Full-Stack Development Contracts

Full-Stack Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Full-Stack Development over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 91 92
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -20
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 746 1,048 1,576
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.55% 2.40% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 2.79% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 852 1,178
10th Percentile £363 £325 £400
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £624 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £470 £491
% change year-on-year -0.05% -4.18% +3.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 4
10th Percentile - £51.25 £38.00
25th Percentile £43.25 £58.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £67.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.58% +34.00% -23.69%
75th Percentile £45.75 £76.25 £57.81
90th Percentile - £80.00 £58.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +24.44% -14.12%

All Process and 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 17 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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 -18 597 £515 -6.36% 1,209
London -14 388 £550 -4.35% 613
Work from Home +1 307 £478 -6.83% 894
UK excluding London -26 215 £470 -0.05% 661
North of England +15 72 £463 -9.76% 217
South East +4 53 £550 +22.22% 129
North West +6 42 £456 -8.75% 147
Scotland -7 37 £475 +1.01% 51
Midlands +4 28 £463 +23.33% 112
Yorkshire +4 24 £466 -11.24% 50
West Midlands +3 20 £468 +33.57% 64
South West +1 12 £456 -4.11% 76
East Midlands +3 8 £446 +8.78% 47
East of England +15 7 £413 -13.88% 67
North East +4 7 £460 - 20
Wales -13 5 £425 -2.86% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 £504 - 7

