Full-Stack Development Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 98 90
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,062 751 1,036
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.32% 2.57% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.84% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 558 839
10th Percentile £363 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -7.96%
75th Percentile £624 £624 £675
90th Percentile £750 £706 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £473 £461
% change year-on-year +0.53% +2.49% -7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 12
10th Percentile £35.00 £43.28 £31.87
25th Percentile £55.23 £43.31 £54.06
Median hourly rate £72.50 £44.75 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +62.01% -30.89% +17.73%
75th Percentile £81.00 £46.31 £75.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £46.43 £79.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +24.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Full-Stack Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,137 26,475 37,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.32% 90.62% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,793 17,183 24,611
10th Percentile £315 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,000 2,387
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.28 £70.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £29.23 £33.07
% change year-on-year +25.59% -11.60% -7.64%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Full-Stack Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Full-Stack Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Full-Stack Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Full-Stack Development over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 10 April 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 -4 916 £520 -0.95% 848
London -12 517 £550 +1.85% 329
UK excluding London +19 400 £475 +0.53% 635
Work from Home -26 291 £525 +10.53% 458
North of England +10 166 £472 +1.40% 161
North West +16 83 £455 -4.21% 83
Yorkshire -8 69 £500 - 54
South East -47 62 £550 +3.53% 175
Midlands -34 54 £450 -2.70% 86
South West +9 51 £500 +9.77% 100
West Midlands -38 45 £450 -3.74% 43
Scotland +12 39 £425 -3.63% 34
East of England -13 28 £500 +42.86% 63
North East -8 16 £475 +3.26% 24
East Midlands -28 9 £450 +0.90% 43
Northern Ireland -3 3 - - 5

Full-Stack Development
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 27 (2.54%) Confluence
2 11 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.04%) CMS
3 7 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.47%) SAS
6 4 (0.38%) Apache
6 4 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.38%) Mendix
7 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.28%) IIS
7 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.19%) Camunda
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.094%) Appian
9 1 (0.094%) Kentico
9 1 (0.094%) nginx
9 1 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.094%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.28%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.094%) Actimize
3 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.094%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 439 (41.34%) AWS
2 284 (26.74%) Azure
3 147 (13.84%) GitHub
4 107 (10.08%) Serverless
5 89 (8.38%) GCP
6 79 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
7 66 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
8 62 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (3.77%) Amazon S3
10 27 (2.54%) OpenShift
11 25 (2.35%) Power Platform
12 19 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (1.69%) Azure Functions
14 17 (1.60%) SaaS
15 15 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (1.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 15 (1.41%) Figma
16 14 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.04%) SSL
2 10 (0.94%) Firewall
3 7 (0.66%) VPN
4 5 (0.47%) HTTP
4 5 (0.47%) VSAN
5 4 (0.38%) DNS
5 4 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.28%) LAN
6 3 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.28%) WAN
7 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.19%) DHCP
7 2 (0.19%) DWDM
7 2 (0.19%) Network Security
8 1 (0.094%) RTMP
8 1 (0.094%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (13.37%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (8.10%) NoSQL
3 62 (5.84%) MongoDB
4 56 (5.27%) SQL Server
5 49 (4.61%) Relational Database
6 41 (3.86%) MySQL
7 33 (3.11%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.98%) Power BI
10 17 (1.60%) Redis
11 11 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.04%) DocumentDB
12 8 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.56%) Metadata
13 6 (0.56%) Neo4j
13 6 (0.56%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.47%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 135 (12.71%) Git
2 77 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 55 (5.18%) GitLab
4 39 (3.67%) JIRA
4 39 (3.67%) JUnit
5 24 (2.26%) Cypress.io
6 21 (1.98%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.13%) Mocha
7 12 (1.13%) Mockito
8 11 (1.04%) Jasmine
8 11 (1.04%) JMeter
8 11 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (0.85%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.85%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.85%) Jaeger
9 9 (0.85%) webpack
10 8 (0.75%) NUnit
11 7 (0.66%) Gradle
11 7 (0.66%) Maven
11 7 (0.66%) MLflow
General
1 214 (20.15%) Finance
2 144 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 115 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 73 (6.87%) Banking
5 51 (4.80%) Front Office
6 47 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 21 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 8 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.56%) Retail
