Full-Stack Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Full-Stack Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, 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 155 142 175
Rank change year-on-year -13 +33 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 158 229 374
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.60% 1.49% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.60% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 194 284
10th Percentile £358 £325 £400
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £575
90th Percentile £691 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -1.46% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Full-Stack Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Full-Stack Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Full-Stack Developer.

Full-Stack Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Full-Stack Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Full-Stack Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Full-Stack Developer.

Full-Stack Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 158 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 91 (57.59%) React
3 73 (46.20%) AWS
4 62 (39.24%) JavaScript
5 61 (38.61%) Python
5 61 (38.61%) AngularJS
6 59 (37.34%) Azure
7 56 (35.44%) TypeScript
7 56 (35.44%) Agile
8 50 (31.65%) Java
9 49 (31.01%) Node.js
10 33 (20.89%) Finance
11 32 (20.25%) HTML
12 31 (19.62%) DevOps
13 29 (18.35%) CI/CD
13 29 (18.35%) CSS
14 28 (17.72%) GCP
14 28 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (17.09%) Microservices
16 25 (15.82%) Git
16 25 (15.82%) .NET
16 25 (15.82%) Vue
17 24 (15.19%) SQL
17 24 (15.19%) Software Engineering
18 23 (14.56%) TDD
18 23 (14.56%) Docker
18 23 (14.56%) Redux
18 23 (14.56%) Social Skills
19 22 (13.92%) Kubernetes
19 22 (13.92%) Spring

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (2.53%) Apache
2 1 (0.63%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.63%) Camunda
2 1 (0.63%) CMS
2 1 (0.63%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 73 (46.20%) AWS
2 59 (37.34%) Azure
3 28 (17.72%) GCP
4 19 (12.03%) Serverless
5 15 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.59%) GitHub
7 11 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (6.33%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (5.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (4.43%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.43%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.80%) Azure API Management
11 6 (3.80%) Figma
12 5 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.90%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 3 (1.90%) PaaS
14 3 (1.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.63%) POP3
2 1 (0.63%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.76%) MongoDB
3 12 (7.59%) DynamoDB
4 11 (6.96%) MySQL
5 10 (6.33%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.70%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.43%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.53%) Redis
10 3 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.90%) GIS
11 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.27%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (1.27%) ObjectStore
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.63%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 25 (15.82%) Git
2 11 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.43%) GitLab
4 6 (3.80%) Selenium
5 5 (3.16%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.16%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.90%) gulp
6 3 (1.90%) JIRA
6 3 (1.90%) Maven
6 3 (1.90%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.90%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.27%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.27%) git-flow
7 2 (1.27%) JUnit
7 2 (1.27%) Mocha
7 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.27%) Vite
8 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 33 (20.89%) Finance
2 23 (14.56%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.76%) Front Office
4 11 (6.96%) Banking
4 11 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.16%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.27%) Retail
8 2 (1.27%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Aviation
9 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.63%) German Language
9 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (57.59%) React
2 61 (38.61%) AngularJS
3 49 (31.01%) Node.js
4 32 (20.25%) HTML
5 29 (18.35%) CSS
6 25 (15.82%) .NET
6 25 (15.82%) Vue
7 23 (14.56%) Redux
8 22 (13.92%) Spring
9 18 (11.39%) Spring Boot
10 17 (10.76%) RESTful
11 12 (7.59%) Express.js
12 11 (6.96%) FastAPI
12 11 (6.96%) Next.js
12 11 (6.96%) REST
13 8 (5.06%) Django
13 8 (5.06%) Jest
13 8 (5.06%) Kafka
14 7 (4.43%) Sass
15 6 (3.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.76%) Fixed Income
2 16 (10.13%) Hedge funds
3 10 (6.33%) Equities
4 8 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (4.43%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.16%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.27%) Derivative
9 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.27%) PKI
9 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.63%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.27%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 56 (35.44%) Agile
3 31 (19.62%) DevOps
4 29 (18.35%) CI/CD
5 28 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (17.09%) Microservices
7 24 (15.19%) Software Engineering
8 23 (14.56%) TDD
9 21 (13.29%) Front End Development
10 20 (12.66%) Analytics
11 19 (12.03%) Fintech
12 17 (10.76%) Asset Management
12 17 (10.76%) Investment Management
13 16 (10.13%) Artificial Intelligence
13 16 (10.13%) User Experience
14 12 (7.59%) Containerisation
14 12 (7.59%) Test Automation
14 12 (7.59%) Web Development
15 10 (6.33%) API Development
15 10 (6.33%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 62 (39.24%) JavaScript
2 61 (38.61%) Python
3 56 (35.44%) TypeScript
4 50 (31.65%) Java
5 24 (15.19%) SQL
6 18 (11.39%) C#
7 5 (3.16%) PHP
8 3 (1.90%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.90%) Ruby
9 2 (1.27%) Scala
9 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.27%) VB
9 2 (1.27%) VB6
10 1 (0.63%) Bash
10 1 (0.63%) CoffeeScript
10 1 (0.63%) Perl
10 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.90%) Degree
5 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.53%) QA
2 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) PMO
3 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (14.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.76%) Terraform
3 3 (1.90%) Ansible
3 3 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.27%) Kibana
5 1 (0.63%) Grafana
5 1 (0.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (3.80%) Google
1 6 (3.80%) Oracle
2 5 (3.16%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.27%) InterSystems
3 2 (1.27%) Mapbox
3 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.27%) Solace
3 2 (1.27%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.63%) SendGrid
4 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.63%) Splunk
4 1 (0.63%) Zuora