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 9 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
9 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 249 189
Rank change year-on-year -86 -60 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 395 361 507
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.09% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.20% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 267 372
10th Percentile £385 £331 £363
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile - £62.80 £36.05
25th Percentile £35.00 £64.38 £36.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £67.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.84% +72.90% -48.33%
75th Percentile £64.25 - £40.63
90th Percentile £77.00 - £41.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £67.00 -
% change year-on-year -32.84% - -

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 50,176 30,117 35,319
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.07% 90.80% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,458 18,999 21,350
10th Percentile £325 £275 £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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,042 1,639 1,491
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £19.36 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £41.57
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -39.49% -6.60%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £68.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £25.00 £42.96
% change year-on-year +66.84% -41.80% -3.47%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -77 323 £500 - 313
London -74 192 £513 -1.44% 153
UK excluding London -70 143 £500 +11.11% 177
Work from Home -79 115 £478 -4.50% 167
South East -30 43 £500 +2.56% 31
North of England -56 42 £500 +24.22% 54
Scotland -29 25 £400 -11.11% 18
Yorkshire -22 22 £575 +17.95% 24
South West -23 19 £525 -4.55% 18
North West -54 15 £478 +19.50% 28
Midlands -48 10 £463 +15.63% 28
West Midlands -41 8 £475 +18.75% 20
North East -40 5 £450 -10.00% 3
East of England -38 3 £350 -28.21% 13
East Midlands -27 2 £425 -16.26% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £375 - 11

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

For the 6 months to 9 October 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.

1 395 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 194 (49.11%) React
3 191 (48.35%) CI/CD
4 152 (38.48%) Agile
4 152 (38.48%) TypeScript
5 145 (36.71%) AWS
6 144 (36.46%) JavaScript
7 128 (32.41%) Java
8 124 (31.39%) Python
9 123 (31.14%) SQL
10 118 (29.87%) Microservices
11 115 (29.11%) REST
12 114 (28.86%) Azure
13 100 (25.32%) DevOps
14 94 (23.80%) RESTful
15 93 (23.54%) Node.js
16 91 (23.04%) Docker
17 89 (22.53%) .NET
18 86 (21.77%) Test Automation
19 84 (21.27%) Kubernetes
20 82 (20.76%) Git
21 76 (19.24%) C#
22 75 (18.99%) AngularJS
23 70 (17.72%) Spring
24 67 (16.96%) CSS
24 67 (16.96%) HTML
24 67 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
24 67 (16.96%) Spring Boot
25 66 (16.71%) Security Cleared
26 64 (16.20%) Problem-Solving

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 (5.06%) Confluence
2 8 (2.03%) Camunda
3 5 (1.27%) Apache
3 5 (1.27%) nginx
4 4 (1.01%) CMS
4 4 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.51%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 145 (36.71%) AWS
2 114 (28.86%) Azure
3 56 (14.18%) GitHub
4 50 (12.66%) Serverless
5 35 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (7.85%) GCP
7 29 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.56%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.54%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (3.29%) Entra ID
11 13 (3.29%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.04%) Azure AKS
12 12 (3.04%) Azure App Service
12 12 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.78%) Anthropic Claude
14 10 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.76%) HTTP
2 2 (0.51%) Firewall
3 1 (0.25%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (15.19%) SQL Server
3 40 (10.13%) NoSQL
3 40 (10.13%) Relational Database
4 34 (8.61%) MySQL
5 29 (7.34%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (3.54%) DynamoDB
8 12 (3.04%) Redis
9 11 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.03%) Power BI
11 4 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.01%) Flink
12 3 (0.76%) Parquet
12 3 (0.76%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.51%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.51%) Neo4j
14 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.25%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 82 (20.76%) Git
2 42 (10.63%) Jenkins
3 40 (10.13%) GitLab
4 24 (6.08%) JIRA
5 21 (5.32%) JUnit
6 14 (3.54%) Maven
7 12 (3.04%) Mockito
8 11 (2.78%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.03%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.03%) Gradle
10 7 (1.77%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.52%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.27%) Mocha
12 5 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.27%) Visual Studio
13 4 (1.01%) JetBrains Rider
14 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.76%) Storybook
14 3 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 89 (22.53%) Finance
2 82 (20.76%) Social Skills
3 45 (11.39%) Banking
4 44 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.56%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.28%) Front Office
7 9 (2.28%) Retail
8 7 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.77%) Military
9 4 (1.01%) Advertising
9 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.76%) Back Office
10 3 (0.76%) Local Government
10 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.51%) Law
11 2 (0.51%) Legal
11 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.51%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (49.11%) React
2 115 (29.11%) REST
3 94 (23.80%) RESTful
4 93 (23.54%) Node.js
5 89 (22.53%) .NET
6 75 (18.99%) AngularJS
7 70 (17.72%) Spring
8 67 (16.96%) CSS
8 67 (16.96%) HTML
8 67 (16.96%) Spring Boot
9 50 (12.66%) Kafka
10 47 (11.90%) Terraform
11 41 (10.38%) Vue
12 33 (8.35%) .NET Core
13 31 (7.85%) OAuth
14 30 (7.59%) CSS3
14 30 (7.59%) HTML5
15 27 (6.84%) Flask
16 25 (6.33%) .NET Framework
17 23 (5.82%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 66 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (6.84%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.54%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.77%) NHS
8 6 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.27%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.01%) Derivative
10 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.76%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.76%) Life Science
11 3 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.80%) Linux
2 8 (2.03%) Unix
3 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 191 (48.35%) CI/CD
3 152 (38.48%) Agile
4 118 (29.87%) Microservices
5 100 (25.32%) DevOps
6 86 (21.77%) Test Automation
7 64 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (15.70%) Software Engineering
9 58 (14.68%) Front End Development
10 53 (13.42%) Containerisation
10 53 (13.42%) Event-Driven
11 50 (12.66%) AI
12 46 (11.65%) Code Quality
13 44 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (10.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 40 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (9.87%) Mentoring
17 38 (9.62%) Scrum
18 34 (8.61%) SDLC
19 31 (7.85%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 152 (38.48%) TypeScript
2 144 (36.46%) JavaScript
3 128 (32.41%) Java
4 124 (31.39%) Python
5 123 (31.14%) SQL
6 76 (19.24%) C#
7 10 (2.53%) PHP
8 7 (1.77%) Bicep
8 7 (1.77%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.52%) Bash
9 6 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.27%) Go
11 3 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.51%) Scala
13 1 (0.25%) Dart
13 1 (0.25%) PromQL
13 1 (0.25%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 66 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.08%) Degree
4 23 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.28%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.63%) QA
2 20 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.28%) WCAG
4 4 (1.01%) GDPR
4 4 (1.01%) HL7
5 3 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.51%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.51%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 91 (23.04%) Docker
2 8 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (21.27%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.29%) Grafana
3 8 (2.03%) Argo
4 5 (1.27%) Kibana
5 4 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.76%) Ansible
6 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Consul
7 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.25%) Istio
7 1 (0.25%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 42 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.78%) Google
3 10 (2.53%) Databricks
3 10 (2.53%) Oracle
4 7 (1.77%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.52%) IBM
6 5 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.27%) Splunk
6 5 (1.27%) Veracode
7 3 (0.76%) Brio
7 3 (0.76%) Foundry
7 3 (0.76%) NEC
7 3 (0.76%) webMethods
8 2 (0.51%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.51%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.25%) Confluent
9 1 (0.25%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.25%) Snow
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