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 £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 142 169
Rank change year-on-year -7 +27 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 177 229 356
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.76% 1.56% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.66% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 181 279
10th Percentile £335 £350 £381
25th Percentile £406 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +9.45% -6.07%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -18.47%

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 9,439 13,759 22,674
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 93.73% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,344 9,264 16,024
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 543 538
10th Percentile £13.96 £14.16 £16.98
25th Percentile £17.51 £22.50 £24.65
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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.

1 177 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 99 (55.93%) React
3 77 (43.50%) JavaScript
4 75 (42.37%) AWS
5 74 (41.81%) Azure
6 73 (41.24%) Agile
7 68 (38.42%) Python
7 68 (38.42%) AngularJS
7 68 (38.42%) TypeScript
8 56 (31.64%) Node.js
9 50 (28.25%) Java
10 41 (23.16%) Finance
11 39 (22.03%) HTML
12 38 (21.47%) CI/CD
13 36 (20.34%) Software Engineering
14 35 (19.77%) TDD
15 34 (19.21%) SQL
16 33 (18.64%) Docker
17 32 (18.08%) CSS
17 32 (18.08%) PostgreSQL
17 32 (18.08%) GCP
17 32 (18.08%) Redux
18 31 (17.51%) Microservices
19 30 (16.95%) Vue
20 29 (16.38%) Social Skills
20 29 (16.38%) DevOps
21 28 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
22 26 (14.69%) Fintech
22 26 (14.69%) Git
23 25 (14.12%) Front End Development

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 (2.26%) Apache
2 3 (1.69%) Camunda
3 2 (1.13%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Solana
4 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 75 (42.37%) AWS
2 74 (41.81%) Azure
3 32 (18.08%) GCP
4 21 (11.86%) Serverless
5 14 (7.91%) GitHub
6 13 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.65%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (3.95%) Entra ID
10 6 (3.39%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.39%) Figma
11 5 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.82%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.82%) PaaS
12 4 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.69%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.69%) Azure Pipelines
13 3 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) POP3
2 1 (0.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (18.08%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (13.56%) MongoDB
3 13 (7.34%) MySQL
4 11 (6.21%) DynamoDB
4 11 (6.21%) NoSQL
4 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.65%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.69%) Redis
8 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.13%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.13%) GIS
8 2 (1.13%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.56%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.56%) ObjectStore
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.56%) Power BI
9 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (14.69%) Git
2 11 (6.21%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.65%) Maven
4 9 (5.08%) GitLab
4 9 (5.08%) JUnit
5 8 (4.52%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.39%) JIRA
6 6 (3.39%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.39%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.82%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.26%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.69%) gulp
9 3 (1.69%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.69%) Mockito
9 3 (1.69%) Selenium
10 2 (1.13%) git-flow
10 2 (1.13%) Vite
General
1 41 (23.16%) Finance
2 29 (16.38%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.43%) Front Office
4 14 (7.91%) Banking
5 10 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.95%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.26%) Retail
9 3 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.69%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.13%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Aviation
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (55.93%) React
2 68 (38.42%) AngularJS
3 56 (31.64%) Node.js
4 39 (22.03%) HTML
5 32 (18.08%) CSS
5 32 (18.08%) Redux
6 30 (16.95%) Vue
7 24 (13.56%) Spring
8 23 (12.99%) Spring Boot
9 21 (11.86%) .NET
10 20 (11.30%) RESTful
11 16 (9.04%) Next.js
11 16 (9.04%) REST
12 15 (8.47%) FastAPI
12 15 (8.47%) Jest
13 14 (7.91%) Express.js
14 12 (6.78%) Django
15 9 (5.08%) Hibernate
15 9 (5.08%) Kafka
16 8 (4.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.99%) Fixed Income
2 22 (12.43%) Hedge funds
3 16 (9.04%) Equities
4 14 (7.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.95%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.82%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.82%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.26%) PKI
9 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.13%) Derivative
10 2 (1.13%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.56%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.69%) Unix
2 2 (1.13%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 73 (41.24%) Agile
3 38 (21.47%) CI/CD
4 36 (20.34%) Software Engineering
5 35 (19.77%) TDD
6 31 (17.51%) Microservices
7 29 (16.38%) DevOps
8 28 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (14.69%) Fintech
10 25 (14.12%) Front End Development
11 23 (12.99%) Analytics
12 22 (12.43%) Artificial Intelligence
12 22 (12.43%) Asset Management
12 22 (12.43%) Investment Management
13 16 (9.04%) Containerisation
14 15 (8.47%) User Experience
15 14 (7.91%) API Development
16 13 (7.34%) Mentoring
17 12 (6.78%) Event-Driven
17 12 (6.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (43.50%) JavaScript
2 68 (38.42%) Python
2 68 (38.42%) TypeScript
3 50 (28.25%) Java
4 34 (19.21%) SQL
5 16 (9.04%) C#
6 6 (3.39%) PHP
7 4 (2.26%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.69%) Ruby
8 3 (1.69%) VB
9 2 (1.13%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.13%) Perl
9 2 (1.13%) Scala
9 2 (1.13%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.13%) VB6
10 1 (0.56%) Bash
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Rust
10 1 (0.56%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 23 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.17%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.82%) Degree
5 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.65%) QA
2 4 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (18.64%) Docker
2 8 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.52%) Terraform
3 7 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.69%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Istio
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (5.08%) Microsoft
1 9 (5.08%) Oracle
2 5 (2.82%) Autodesk
2 5 (2.82%) Google
2 5 (2.82%) Okta
2 5 (2.82%) Virgin Media
3 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.13%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.13%) Databricks
4 2 (1.13%) InterSystems
4 2 (1.13%) Solace
5 1 (0.56%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.56%) SAP
5 1 (0.56%) SendGrid
5 1 (0.56%) Veracode