessibility
2 26 (5.96%) QA
3 12 (2.75%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 101 (23.17%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.69%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (13.76%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.03%) Terraform
3 15 (3.44%) Grafana
4 11 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.69%) Argo
7 2 (0.46%) Ansible
8 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (5.73%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.67%) Oracle
3 6 (1.38%) Adobe
4 5 (1.15%) Splunk
5 4 (0.92%) Databricks
5 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.92%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.92%) Sitecore
5 4 (0.92%) Virgin Media
6 3 (0.69%) NEC
7 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.46%) SAP
7 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.23%) Brio
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) Solace
8 1 (0.23%) Workday
8 1 (0.23%) Xero
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