13 5 (0.47%) Law
13 5 (0.47%) Legal
14 4 (0.38%) Aviation
14 4 (0.38%) Electronics
14 4 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.38%) Marketing
14 4 (0.38%) Military
15 3 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 600 (56.50%) Developer
2 437 (41.15%) Full-Stack Developer
3 236 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 174 (16.38%) Senior
5 122 (11.49%) Software Engineer
6 105 (9.89%) Java Developer
7 79 (7.44%) Lead
8 69 (6.50%) Senior Developer
9 63 (5.93%) Python Developer
10 58 (5.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 58 (5.46%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 56 (5.27%) React Developer
12 53 (4.99%) Java Engineer
13 45 (4.24%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 44 (4.14%) Software Developer
15 43 (4.05%) .NET Developer
15 43 (4.05%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 42 (3.95%) Lead Developer
17 31 (2.92%) Senior Software Engineer
18 28 (2.64%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (43.22%) React
2 258 (24.29%) Node.js
3 196 (18.46%) AngularJS
4 189 (17.80%) Spring
5 175 (16.48%) Spring Boot
6 155 (14.60%) .NET
7 149 (14.03%) RESTful
8 121 (11.39%) REST
9 120 (11.30%) Kafka
10 109 (10.26%) HTML
11 108 (10.17%) CSS
12 83 (7.82%) Next.js
13 74 (6.97%) GraphQL
14 64 (6.03%) Vue
15 62 (5.84%) Redux
16 59 (5.56%) Jest
17 55 (5.18%) FastAPI
18 44 (4.14%) Flask
19 39 (3.67%) YAML
20 38 (3.58%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 119 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 44 (4.14%) Product Ownership
3 41 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 34 (3.20%) Fixed Income
6 30 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 24 (2.26%) Onboarding
9 23 (2.17%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.98%) Mobile App
11 20 (1.88%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.51%) Derivative
13 14 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.32%) NHS
14 12 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.75%) Management Information System
16 6 (0.56%) Equity Derivative
16 6 (0.56%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.11%) Linux
2 11 (1.04%) Windows
3 4 (0.38%) Unix
3 4 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.28%) Android
5 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (39.83%) CI/CD
2 385 (36.25%) Agile
3 260 (24.48%) DevOps
4 251 (23.63%) Microservices
5 218 (20.53%) Software Engineering
6 183 (17.23%) AI
7 181 (17.04%) Containerisation
8 142 (13.37%) Test Automation
9 140 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
10 101 (9.51%) Front End Development
11 99 (9.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 93 (8.76%) User Experience
13 84 (7.91%) Code Quality
14 80 (7.53%) Event-Driven
14 80 (7.53%) Mentoring
15 78 (7.34%) TDD
16 74 (6.97%) Machine Learning
16 74 (6.97%) Scrum
17 73 (6.87%) Observability
18 65 (6.12%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 366 (34.46%) Java
2 339 (31.92%) Python
3 327 (30.79%) TypeScript
4 271 (25.52%) JavaScript
5 213 (20.06%) SQL
6 125 (11.77%) C#
7 31 (2.92%) Go
8 14 (1.32%) Rust
9 12 (1.13%) C++
10 11 (1.04%) Kotlin
11 9 (0.85%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.75%) Ruby
13 5 (0.47%) Bash
13 5 (0.47%) Bicep
13 5 (0.47%) PHP
13 5 (0.47%) R
14 4 (0.38%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.28%) RPG
15 3 (0.28%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 213 (20.06%) Security Cleared
2 182 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.52%) Degree
4 21 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.60%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (0.85%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.47%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.19%) CCNA
11 2 (0.19%) CCNP
11 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.19%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.19%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.094%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.094%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.21%) Accessibility
2 51 (4.80%) QA
3 24 (2.26%) WCAG
4 6 (0.56%) HL7
5 4 (0.38%) GDPR
6 2 (0.19%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.094%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.094%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.094%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 247 (23.26%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
2 5 (0.47%) vSphere
3 4 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.28%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.094%) etcd
6 1 (0.094%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 203 (19.11%) Kubernetes
2 107 (10.08%) Terraform
3 34 (3.20%) Grafana
4 30 (2.82%) Prometheus
5 29 (2.73%) Ansible
6 9 (0.85%) Kiali
6 9 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.56%) Argo
7 6 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.28%) Nagios
9 3 (0.28%) Podman
10 1 (0.094%) Consul
10 1 (0.094%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.094%) vRealize
10 1 (0.094%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 81 (7.63%) Microsoft
2 35 (3.30%) Oracle
3 23 (2.17%) OpenAI
4 21 (1.98%) Splunk
5 20 (1.88%) Google
6 17 (1.60%) VMware
7 16 (1.51%) Adobe
8 14 (1.32%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.13%) Databricks
10 9 (0.85%) Cisco
10 9 (0.85%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.66%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.66%) SAP
11 7 (0.66%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.66%) Solace
12 4 (0.38%) Brio
12 4 (0.38%) Netlify
12 4 (0.38%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.28%) Foundry
13 3 (0.28%) NEC
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