Full Stack Developer Contracts

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
17 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 210 188
Rank change year-on-year +38 -22 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 592 736 1,339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.29% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.37% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 559 1,010
10th Percentile £325 £406 £406
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £788 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £52.00 £45.75 £39.03
25th Percentile £53.13 £46.88 £50.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £73.60
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -32.06% +33.81%
75th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £75.73
90th Percentile £64.60 £56.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £76.10
% change year-on-year -2.27% -27.72% +90.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,532 53,805 83,473
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,714 37,580 58,666
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,503 2,037
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.30 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer.

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Top 15 Contract 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 May 2024. 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 +39 510 £530 -3.64% 221
London +31 333 £560 -5.49% 97
Work from Home +33 229 £540 +6.30% 142
UK excluding London +36 181 £438 -2.78% 130
South East +29 56 £565 +1.57% 18
South West -5 34 £381 -15.28% 27
North of England -1 32 £450 -14.29% 35
Wales +30 18 £438 +2.94% 6
Midlands +25 18 £350 -18.84% 30
North West -7 17 £456 -13.10% 29
Yorkshire +11 15 £400 -17.95% 3
Scotland +28 13 £500 +5.37% 8
West Midlands +26 11 £325 -27.78% 16
East of England +15 10 £375 -16.67% 9
East Midlands +7 7 £410 -3.53% 14

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Full Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 592 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 306 (51.69%) React
3 223 (37.67%) AWS
4 219 (36.99%) Agile
5 217 (36.66%) JavaScript
6 181 (30.57%) Azure
7 171 (28.89%) TypeScript
8 161 (27.20%) Java
9 159 (26.86%) C#
9 159 (26.86%) AngularJS
10 146 (24.66%) Python
11 141 (23.82%) .NET
12 133 (22.47%) CSS
13 129 (21.79%) HTML
14 117 (19.76%) SQL
15 114 (19.26%) CI/CD
16 112 (18.92%) Finance
17 105 (17.74%) Node.js
18 103 (17.40%) DevOps
19 100 (16.89%) Security Cleared
20 99 (16.72%) Microservices
21 89 (15.03%) Software Engineering
22 84 (14.19%) SC Cleared
22 84 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
23 77 (13.01%) Social Skills
24 73 (12.33%) Front Office
25 72 (12.16%) Git
26 69 (11.66%) Test Automation
27 63 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
27 63 (10.64%) REST

