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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 238 187
Rank change year-on-year -95 -51 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 384 380 507
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.15% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.27% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 282 382
10th Percentile £363 £332 £363
25th Percentile £420 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.10% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 3
10th Percentile - £62.80 £37.65
25th Percentile - £64.38 £39.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +61.45% -44.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £48.38
90th Percentile £77.00 - £52.35
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 50,359 29,970 35,820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 91.09% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,785 18,920 22,014
10th Percentile £325 £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 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,867 1,585 1,673
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.29 £20.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.16 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.68%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -91 316 £500 - 292
London -71 188 £520 +1.46% 158
UK excluding London -89 136 £495 +10.00% 163
Work from Home -95 114 £475 -5.00% 141
North of England -60 46 £500 +11.11% 49
South East -40 34 £500 +2.56% 34
South West -21 23 £525 +8.47% 25
Yorkshire -33 23 £575 +16.46% 12
Scotland -29 21 £425 -5.56% 12
North West -50 17 £478 +27.47% 30
Midlands -58 7 £425 +6.25% 22
North East -45 6 £450 -6.25% 8
West Midlands -48 5 £425 +6.25% 16
East of England -37 3 £350 -26.32% 8
East Midlands -25 2 £425 +5.99% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £375 - 12

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 384 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 185 (48.18%) React
3 177 (46.09%) CI/CD
4 151 (39.32%) TypeScript
5 149 (38.80%) Agile
6 147 (38.28%) AWS
7 142 (36.98%) JavaScript
8 126 (32.81%) Java
9 120 (31.25%) SQL
10 114 (29.69%) Python
11 110 (28.65%) Microservices
12 109 (28.39%) REST
13 106 (27.60%) Azure
14 101 (26.30%) Node.js
15 93 (24.22%) DevOps
16 90 (23.44%) Docker
17 88 (22.92%) RESTful
18 80 (20.83%) Test Automation
19 77 (20.05%) Kubernetes
20 76 (19.79%) .NET
21 74 (19.27%) Git
22 72 (18.75%) AngularJS
22 72 (18.75%) Spring
23 69 (17.97%) Spring Boot
24 67 (17.45%) PostgreSQL
25 66 (17.19%) HTML
26 64 (16.67%) CSS
27 63 (16.41%) C#
27 63 (16.41%) Security Cleared
28 60 (15.63%) 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 (4.17%) Confluence
2 8 (2.08%) Camunda
3 6 (1.56%) Apache
4 5 (1.30%) CMS
5 4 (1.04%) nginx
5 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 147 (38.28%) AWS
2 106 (27.60%) Azure
3 55 (14.32%) GitHub
4 53 (13.80%) Serverless
5 32 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (5.99%) GCP
9 21 (5.47%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
11 15 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
12 12 (3.13%) OpenShift
13 11 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.86%) Entra ID
14 10 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.60%) SaaS
15 9 (2.34%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.04%) HTTP
2 2 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (17.45%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 39 (10.16%) Relational Database
4 34 (8.85%) MySQL
5 33 (8.59%) NoSQL
6 27 (7.03%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (3.91%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.86%) Redis
11 8 (2.08%) Power BI
12 6 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.04%) Flink
15 3 (0.78%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.78%) RDBMS
16 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
16 2 (0.52%) Parquet
17 1 (0.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (19.27%) Git
2 39 (10.16%) Jenkins
3 36 (9.38%) GitLab
4 21 (5.47%) JIRA
5 18 (4.69%) JUnit
6 12 (3.13%) Maven
7 11 (2.86%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.60%) Mockito
9 8 (2.08%) Claude Code
9 8 (2.08%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.56%) Gradle
11 5 (1.30%) Mocha
11 5 (1.30%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.30%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.04%) JetBrains Rider
12 4 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.78%) Storybook
General
1 80 (20.83%) Finance
2 72 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 47 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 38 (9.90%) Banking
5 27 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.65%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.08%) Front Office
7 8 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.08%) Retail
8 7 (1.82%) Military
9 5 (1.30%) Advertising
10 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Back Office
11 3 (0.78%) Local Government
11 3 (0.78%) 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
1 185 (48.18%) React
2 109 (28.39%) REST
3 101 (26.30%) Node.js
4 88 (22.92%) RESTful
5 76 (19.79%) .NET
6 72 (18.75%) AngularJS
6 72 (18.75%) Spring
7 69 (17.97%) Spring Boot
8 66 (17.19%) HTML
9 64 (16.67%) CSS
10 44 (11.46%) Terraform
11 43 (11.20%) Kafka
12 42 (10.94%) Vue
13 30 (7.81%) HTML5
14 29 (7.55%) CSS3
15 28 (7.29%) OAuth
16 27 (7.03%) .NET Core
17 26 (6.77%) Jest
18 21 (5.47%) GraphQL
18 21 (5.47%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 68 (17.71%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.34%) NHS
7 8 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.04%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.78%) Derivative
11 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.78%) Life Science
11 3 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.39%) Linux
2 8 (2.08%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 177 (46.09%) CI/CD
3 149 (38.80%) Agile
4 110 (28.65%) Microservices
5 93 (24.22%) DevOps
6 80 (20.83%) Test Automation
7 58 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (14.84%) Software Engineering
9 56 (14.58%) Containerisation
10 55 (14.32%) AI
11 52 (13.54%) Event-Driven
12 51 (13.28%) Front End Development
13 43 (11.20%) Code Quality
14 40 (10.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 39 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 36 (9.38%) Mentoring
16 36 (9.38%) Scrum
17 34 (8.85%) SDLC
18 32 (8.33%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 151 (39.32%) TypeScript
2 142 (36.98%) JavaScript
3 126 (32.81%) Java
4 120 (31.25%) SQL
5 114 (29.69%) Python
6 63 (16.41%) C#
7 11 (2.86%) PHP
8 6 (1.56%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.30%) Bash
9 5 (1.30%) Bicep
10 3 (0.78%) Go
10 3 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.78%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.26%) Perl
12 1 (0.26%) PromQL
12 1 (0.26%) Ruby
12 1 (0.26%) Rust
12 1 (0.26%) Scala
12 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.25%) Degree
4 21 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.30%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.20%) QA
2 20 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.08%) WCAG
4 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.78%) 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 (23.44%) Docker
2 7 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (20.05%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.39%) Grafana
3 8 (2.08%) Argo
4 4 (1.04%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.78%) 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 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.86%) Databricks
2 11 (2.86%) Oracle
3 8 (2.08%) Google
3 8 (2.08%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.30%) IBM
4 5 (1.30%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.30%) Splunk
5 4 (1.04%) Veracode
6 3 (0.78%) Foundry
6 3 (0.78%) NEC
6 3 (0.78%) webMethods
7 2 (0.52%) Brio
7 2 (0.52%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.52%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.26%) Confluent
8 1 (0.26%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.26%) Workday