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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 217 199
Rank change year-on-year -94 -18 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 425 394 508
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 1.19% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.30% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 296 392
10th Percentile £364 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £577 £650
90th Percentile £650 £690 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £455
% change year-on-year -1.04% +5.49% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile - £62.80 £56.20
25th Percentile - £64.38 £58.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £64.00
90th Percentile £60.00 - £65.80
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 49,618 30,282 36,100
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 91.38% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,853 19,212 23,341
10th Percentile £329 £283 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,461 1,511 2,024
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.28 £20.30
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.65 £25.13 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.72% -44.16% +23.29%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -85 350 £500 - 117
London -70 197 £520 +4.05% 33
UK excluding London -50 163 £475 -1.04% 102
Work from Home -104 119 £500 -2.91% 71
North of England -58 47 £500 +3.36% 22
South East -47 41 £525 -4.55% 25
South West -29 24 £525 -4.55% 22
Scotland -10 23 £403 -10.56% 9
Yorkshire -28 23 £575 +17.95% 14
Midlands -45 22 £425 +5.72% 19
West Midlands -36 20 £425 -17.48% 11
North West -48 16 £478 +19.44% 8
North East -43 8 £450 -8.16%
East of England -28 4 £350 -26.32% 3
Northern Ireland +6 2 £375 +3.09% 2
East Midlands -17 2 £425 +5.99% 8

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

For the 6 months to 9 August 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.

1 425 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 204 (48.00%) React
3 198 (46.59%) CI/CD
4 164 (38.59%) TypeScript
5 159 (37.41%) Agile
6 149 (35.06%) AWS
6 149 (35.06%) JavaScript
7 140 (32.94%) Python
8 129 (30.35%) Azure
9 118 (27.76%) Node.js
10 115 (27.06%) Java
10 115 (27.06%) SQL
11 104 (24.47%) DevOps
12 97 (22.82%) Docker
13 96 (22.59%) REST
14 95 (22.35%) Microservices
15 87 (20.47%) Security Cleared
16 84 (19.76%) RESTful
17 79 (18.59%) .NET
18 73 (17.18%) PostgreSQL
18 73 (17.18%) Test Automation
19 72 (16.94%) AngularJS
19 72 (16.94%) C#
19 72 (16.94%) SC Cleared
20 71 (16.71%) Git
21 68 (16.00%) Kubernetes
22 62 (14.59%) Containerisation
23 60 (14.12%) Spring
24 58 (13.65%) Serverless
25 56 (13.18%) 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 18 (4.24%) Confluence
2 4 (0.94%) Camunda
2 4 (0.94%) CMS
2 4 (0.94%) nginx
3 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 149 (35.06%) AWS
2 129 (30.35%) Azure
3 58 (13.65%) Serverless
4 49 (11.53%) GitHub
5 45 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (6.59%) GCP
8 27 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (4.47%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (3.76%) Entra ID
11 14 (3.29%) Anthropic Claude
12 13 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.06%) Azure AKS
13 12 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.59%) Azure Functions
15 10 (2.35%) Azure App Service
15 10 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (2.35%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (2.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.94%) HTTP
2 2 (0.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (17.18%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (10.12%) SQL Server
3 34 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 33 (7.76%) NoSQL
5 24 (5.65%) MongoDB
5 24 (5.65%) MySQL
6 21 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (3.76%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.35%) Redis
9 9 (2.12%) Power BI
10 5 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.18%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.71%) Metadata
11 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.71%) Parquet
11 3 (0.71%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 71 (16.71%) Git
2 35 (8.24%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.82%) GitLab
4 19 (4.47%) JIRA
5 13 (3.06%) JUnit
6 8 (1.88%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.88%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.65%) Mockito
8 6 (1.41%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.41%) Jasmine
8 6 (1.41%) Karma Test Runner
8 6 (1.41%) Maven
8 6 (1.41%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.18%) Mocha
9 5 (1.18%) NUnit
10 4 (0.94%) Gradle
10 4 (0.94%) JetBrains Rider
11 3 (0.71%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.71%) Postman
11 3 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 67 (15.76%) Finance
2 64 (15.06%) Public Sector
3 60 (14.12%) Social Skills
4 27 (6.35%) Banking
5 26 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.29%) Front Office
7 8 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.88%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.65%) Military
8 7 (1.65%) Retail
9 5 (1.18%) Advertising
10 4 (0.94%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.71%) Legal
11 3 (0.71%) Local Government
12 1 (0.24%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.24%) French Language
12 1 (0.24%) Law
12 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.24%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (48.00%) React
2 118 (27.76%) Node.js
3 96 (22.59%) REST
4 84 (19.76%) RESTful
5 79 (18.59%) .NET
6 72 (16.94%) AngularJS
7 60 (14.12%) Spring
8 56 (13.18%) Spring Boot
9 51 (12.00%) CSS
10 50 (11.76%) HTML
11 48 (11.29%) Vue
12 39 (9.18%) Kafka
13 31 (7.29%) .NET Core
14 30 (7.06%) .NET Framework
15 27 (6.35%) Next.js
15 27 (6.35%) OAuth
16 26 (6.12%) Flask
16 26 (6.12%) Jest
17 25 (5.88%) Django
18 24 (5.65%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 69 (16.24%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.82%) Fixed Income
6 11 (2.59%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.12%) NHS
8 8 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.94%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.71%) Derivative
12 3 (0.71%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.71%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.12%) Linux
2 4 (0.94%) Unix
3 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 198 (46.59%) CI/CD
3 159 (37.41%) Agile
4 104 (24.47%) DevOps
5 95 (22.35%) Microservices
6 73 (17.18%) Test Automation
7 62 (14.59%) Containerisation
8 55 (12.94%) Front End Development
9 54 (12.71%) AI
10 50 (11.76%) Software Engineering
11 49 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (10.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 40 (9.41%) Code Quality
14 38 (8.94%) Event-Driven
15 36 (8.47%) Mentoring
16 34 (8.00%) API Design
17 30 (7.06%) SDLC
18 28 (6.59%) Clean Code
18 28 (6.59%) Continuous Improvement
19 27 (6.35%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 164 (38.59%) TypeScript
2 149 (35.06%) JavaScript
3 140 (32.94%) Python
4 115 (27.06%) Java
4 115 (27.06%) SQL
5 72 (16.94%) C#
6 9 (2.12%) Go
7 7 (1.65%) Bicep
7 7 (1.65%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.41%) PHP
9 4 (0.94%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.71%) Bash
10 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.47%) Ruby
11 2 (0.47%) Scala
12 1 (0.24%) Groovy
12 1 (0.24%) Korn
12 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 87 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 72 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.94%) Degree
4 16 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.65%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.00%) QA
2 30 (7.06%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.35%) WCAG
4 4 (0.94%) HL7
5 3 (0.71%) GDPR
6 2 (0.47%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.47%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 97 (22.82%) Docker
2 9 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 50 (11.76%) Terraform
3 11 (2.59%) Grafana
4 7 (1.65%) Argo
5 5 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.94%) Ansible
6 4 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.47%) Kibana
8 1 (0.24%) Consul
8 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.24%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 40 (9.41%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.29%) Oracle
3 8 (1.88%) Google
4 7 (1.65%) Databricks
4 7 (1.65%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.94%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.71%) NEC
7 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.47%) Solace
7 2 (0.47%) Splunk
7 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.24%) Confluent
8 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.24%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.24%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.24%) IBM
8 1 (0.24%) SAP
8 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.24%) Veracode
8 1 (0.24%) Workday