Lead Full-Stack Developer Contracts

Lead Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Lead Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 573 699
Rank change year-on-year +63 +126 +132
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Full-Stack Developer 20 17 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.039% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.042% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 2
10th Percentile £490 - £555
25th Percentile £513 £325 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £655 £605 £800
90th Percentile £674 £656 £845
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £650 -
% change year-on-year -15.38% - -

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 27,097 40,246 56,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 92.78% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,700 26,198 39,189
10th Percentile £300 £277 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £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 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,676 1,567
10th Percentile £14.12 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.16
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.26 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.37
% change year-on-year -29.22% -6.64% +117.03%

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Full-Stack Developer 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 4 May 2025.

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

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Top 8 Contract 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 4 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 +73 19 £550 -6.38% 19
London +51 10 £525 +5.00% 8
UK excluding London +73 7 £550 -15.38% 12
Work from Home +39 7 £550 +10.00% 18
North of England +19 4 £525 -19.23% 5
South East +42 3 £550 -12.00% 3
Yorkshire +12 3 £525 -19.23% 2
North West - 2 £563 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (40.00%) HTML
3 8 (40.00%) Java
3 8 (40.00%) Node.js
3 8 (40.00%) React
4 7 (35.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (30.00%) AWS
5 6 (30.00%) Python
5 6 (30.00%) CSS
6 5 (25.00%) .NET
6 5 (25.00%) C#
6 5 (25.00%) Spring
6 5 (25.00%) Microservices
6 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Azure
7 4 (20.00%) Docker
7 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
7 4 (20.00%) Vue
7 4 (20.00%) TDD
8 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) MVC
8 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
8 3 (15.00%) SQL
8 3 (15.00%) Web Services
8 3 (15.00%) OOP
8 3 (15.00%) OO
8 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
8 3 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical

Lead 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 1 (5.00%) Camunda
1 1 (5.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Gradle
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JUnit
1 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (15.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) HTML
1 8 (40.00%) Node.js
1 8 (40.00%) React
2 6 (30.00%) CSS
3 5 (25.00%) .NET
3 5 (25.00%) Spring
3 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (20.00%) Vue
5 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (15.00%) Jest
5 3 (15.00%) React Native
5 3 (15.00%) Redux
5 3 (15.00%) Web Services
6 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (10.00%) Apache Camel
6 2 (10.00%) RESTful
7 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
7 1 (5.00%) PrimeFaces
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (25.00%) Microservices
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) TDD
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) BDD
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (15.00%) MVC
4 3 (15.00%) MVVM
4 3 (15.00%) OO
4 3 (15.00%) OOP
4 3 (15.00%) SOLID
4 3 (15.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 3 (15.00%) Web Development
5 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (40.00%) Java
3 7 (35.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (30.00%) Python
5 5 (25.00%) C#
6 3 (15.00%) SQL
7 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Splunk
1 1 (5.00%) Virgin Media