Full Stack Development Contracts

Full-Stack Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Full Stack Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Full Stack Development over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 94 71
Rank change year-on-year +6 -23 -10
Contract jobs citing Full Stack Development 1,057 1,490 2,943
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.48% 2.62% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.92% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 1,114 2,275
10th Percentile £325 £400 £413
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -0.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £675
90th Percentile £781 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.25% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 24
10th Percentile £41.80 £38.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £54.06 £42.50 £50.94
Median hourly rate £64.75 £50.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +29.50% -23.71% +19.16%
75th Percentile £75.63 £57.81 £75.51
90th Percentile £79.75 £58.38 £77.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £56.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +24.44% -25.00% +36.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Full Stack Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

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 17 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Top 16 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 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 +4 916 £550 -4.35% 929
London +9 582 £575 -4.17% 401
Work from Home -1 406 £525 -4.55% 769
UK excluding London +24 365 £464 -7.25% 569
South East +30 92 £450 -18.18% 104
North of England -23 79 £500 -6.98% 169
South West -12 54 £450 - 98
Midlands +43 50 £386 -18.68% 104
Scotland +28 45 £492 +3.53% 34
North West -13 44 £494 -5.95% 106
West Midlands +39 34 £350 -36.36% 59
Yorkshire +1 32 £513 -2.38% 40
East of England +17 24 £479 +12.71% 49
Wales +26 23 £438 +4.48% 15
East Midlands +11 15 £410 -4.93% 45
North East -12 3 - - 26

