Senior Full-Stack Engineer Contracts

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the UK is £563, 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 514 558 708
Rank change year-on-year +44 +150 +113
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer 6 24 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.055% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.059% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 10
10th Percentile £432 £500 £405
25th Percentile £484 £506 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £534 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.34% -7.13% -19.30%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £584
90th Percentile £678 £725 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £534 £410
% change year-on-year -8.24% +30.24% -18.00%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Top 6 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 Engineer 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
Work from Home +39 4 £520 -2.62% 94
England +36 3 £490 -8.24% 121
London +22 2 £522 -5.18% 97
UK excluding London +58 1 £490 -8.24% 46
East Midlands - 1 £490 - 3
Midlands - 1 £490 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Full-Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (50.00%) Node.js
3 3 (50.00%) MySQL
3 3 (50.00%) NestJS
3 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (50.00%) React
4 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (33.33%) New Relic
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) Celery
5 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (16.67%) Docker
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills

Senior Full-Stack Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) Redis
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (50.00%) NestJS
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
1 3 (50.00%) React
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) Celery
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Express.js
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) koa
3 1 (16.67%) MERN Stack
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) New Relic
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle