Lead Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends

Lead Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Lead Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £493, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 518 594
Rank change year-on-year -54 +76 +195
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Full-Stack Developer 10 25 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.070% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.075% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 10
10th Percentile £380 £483 £415
25th Percentile £430 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% +1.05% -30.15%
75th Percentile £538 £669 £706
90th Percentile £550 £680 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +47.37%

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 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Lead Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

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

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Full-Stack Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Work from Home -2 5 £496 -13.70% 7
England -57 4 £435 -27.50% 20
London -14 3 £400 -28.95% 10
Yorkshire -41 1 £500 -4.76% 3
North of England -42 1 £500 -9.09% 8
UK excluding London -45 1 £500 -9.09% 14

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Lead Full-Stack Developer 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 Lead Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Java
4 4 (40.00%) Docker
4 4 (40.00%) React
4 4 (40.00%) Spring
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (30.00%) Kotlin
5 3 (30.00%) Phoenix
5 3 (30.00%) Phoenix Framework
5 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) RESTful
6 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (20.00%) Terraform
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 1 (10.00%) API Development
7 1 (10.00%) API Integration
7 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
7 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions

Lead Full-Stack Developer 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Gradle
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Liquibase
1 1 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) React
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) Phoenix
2 3 (30.00%) Phoenix Framework
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) CSS3
4 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (10.00%) HTML5
4 1 (10.00%) JPA
4 1 (10.00%) JWT
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (10.00%) Redux
4 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) API Development
5 1 (10.00%) API Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Fintech
5 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform