Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 217 194
Rank change year-on-year -45 -23 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 377 373 521
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.16% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.25% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 278 419
10th Percentile £348 £363 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £644
90th Percentile £656 £688 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £494 £433
% change year-on-year -8.86% +14.16% -8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £38.00 £36.05 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £63.50 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +63.87% +30.38% -59.42%
75th Percentile £67.00 £40.63 -
90th Percentile - £41.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 - -

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 33,792 29,885 39,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.29% 92.67% 93.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,415 18,301 26,575
10th Percentile £300 £293 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 924 1,607
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.56 £14.18
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.78 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -26.97% +36.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -20.16% -31.34% +69.89%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -44 312 £500 -9.09% 158
London -16 165 £515 -10.43% 56
UK excluding London -69 145 £450 -8.86% 116
Work from Home -28 111 £460 -3.16% 103
North of England -45 51 £455 +1.11% 34
North West -12 33 £450 -10.00% 16
South East -48 31 £411 -34.20% 44
Scotland +4 20 £438 +6.06% 2
Midlands -35 19 £575 +15.00% 16
South West -1 12 £425 -3.63% 9
East of England -9 12 £525 +75.00% 8
West Midlands -35 11 £400 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire -63 11 £500 +11.11% 13
East Midlands -21 8 £600 +45.45% 10
North East -7 7 £475 +35.71% 5

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

For the 6 months to 7 January 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.

1 377 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 203 (53.85%) React
3 168 (44.56%) CI/CD
4 167 (44.30%) AWS
5 144 (38.20%) TypeScript
6 143 (37.93%) Agile
7 129 (34.22%) Java
8 126 (33.42%) JavaScript
9 121 (32.10%) Python
10 108 (28.65%) Node.js
11 100 (26.53%) AngularJS
12 95 (25.20%) Docker
13 94 (24.93%) SQL
14 91 (24.14%) Kubernetes
15 87 (23.08%) DevOps
16 86 (22.81%) Microservices
17 85 (22.55%) Security Cleared
18 83 (22.02%) HTML
19 82 (21.75%) Spring
20 80 (21.22%) Git
21 79 (20.95%) CSS
22 75 (19.89%) Azure
23 74 (19.63%) SC Cleared
24 71 (18.83%) .NET
25 70 (18.57%) Containerisation
25 70 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
26 68 (18.04%) GitHub
26 68 (18.04%) RESTful
27 62 (16.45%) Spring Boot
28 61 (16.18%) 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 15 (3.98%) Confluence
2 13 (3.45%) CMS
3 9 (2.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (2.12%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.33%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.33%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.80%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.53%) Moodle
8 2 (0.53%) nginx
8 2 (0.53%) SAS
9 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.53%) Magento
4 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 167 (44.30%) AWS
2 75 (19.89%) Azure
3 68 (18.04%) GitHub
4 48 (12.73%) Serverless
5 38 (10.08%) GCP
6 29 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.57%) OpenShift
9 17 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.71%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.12%) Azure Functions
13 7 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.86%) Kontent
13 7 (1.86%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.59%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.92%) SSL
2 6 (1.59%) VPN
3 2 (0.53%) DNS
3 2 (0.53%) HTTP
3 2 (0.53%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (11.41%) NoSQL
3 34 (9.02%) MongoDB
4 26 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 26 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 17 (4.51%) MySQL
6 8 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.12%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.12%) Redis
7 7 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.86%) Power BI
8 6 (1.59%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.80%) Tableau
11 2 (0.53%) Metadata
11 2 (0.53%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 80 (21.22%) Git
2 28 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.37%) GitLab
4 23 (6.10%) JIRA
4 23 (6.10%) JUnit
5 12 (3.18%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.92%) Cypress.io
6 11 (2.92%) JMeter
7 8 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.59%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.59%) Mockito
9 5 (1.33%) Storybook
9 5 (1.33%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.33%) Vite
10 4 (1.06%) Mocha
10 4 (1.06%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.06%) webpack
11 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.80%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.80%) Jasmine
General
1 77 (20.42%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.85%) Finance
3 43 (11.41%) Public Sector
4 21 (5.57%) Banking
5 20 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.18%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (2.39%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.86%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.06%) Marketing
10 4 (1.06%) Retail
10 4 (1.06%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.80%) Aviation
11 3 (0.80%) Electronics
11 3 (0.80%) Front Office
11 3 (0.80%) Military
11 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (53.85%) React
2 108 (28.65%) Node.js
3 100 (26.53%) AngularJS
4 83 (22.02%) HTML
5 82 (21.75%) Spring
6 79 (20.95%) CSS
7 71 (18.83%) .NET
8 68 (18.04%) RESTful
9 62 (16.45%) Spring Boot
10 49 (13.00%) Next.js
11 48 (12.73%) REST
12 37 (9.81%) Kafka
13 27 (7.16%) FastAPI
14 25 (6.63%) Vue
15 24 (6.37%) Jest
16 23 (6.10%) .NET Framework
16 23 (6.10%) Hibernate
17 22 (5.84%) Playwright
18 21 (5.57%) pytest
19 18 (4.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.12%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.86%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.59%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.80%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.53%) e-Learning
13 2 (0.53%) Learning Management System
13 2 (0.53%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.63%) Linux
2 6 (1.59%) Unix
3 3 (0.80%) CentOS
3 3 (0.80%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 168 (44.56%) CI/CD
3 143 (37.93%) Agile
4 87 (23.08%) DevOps
5 86 (22.81%) Microservices
6 70 (18.57%) Containerisation
6 70 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (15.38%) AI
8 50 (13.26%) Front End Development
9 43 (11.41%) Test Automation
10 40 (10.61%) TDD
11 39 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (9.55%) Software Engineering
13 34 (9.02%) Code Quality
14 33 (8.75%) User Experience
15 30 (7.96%) API Development
15 30 (7.96%) Clean Code
16 28 (7.43%) SDLC
17 26 (6.90%) Scrum
18 25 (6.63%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 144 (38.20%) TypeScript
2 129 (34.22%) Java
3 126 (33.42%) JavaScript
4 121 (32.10%) Python
5 94 (24.93%) SQL
6 53 (14.06%) C#
7 12 (3.18%) Ruby
8 7 (1.86%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.59%) Bash
9 6 (1.59%) C++
9 6 (1.59%) PHP
9 6 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.06%) Perl
11 3 (0.80%) Bicep
11 3 (0.80%) C
11 3 (0.80%) Go
11 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.53%) ABAP
12 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 74 (19.63%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.57%) Degree
4 15 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.53%) MCP
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.57%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.45%) QA
3 11 (2.92%) WCAG
4 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 95 (25.20%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.80%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 91 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.16%) Terraform
3 14 (3.71%) Ansible
4 11 (2.92%) Argo
5 10 (2.65%) Grafana
6 8 (2.12%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.33%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.53%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) Podman
9 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 21 (5.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.77%) Oracle
3 17 (4.51%) Google
4 15 (3.98%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.39%) Adobe
6 8 (2.12%) VMware
7 5 (1.33%) SAP
7 5 (1.33%) Sitecore
8 4 (1.06%) Cisco
9 3 (0.80%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.80%) Splunk
9 3 (0.80%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.53%) Databricks
10 2 (0.53%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.53%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.53%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.27%) F5
11 1 (0.27%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.27%) Siemens