Full-Stack Software Engineer Contracts

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £625, 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 493 519 682
Rank change year-on-year +26 +163 +120
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer 27 63 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.14% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% 0.16% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 52 28
10th Percentile £470 £378 £496
25th Percentile £531 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £638
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +9.80% +6.25%
75th Percentile £838 £788 £750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £388 £525
% change year-on-year +26.45% -26.19% -26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Top 11 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 Software Engineer 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 +26 25 £625 -10.71% 125
Work from Home +51 23 £625 +13.64% 98
London +13 20 £625 -10.71% 70
UK excluding London +52 7 £490 +26.45% 77
Midlands - 3 £490 - 7
North of England +14 2 £500 -9.09% 27
Scotland +9 2 £425 +36.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 £490 - 4
North West +16 1 - - 21
Yorkshire +7 1 £500 - 5
West Midlands - 1 - - 3

Full-Stack Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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

1 27 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 27 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 22 (81.48%) React
2 22 (81.48%) Python
2 22 (81.48%) JavaScript
2 22 (81.48%) TypeScript
3 21 (77.78%) AWS
4 20 (74.07%) Azure
4 20 (74.07%) Finance
4 20 (74.07%) Agile
5 18 (66.67%) Asset Management
6 17 (62.96%) Investment Management
6 17 (62.96%) TDD
6 17 (62.96%) Front Office
6 17 (62.96%) AngularJS
7 16 (59.26%) Analytics
7 16 (59.26%) GCP
7 16 (59.26%) Hedge funds
7 16 (59.26%) Fixed Income
7 16 (59.26%) Fintech
7 16 (59.26%) Vue
7 16 (59.26%) Redux
8 8 (29.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (29.63%) Equities
9 5 (18.52%) C#
9 5 (18.52%) .NET
9 5 (18.52%) REST
9 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
10 4 (14.81%) JIRA
10 4 (14.81%) Docker

Full-Stack Software Engineer 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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) AWS
2 20 (74.07%) Azure
3 16 (59.26%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.41%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) Apigee
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) npm
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) MySQL
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Babel
3 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 20 (74.07%) Finance
2 17 (62.96%) Front Office
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (81.48%) React
2 17 (62.96%) AngularJS
3 16 (59.26%) Redux
3 16 (59.26%) Vue
4 5 (18.52%) .NET
4 5 (18.52%) REST
5 3 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 3 (11.11%) CSS
5 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 3 (11.11%) Node.js
6 1 (3.70%) CSS3
6 1 (3.70%) Flask
6 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.70%) HTML5
6 1 (3.70%) JWT
6 1 (3.70%) Next.js
6 1 (3.70%) RESTful
6 1 (3.70%) Spring Batch
6 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (59.26%) Fixed Income
1 16 (59.26%) Hedge funds
2 8 (29.63%) Equities
2 8 (29.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 27 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (74.07%) Agile
3 18 (66.67%) Asset Management
4 17 (62.96%) Investment Management
4 17 (62.96%) TDD
5 16 (59.26%) Analytics
5 16 (59.26%) Fintech
6 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.11%) Architectural Design
7 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
7 3 (11.11%) Microservices
8 2 (7.41%) Containerisation
8 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.41%) DevOps
8 2 (7.41%) Event-Driven
8 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.41%) Service Management
8 2 (7.41%) Software Asset Management
9 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) JavaScript
1 22 (81.48%) Python
1 22 (81.48%) TypeScript
2 5 (18.52%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Databricks