Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
13 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 217 190
Rank change year-on-year -48 -27 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 371 364 537
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.16% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.25% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 273 430
10th Percentile £347 £363 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +3.04% -7.36%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £647
90th Percentile £658 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £433
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.61% -7.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £36.05 -
25th Percentile - £36.50 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +30.38% -59.42%
75th Percentile £41.25 £40.63 -
90th Percentile £45.00 £41.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 33,423 29,063 39,970
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 92.68% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,125 17,795 26,676
10th Percentile £300 £289 £280
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,961 876 1,672
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.49 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.03 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +26.87%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.62 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.85% -31.97% +64.38%

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 13 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
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 13 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 -60 308 £500 -9.09% 202
London -29 165 £518 -10.00% 59
UK excluding London -57 140 £450 -10.00% 168
Work from Home -29 108 £450 -5.76% 116
North of England -48 53 £455 +1.11% 42
North West -9 34 £450 -5.26% 17
South East -46 31 £411 -34.20% 60
Midlands -39 19 £575 +15.00% 25
Scotland +8 18 £438 +2.94% 5
South West -18 12 £425 -3.63% 16
West Midlands -34 11 £400 -20.00% 7
Yorkshire -57 11 £463 +2.78% 15
North East -2 8 £475 +35.71% 10
East Midlands -14 8 £600 +45.45% 18
East of England -11 7 £525 +75.00% 15

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 371 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 197 (53.10%) React
3 161 (43.40%) AWS
3 161 (43.40%) CI/CD
4 138 (37.20%) Agile
5 137 (36.93%) TypeScript
6 128 (34.50%) Java
7 121 (32.61%) JavaScript
8 118 (31.81%) Python
9 102 (27.49%) Node.js
10 94 (25.34%) AngularJS
11 89 (23.99%) SQL
12 86 (23.18%) Docker
13 84 (22.64%) Spring
14 83 (22.37%) Kubernetes
14 83 (22.37%) Security Cleared
15 81 (21.83%) DevOps
16 80 (21.56%) Git
16 80 (21.56%) Microservices
17 76 (20.49%) HTML
18 73 (19.68%) SC Cleared
19 72 (19.41%) Azure
19 72 (19.41%) CSS
20 69 (18.60%) GitHub
20 69 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
21 66 (17.79%) .NET
21 66 (17.79%) RESTful
22 64 (17.25%) Containerisation
23 63 (16.98%) Spring Boot
24 59 (15.90%) 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 (4.04%) Confluence
2 13 (3.50%) CMS
3 9 (2.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 8 (2.16%) Headless CMS
5 5 (1.35%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.35%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.81%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.54%) Moodle
8 2 (0.54%) nginx
8 2 (0.54%) SAS
9 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.54%) Magento
4 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 161 (43.40%) AWS
2 72 (19.41%) Azure
3 69 (18.60%) GitHub
4 47 (12.67%) Serverless
5 35 (9.43%) GCP
6 30 (8.09%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.66%) OpenShift
9 14 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.16%) Azure Functions
12 7 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.89%) Kontent
12 7 (1.89%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.96%) SSL
2 6 (1.62%) VPN
3 2 (0.54%) DNS
3 2 (0.54%) HTTP
3 2 (0.54%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (15.90%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (10.78%) NoSQL
3 31 (8.36%) MongoDB
4 26 (7.01%) Relational Database
4 26 (7.01%) SQL Server
5 17 (4.58%) MySQL
6 8 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.16%) Redis
7 7 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.89%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.89%) Power BI
8 6 (1.62%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.54%) Metadata
11 2 (0.54%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (21.56%) Git
2 26 (7.01%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.47%) JUnit
4 19 (5.12%) GitLab
4 19 (5.12%) JIRA
5 12 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 12 (3.23%) Cypress.io
6 11 (2.96%) JMeter
7 8 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.62%) Mockito
9 5 (1.35%) Mocha
9 5 (1.35%) Storybook
10 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.08%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.08%) Vite
10 4 (1.08%) webpack
11 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.81%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.54%) git-flow
12 2 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 73 (19.68%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.56%) Finance
3 43 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.12%) Banking
6 11 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (2.43%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.08%) Marketing
11 4 (1.08%) Retail
11 4 (1.08%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.81%) Aviation
12 3 (0.81%) Electronics
12 3 (0.81%) Front Office
12 3 (0.81%) Military
12 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (53.10%) React
2 102 (27.49%) Node.js
3 94 (25.34%) AngularJS
4 84 (22.64%) Spring
5 76 (20.49%) HTML
6 72 (19.41%) CSS
7 66 (17.79%) .NET
7 66 (17.79%) RESTful
8 63 (16.98%) Spring Boot
9 48 (12.94%) Next.js
10 47 (12.67%) REST
11 38 (10.24%) Kafka
12 27 (7.28%) FastAPI
13 25 (6.74%) Jest
14 23 (6.20%) Hibernate
14 23 (6.20%) Playwright
15 21 (5.66%) pytest
15 21 (5.66%) Vue
16 18 (4.85%) .NET Framework
17 17 (4.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.36%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 14 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.35%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.81%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.81%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.54%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.54%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.54%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.66%) Linux
2 6 (1.62%) Unix
3 3 (0.81%) CentOS
3 3 (0.81%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.81%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 161 (43.40%) CI/CD
3 138 (37.20%) Agile
4 81 (21.83%) DevOps
5 80 (21.56%) Microservices
6 69 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (17.25%) Containerisation
8 55 (14.82%) AI
9 51 (13.75%) Front End Development
10 44 (11.86%) Test Automation
11 36 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (9.70%) TDD
12 35 (9.43%) Software Engineering
13 32 (8.63%) Code Quality
13 32 (8.63%) User Experience
14 30 (8.09%) Clean Code
15 28 (7.55%) API Development
16 26 (7.01%) Event-Driven
16 26 (7.01%) Scrum
17 24 (6.47%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 137 (36.93%) TypeScript
2 128 (34.50%) Java
3 121 (32.61%) JavaScript
4 118 (31.81%) Python
5 89 (23.99%) SQL
6 49 (13.21%) C#
7 12 (3.23%) Ruby
8 7 (1.89%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.62%) Bash
9 6 (1.62%) PHP
9 6 (1.62%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.08%) Perl
11 3 (0.81%) C
11 3 (0.81%) Go
11 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.54%) ABAP
12 2 (0.54%) Bicep
12 2 (0.54%) C++
12 2 (0.54%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 73 (19.68%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.66%) Degree
4 15 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.54%) MCP
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.93%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.23%) WCAG
3 10 (2.70%) QA
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 86 (23.18%) Docker
2 5 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.81%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 83 (22.37%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.74%) Terraform
3 14 (3.77%) Ansible
4 11 (2.96%) Argo
5 10 (2.70%) Grafana
6 8 (2.16%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.35%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.54%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) Podman
9 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 20 (5.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.58%) Google
2 17 (4.58%) Oracle
3 15 (4.04%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.43%) Adobe
5 8 (2.16%) VMware
6 5 (1.35%) SAP
6 5 (1.35%) Sitecore
7 4 (1.08%) Cisco
8 3 (0.81%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.81%) Splunk
8 3 (0.81%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.54%) Databricks
9 2 (0.54%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.54%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.27%) F5
10 1 (0.27%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.27%) Siemens
10 1 (0.27%) Sybase
220 Full-Stack Developer jobs Nationwide