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 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 235 193
Rank change year-on-year -107 -42 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 388 381 502
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 1.16% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 1.27% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 285 379
10th Percentile £363 £333 £363
25th Percentile £421 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £650
90th Percentile £650 £695 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +13.14% -2.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile - £62.80 £38.58
25th Percentile - £64.38 £41.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +43.32% -37.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £51.31
90th Percentile £77.00 - £53.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.76% +21.82% -

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 50,473 30,002 35,564
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 91.08% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,930 18,956 21,934
10th Percentile £328 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £626 £621 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,805 1,570 1,684
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.01%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +5.88%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -98 320 £500 - 320
London -78 191 £520 - 165
UK excluding London -93 137 £495 +13.14% 187
Work from Home -84 114 £475 -5.00% 156
North of England -73 46 £500 +11.11% 55
South East -48 35 £500 +2.56% 32
South West -29 23 £525 +8.47% 30
Yorkshire -34 23 £575 +16.46% 12
Scotland -30 21 £425 -5.56% 17
North West -44 17 £478 +27.47% 35
Midlands -55 7 £425 +6.25% 29
North East -44 6 £450 -6.25% 9
West Midlands -52 5 £425 +6.25% 21
East of England -39 3 £350 -26.32% 12
Northern Ireland +4 2 £375 -7.98% 12
East Midlands -14 2 £425 +5.99% 8

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 388 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 186 (47.94%) React
3 179 (46.13%) CI/CD
4 154 (39.69%) TypeScript
5 150 (38.66%) Agile
6 149 (38.40%) AWS
7 144 (37.11%) JavaScript
8 127 (32.73%) Java
9 121 (31.19%) SQL
10 114 (29.38%) Python
11 111 (28.61%) Microservices
11 111 (28.61%) REST
12 107 (27.58%) Azure
13 104 (26.80%) Node.js
14 94 (24.23%) DevOps
15 90 (23.20%) Docker
16 89 (22.94%) RESTful
17 81 (20.88%) Test Automation
18 77 (19.85%) .NET
18 77 (19.85%) Kubernetes
19 75 (19.33%) Git
20 74 (19.07%) AngularJS
21 72 (18.56%) Spring
22 70 (18.04%) Spring Boot
23 69 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
24 67 (17.27%) HTML
25 66 (17.01%) Security Cleared
26 65 (16.75%) CSS
27 64 (16.49%) C#
28 60 (15.46%) SQL Server

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 16 (4.12%) Confluence
2 8 (2.06%) Camunda
3 5 (1.29%) Apache
3 5 (1.29%) CMS
4 4 (1.03%) nginx
4 4 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 149 (38.40%) AWS
2 107 (27.58%) Azure
3 56 (14.43%) GitHub
4 55 (14.18%) Serverless
5 32 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (7.47%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (5.67%) Amazon S3
8 22 (5.67%) GCP
9 18 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (4.12%) Anthropic Claude
10 16 (4.12%) GitHub Copilot
11 15 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (2.84%) Entra ID
12 11 (2.84%) OpenShift
13 10 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (2.58%) SaaS
14 9 (2.32%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.03%) HTTP
2 2 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (15.46%) SQL Server
3 39 (10.05%) Relational Database
4 34 (8.76%) NoSQL
5 33 (8.51%) MySQL
6 28 (7.22%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (4.38%) DynamoDB
8 14 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.84%) Redis
10 8 (2.06%) Power BI
11 6 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.03%) Flink
13 4 (1.03%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.77%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.52%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 75 (19.33%) Git
2 39 (10.05%) Jenkins
3 36 (9.28%) GitLab
4 22 (5.67%) JIRA
5 18 (4.64%) JUnit
6 12 (3.09%) Maven
7 11 (2.84%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.58%) Mockito
9 8 (2.06%) Claude Code
9 8 (2.06%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.55%) Gradle
11 5 (1.29%) Mocha
11 5 (1.29%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.29%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.03%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.03%) JetBrains Rider
12 4 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.77%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.77%) Storybook
General
1 81 (20.88%) Finance
2 72 (18.56%) Social Skills
3 50 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 39 (10.05%) Banking
5 28 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.61%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.06%) Front Office
7 8 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.80%) Military
8 7 (1.80%) Retail
9 5 (1.29%) Advertising
10 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.77%) Back Office
11 3 (0.77%) Local Government
11 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Legal
12 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.52%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (47.94%) React
2 111 (28.61%) REST
3 104 (26.80%) Node.js
4 89 (22.94%) RESTful
5 77 (19.85%) .NET
6 74 (19.07%) AngularJS
7 72 (18.56%) Spring
8 70 (18.04%) Spring Boot
9 67 (17.27%) HTML
10 65 (16.75%) CSS
11 46 (11.86%) Terraform
12 44 (11.34%) Kafka
13 43 (11.08%) Vue
14 30 (7.73%) HTML5
15 29 (7.47%) CSS3
16 27 (6.96%) .NET Core
16 27 (6.96%) OAuth
17 26 (6.70%) Jest
18 22 (5.67%) Redux
19 21 (5.41%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 69 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.09%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.32%) NHS
7 8 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.29%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.03%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.03%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.77%) Derivative
11 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.77%) Life Science
11 3 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.35%) Linux
2 8 (2.06%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 179 (46.13%) CI/CD
3 150 (38.66%) Agile
4 111 (28.61%) Microservices
5 94 (24.23%) DevOps
6 81 (20.88%) Test Automation
7 58 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (14.69%) Software Engineering
9 56 (14.43%) Containerisation
10 55 (14.18%) AI
11 53 (13.66%) Front End Development
12 52 (13.40%) Event-Driven
13 43 (11.08%) Code Quality
14 40 (10.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 40 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (9.54%) Mentoring
17 35 (9.02%) Scrum
17 35 (9.02%) SDLC
18 31 (7.99%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 154 (39.69%) TypeScript
2 144 (37.11%) JavaScript
3 127 (32.73%) Java
4 121 (31.19%) SQL
5 114 (29.38%) Python
6 64 (16.49%) C#
7 11 (2.84%) PHP
8 7 (1.80%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.29%) Bash
9 5 (1.29%) Bicep
10 3 (0.77%) Go
10 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.52%) Scala
12 1 (0.26%) Groovy
12 1 (0.26%) Korn
12 1 (0.26%) Ruby
12 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 66 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 54 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.44%) Degree
4 21 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.08%) QA
2 22 (5.67%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.06%) WCAG
4 3 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.77%) HL7
5 2 (0.52%) GDPR
5 2 (0.52%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.52%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.52%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 90 (23.20%) Docker
2 7 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (19.85%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.35%) Grafana
3 8 (2.06%) Argo
4 4 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.77%) Ansible
6 2 (0.52%) Kibana
7 1 (0.26%) Consul
7 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.26%) Istio
7 1 (0.26%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 43 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.09%) Oracle
3 11 (2.84%) Databricks
4 8 (2.06%) Google
4 8 (2.06%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.29%) IBM
5 5 (1.29%) Splunk
6 4 (1.03%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.03%) Veracode
7 3 (0.77%) Foundry
7 3 (0.77%) NEC
7 3 (0.77%) webMethods
8 2 (0.52%) Brio
8 2 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.52%) Solace
8 2 (0.52%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.26%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) Workday