Full-Stack Engineer Contract Job Trends

Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the UK is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 434 477
Rank change year-on-year +19 +43 +124
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 220 93 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.34% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 66 87
10th Percentile £350 £369 £375
25th Percentile £442 £426 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.14%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £706
90th Percentile £800 £663 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.47% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £49.80 £36.03 £62.75
25th Percentile £58.75 £36.44 £63.13
Median hourly rate £76.00 £37.75 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +101.32% -43.02% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £38.94 £71.88
90th Percentile - £39.28 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.50 - £70.00

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 39,673 27,289 41,313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.94% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,785 17,711 27,109
10th Percentile £313 £300 £272
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 884 2,499
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.98
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.04 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £33.00 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +0.32% -22.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £75.79 £77.41 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.70
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.60% -19.44%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
Top 14 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 March 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 +9 181 £523 -7.11% 139
London +12 114 £588 -4.08% 96
UK excluding London -51 68 £449 -8.47% 58
Work from Home -21 57 £513 +4.59% 89
North of England -41 34 £463 -4.15% 12
Yorkshire -36 22 £488 -0.51% 4
South West -13 12 £384 - 11
North West -23 12 £450 -12.20% 8
South East -37 9 £488 -4.88% 23
Scotland +14 8 £358 -25.42% 4
Midlands -57 3 - - 1
West Midlands -64 2 - - 1
East of England - 2 £475 - 7
East Midlands -33 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 2026, Full-Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 220 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 107 (48.64%) React
3 96 (43.64%) AWS
4 80 (36.36%) Java
4 80 (36.36%) TypeScript
5 76 (34.55%) CI/CD
6 74 (33.64%) Microservices
7 65 (29.55%) Python
8 58 (26.36%) Software Engineering
9 55 (25.00%) Agile
10 54 (24.55%) JavaScript
11 52 (23.64%) Node.js
12 50 (22.73%) Docker
13 49 (22.27%) Kubernetes
14 48 (21.82%) DevOps
15 47 (21.36%) AI
16 42 (19.09%) Spring Boot
17 41 (18.64%) Azure
18 36 (16.36%) GCP
19 34 (15.45%) AngularJS
19 34 (15.45%) Spring
20 32 (14.55%) Kafka
20 32 (14.55%) Security Cleared
21 30 (13.64%) Containerisation
21 30 (13.64%) Observability
21 30 (13.64%) Test Automation
22 29 (13.18%) GitHub
22 29 (13.18%) SC Cleared
23 28 (12.73%) Event-Driven
23 28 (12.73%) PostgreSQL

Full-Stack Engineer 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 5 (2.27%) Confluence
1 5 (2.27%) SAS
2 2 (0.91%) CMS
3 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 96 (43.64%) AWS
2 41 (18.64%) Azure
3 36 (16.36%) GCP
4 29 (13.18%) GitHub
5 24 (10.91%) Serverless
6 18 (8.18%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.73%) SaaS
11 5 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.27%) Figma
12 4 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.82%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (1.82%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.36%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.64%) Firewall
2 3 (1.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.73%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.45%) DynamoDB
3 12 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.27%) MySQL
5 5 (2.27%) Redis
6 4 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.36%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.91%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.45%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.45%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 17 (7.73%) Git
2 14 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.09%) Jaeger
4 7 (3.18%) JIRA
5 6 (2.73%) GitLab
6 5 (2.27%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.82%) JUnit
8 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.36%) JMeter
8 3 (1.36%) Maven
8 3 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.91%) Vite
10 1 (0.45%) Charles Proxy
10 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.45%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.45%) git-flow
10 1 (0.45%) Gradle
10 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.45%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (20.91%) Finance
2 26 (11.82%) Social Skills
3 13 (5.91%) Financial Institution
4 10 (4.55%) Front Office
5 5 (2.27%) Banking
5 5 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.91%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.91%) iGaming
8 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Billing
9 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Publishing
9 1 (0.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (48.64%) React
2 52 (23.64%) Node.js
3 42 (19.09%) Spring Boot
4 34 (15.45%) AngularJS
4 34 (15.45%) Spring
5 32 (14.55%) Kafka
6 28 (12.73%) RESTful
7 25 (11.36%) Next.js
8 24 (10.91%) .NET
9 18 (8.18%) GraphQL
10 17 (7.73%) FastAPI
10 17 (7.73%) Redux
10 17 (7.73%) REST
11 15 (6.82%) Vue
12 14 (6.36%) CSS
12 14 (6.36%) HTML
13 11 (5.00%) Flask
13 11 (5.00%) Playwright
14 10 (4.55%) Middleware
15 9 (4.09%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.09%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.64%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.18%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.27%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.36%) Genomics
10 2 (0.91%) Derivative
10 2 (0.91%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.91%) Life Science
10 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.82%) Linux
2 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.91%) Windows
3 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 76 (34.55%) CI/CD
3 74 (33.64%) Microservices
4 58 (26.36%) Software Engineering
5 55 (25.00%) Agile
6 48 (21.82%) DevOps
7 47 (21.36%) AI
8 30 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 30 (13.64%) Observability
8 30 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 28 (12.73%) Event-Driven
10 24 (10.91%) Machine Learning
11 21 (9.55%) Computer Science
11 21 (9.55%) User Experience
12 20 (9.09%) Mentoring
13 19 (8.64%) Code Quality
13 19 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (7.27%) Generative AI
15 16 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 80 (36.36%) Java
1 80 (36.36%) TypeScript
2 65 (29.55%) Python
3 54 (24.55%) JavaScript
4 25 (11.36%) SQL
5 17 (7.73%) C#
6 14 (6.36%) Go
7 10 (4.55%) Rust
8 4 (1.82%) C++
9 2 (0.91%) Bicep
9 2 (0.91%) Ruby
10 1 (0.45%) Bash
10 1 (0.45%) C
10 1 (0.45%) Korn
10 1 (0.45%) PHP
10 1 (0.45%) Scala
10 1 (0.45%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 32 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.18%) Degree
4 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.45%) CCIP
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.73%) Accessibility
1 6 (2.73%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) GDPR
2 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (22.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.91%) Terraform
3 10 (4.55%) Grafana
3 10 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.09%) Kiali
5 4 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.36%) Ansible
6 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.91%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (4.55%) OpenAI
2 9 (4.09%) Splunk
3 8 (3.64%) Google
4 4 (1.82%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.82%) Oracle
5 3 (1.36%) Solace
5 3 (1.36%) VMware
6 2 (0.91%) Databricks
7 1 (0.45%) Apple
7 1 (0.45%) Foundry
7 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.45%) Netlify
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.45%) SAP