Senior Full Stack Developer Contracts

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 676 765
Rank change year-on-year +101 +89 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full Stack Developer 25 40 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.068% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.072% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 82
10th Percentile - £480 £488
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £669 £729
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -3.80% +3.95% +2.65%

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £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 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Senior Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Full Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Full Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Full Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Full Stack Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +105 21 £538 -8.12% 45
London +98 15 £538 -10.08% 25
Work from Home +122 11 £544 +1.16% 34
UK excluding London +56 4 £475 -3.80% 22
Midlands +29 1 £475 -22.45% 3
South West +22 1 £325 -23.53% 2
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
North West - 1 £550 - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 £550 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 16 (64.00%) JavaScript
3 15 (60.00%) Agile
3 15 (60.00%) React
4 13 (52.00%) HTML
5 12 (48.00%) .NET
5 12 (48.00%) CSS
6 10 (40.00%) C#
6 10 (40.00%) Front End Development
7 8 (32.00%) User Experience
7 8 (32.00%) Azure
7 8 (32.00%) .NET Framework
8 7 (28.00%) Scrum
8 7 (28.00%) Node.js
8 7 (28.00%) Vue
8 7 (28.00%) TypeScript
8 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (24.00%) DevOps
9 6 (24.00%) AWS
9 6 (24.00%) TDD
9 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (24.00%) Java
10 5 (20.00%) Web Development
10 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
10 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (16.00%) .NET Core
11 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
11 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
11 4 (16.00%) Code Quality

Senior 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 2 (8.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP ERP
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) Contentful
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MySQL
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) RavenDB
3 1 (4.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Jasmine
1 2 (8.00%) NUnit
1 2 (8.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Mercurial
2 1 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Front Office
3 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (60.00%) React
2 13 (52.00%) HTML
3 12 (48.00%) .NET
3 12 (48.00%) CSS
4 8 (32.00%) .NET Framework
5 7 (28.00%) Node.js
5 7 (28.00%) Vue
6 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 4 (16.00%) .NET Core
7 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
7 4 (16.00%) XML
8 3 (12.00%) HTML5
8 3 (12.00%) Jest
8 3 (12.00%) jQuery
8 3 (12.00%) Next.js
8 3 (12.00%) REST
9 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (8.00%) Entity Framework
9 2 (8.00%) RESTful
9 2 (8.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (4.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (4.00%) Online Banking
1 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 15 (60.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 8 (32.00%) User Experience
5 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (28.00%) Scrum
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (24.00%) DevOps
6 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (24.00%) TDD
7 5 (20.00%) Web Development
8 4 (16.00%) Code Quality
8 4 (16.00%) Kanban
8 4 (16.00%) Microservices
8 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
9 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (12.00%) MVC
9 3 (12.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (40.00%) C#
3 7 (28.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (24.00%) Java
5 4 (16.00%) SQL
6 3 (12.00%) Python
7 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.00%) ABAP
8 1 (4.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Mapbox
2 1 (4.00%) Optimizely
2 1 (4.00%) SAP
2 1 (4.00%) Sitecore