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 3 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
3 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 211 174
Rank change year-on-year -54 -37 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 427 363 586
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.25% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.35% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 289 477
10th Percentile £358 £356 £325
25th Percentile £411 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £675
90th Percentile £662 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £447
% change year-on-year -4.14% +10.85% -0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile - - £36.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £45.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -27.44% -2.27%
75th Percentile £81.00 £39.50 £58.00
90th Percentile - - £63.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -2.27%

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 41,358 26,984 40,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 92.80% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,778 17,737 26,805
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.45%
75th Percentile £613 £629 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +2.37% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,581 943 2,528
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.85 £20.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -1.52% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.16 £31.64 £33.00
% change year-on-year +26.91% -4.12% -21.43%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -47 369 £500 -4.76% 164
London -54 185 £518 -1.43% 43
UK excluding London -40 183 £475 -4.14% 139
Work from Home -59 121 £511 +2.25% 97
North of England -36 67 £455 -6.71% 45
North West -23 42 £455 -15.35% 22
South East -51 39 £550 - 38
Midlands -40 37 £450 -0.22% 21
West Midlands -44 31 £450 -11.33% 12
South West -17 16 £525 -0.33% 17
Yorkshire -59 14 £500 - 22
Scotland +7 13 £421 -0.88% 7
North East -8 11 £475 +2.70% 1
East of England -29 11 £525 +61.54% 10
East Midlands -26 6 £600 +49.25% 9

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 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.

1 427 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 216 (50.59%) React
3 182 (42.62%) CI/CD
4 167 (39.11%) AWS
5 158 (37.00%) Agile
6 147 (34.43%) Java
7 138 (32.32%) Python
8 134 (31.38%) JavaScript
9 133 (31.15%) TypeScript
10 127 (29.74%) Node.js
11 118 (27.63%) Azure
12 114 (26.70%) Security Cleared
13 111 (26.00%) DevOps
14 102 (23.89%) Docker
15 101 (23.65%) AngularJS
16 100 (23.42%) SQL
17 99 (23.19%) Spring
18 97 (22.72%) SC Cleared
19 90 (21.08%) Microservices
20 83 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
21 82 (19.20%) Spring Boot
22 77 (18.03%) .NET
22 77 (18.03%) Git
23 75 (17.56%) RESTful
24 70 (16.39%) Kubernetes
25 68 (15.93%) Containerisation
25 68 (15.93%) GitHub
26 67 (15.69%) HTML
27 66 (15.46%) CSS
28 62 (14.52%) REST

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 (4.68%) Confluence
2 11 (2.58%) CMS
3 7 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.64%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (1.41%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.94%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.70%) IIS
6 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.47%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) Apache
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 167 (39.11%) AWS
2 118 (27.63%) Azure
3 68 (15.93%) GitHub
4 52 (12.18%) Serverless
5 38 (8.90%) GCP
6 37 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (4.68%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 11 (2.58%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.34%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.87%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (1.64%) Datadog
14 7 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (1.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.11%) SSL
2 4 (0.94%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (10.54%) NoSQL
3 32 (7.49%) SQL Server
4 31 (7.26%) MongoDB
5 30 (7.03%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.75%) MySQL
7 14 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (3.04%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.87%) Power BI
11 7 (1.64%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.41%) Neo4j
12 6 (1.41%) Redis
13 5 (1.17%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (0.94%) Metadata
15 3 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.70%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 77 (18.03%) Git
2 35 (8.20%) Jenkins
3 25 (5.85%) JUnit
4 23 (5.39%) JIRA
5 22 (5.15%) GitLab
6 9 (2.11%) Mocha
7 8 (1.87%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.87%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.87%) JMeter
8 7 (1.64%) Jasmine
9 6 (1.41%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.41%) Mockito
9 6 (1.41%) NUnit
9 6 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.41%) Storybook
10 5 (1.17%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.94%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (0.94%) Postman
12 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 69 (16.16%) Finance
2 61 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 57 (13.35%) Social Skills
4 27 (6.32%) Banking
5 21 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.28%) Front Office
7 6 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.94%) Marketing
9 3 (0.70%) Aviation
9 3 (0.70%) Electronics
9 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.70%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.23%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.23%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.23%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (50.59%) React
2 127 (29.74%) Node.js
3 101 (23.65%) AngularJS
4 99 (23.19%) Spring
5 82 (19.20%) Spring Boot
6 77 (18.03%) .NET
7 75 (17.56%) RESTful
8 67 (15.69%) HTML
9 66 (15.46%) CSS
10 62 (14.52%) REST
11 46 (10.77%) Kafka
12 36 (8.43%) Next.js
13 33 (7.73%) Vue
14 28 (6.56%) Jest
15 27 (6.32%) YAML
16 26 (6.09%) FastAPI
16 26 (6.09%) GraphQL
17 25 (5.85%) ASP.NET
18 24 (5.62%) Playwright
19 23 (5.39%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.13%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.81%) Fixed Income
4 11 (2.58%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.94%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.70%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.70%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.47%) Derivative
12 2 (0.47%) NHS
13 1 (0.23%) Equity Derivative
13 1 (0.23%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.23%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.34%) Linux
2 2 (0.47%) Unix
2 2 (0.47%) Windows
3 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 182 (42.62%) CI/CD
3 158 (37.00%) Agile
4 111 (26.00%) DevOps
5 90 (21.08%) Microservices
6 68 (15.93%) Containerisation
7 60 (14.05%) Front End Development
8 55 (12.88%) AI
9 53 (12.41%) Test Automation
10 52 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (9.84%) User Experience
12 39 (9.13%) Scrum
13 38 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 37 (8.67%) API Development
14 37 (8.67%) Software Engineering
15 32 (7.49%) TDD
16 30 (7.03%) Code Quality
16 30 (7.03%) SDLC
17 26 (6.09%) Event-Driven
18 24 (5.62%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 147 (34.43%) Java
2 138 (32.32%) Python
3 134 (31.38%) JavaScript
4 133 (31.15%) TypeScript
5 100 (23.42%) SQL
6 57 (13.35%) C#
7 8 (1.87%) Go
8 4 (0.94%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.70%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.47%) Bicep
10 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.47%) PHP
10 2 (0.47%) Scala
10 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.23%) Bash
11 1 (0.23%) Julia
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.23%) SOQL
11 1 (0.23%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 114 (26.70%) Security Cleared
2 97 (22.72%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.28%) Degree
4 6 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.49%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.04%) QA
3 10 (2.34%) WCAG
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 102 (23.89%) Docker
2 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.70%) ISA Server
2 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.56%) Terraform
3 13 (3.04%) Grafana
4 11 (2.58%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.87%) Ansible
6 6 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) Argo
8 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (6.32%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.45%) Oracle
3 10 (2.34%) Adobe
4 8 (1.87%) Sitecore
5 6 (1.41%) SAP
5 6 (1.41%) VMware
6 5 (1.17%) Databricks
6 5 (1.17%) Google
7 4 (0.94%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.94%) Splunk
8 3 (0.70%) NEC
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco
9 2 (0.47%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.23%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.23%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.23%) Sybase
10 1 (0.23%) Workday
10 1 (0.23%) Xero
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