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 52 (8.78%) Apache
2 31 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.38%) nginx
4 13 (2.20%) CMS
5 8 (1.35%) BizTalk Server
6 7 (1.18%) Drupal
7 5 (0.84%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.68%) Confluence
9 3 (0.51%) JBoss
9 3 (0.51%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.34%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.34%) Camunda
10 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.34%) WildFly
11 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Sketch
2 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 223 (37.67%) AWS
2 181 (30.57%) Azure
3 51 (8.61%) GCP
4 50 (8.45%) Serverless
5 35 (5.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 34 (5.74%) Azure Functions
7 26 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (3.72%) GitHub
11 20 (3.38%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 20 (3.38%) Entra ID
12 14 (2.36%) npm
13 12 (2.03%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (1.52%) Amazon S3
15 9 (1.52%) Azure Storage
16 8 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.68%) HTTP
2 3 (0.51%) Firewall
2 3 (0.51%) VPN
3 1 (0.17%) DHCP
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (9.46%) NoSQL
3 52 (8.78%) MongoDB
4 49 (8.28%) SQL Server
5 38 (6.42%) MySQL
6 31 (5.24%) Apache Ignite
7 26 (4.39%) Relational Database
8 15 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.03%) Flink
10 7 (1.18%) Redis
11 5 (0.84%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.84%) Power BI
12 4 (0.68%) GIS
12 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.51%) Big Data
14 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.34%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 72 (12.16%) Git
2 42 (7.09%) Cypress.io
3 23 (3.89%) JIRA
4 19 (3.21%) Selenium
5 16 (2.70%) Jenkins
6 14 (2.36%) GitLab
7 13 (2.20%) webpack
8 8 (1.35%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.18%) Postman
10 5 (0.84%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.84%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.84%) JUnit
10 5 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.84%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.84%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.51%) Mocha
12 3 (0.51%) NUnit
12 3 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 112 (18.92%) Finance
2 77 (13.01%) Social Skills
3 73 (12.33%) Front Office
4 63 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (9.63%) Banking
6 45 (7.60%) Public Sector
7 12 (2.03%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.52%) Marketing
9 5 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.68%) Back Office
10 4 (0.68%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.51%) Automotive
11 3 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.51%) Law
11 3 (0.51%) Music Industry
11 3 (0.51%) Retail
12 2 (0.34%) Military
12 2 (0.34%) Publishing
12 2 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (51.69%) React
2 159 (26.86%) AngularJS
3 141 (23.82%) .NET
4 133 (22.47%) CSS
5 129 (21.79%) HTML
6 105 (17.74%) Node.js
7 63 (10.64%) REST
8 57 (9.63%) Redux
8 57 (9.63%) Spring
9 41 (6.93%) GraphQL
10 39 (6.59%) ASP.NET
10 39 (6.59%) Laravel
10 39 (6.59%) Material-UI
11 38 (6.42%) .NET Core
12 37 (6.25%) Vue
13 36 (6.08%) Sass
13 36 (6.08%) Spring Boot
14 33 (5.57%) Next.js
15 32 (5.41%) gRPC
15 32 (5.41%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.43%) Fixed Income
2 40 (6.76%) Hedge funds
3 31 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (2.53%) Equities
6 12 (2.03%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.69%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.34%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.34%) Marketing Technology
13 2 (0.34%) NHS
13 2 (0.34%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 33 (5.57%) Linux
2 24 (4.05%) Unix
3 13 (2.20%) Windows
4 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.84%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 219 (36.99%) Agile
3 114 (19.26%) CI/CD
4 103 (17.40%) DevOps
5 99 (16.72%) Microservices
6 89 (15.03%) Software Engineering
7 69 (11.66%) Test Automation
8 63 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (9.97%) TDD
10 58 (9.80%) SDLC
11 52 (8.78%) Unit Testing
12 47 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (7.60%) Asset Management
13 45 (7.60%) Web Development
14 44 (7.43%) Front End Development
15 41 (6.93%) Machine Learning
15 41 (6.93%) MVC
16 39 (6.59%) Investment Management
17 38 (6.42%) Artificial Intelligence
17 38 (6.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 217 (36.66%) JavaScript
2 171 (28.89%) TypeScript
3 161 (27.20%) Java
4 159 (26.86%) C#
5 146 (24.66%) Python
6 117 (19.76%) SQL
7 56 (9.46%) PHP
8 22 (3.72%) C
9 19 (3.21%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.70%) Go
11 12 (2.03%) Ruby
12 11 (1.86%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.69%) C++
13 10 (1.69%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.01%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.84%) Bicep
16 2 (0.34%) Bash
16 2 (0.34%) Rust
16 2 (0.34%) Swift
17 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 100 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 84 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.74%) Degree
4 12 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.07%) QA
2 23 (3.89%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.68%) MiFID
4 3 (0.51%) SLA
5 2 (0.34%) WCAG
6 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 52 (8.78%) Docker
2 22 (3.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.24%) Terraform
3 7 (1.18%) Ansible
4 4 (0.68%) Grafana
5 3 (0.51%) Kibana
6 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) logstash
7 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.08%) Google
3 21 (3.55%) Oracle
4 10 (1.69%) Databricks
5 8 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 6 (1.01%) Xamarin
7 4 (0.68%) Optimizely
7 4 (0.68%) Virgin Media
8 3 (0.51%) Splunk
9 2 (0.34%) IBM
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.34%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.34%) SAP
10 1 (0.17%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.17%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.17%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.17%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.17%) Sybase
10 1 (0.17%) VMware
10 1 (0.17%) Zuora
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