Senior Full-Stack Developer Contracts

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £620, 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 491 555 676
Rank change year-on-year +64 +121 +86
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 29 27 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.062% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.067% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 31
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £500 £466 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £581 £647
90th Percentile £818 £705 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% +5.26%

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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 11 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 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 +61 27 £620 +15.35% 47
London +41 18 £635 +18.14% 19
UK excluding London +66 8 £500 -1.23% 33
Midlands +25 4 £700 +47.37% 6
Work from Home +32 3 £400 -25.58% 35
West Midlands - 3 £700 - 4
South West +47 2 £700 +115.38% 2
North of England +19 2 £450 -17.24% 8
North West +18 2 £450 -18.18% 5
South East - 2 - - 11
East Midlands +10 1 £400 -15.79% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 29 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (65.52%) JavaScript
3 16 (55.17%) TypeScript
4 15 (51.72%) HTML
5 14 (48.28%) Agile
5 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
6 13 (44.83%) React
6 13 (44.83%) AWS
7 12 (41.38%) CSS
8 10 (34.48%) Azure
8 10 (34.48%) Node.js
9 9 (31.03%) RESTful
9 9 (31.03%) Docker
9 9 (31.03%) DevOps
9 9 (31.03%) Design Patterns
10 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
10 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
10 8 (27.59%) Terraform
10 8 (27.59%) AngularJS
10 8 (27.59%) C#
11 7 (24.14%) Java
11 7 (24.14%) SQL
11 7 (24.14%) .NET
11 7 (24.14%) OO
11 7 (24.14%) Web Development
11 7 (24.14%) SOLID
12 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
12 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
12 6 (20.69%) Git
12 6 (20.69%) NoSQL

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 1 (3.45%) Alfresco
1 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) GitHub
3 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Stack
5 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 2 (6.90%) Sentry
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) NoSQL
2 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.90%) Redis
4 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.45%) ClickHouse
5 1 (3.45%) Couchbase
5 1 (3.45%) GIS
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) CircleCI
2 3 (10.34%) Cypress.io
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) JUnit
3 2 (6.90%) Moq
3 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.45%) Gradle
4 1 (3.45%) Liquibase
4 1 (3.45%) Mocha
4 1 (3.45%) Mockito
4 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Front Office
4 4 (13.79%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Military
6 2 (6.90%) Back Office
7 1 (3.45%) Automotive
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) HTML
2 13 (44.83%) React
3 12 (41.38%) CSS
4 10 (34.48%) Node.js
5 9 (31.03%) RESTful
6 8 (27.59%) AngularJS
7 7 (24.14%) .NET
8 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET
8 6 (20.69%) HTML5
9 5 (17.24%) JPA
9 5 (17.24%) Vue
10 4 (13.79%) .NET Core
10 4 (13.79%) CSS3
10 4 (13.79%) Kafka
11 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
11 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (10.34%) REST
11 3 (10.34%) Spring
11 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
11 3 (10.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Derivative
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Equities
4 1 (3.45%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (3.45%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.45%) NHS
4 1 (3.45%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (48.28%) Agile
2 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 9 (31.03%) Design Patterns
3 9 (31.03%) DevOps
4 7 (24.14%) OO
4 7 (24.14%) SOLID
4 7 (24.14%) Web Development
5 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
5 6 (20.69%) TDD
6 5 (17.24%) Analytics
6 5 (17.24%) Front End Development
6 5 (17.24%) Microservices
7 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (13.79%) MVC
7 4 (13.79%) OOP
7 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.79%) Scrum
7 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) JavaScript
2 16 (55.17%) TypeScript
3 8 (27.59%) C#
4 7 (24.14%) Java
4 7 (24.14%) SQL
5 6 (20.69%) Python
6 3 (10.34%) Kotlin
7 2 (6.90%) Go
7 2 (6.90%) Scala
8 1 (3.45%) C++
8 1 (3.45%) PHP
8 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (3.45%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
1 8 (27.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Google