Full-Stack Development
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 13 (1.74%) SAS
2 11 (1.47%) Confluence
3 10 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.34%) CMS
4 9 (1.21%) Camunda
4 9 (1.21%) nginx
5 6 (0.80%) Apache
5 6 (0.80%) BizTalk Server
5 6 (0.80%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.27%) Drupal
8 2 (0.27%) JBoss
8 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.13%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) Strapi
Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.40%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.27%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) FLEXCUBE
1 5 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 296 (39.68%) AWS
2 186 (24.93%) Azure
3 88 (11.80%) Serverless
4 59 (7.91%) GCP
5 49 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
6 44 (5.90%) Amazon S3
7 41 (5.50%) GitHub
8 38 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (4.29%) Azure Functions
10 25 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (3.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 21 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (2.14%) Azure AKS
13 16 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (2.01%) SaaS
15 14 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (1.88%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.14%) Firewall
2 13 (1.74%) HTTP
3 10 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.80%) DNS
5 5 (0.67%) LAN
5 5 (0.67%) Network Security
5 5 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (0.67%) VPN
5 5 (0.67%) WAN
6 4 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (0.54%) DWDM
7 1 (0.13%) ATM
7 1 (0.13%) Internet
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) POP3
7 1 (0.13%) SMTP
7 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (14.48%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (9.25%) MongoDB
3 49 (6.57%) MySQL
3 49 (6.57%) NoSQL
4 41 (5.50%) Relational Database
4 41 (5.50%) SQL Server
5 36 (4.83%) DynamoDB
6 22 (2.95%) Redis
7 15 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (1.88%) Oracle Database
9 13 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (1.21%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (1.07%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.07%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.80%) Power BI
13 6 (0.80%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.67%) Parquet
14 5 (0.67%) Presto
Development Applications
1 135 (18.10%) Git
2 44 (5.90%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.69%) GitLab
4 23 (3.08%) JIRA
5 19 (2.55%) JUnit
6 17 (2.28%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.14%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.88%) Maven
8 14 (1.88%) Selenium
9 13 (1.74%) webpack
10 12 (1.61%) Postman
10 12 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
11 11 (1.47%) TeamCity
12 10 (1.34%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.21%) Mockito
14 8 (1.07%) Gradle
15 7 (0.94%) gulp
15 7 (0.94%) Visual Studio
16 6 (0.80%) Artifactory
General
1 119 (15.95%) Finance
2 108 (14.48%) Social Skills
3 73 (9.79%) Public Sector
4 63 (8.45%) Banking
5 44 (5.90%) Front Office
6 42 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (4.29%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.07%) Military
10 8 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.94%) Marketing
12 6 (0.80%) Publishing
12 6 (0.80%) Retail
13 4 (0.54%) Advertising
13 4 (0.54%) Back Office
13 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.40%) Automotive
14 3 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 530 (71.05%) Developer
2 370 (49.60%) Full-Stack Developer
3 97 (13.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 77 (10.32%) Senior
5 76 (10.19%) Java Developer
6 74 (9.92%) React Developer
7 62 (8.31%) Lead
8 60 (8.04%) Senior Developer
9 56 (7.51%) .NET Developer
10 55 (7.37%) Software Engineer
11 53 (7.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 47 (6.30%) Python Developer
13 46 (6.17%) Software Developer
14 39 (5.23%) Lead Developer
15 37 (4.96%) Full-Stack Python Developer
16 30 (4.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 29 (3.89%) C# Developer
18 28 (3.75%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 27 (3.62%) Azure Developer
19 27 (3.62%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (45.44%) React
2 164 (21.98%) Node.js
3 161 (21.58%) .NET
4 159 (21.31%) AngularJS
5 140 (18.77%) CSS
6 133 (17.83%) HTML
7 95 (12.73%) RESTful
8 80 (10.72%) Spring
9 68 (9.12%) Spring Boot
10 63 (8.45%) Vue
11 58 (7.77%) Kafka
11 58 (7.77%) REST
12 52 (6.97%) .NET Core
13 40 (5.36%) Next.js
14 39 (5.23%) ASP.NET
15 38 (5.09%) HTML5
16 37 (4.96%) GraphQL
17 35 (4.69%) FastAPI
18 34 (4.56%) Redux
19 32 (4.29%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (3.75%) Mobile App
4 20 (2.68%) Derivative
5 19 (2.55%) Hedge funds
5 19 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.14%) Fixed Income
6 16 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.34%) Equities
11 9 (1.21%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (0.94%) PKI
13 7 (0.94%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.22%) Linux
2 17 (2.28%) Windows
3 5 (0.67%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Android
4 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) VMS
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (34.85%) Agile
2 234 (31.37%) CI/CD
3 190 (25.47%) DevOps
4 173 (23.19%) Microservices
5 145 (19.44%) Software Engineering
6 131 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (12.60%) Front End Development
8 87 (11.66%) Containerisation
9 81 (10.86%) TDD
10 70 (9.38%) Test Automation
11 66 (8.85%) Artificial Intelligence
12 62 (8.31%) API Development
13 61 (8.18%) Code Quality
14 58 (7.77%) User Experience
15 55 (7.37%) Event-Driven
15 55 (7.37%) Web Development
16 53 (7.10%) Scrum
16 53 (7.10%) Unit Testing
17 48 (6.43%) Analytics
18 44 (5.90%) OO
Programming Languages
1 273 (36.60%) JavaScript
2 257 (34.45%) Python
3 231 (30.97%) Java
4 224 (30.03%) TypeScript
5 126 (16.89%) SQL
6 118 (15.82%) C#
7 31 (4.16%) PHP
8 24 (3.22%) Kotlin
9 17 (2.28%) Go
10 16 (2.14%) Ruby
11 14 (1.88%) C++
11 14 (1.88%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.61%) Scala
13 9 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.21%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.07%) Bash
15 7 (0.94%) Bicep
16 6 (0.80%) PowerShell
17 5 (0.67%) ABAP
17 5 (0.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 134 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 117 (15.68%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.63%) Degree
4 27 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 6 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.54%) CCNA
8 4 (0.54%) CCNP
8 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.54%) JNCIA
8 4 (0.54%) JNCIS
8 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.13%) CCDE
9 1 (0.13%) CISA
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.75%) QA
2 22 (2.95%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.94%) WCAG
4 2 (0.27%) EMIR
4 2 (0.27%) MiFID
4 2 (0.27%) PMO
5 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 132 (17.69%) Docker
2 14 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 150 (20.11%) Kubernetes
2 79 (10.59%) Terraform
3 15 (2.01%) Grafana
4 14 (1.88%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.61%) Ansible
6 6 (0.80%) Kibana
7 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.27%) Istio
9 1 (0.13%) Avamar
9 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.13%) MIIS
9 1 (0.13%) vRealize
9 1 (0.13%) VxRail
9 1 (0.13%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 58 (7.77%) Oracle
2 51 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 28 (3.75%) Google
4 15 (2.01%) Atlassian
5 12 (1.61%) SAP
5 12 (1.61%) Virgin Media
6 10 (1.34%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.07%) Databricks
8 8 (1.07%) Splunk
9 7 (0.94%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.80%) Adobe
11 4 (0.54%) Arista
11 4 (0.54%) Cisco
11 4 (0.54%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.54%) Zend
12 3 (0.40%) SendGrid
13 2 (0.27%) IBM
13 2 (0.27%) Murex
13 2 (0.27%) Sitecore