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 20 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 214 178
Rank change year-on-year -49 -36 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 433 357 586
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.22% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.31% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 278 480
10th Percentile £362 £357 £325
25th Percentile £416 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £506
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +2.22% -7.95%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £675
90th Percentile £651 £679 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile - £36.03 £34.03
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.44 £40.49
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -28.10% -25.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £38.94 £60.38
90th Percentile - £39.28 £64.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 39,980 27,191 41,155
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 92.93% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,004 17,726 26,995
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £410 £406 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.46% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,473 892 2,490
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% - -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.99
90th Percentile £76.25 £77.10 £71.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -1.54% -19.92%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -39 374 £500 -4.76% 172
London -23 192 £513 -2.38% 45
UK excluding London -29 182 £475 -5.00% 148
Work from Home -48 125 £500 - 102
North of England -42 64 £455 -8.59% 44
North West -11 42 £455 -15.35% 24
South East -70 39 £550 - 42
Midlands -39 38 £483 -3.50% 29
West Midlands -44 30 £450 -11.33% 17
South West -17 15 £625 +18.65% 13
Scotland +8 14 £438 +1.04% 7
East of England -11 12 £525 +50.00% 12
Yorkshire -59 12 £463 +5.71% 20
North East -7 10 £475 +33.80%
East Midlands -31 8 £600 +20.00% 12

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

For the 6 months to 20 March 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
2 220 (50.81%) React
3 193 (44.57%) CI/CD
4 165 (38.11%) Agile
5 164 (37.88%) AWS
6 156 (36.03%) Java
7 144 (33.26%) TypeScript
8 138 (31.87%) JavaScript
8 138 (31.87%) Node.js
9 136 (31.41%) Python
10 122 (28.18%) DevOps
10 122 (28.18%) Security Cleared
11 120 (27.71%) Azure
12 113 (26.10%) AngularJS
13 110 (25.40%) Docker
14 103 (23.79%) SC Cleared
14 103 (23.79%) Spring
15 101 (23.33%) SQL
16 99 (22.86%) Microservices
17 85 (19.63%) Git
17 85 (19.63%) PostgreSQL
18 83 (19.17%) Kubernetes
19 80 (18.48%) .NET
20 79 (18.24%) Containerisation
21 78 (18.01%) Spring Boot
22 76 (17.55%) CSS
22 76 (17.55%) GitHub
23 75 (17.32%) HTML
23 75 (17.32%) RESTful
24 64 (14.78%) Problem-Solving

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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 14 (3.23%) CMS
3 8 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.85%) Sitecore CMS
4 7 (1.62%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.15%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.69%) IIS
6 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.23%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.46%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 164 (37.88%) AWS
2 120 (27.71%) Azure
3 76 (17.55%) GitHub
4 49 (11.32%) Serverless
5 45 (10.39%) GCP
6 36 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (8.31%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (4.39%) OpenShift
9 18 (4.16%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 10 (2.31%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.85%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.62%) Datadog
14 7 (1.62%) Kontent
15 6 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.08%) SSL
2 4 (0.92%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Internet
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (19.63%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (11.09%) NoSQL
3 32 (7.39%) MongoDB
4 31 (7.16%) SQL Server
5 27 (6.24%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (3.00%) MySQL
7 12 (2.77%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.85%) Power BI
9 8 (1.85%) Redis
10 7 (1.62%) DocumentDB
11 6 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.15%) Neo4j
12 5 (1.15%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.92%) Metadata
14 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.69%) SAP HANA
15 2 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 85 (19.63%) Git
2 36 (8.31%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.24%) JUnit
4 23 (5.31%) GitLab
5 21 (4.85%) JIRA
6 10 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 9 (2.08%) Mocha
7 9 (2.08%) Mockito
8 8 (1.85%) JMeter
9 7 (1.62%) Jasmine
10 6 (1.39%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.39%) NUnit
10 6 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.39%) Storybook
11 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
12 4 (0.92%) Postman
13 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 68 (15.70%) Finance
1 68 (15.70%) Public Sector
2 67 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 27 (6.24%) Banking
4 22 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.46%) Front Office
6 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
7 4 (0.92%) Marketing
7 4 (0.92%) Retail Banking
8 3 (0.69%) Aviation
8 3 (0.69%) Electronics
8 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.46%) Military
9 2 (0.46%) Retail
10 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (50.81%) React
2 138 (31.87%) Node.js
3 113 (26.10%) AngularJS
4 103 (23.79%) Spring
5 80 (18.48%) .NET
6 78 (18.01%) Spring Boot
7 76 (17.55%) CSS
8 75 (17.32%) HTML
8 75 (17.32%) RESTful
9 59 (13.63%) REST
10 45 (10.39%) Kafka
11 40 (9.24%) Next.js
12 37 (8.55%) Vue
13 31 (7.16%) YAML
14 29 (6.70%) FastAPI
14 29 (6.70%) Jest
15 28 (6.47%) ASP.NET
15 28 (6.47%) GraphQL
16 27 (6.24%) .NET Framework
17 26 (6.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.39%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.93%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.77%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.69%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.46%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.46%) Derivative
9 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.23%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.23%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.31%) Linux
2 2 (0.46%) Unix
2 2 (0.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 193 (44.57%) CI/CD
3 165 (38.11%) Agile
4 122 (28.18%) DevOps
5 99 (22.86%) Microservices
6 79 (18.24%) Containerisation
7 64 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (13.16%) Front End Development
9 51 (11.78%) AI
10 49 (11.32%) Test Automation
11 42 (9.70%) User Experience
12 41 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (9.47%) Software Engineering
13 38 (8.78%) Scrum
14 37 (8.55%) API Development
15 35 (8.08%) Code Quality
16 34 (7.85%) TDD
17 28 (6.47%) SDLC
18 25 (5.77%) Unit Testing
19 24 (5.54%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 156 (36.03%) Java
2 144 (33.26%) TypeScript
3 138 (31.87%) JavaScript
4 136 (31.41%) Python
5 101 (23.33%) SQL
6 59 (13.63%) C#
7 9 (2.08%) Ruby
8 8 (1.85%) Go
9 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.69%) Bicep
10 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.46%) PHP
11 2 (0.46%) Scala
11 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.23%) ABAP
12 1 (0.23%) Julia
12 1 (0.23%) Korn
12 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (28.18%) Security Cleared
2 103 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.62%) Degree
4 13 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.85%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.00%) WCAG
3 11 (2.54%) QA
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 110 (25.40%) Docker
2 3 (0.69%) ISA Server
2 3 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 83 (19.17%) Kubernetes
2 30 (6.93%) Terraform
3 12 (2.77%) Grafana
4 11 (2.54%) Argo
5 10 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.85%) Ansible
7 6 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (5.31%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.62%) Oracle
3 12 (2.77%) Red Hat
4 11 (2.54%) Adobe
4 11 (2.54%) Google
5 9 (2.08%) Sitecore
6 6 (1.39%) SAP
6 6 (1.39%) VMware
7 4 (0.92%) Databricks
7 4 (0.92%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.69%) NEC
8 3 (0.69%) Splunk
9 2 (0.46%) Cisco
9 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.23%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.23%) Siemens
10 1 (0.23%) Solace
10 1 (0.23%) Xero
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