Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £501, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 213 181
Rank change year-on-year -82 -32 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 433 385 573
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.26% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.37% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 296 455
10th Percentile £368 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £671 £706 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £482 £440
% change year-on-year -1.45% +9.55% -2.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile - - £53.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - £61.00
90th Percentile - - £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £53.75

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 47,423 28,164 40,143
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.05% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,738 18,025 25,769
10th Percentile £325 £288 £283
25th Percentile £415 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,196 1,261 2,867
10th Percentile £15.61 £13.78 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.23 £17.33 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.26% -28.00% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -60 365 £516 +3.25% 91
London -62 202 £521 +2.56% 26
UK excluding London -45 172 £475 -1.45% 86
Work from Home -87 122 £508 -2.40% 51
North of England -65 55 £475 +2.15% 16
South East -50 39 £550 - 23
North West -42 27 £466 +3.44% 11
Midlands -49 27 £450 +11.94% 21
West Midlands -37 25 £450 -12.62% 10
Scotland -5 21 £415 -14.87% 8
Yorkshire -44 20 £575 +22.67% 3
South West -18 19 £525 -4.55% 9
East of England -26 9 £526 +10.79% 5
North East -36 8 £450 -4.76% 2
Northern Ireland +2 2 £375 +3.09% 3
East Midlands -23 2 £425 +5.99% 11

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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.

1 433 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 214 (49.42%) React
3 175 (40.42%) CI/CD
4 157 (36.26%) JavaScript
4 157 (36.26%) TypeScript
5 151 (34.87%) Agile
6 148 (34.18%) AWS
6 148 (34.18%) Python
7 129 (29.79%) Azure
7 129 (29.79%) Java
8 127 (29.33%) Node.js
9 103 (23.79%) Security Cleared
10 101 (23.33%) DevOps
11 99 (22.86%) SQL
12 95 (21.94%) Docker
13 90 (20.79%) Microservices
14 88 (20.32%) SC Cleared
15 86 (19.86%) PostgreSQL
16 84 (19.40%) AngularJS
17 80 (18.48%) .NET
18 77 (17.78%) REST
19 75 (17.32%) RESTful
20 72 (16.63%) Spring
21 69 (15.94%) C#
21 69 (15.94%) Containerisation
22 66 (15.24%) Git
23 62 (14.32%) Test Automation
24 57 (13.16%) Front End Development
25 56 (12.93%) Spring Boot
26 55 (12.70%) Kubernetes

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 (3.46%) Confluence
2 7 (1.62%) CMS
3 4 (0.92%) Camunda
3 4 (0.92%) nginx
4 3 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.46%) IIS
5 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.69%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 148 (34.18%) AWS
2 129 (29.79%) Azure
3 52 (12.01%) Serverless
4 47 (10.85%) GitHub
5 41 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (6.24%) GCP
7 26 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (4.39%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 12 (2.77%) Power Platform
10 11 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (2.54%) Azure Functions
11 9 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (2.08%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.08%) Figma
11 9 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (1.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Firewall
1 2 (0.46%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.23%) RTMP
2 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (19.86%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.55%) Relational Database
3 34 (7.85%) SQL Server
4 30 (6.93%) NoSQL
5 21 (4.85%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.39%) MySQL
7 13 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.77%) Power BI
9 11 (2.54%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.54%) Redis
10 8 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.15%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.15%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.92%) Metadata
13 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.69%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.46%) Parquet
14 2 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 66 (15.24%) Git
2 27 (6.24%) GitLab
2 27 (6.24%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.16%) JIRA
4 13 (3.00%) JUnit
5 8 (1.85%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.39%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.39%) Jasmine
6 6 (1.39%) Karma Test Runner
6 6 (1.39%) Mocha
6 6 (1.39%) Mockito
6 6 (1.39%) NUnit
7 4 (0.92%) Postman
8 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.69%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.69%) webpack
9 2 (0.46%) Moq
9 2 (0.46%) MSTest
9 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 76 (17.55%) Finance
2 63 (14.55%) Public Sector
3 52 (12.01%) Social Skills
4 31 (7.16%) Banking
5 26 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.93%) Front Office
7 9 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.39%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.15%) Advertising
10 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.92%) Military
10 4 (0.92%) Retail
11 3 (0.69%) Legal
11 3 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.23%) Aviation
12 1 (0.23%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.23%) French Language
12 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (49.42%) React
2 127 (29.33%) Node.js
3 84 (19.40%) AngularJS
4 80 (18.48%) .NET
5 77 (17.78%) REST
6 75 (17.32%) RESTful
7 72 (16.63%) Spring
8 56 (12.93%) Spring Boot
9 53 (12.24%) CSS
10 51 (11.78%) HTML
11 44 (10.16%) Vue
12 39 (9.01%) Kafka
13 26 (6.00%) Redux
14 24 (5.54%) .NET Framework
14 24 (5.54%) Django
14 24 (5.54%) GraphQL
15 23 (5.31%) .NET Core
15 23 (5.31%) Flask
15 23 (5.31%) Jest
16 22 (5.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.00%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.15%) Derivative
11 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.92%) NHS
12 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
14 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.08%) Linux
2 3 (0.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 175 (40.42%) CI/CD
3 151 (34.87%) Agile
4 101 (23.33%) DevOps
5 90 (20.79%) Microservices
6 69 (15.94%) Containerisation
7 62 (14.32%) Test Automation
8 57 (13.16%) Front End Development
9 54 (12.47%) AI
10 48 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (10.62%) Software Engineering
12 41 (9.47%) Scrum
13 37 (8.55%) Infrastructure as Code
14 33 (7.62%) API Design
15 31 (7.16%) Code Quality
16 30 (6.93%) User Experience
17 29 (6.70%) Event-Driven
17 29 (6.70%) SDLC
18 28 (6.47%) Mentoring
19 27 (6.24%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 157 (36.26%) JavaScript
1 157 (36.26%) TypeScript
2 148 (34.18%) Python
3 129 (29.79%) Java
4 99 (22.86%) SQL
5 69 (15.94%) C#
6 10 (2.31%) Go
7 5 (1.15%) PHP
8 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.92%) Bicep
8 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.46%) Bash
10 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.46%) Scala
10 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.23%) PromQL
11 1 (0.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 103 (23.79%) Security Cleared
2 88 (20.32%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.62%) Degree
4 14 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.55%) QA
2 32 (7.39%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.08%) WCAG
4 2 (0.46%) HL7
5 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 95 (21.94%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 39 (9.01%) Terraform
3 13 (3.00%) Grafana
4 7 (1.62%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.92%) Ansible
6 4 (0.92%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) Consul
7 1 (0.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 31 (7.16%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.93%) Oracle
3 6 (1.39%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.92%) Databricks
5 4 (0.92%) Google
5 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.92%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.69%) Adobe
6 3 (0.69%) NEC
7 2 (0.46%) SAP
7 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.46%) Solace
7 2 (0.46%) Splunk
7 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.23%) Confluent
8 1 (0.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.23%) Workday
8 1 (0.23%) Xero