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

Full-Stack Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Full-Stack Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 75 73
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 312 403 797
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.15% 2.63% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 2.99% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 332 597
10th Percentile £358 £325 £403
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -6.82% +0.36%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £34.50 £36.00
25th Percentile - £46.88 £37.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +75.00% -38.95%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £42.50
90th Percentile - £80.50 £44.00
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £67.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -33.58% +34.00% -23.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Full-Stack Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Full-Stack Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Full-Stack Development
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 Development.

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

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

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

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

Full-Stack Development
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 Development.

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

Full-Stack Development
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 7 (2.24%) Confluence
2 5 (1.60%) Apache
2 5 (1.60%) CMS
3 4 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.28%) nginx
4 3 (0.96%) Camunda
4 3 (0.96%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.64%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.32%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 144 (46.15%) AWS
2 89 (28.53%) Azure
3 48 (15.38%) Serverless
4 37 (11.86%) GCP
5 30 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (6.41%) GitHub
8 15 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (3.53%) Azure Functions
10 10 (3.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.56%) Azure AKS
13 7 (2.24%) Azure API Management
13 7 (2.24%) Figma
14 6 (1.92%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (1.92%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 6 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.92%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.53%) HTTP
2 9 (2.88%) Firewall
3 6 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.64%) DNS
5 2 (0.64%) DWDM
5 2 (0.64%) LAN
5 2 (0.64%) Network Security
5 2 (0.64%) VPN
5 2 (0.64%) WAN
6 1 (0.32%) POP3
6 1 (0.32%) SMTP
6 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.78%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 23 (7.37%) MongoDB
4 18 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.13%) MySQL
6 15 (4.81%) Relational Database
6 15 (4.81%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.88%) Redis
9 6 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.60%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.60%) GIS
11 4 (1.28%) Apache Hive
11 4 (1.28%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (1.28%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.28%) Parquet
11 4 (1.28%) Presto
12 3 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 55 (17.63%) Git
2 16 (5.13%) GitLab
3 14 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.17%) JIRA
5 10 (3.21%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.92%) Selenium
7 6 (1.92%) webpack
8 5 (1.60%) Postman
8 5 (1.60%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.28%) Mocha
9 4 (1.28%) NUnit
9 4 (1.28%) Poetry
9 4 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.96%) git-flow
10 3 (0.96%) gulp
10 3 (0.96%) JUnit
10 3 (0.96%) Maven
10 3 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (13.78%) Finance
2 37 (11.86%) Social Skills
3 26 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.41%) Banking
4 20 (6.41%) Front Office
5 10 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.21%) Investment Banking
6 5 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.60%) Marketing
6 5 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.28%) Advertising
7 4 (1.28%) Retail
8 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.64%) Automotive
8 2 (0.64%) French Language
8 2 (0.64%) Games
8 2 (0.64%) German Language
8 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.64%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.64%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 212 (67.95%) Developer
2 158 (50.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 68 (21.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 36 (11.54%) React Developer
5 34 (10.90%) Java Developer
5 34 (10.90%) Software Engineer
6 29 (9.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 24 (7.69%) Python Developer
8 23 (7.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 20 (6.41%) Senior
10 19 (6.09%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 17 (5.45%) .NET Developer
11 17 (5.45%) Lead
11 17 (5.45%) Node.js Developer
12 16 (5.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 14 (4.49%) JavaScript Engineer
13 14 (4.49%) Senior Developer
14 13 (4.17%) Python Engineer
15 12 (3.85%) Angular Developer
15 12 (3.85%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (52.88%) React
2 84 (26.92%) AngularJS
3 79 (25.32%) Node.js
4 62 (19.87%) CSS
5 55 (17.63%) .NET
6 52 (16.67%) HTML
7 41 (13.14%) Vue
8 36 (11.54%) RESTful
9 29 (9.29%) Redux
9 29 (9.29%) Spring
10 28 (8.97%) REST
11 25 (8.01%) GraphQL
12 24 (7.69%) Spring Boot
13 23 (7.37%) Django
13 23 (7.37%) Next.js
14 21 (6.73%) .NET Core
15 20 (6.41%) FastAPI
15 20 (6.41%) Kafka
16 15 (4.81%) Tailwind CSS
17 14 (4.49%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.45%) Fixed Income
2 16 (5.13%) Hedge funds
3 13 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.21%) Equities
4 10 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.24%) Derivative
5 7 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.28%) NHS
9 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.56%) Linux
2 5 (1.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.32%) AIX
3 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.32%) Solaris
3 1 (0.32%) Unix
3 1 (0.32%) VMS
3 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (39.42%) Agile
2 81 (25.96%) CI/CD
3 69 (22.12%) Microservices
4 65 (20.83%) DevOps
5 57 (18.27%) Software Engineering
6 55 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (13.78%) Front End Development
8 38 (12.18%) TDD
9 34 (10.90%) API Development
9 34 (10.90%) Containerisation
10 28 (8.97%) User Experience
11 27 (8.65%) Artificial Intelligence
11 27 (8.65%) Test Automation
12 26 (8.33%) Analytics
13 22 (7.05%) Code Quality
13 22 (7.05%) Fintech
14 20 (6.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (6.41%) Scrum
15 19 (6.09%) Asset Management
15 19 (6.09%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 125 (40.06%) Python
2 118 (37.82%) JavaScript
3 111 (35.58%) TypeScript
4 84 (26.92%) Java
5 54 (17.31%) SQL
6 46 (14.74%) C#
7 14 (4.49%) PHP
8 7 (2.24%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.24%) Ruby
9 6 (1.92%) Go
10 4 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.96%) Scala
11 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.96%) VB
12 2 (0.64%) Bash
12 2 (0.64%) C++
12 2 (0.64%) Perl
12 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.64%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.64%) VB6
Qualifications
1 42 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.90%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.45%) Degree
4 11 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.64%) CCNA
6 2 (0.64%) CCNP
6 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.64%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.64%) JNCIA
6 2 (0.64%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.32%) CCDE
7 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.85%) QA
2 9 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.64%) WCAG
4 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 52 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.22%) Terraform
3 6 (1.92%) Ansible
3 6 (1.92%) Grafana
4 5 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.64%) Istio
6 2 (0.64%) Kibana
7 1 (0.32%) MIIS
Vendors
1 14 (4.49%) Google
2 11 (3.53%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.21%) Oracle
4 7 (2.24%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.96%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.64%) Arista
6 2 (0.64%) Cisco
6 2 (0.64%) IBM
6 2 (0.64%) InterSystems
6 2 (0.64%) Mapbox
6 2 (0.64%) New Relic
6 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.64%) Solace
6 2 (0.64%) Splunk
6 2 (0.64%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.32%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.32%) Databricks
7 1 (0.32%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.32%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.32%) Zuora