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

Full-Stack Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £490, 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 236 308 405
Rank change year-on-year +72 +97 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 68 37 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.69% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 30 54
10th Percentile £360 £403 £450
25th Percentile £400 £453 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £530 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -21.56% +17.39%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £700
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.68% -8.33% -

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer.

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

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

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

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

Full-Stack Engineer 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 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 52 (76.47%) React
3 46 (67.65%) Python
4 42 (61.76%) JavaScript
4 42 (61.76%) Agile
5 40 (58.82%) AWS
6 38 (55.88%) TypeScript
7 32 (47.06%) Software Engineering
8 25 (36.76%) AngularJS
9 24 (35.29%) Vue
10 22 (32.35%) GCP
11 19 (27.94%) Fintech
12 18 (26.47%) Azure
12 18 (26.47%) Finance
12 18 (26.47%) TDD
12 18 (26.47%) Asset Management
13 17 (25.00%) Analytics
13 17 (25.00%) CI/CD
14 16 (23.53%) Redux
14 16 (23.53%) Hedge funds
14 16 (23.53%) Investment Management
14 16 (23.53%) Front Office
14 16 (23.53%) Fixed Income
15 15 (22.06%) Node.js
16 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
17 11 (16.18%) Git
17 11 (16.18%) Amazon S3
17 11 (16.18%) API Development
18 10 (14.71%) DynamoDB
18 10 (14.71%) Microservices

Full-Stack Engineer 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 2 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) CMS
2 1 (1.47%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.47%) Strapi
Cloud Services
1 40 (58.82%) AWS
2 22 (32.35%) GCP
3 18 (26.47%) Azure
4 11 (16.18%) Amazon S3
5 9 (13.24%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (13.24%) Serverless
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.41%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (2.94%) CloudBees
8 2 (2.94%) GitHub
8 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.47%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.71%) DynamoDB
2 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.88%) MySQL
4 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Git
2 4 (5.88%) JIRA
3 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.47%) git-flow
4 1 (1.47%) GitLab
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (26.47%) Finance
2 16 (23.53%) Front Office
3 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.35%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Advertising
5 2 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.94%) Automotive
5 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) French Language
6 1 (1.47%) Games
6 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (76.47%) React
2 25 (36.76%) AngularJS
3 24 (35.29%) Vue
4 16 (23.53%) Redux
5 15 (22.06%) Node.js
6 9 (13.24%) CSS
6 9 (13.24%) Django
6 9 (13.24%) Flask
6 9 (13.24%) HTML
7 8 (11.76%) FastAPI
7 8 (11.76%) GraphQL
7 8 (11.76%) REST
8 7 (10.29%) .NET
9 6 (8.82%) Ajax
9 6 (8.82%) Next.js
10 4 (5.88%) RESTful
11 3 (4.41%) D3.js
11 3 (4.41%) pydantic
12 2 (2.94%) .NET Core
12 2 (2.94%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.53%) Fixed Income
1 16 (23.53%) Hedge funds
2 8 (11.76%) Equities
2 8 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.41%) NHS
3 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (61.76%) Agile
3 32 (47.06%) Software Engineering
4 19 (27.94%) Fintech
5 18 (26.47%) Asset Management
5 18 (26.47%) TDD
6 17 (25.00%) Analytics
6 17 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 16 (23.53%) Investment Management
8 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (16.18%) API Development
10 10 (14.71%) Microservices
10 10 (14.71%) OO
10 10 (14.71%) Test Automation
11 9 (13.24%) Front End Development
12 6 (8.82%) Computer Science
12 6 (8.82%) Containerisation
12 6 (8.82%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
12 6 (8.82%) DevOps
13 5 (7.35%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 46 (67.65%) Python
2 42 (61.76%) JavaScript
3 38 (55.88%) TypeScript
4 7 (10.29%) C#
4 7 (10.29%) Java
5 4 (5.88%) PHP
5 4 (5.88%) SQL
6 2 (2.94%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.94%) Ruby
6 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.47%) C++
7 1 (1.47%) Go
7 1 (1.47%) Groovy
7 1 (1.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.94%) Grafana
2 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (8.82%) Google
2 2 (2.94%) Atlassian
2 2 (2.94%) New Relic
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle
3 1 (1.47%) Amplitude
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
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