Full-Stack Java Developer Contracts

Full-Stack Java Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Java Developer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 519 605
Rank change year-on-year +53 +86 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Java Developer 54 63 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 47 98
10th Percentile £393 £400 £448
25th Percentile £413 £450 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £610
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -22.07% +5.54%
75th Percentile £588 £528 £693
90th Percentile £620 £685 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £479 £477
% change year-on-year +3.34% +0.37% +1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Full-Stack Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Java Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Java Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Java Developer
Top 13 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 Java Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +51 40 £538 +13.16% 11
UK excluding London +67 29 £495 +3.34% 8
Work from Home +52 29 £483 +1.26% 13
London +17 16 £525 +10.53% 7
North of England +31 15 £550 +37.50%
North West - 10 £575 -
Yorkshire +11 6 £525 +31.25%
Scotland +6 6 £441 -10.55% 3
South West - 3 £441 - 1
South East +43 2 £465 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £364 -
East Midlands - 1 £402 - 1
Midlands - 1 £402 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Full-Stack Java 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 Java Developer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Java
1 54 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (48.15%) AWS
3 25 (46.30%) Spring
4 22 (40.74%) CI/CD
5 21 (38.89%) Microservices
6 20 (37.04%) React
7 19 (35.19%) Docker
7 19 (35.19%) Agile
8 18 (33.33%) Spring Boot
9 16 (29.63%) AngularJS
10 15 (27.78%) Node.js
10 15 (27.78%) Kubernetes
11 12 (22.22%) TDD
12 10 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (18.52%) Python
12 10 (18.52%) SQL
12 10 (18.52%) Azure
12 10 (18.52%) Relational Database
12 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (18.52%) Terraform
13 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
14 8 (14.81%) MongoDB
14 8 (14.81%) Event-Driven
15 7 (12.96%) Project Delivery
15 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
15 7 (12.96%) Virgin Media
15 7 (12.96%) DevOps
15 7 (12.96%) Git
15 7 (12.96%) RESTful

Full-Stack Java 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 6 (11.11%) Camunda
2 1 (1.85%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (48.15%) AWS
2 10 (18.52%) Azure
3 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (5.56%) Serverless
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (3.70%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (3.70%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) GitHub
5 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 8 (14.81%) MongoDB
3 6 (11.11%) MySQL
4 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.26%) JUnit
4 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.85%) Gradle
5 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.85%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.85%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.85%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.85%) Maven
5 1 (1.85%) Mockito
5 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Finance
2 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Banking
3 4 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (5.56%) Front Office
5 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.70%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (46.30%) Spring
2 20 (37.04%) React
3 18 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 16 (29.63%) AngularJS
5 15 (27.78%) Node.js
6 7 (12.96%) CSS
6 7 (12.96%) HTML
6 7 (12.96%) RESTful
7 6 (11.11%) Kafka
7 6 (11.11%) REST
8 5 (9.26%) GraphQL
9 4 (7.41%) Jest
9 4 (7.41%) Web Services
10 3 (5.56%) Express.js
10 3 (5.56%) Hibernate
10 3 (5.56%) OAuth
10 3 (5.56%) RxJS
11 2 (3.70%) HTML5
11 2 (3.70%) Redux
11 2 (3.70%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
1 4 (7.41%) Derivative
2 2 (3.70%) Equities
2 2 (3.70%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.85%) Hackathon
3 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.85%) PKI
3 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 22 (40.74%) CI/CD
3 21 (38.89%) Microservices
4 19 (35.19%) Agile
5 12 (22.22%) TDD
6 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (14.81%) Event-Driven
8 7 (12.96%) DevOps
8 7 (12.96%) Project Delivery
9 6 (11.11%) BDD
9 6 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 6 (11.11%) Front End Development
10 5 (9.26%) API Integration
10 5 (9.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (9.26%) Event-Driven Programming
10 5 (9.26%) Process Improvement
10 5 (9.26%) Scrum
11 4 (7.41%) Computer Science
11 4 (7.41%) Kanban
11 4 (7.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (18.52%) Python
2 10 (18.52%) SQL
3 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.56%) C#
6 2 (3.70%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.70%) PHP
6 2 (3.70%) Ruby
6 2 (3.70%) Scala
6 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.85%) Bash
7 1 (1.85%) C++
7 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 19 (35.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 10 (18.52%) Terraform
3 3 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) Kibana
4 2 (3.70%) Grafana
4 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.85%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Virgin Media
2 6 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.70%) Splunk