Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 216 178
Rank change year-on-year -53 -38 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 445 375 587
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.26% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.37% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 290 468
10th Percentile £375 £350 £325
25th Percentile £416 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £675
90th Percentile £688 £721 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £484 £440
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.00% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.00
25th Percentile £35.00 - £53.13
Median hourly rate £58.00 - £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 46,545 27,461 40,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.26% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,281 17,668 26,127
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,104 1,179 2,967
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.97 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.79 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.61 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.56% -26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -50 379 £520 +3.95% 67
London -36 200 £521 +2.06% 14
UK excluding London -27 186 £475 -1.86% 72
Work from Home -85 121 £508 -2.40% 44
North of England -46 66 £475 +2.15% 15
South East -39 39 £550 - 18
North West -21 35 £455 +1.11% 9
Midlands -41 28 £438 -13.37% 11
West Midlands -32 26 £450 -35.71% 3
South West -10 22 £525 -4.55% 14
Scotland -2 20 £425 -5.35% 5
Yorkshire -53 20 £575 +24.32% 4
North East -35 11 £450 -4.76% 2
East of England -25 10 £526 +10.79% 2
East Midlands -28 2 £425 +5.72% 8
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 445 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 223 (50.11%) React
3 173 (38.88%) CI/CD
4 156 (35.06%) Agile
4 156 (35.06%) AWS
4 156 (35.06%) Python
5 155 (34.83%) JavaScript
6 149 (33.48%) TypeScript
7 135 (30.34%) Java
8 132 (29.66%) Node.js
9 127 (28.54%) Azure
10 106 (23.82%) Security Cleared
11 102 (22.92%) DevOps
12 95 (21.35%) Docker
13 91 (20.45%) SC Cleared
14 90 (20.22%) SQL
15 89 (20.00%) AngularJS
16 88 (19.78%) Microservices
17 85 (19.10%) PostgreSQL
18 78 (17.53%) .NET
19 76 (17.08%) Spring
20 73 (16.40%) Containerisation
21 72 (16.18%) REST
22 70 (15.73%) RESTful
23 67 (15.06%) Git
24 66 (14.83%) C#
25 61 (13.71%) Spring Boot
25 61 (13.71%) Test Automation
26 56 (12.58%) AI
26 56 (12.58%) CSS

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 (3.37%) Confluence
2 7 (1.57%) CMS
3 4 (0.90%) Camunda
4 3 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.45%) IIS
5 2 (0.45%) nginx
5 2 (0.45%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Shopify
2 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 156 (35.06%) AWS
2 127 (28.54%) Azure
3 54 (12.13%) Serverless
4 46 (10.34%) GitHub
5 38 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (6.07%) GCP
9 21 (4.72%) Amazon S3
10 12 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (2.70%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (2.47%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.02%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (2.02%) Figma
13 8 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) Firewall
1 2 (0.45%) HTTP
2 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.22%) RTMP
2 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (19.10%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (7.87%) Relational Database
3 31 (6.97%) SQL Server
4 27 (6.07%) NoSQL
5 21 (4.72%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.60%) MySQL
7 13 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.70%) Power BI
9 10 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.02%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.02%) Redis
11 5 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.12%) Metadata
11 5 (1.12%) Neo4j
11 5 (1.12%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.67%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 67 (15.06%) Git
2 30 (6.74%) GitLab
3 26 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.04%) JIRA
5 13 (2.92%) JUnit
6 8 (1.80%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.80%) Mocha
7 6 (1.35%) Mockito
7 6 (1.35%) NUnit
8 5 (1.12%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.12%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.90%) Jasmine
9 4 (0.90%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (0.90%) Postman
10 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.67%) Storybook
10 3 (0.67%) webpack
11 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.45%) Vite
General
1 77 (17.30%) Finance
2 64 (14.38%) Public Sector
3 51 (11.46%) Social Skills
4 34 (7.64%) Banking
5 26 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.82%) Front Office
7 8 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.12%) Military
10 4 (0.90%) Advertising
10 4 (0.90%) Retail
11 3 (0.67%) Legal
11 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.45%) Aviation
12 2 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.22%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.22%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (50.11%) React
2 132 (29.66%) Node.js
3 89 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 78 (17.53%) .NET
5 76 (17.08%) Spring
6 72 (16.18%) REST
7 70 (15.73%) RESTful
8 61 (13.71%) Spring Boot
9 56 (12.58%) CSS
10 53 (11.91%) HTML
11 42 (9.44%) Vue
12 40 (8.99%) Kafka
13 26 (5.84%) Redux
14 25 (5.62%) Jest
15 24 (5.39%) Django
15 24 (5.39%) Next.js
16 22 (4.94%) FastAPI
16 22 (4.94%) Flask
16 22 (4.94%) YAML
17 21 (4.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.01%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.92%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.12%) Derivative
12 4 (0.90%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.67%) NHS
13 3 (0.67%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
15 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Cloud
15 1 (0.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.80%) Linux
2 3 (0.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 173 (38.88%) CI/CD
3 156 (35.06%) Agile
4 102 (22.92%) DevOps
5 88 (19.78%) Microservices
6 73 (16.40%) Containerisation
7 61 (13.71%) Test Automation
8 56 (12.58%) AI
8 56 (12.58%) Front End Development
9 47 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (10.11%) Software Engineering
11 42 (9.44%) Scrum
12 35 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (7.64%) SDLC
14 33 (7.42%) API Design
15 31 (6.97%) Code Quality
16 30 (6.74%) Event-Driven
17 28 (6.29%) API Development
17 28 (6.29%) Mentoring
17 28 (6.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 156 (35.06%) Python
2 155 (34.83%) JavaScript
3 149 (33.48%) TypeScript
4 135 (30.34%) Java
5 90 (20.22%) SQL
6 66 (14.83%) C#
7 9 (2.02%) Go
8 4 (0.90%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.90%) Bicep
8 4 (0.90%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.90%) PHP
9 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) ABAP
11 1 (0.22%) Bash
11 1 (0.22%) Ruby
11 1 (0.22%) XPath
Qualifications
1 106 (23.82%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.82%) Degree
4 11 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.64%) Accessibility
2 33 (7.42%) QA
3 11 (2.47%) WCAG
4 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) HL7
System Software
1 95 (21.35%) Docker
2 4 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (11.01%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.09%) Terraform
3 12 (2.70%) Grafana
4 7 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.90%) Argo
7 3 (0.67%) Ansible
8 1 (0.22%) Consul
8 1 (0.22%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 29 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.82%) Oracle
3 5 (1.12%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.90%) Databricks
4 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
4 4 (0.90%) Salesforce
4 4 (0.90%) Sitecore
5 3 (0.67%) Adobe
5 3 (0.67%) Google
5 3 (0.67%) NEC
6 2 (0.45%) SAP
6 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.45%) Solace
6 2 (0.45%) Splunk
6 2 (0.45%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.22%) Brio
7 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.22%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.22%) Workday
7 1 (0.22%) Xero