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 89 (8.42%) Apache
2 68 (6.43%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.18%) CMS
3 23 (2.18%) nginx
4 12 (1.14%) Confluence
5 10 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
5 10 (0.95%) Drupal
5 10 (0.95%) WordPress
6 7 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.66%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.47%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.19%) Camunda
9 2 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.095%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.095%) Simulink
2 1 (0.095%) Sketch
2 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.095%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 426 (40.30%) AWS
2 327 (30.94%) Azure
3 129 (12.20%) GCP
4 100 (9.46%) Serverless
5 61 (5.77%) GitHub
6 55 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (4.82%) Azure Functions
8 46 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (4.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 31 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
11 29 (2.74%) Amazon S3
12 25 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (2.37%) SaaS
13 23 (2.18%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 22 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (1.99%) npm
16 20 (1.89%) Entra ID
17 17 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
18 16 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
19 14 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.89%) VPN
2 16 (1.51%) Firewall
3 6 (0.57%) DNS
3 6 (0.57%) HTTP
4 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) DHCP
5 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.095%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.095%) DWDM
6 1 (0.095%) FTP
6 1 (0.095%) Internet
6 1 (0.095%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.095%) LAN
6 1 (0.095%) LTE
6 1 (0.095%) Network Security
6 1 (0.095%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.095%) SSH
6 1 (0.095%) VLAN
6 1 (0.095%) WAN
6 1 (0.095%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (14.57%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (7.66%) NoSQL
3 75 (7.10%) SQL Server
4 71 (6.72%) MongoDB
5 68 (6.43%) Apache Ignite
6 66 (6.24%) MySQL
7 44 (4.16%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (1.42%) Redis
10 14 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.32%) Flink
10 14 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.95%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.76%) Power BI
13 7 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
13 7 (0.66%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.57%) GIS
15 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 105 (9.93%) Git
2 80 (7.57%) Cypress.io
3 39 (3.69%) JIRA
4 38 (3.60%) GitLab
5 37 (3.50%) Jenkins
6 33 (3.12%) webpack
7 21 (1.99%) Selenium
8 18 (1.70%) JUnit
9 14 (1.32%) CircleCI
10 11 (1.04%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.95%) Postman
12 9 (0.85%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.76%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.76%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.66%) Mockito
15 6 (0.57%) Maven
15 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.47%) Gradle
16 5 (0.47%) Jasmine
16 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 245 (23.18%) Finance
2 143 (13.53%) Social Skills
3 142 (13.43%) Front Office
4 116 (10.97%) Banking
5 92 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (6.15%) Public Sector
7 29 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.08%) Marketing
9 16 (1.51%) Tech for Good
10 13 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.95%) Retail
13 8 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.66%) Automotive
15 6 (0.57%) Games
16 5 (0.47%) Aviation
16 5 (0.47%) Back Office
16 5 (0.47%) Billing
17 4 (0.38%) Music Industry
17 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 827 (78.24%) Developer
2 592 (56.01%) Full Stack Developer
3 174 (16.46%) React Developer
4 155 (14.66%) Software Engineer
5 141 (13.34%) Full Stack Engineer
6 119 (11.26%) .NET Developer
7 100 (9.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 95 (8.99%) Python Developer
9 86 (8.14%) Java Developer
10 83 (7.85%) Senior
11 76 (7.19%) Python Engineer
12 74 (7.00%) C# Developer
13 67 (6.34%) Python Software Engineer
14 66 (6.24%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 64 (6.05%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 62 (5.87%) Full Stack .NET Developer
17 60 (5.68%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 58 (5.49%) Angular Developer
19 54 (5.11%) Full Stack Python Developer
19 54 (5.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (50.43%) React
2 243 (22.99%) AngularJS
3 229 (21.67%) .NET
4 224 (21.19%) CSS
5 216 (20.44%) HTML
6 201 (19.02%) Node.js
7 135 (12.77%) Redux
8 95 (8.99%) REST
9 85 (8.04%) Spring
10 76 (7.19%) Vue
11 73 (6.91%) .NET Core
12 71 (6.72%) GraphQL
13 69 (6.53%) gRPC
13 69 (6.53%) Material-UI
13 69 (6.53%) Protocol Buffers
14 63 (5.96%) Spring Boot
15 61 (5.77%) ASP.NET
16 58 (5.49%) Laravel
17 51 (4.82%) RESTful
18 48 (4.54%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 105 (9.93%) Fixed Income
2 101 (9.56%) Hedge funds
3 53 (5.01%) Equities
4 48 (4.54%) Product Ownership
5 46 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
6 29 (2.74%) Derivative
7 28 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 24 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.08%) Cloud Native
10 21 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.32%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.23%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.95%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.85%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
17 5 (0.47%) Marketing Technology
17 5 (0.47%) Onboarding
17 5 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (5.77%) Linux
2 35 (3.31%) Unix
3 20 (1.89%) Windows
4 15 (1.42%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.95%) Android
6 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.095%) AIX
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (39.83%) Agile
2 277 (26.21%) Software Engineering
3 231 (21.85%) CI/CD
4 216 (20.44%) DevOps
5 156 (14.76%) Microservices
6 132 (12.49%) TDD
7 126 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
8 122 (11.54%) Test Automation
9 107 (10.12%) Asset Management
10 99 (9.37%) Investment Management
11 94 (8.89%) Machine Learning
12 93 (8.80%) SDLC
13 88 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
14 84 (7.95%) Front End Development
15 73 (6.91%) Web Development
16 67 (6.34%) Unit Testing
17 66 (6.24%) User Experience
18 63 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
19 61 (5.77%) Automated Trading
20 57 (5.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 386 (36.52%) JavaScript
2 351 (33.21%) TypeScript
3 275 (26.02%) Java
4 266 (25.17%) Python
5 260 (24.60%) C#
6 222 (21.00%) SQL
7 79 (7.47%) PHP
8 33 (3.12%) C
8 33 (3.12%) Go
9 29 (2.74%) Kotlin
10 28 (2.65%) C++
11 25 (2.37%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.51%) Ruby
13 14 (1.32%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.14%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.95%) PowerShell
16 9 (0.85%) Bash
17 7 (0.66%) Scala
18 6 (0.57%) Bicep
19 5 (0.47%) ProC
Qualifications
1 132 (12.49%) Security Cleared
2 110 (10.41%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.20%) Degree
4 27 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.19%) OCP
11 1 (0.095%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.095%) CCNA
11 1 (0.095%) CCNP
11 1 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.095%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.095%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.095%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.76%) QA
2 44 (4.16%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.66%) WCAG
4 6 (0.57%) MiFID
5 3 (0.28%) SLA
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.095%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.095%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.095%) GDPR
7 1 (0.095%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.095%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.095%) MISRA
7 1 (0.095%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.095%) NCSC
7 1 (0.095%) NIST
7 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (8.61%) Docker
2 23 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 112 (10.60%) Kubernetes
2 53 (5.01%) Terraform
3 14 (1.32%) Grafana
4 10 (0.95%) Ansible
5 5 (0.47%) Kibana
5 5 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.095%) Istio
7 1 (0.095%) logstash
7 1 (0.095%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.095%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (7.19%) Google
2 66 (6.24%) Microsoft
3 45 (4.26%) Oracle
4 12 (1.14%) Databricks
5 10 (0.95%) MuleSoft
6 8 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 6 (0.57%) Xamarin
8 5 (0.47%) Optimizely
9 4 (0.38%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.38%) Virgin Media
9 4 (0.38%) VMware
10 3 (0.28%) Confluent
10 3 (0.28%) IBM
10 3 (0.28%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.28%) SAP
10 3 (0.28%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.28%) Splunk
10 3 (0.28%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.095%) Arista
11 1 (0.095%) Mapbox