Full Stack Developer Contracts

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 213 195
Rank change year-on-year +41 -18 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 591 773 1,334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 1.31% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.38% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 587 1,000
10th Percentile £325 £406 £400
25th Percentile £409 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £632 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £52.00 £45.75 £36.10
25th Percentile £53.13 £46.88 £45.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £75.62
90th Percentile £64.60 £56.25 £76.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £76.10
% change year-on-year -2.27% -27.72% +90.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Top 15 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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +22 497 £525 -4.55% 201
London +31 325 £550 -6.38% 90
Work from Home +37 235 £525 +4.74% 132
UK excluding London +22 188 £438 -2.78% 112
South East +34 56 £500 -9.09% 18
South West +16 37 £413 -8.33% 18
North of England -8 31 £425 -19.05% 31
Scotland +24 20 £473 +3.62% 6
Wales +22 17 £438 +2.94% 5
Midlands +21 17 £350 -17.65% 23
North West -3 16 £450 -14.29% 24
Yorkshire +17 15 £400 -17.95% 5
West Midlands +20 10 £325 -27.78% 12
East of England +13 10 £375 -16.67% 12
East Midlands +9 7 £410 +13.89% 11

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Full Stack 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 Developer in the job title.

1 591 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 307 (51.95%) React
3 233 (39.42%) AWS
4 228 (38.58%) JavaScript
5 225 (38.07%) Agile
6 179 (30.29%) TypeScript
7 169 (28.60%) Azure
8 163 (27.58%) Java
9 161 (27.24%) AngularJS
10 154 (26.06%) C#
11 145 (24.53%) Python
12 137 (23.18%) .NET
13 136 (23.01%) CSS
14 133 (22.50%) HTML
15 112 (18.95%) DevOps
15 112 (18.95%) Node.js
16 111 (18.78%) CI/CD
17 107 (18.10%) SQL
17 107 (18.10%) Finance
18 105 (17.77%) Security Cleared
19 100 (16.92%) Microservices
20 87 (14.72%) SC Cleared
20 87 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
21 83 (14.04%) Software Engineering
22 73 (12.35%) Social Skills
23 72 (12.18%) REST
24 71 (12.01%) Git
25 70 (11.84%) Test Automation
26 66 (11.17%) Front Office
27 63 (10.66%) TDD

Full Stack 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 46 (7.78%) Apache
2 27 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.21%) nginx
4 14 (2.37%) CMS
5 7 (1.18%) BizTalk Server
5 7 (1.18%) Drupal
6 5 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.68%) Confluence
7 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.51%) JBoss
8 3 (0.51%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.34%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.34%) Camunda
9 2 (0.34%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.34%) WildFly
10 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (39.42%) AWS
2 169 (28.60%) Azure
3 50 (8.46%) Serverless
4 48 (8.12%) GCP
5 29 (4.91%) Azure Functions
6 27 (4.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 27 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (4.06%) GitHub
8 20 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
9 19 (3.21%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 17 (2.88%) Entra ID
11 13 (2.20%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.20%) npm
12 12 (2.03%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (1.52%) SaaS
14 8 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.68%) HTTP
2 3 (0.51%) Firewall
2 3 (0.51%) VPN
3 1 (0.17%) DHCP
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (8.63%) MongoDB
3 50 (8.46%) NoSQL
4 46 (7.78%) SQL Server
5 36 (6.09%) MySQL
6 29 (4.91%) Relational Database
7 27 (4.57%) Apache Ignite
8 13 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.03%) Flink
10 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.02%) Power BI
12 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.68%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.68%) GIS
13 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.68%) Redis
14 2 (0.34%) Big Data
14 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 71 (12.01%) Git
2 42 (7.11%) Cypress.io
3 23 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.72%) JIRA
5 15 (2.54%) Selenium
6 14 (2.37%) GitLab
7 13 (2.20%) webpack
8 8 (1.35%) JUnit
8 8 (1.35%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.18%) Postman
10 5 (0.85%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.85%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.85%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.85%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.51%) Mocha
12 3 (0.51%) NUnit
12 3 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 107 (18.10%) Finance
2 73 (12.35%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.17%) Front Office
4 54 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (8.97%) Public Sector
6 51 (8.63%) Banking
7 10 (1.69%) Financial Institution
7 10 (1.69%) Marketing
8 8 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.85%) Back Office
9 5 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.68%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.51%) Automotive
11 3 (0.51%) Law
11 3 (0.51%) Music Industry
11 3 (0.51%) Retail
11 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.34%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (51.95%) React
2 161 (27.24%) AngularJS
3 137 (23.18%) .NET
4 136 (23.01%) CSS
5 133 (22.50%) HTML
6 112 (18.95%) Node.js
7 72 (12.18%) REST
8 63 (10.66%) Spring
9 54 (9.14%) Redux
10 45 (7.61%) GraphQL
11 43 (7.28%) ASP.NET
11 43 (7.28%) Spring Boot
12 41 (6.94%) Laravel
13 38 (6.43%) .NET Core
13 38 (6.43%) Vue
14 36 (6.09%) Material-UI
15 34 (5.75%) Sass
16 30 (5.08%) Next.js
17 29 (4.91%) WebSockets
18 28 (4.74%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.94%) Fixed Income
2 36 (6.09%) Hedge funds
3 29 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (2.03%) Equities
6 10 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.34%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.34%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.34%) NHS
12 2 (0.34%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.75%) Linux
2 23 (3.89%) Unix
3 12 (2.03%) Windows
4 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.34%) Android
5 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 225 (38.07%) Agile
3 112 (18.95%) DevOps
4 111 (18.78%) CI/CD
5 100 (16.92%) Microservices
6 83 (14.04%) Software Engineering
7 70 (11.84%) Test Automation
8 63 (10.66%) TDD
9 62 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (9.81%) Unit Testing
11 55 (9.31%) SDLC
12 47 (7.95%) MVC
13 44 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (7.45%) Web Development
14 42 (7.11%) Front End Development
15 41 (6.94%) Asset Management
16 40 (6.77%) User Experience
17 36 (6.09%) Investment Management
17 36 (6.09%) Machine Learning
18 35 (5.92%) OO
Programming Languages
1 228 (38.58%) JavaScript
2 179 (30.29%) TypeScript
3 163 (27.58%) Java
4 154 (26.06%) C#
5 145 (24.53%) Python
6 107 (18.10%) SQL
7 55 (9.31%) PHP
8 23 (3.89%) C
9 20 (3.38%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.71%) Go
11 12 (2.03%) Ruby
12 10 (1.69%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.52%) C++
13 9 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.02%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.85%) Bicep
16 3 (0.51%) Bash
17 2 (0.34%) Rust
17 2 (0.34%) Scala
17 2 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 105 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 87 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.08%) Degree
4 12 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.58%) QA
2 30 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.68%) MiFID
4 3 (0.51%) SLA
4 3 (0.51%) WCAG
5 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (9.98%) Docker
2 18 (3.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (9.98%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.58%) Terraform
3 11 (1.86%) Ansible
4 9 (1.52%) Grafana
5 3 (0.51%) Kibana
6 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.34%) Puppet
6 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) logstash
7 1 (0.17%) Packer
7 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (5.92%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.41%) Google
3 21 (3.55%) Oracle
4 10 (1.69%) Databricks
5 7 (1.18%) MuleSoft
6 5 (0.85%) Optimizely
7 3 (0.51%) Splunk
7 3 (0.51%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.34%) IBM
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.17%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.17%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.17%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.17%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.17%) Sybase
9 1 (0.17%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.17%) VMware
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