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 12 November 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 198 212
Rank change year-on-year -65 +14 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 364 436 536
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.20% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.30% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 317 423
10th Percentile £314 £359 £325
25th Percentile £404 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -11.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £663 £705 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £431
% change year-on-year -5.26% +10.14% -9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £48.28 £36.05 £34.25
25th Percentile £56.94 £36.50 £41.04
Median hourly rate £65.25 £38.75 £52.36
Median % change year-on-year +68.39% -25.99% -28.50%
75th Percentile £67.00 £40.63 £63.68
90th Percentile - £41.30 £70.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 31,989 33,651 43,674
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.86% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,308 20,292 29,666
10th Percentile £279 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,833 1,257 1,539
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.10 £14.99
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +60.48%
75th Percentile £51.80 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.92 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +87.37%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 -56 297 £500 -9.09% 205
London -18 171 £518 -10.00% 84
UK excluding London -77 127 £450 -5.26% 147
Work from Home -35 122 £500 - 143
North of England -61 31 £420 -6.67% 20
South East -26 25 £405 -35.20% 53
Scotland -1 22 £450 +2.27% 3
Midlands -22 20 £475 +0.53% 35
North West -21 18 £400 -10.11% 13
East of England -2 15 £525 +90.91% 9
South West -1 14 £550 +22.22% 17
East Midlands -4 12 £550 +33.33% 15
West Midlands -29 8 £400 -27.27% 20
Yorkshire -53 8 £500 +11.11% 3
North East -5 5 £500 +42.86% 4

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

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, 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.

1 364 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 185 (50.82%) React
3 165 (45.33%) CI/CD
4 155 (42.58%) AWS
5 152 (41.76%) TypeScript
6 151 (41.48%) Agile
7 142 (39.01%) JavaScript
8 122 (33.52%) Java
9 119 (32.69%) Python
10 100 (27.47%) AngularJS
10 100 (27.47%) SQL
11 99 (27.20%) Azure
12 98 (26.92%) Node.js
13 85 (23.35%) Docker
14 82 (22.53%) HTML
15 80 (21.98%) CSS
15 80 (21.98%) DevOps
16 77 (21.15%) Microservices
17 76 (20.88%) Git
17 76 (20.88%) Kubernetes
18 74 (20.33%) PostgreSQL
19 73 (20.05%) Security Cleared
20 71 (19.51%) .NET
21 69 (18.96%) Spring
22 67 (18.41%) RESTful
23 66 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
23 66 (18.13%) SC Cleared
24 57 (15.66%) C#
25 51 (14.01%) Containerisation
26 50 (13.74%) Spring Boot

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 14 (3.85%) CMS
2 13 (3.57%) Confluence
3 9 (2.47%) Headless CMS
4 6 (1.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (1.37%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.37%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.55%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.55%) Camunda
6 2 (0.55%) Moodle
6 2 (0.55%) nginx
6 2 (0.55%) SAS
6 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) Magento
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 155 (42.58%) AWS
2 99 (27.20%) Azure
3 45 (12.36%) GitHub
4 43 (11.81%) Serverless
5 37 (10.16%) GCP
6 23 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (5.77%) OpenShift
8 19 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (4.40%) Amazon S3
11 15 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (2.20%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.92%) Kontent
14 7 (1.92%) npm
14 7 (1.92%) SaaS
15 6 (1.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.92%) SSL
2 5 (1.37%) HTTP
3 4 (1.10%) DNS
3 4 (1.10%) VPN
4 3 (0.82%) DHCP
4 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (20.33%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (11.81%) NoSQL
3 31 (8.52%) MongoDB
4 25 (6.87%) SQL Server
5 23 (6.32%) Relational Database
6 18 (4.95%) MySQL
7 10 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.75%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.65%) Power BI
10 5 (1.37%) Redis
11 4 (1.10%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.55%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (20.88%) Git
2 29 (7.97%) JUnit
3 25 (6.87%) JIRA
4 24 (6.59%) Jenkins
5 23 (6.32%) GitLab
6 16 (4.40%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 13 (3.57%) Maven
7 13 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (2.75%) JMeter
9 7 (1.92%) Mockito
9 7 (1.92%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.92%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.65%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.37%) Selenium
11 5 (1.37%) Vite
12 4 (1.10%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.10%) Storybook
12 4 (1.10%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 76 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.41%) Finance
3 39 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.59%) Banking
5 23 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.30%) Front Office
7 12 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (2.20%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.65%) Retail
11 5 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.37%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.10%) Military
13 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Electronics
13 3 (0.82%) Marketing
14 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (50.82%) React
2 100 (27.47%) AngularJS
3 98 (26.92%) Node.js
4 82 (22.53%) HTML
5 80 (21.98%) CSS
6 71 (19.51%) .NET
7 69 (18.96%) Spring
8 67 (18.41%) RESTful
9 50 (13.74%) Spring Boot
10 48 (13.19%) REST
11 46 (12.64%) Next.js
12 32 (8.79%) Vue
13 31 (8.52%) Kafka
14 26 (7.14%) FastAPI
14 26 (7.14%) Jest
15 25 (6.87%) Hibernate
16 24 (6.59%) .NET Framework
17 20 (5.49%) Express.js
18 19 (5.22%) .NET Core
19 18 (4.95%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.75%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.47%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.92%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.65%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.37%) Equities
11 4 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.82%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.59%) Linux
2 12 (3.30%) Unix
3 3 (0.82%) CentOS
3 3 (0.82%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.82%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 165 (45.33%) CI/CD
3 151 (41.48%) Agile
4 80 (21.98%) DevOps
5 77 (21.15%) Microservices
6 66 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (14.01%) Containerisation
8 49 (13.46%) Front End Development
9 47 (12.91%) AI
10 44 (12.09%) TDD
11 40 (10.99%) Software Engineering
12 39 (10.71%) Test Automation
13 34 (9.34%) Clean Code
14 32 (8.79%) Code Quality
15 30 (8.24%) User Experience
16 29 (7.97%) Design Patterns
17 28 (7.69%) API Development
18 27 (7.42%) Scrum
18 27 (7.42%) Web Development
19 25 (6.87%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 152 (41.76%) TypeScript
2 142 (39.01%) JavaScript
3 122 (33.52%) Java
4 119 (32.69%) Python
5 100 (27.47%) SQL
6 57 (15.66%) C#
7 15 (4.12%) Ruby
8 9 (2.47%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.20%) Bash
9 8 (2.20%) C++
10 7 (1.92%) Perl
10 7 (1.92%) PHP
11 6 (1.65%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.10%) Bicep
13 4 (1.10%) Go
13 4 (1.10%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.82%) Cypher
14 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (20.05%) Security Cleared
2 66 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.32%) Degree
4 18 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.82%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) MCP
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.32%) QA
2 13 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.92%) WCAG
4 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 85 (23.35%) Docker
2 7 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (20.88%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.77%) Terraform
3 13 (3.57%) Ansible
4 11 (3.02%) Argo
5 7 (1.92%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.37%) Grafana
7 4 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.82%) Kibana
9 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 28 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.95%) Google
3 14 (3.85%) Oracle
3 14 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.92%) VMware
5 6 (1.65%) Adobe
5 6 (1.65%) SAP
6 5 (1.37%) Databricks
6 5 (1.37%) Okta
6 5 (1.37%) Sitecore
6 5 (1.37%) Virgin Media
7 4 (1.10%) Autodesk
7 4 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.10%) Cisco
8 3 (0.82%) F5
8 3 (0.82%) GoldenSource
8 3 (0.82%) Infoblox
8 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.55%) Veracode