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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 225 176
Rank change year-on-year -22 -49 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 433 373 592
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.22% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.31% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 288 475
10th Percentile £358 £360 £325
25th Percentile £410 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £663 £679 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile - £36.05 £34.03
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.50 £40.49
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -26.19% -28.31%
75th Percentile £81.00 £40.63 £60.38
90th Percentile - £41.30 £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 38,124 28,451 41,052
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 92.87% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,974 17,854 27,035
10th Percentile £309 £290 £275
25th Percentile £408 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 836 2,340
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.38 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.49 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.50 £34.31 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -1.99% -12.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% -7.14% -6.67%

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 February 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 February 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 27 February 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 -34 368 £500 -4.76% 145
London -18 198 £510 -2.86% 25
UK excluding London -49 170 £465 -7.00% 128
Work from Home -29 125 £500 - 71
North of England -38 66 £455 - 41
North West -6 46 £455 -11.22% 24
South East -59 34 £538 -7.33% 29
Midlands -35 30 £493 -1.50% 26
West Midlands -34 22 £459 -9.61% 19
Scotland +19 17 £438 +2.94% 6
East of England -20 12 £525 +50.00% 7
Yorkshire -66 12 £413 -5.71% 10
South West -19 11 £574 -6.29% 19
North East -12 8 £475 +35.71% 8
East Midlands -21 8 £600 +45.45% 7

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

For the 6 months to 27 February 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
2 221 (51.04%) React
3 191 (44.11%) CI/CD
4 170 (39.26%) AWS
5 167 (38.57%) Agile
6 162 (37.41%) Java
7 150 (34.64%) TypeScript
8 140 (32.33%) JavaScript
9 138 (31.87%) Node.js
10 137 (31.64%) Python
11 118 (27.25%) AngularJS
12 114 (26.33%) DevOps
13 112 (25.87%) Security Cleared
14 107 (24.71%) Azure
14 107 (24.71%) Docker
15 105 (24.25%) Spring
16 103 (23.79%) Microservices
17 95 (21.94%) SC Cleared
17 95 (21.94%) SQL
18 87 (20.09%) Kubernetes
19 83 (19.17%) Git
20 82 (18.94%) PostgreSQL
21 79 (18.24%) GitHub
22 77 (17.78%) Containerisation
23 76 (17.55%) .NET
23 76 (17.55%) CSS
23 76 (17.55%) RESTful
23 76 (17.55%) Spring Boot
24 75 (17.32%) HTML
25 74 (17.09%) 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 22 (5.08%) Confluence
2 15 (3.46%) 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%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.46%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) Camunda
Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.69%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.46%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 170 (39.26%) AWS
2 107 (24.71%) Azure
3 79 (18.24%) GitHub
4 46 (10.62%) Serverless
5 45 (10.39%) GCP
6 37 (8.55%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (4.85%) OpenShift
10 16 (3.70%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (2.31%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.85%) Power Platform
15 7 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.62%) Azure AKS
15 7 (1.62%) Kontent
16 6 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (1.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.31%) SSL
2 5 (1.15%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Internet
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (18.94%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (11.32%) NoSQL
3 31 (7.16%) MongoDB
4 29 (6.70%) SQL Server
5 26 (6.00%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (3.70%) MySQL
7 11 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (2.08%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.08%) Redis
9 8 (1.85%) Power BI
10 7 (1.62%) DocumentDB
11 6 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.15%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.92%) Metadata
14 3 (0.69%) SAP HANA
15 2 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.46%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 83 (19.17%) Git
2 33 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.70%) JUnit
4 27 (6.24%) GitLab
5 23 (5.31%) JIRA
6 12 (2.77%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.31%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.08%) JMeter
8 9 (2.08%) Mocha
8 9 (2.08%) Mockito
9 8 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.39%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.39%) Jasmine
10 6 (1.39%) Storybook
11 5 (1.15%) NUnit
11 5 (1.15%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.92%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.69%) Karma Test Runner
14 2 (0.46%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 76 (17.55%) Finance
2 75 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 60 (13.86%) Public Sector
4 30 (6.93%) Banking
5 21 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.00%) Front Office
7 8 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.62%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.39%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.15%) Retail
10 5 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.92%) Marketing
12 3 (0.69%) Aviation
12 3 (0.69%) Electronics
12 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (51.04%) React
2 138 (31.87%) Node.js
3 118 (27.25%) AngularJS
4 105 (24.25%) Spring
5 76 (17.55%) .NET
5 76 (17.55%) CSS
5 76 (17.55%) RESTful
5 76 (17.55%) Spring Boot
6 75 (17.32%) HTML
7 61 (14.09%) REST
8 46 (10.62%) Kafka
8 46 (10.62%) Next.js
9 35 (8.08%) FastAPI
10 33 (7.62%) Jest
10 33 (7.62%) Vue
11 26 (6.00%) ASP.NET
11 26 (6.00%) GraphQL
12 25 (5.77%) .NET Framework
12 25 (5.77%) Playwright
13 21 (4.85%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.01%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.08%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.69%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.69%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.69%) Derivative
11 3 (0.69%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.23%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.93%) Linux
2 5 (1.15%) Unix
3 4 (0.92%) Windows
4 3 (0.69%) CentOS
4 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 191 (44.11%) CI/CD
3 167 (38.57%) Agile
4 114 (26.33%) DevOps
5 103 (23.79%) Microservices
6 77 (17.78%) Containerisation
7 74 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (12.93%) AI
9 55 (12.70%) Front End Development
10 49 (11.32%) Test Automation
11 47 (10.85%) Scrum
12 44 (10.16%) Software Engineering
13 40 (9.24%) User Experience
14 38 (8.78%) Code Quality
15 35 (8.08%) API Development
15 35 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 35 (8.08%) TDD
16 30 (6.93%) Clean Code
17 27 (6.24%) SDLC
18 26 (6.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 162 (37.41%) Java
2 150 (34.64%) TypeScript
3 140 (32.33%) JavaScript
4 137 (31.64%) Python
5 95 (21.94%) SQL
6 57 (13.16%) C#
7 8 (1.85%) Ruby
8 7 (1.62%) Go
9 6 (1.39%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.92%) Bash
10 4 (0.92%) Bicep
11 3 (0.69%) C
11 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.69%) Perl
11 3 (0.69%) PHP
11 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.69%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.46%) ABAP
12 2 (0.46%) C++
Qualifications
1 112 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 95 (21.94%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.62%) Degree
4 12 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.24%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.77%) WCAG
3 11 (2.54%) QA
System Software
1 107 (24.71%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.69%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 87 (20.09%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.24%) Terraform
3 14 (3.23%) Grafana
4 13 (3.00%) Ansible
5 11 (2.54%) Argo
6 8 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.46%) Kibana
8 1 (0.23%) Podman
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (6.24%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.62%) Oracle
3 15 (3.46%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.00%) Google
5 11 (2.54%) Adobe
6 9 (2.08%) Sitecore
7 8 (1.85%) VMware
8 6 (1.39%) SAP
9 4 (0.92%) Databricks
9 4 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.69%) Cisco
10 3 (0.69%) NEC
10 3 (0.69%) Splunk
11 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.46%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
12 1 (0.23%) Okta
12 1 (0.23%) Siemens
12 1 (0.23%) Xero