Full-Stack Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Full-Stack Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 119 107
Rank change year-on-year -45 -12 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 1 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.028% 0.11% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.12% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 £428 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £435 £388
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% +12.26% -
75th Percentile £450 £443 £475
90th Percentile - - £600
England median daily rate £525 £520 £650
% change year-on-year +0.96% -20.00% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,207 1,635 1,788
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 89.25% 93.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,892 1,056 1,152
10th Percentile £331 £235 £231
25th Percentile £413 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -1.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £582 £624
90th Percentile £675 £650 £713
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 108 63
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.62 £12.62
25th Percentile £17.75 £14.00 £14.63
Median hourly rate £29.60 £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% +19.76% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £40.07 £33.74
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £52.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
% change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Full-Stack Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 1 £425 -
Full-Stack Engineer
England

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 September 2026, Full-Stack Engineer 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Dataiku
1 1 (100.00%) DataRobot
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangSmith
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) LangSmith
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dataiku
1 1 (100.00%) DataRobot