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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 304 377
Rank change year-on-year +59 +73 +112
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 63 39 80
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 31 64
10th Percentile £363 £275 £461
25th Percentile £414 £417 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £663 £576 £750
90th Percentile £838 £644 -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

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 9,183 13,830 22,631
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 93.65% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,178 9,309 16,051
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £635 £631 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 569 533
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.13 £22.50 £24.75
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 63 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 47 (74.60%) React
3 45 (71.43%) JavaScript
4 42 (66.67%) AWS
5 41 (65.08%) Agile
6 40 (63.49%) Python
7 39 (61.90%) TypeScript
8 35 (55.56%) Software Engineering
9 31 (49.21%) AngularJS
10 29 (46.03%) Vue
11 27 (42.86%) GCP
12 25 (39.68%) TDD
13 24 (38.10%) Asset Management
13 24 (38.10%) Finance
14 23 (36.51%) Azure
14 23 (36.51%) Analytics
14 23 (36.51%) Fintech
15 22 (34.92%) Redux
15 22 (34.92%) Hedge funds
15 22 (34.92%) Investment Management
15 22 (34.92%) Fixed Income
15 22 (34.92%) Front Office
16 14 (22.22%) Equities
16 14 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 13 (20.63%) CI/CD
18 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
18 12 (19.05%) Microservices
19 11 (17.46%) Node.js
20 10 (15.87%) OO
21 9 (14.29%) Git

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 (3.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) CMS
2 1 (1.59%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.59%) Strapi
Cloud Services
1 42 (66.67%) AWS
2 27 (42.86%) GCP
3 23 (36.51%) Azure
4 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (7.94%) Serverless
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (6.35%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.17%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (3.17%) CloudBees
7 2 (3.17%) GitHub
7 2 (3.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.59%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.35%) MySQL
3 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.59%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) JIRA
3 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.59%) GitLab
General
1 24 (38.10%) Finance
2 22 (34.92%) Front Office
3 4 (6.35%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Advertising
5 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Games
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (74.60%) React
2 31 (49.21%) AngularJS
3 29 (46.03%) Vue
4 22 (34.92%) Redux
5 11 (17.46%) Node.js
6 9 (14.29%) GraphQL
7 8 (12.70%) REST
8 7 (11.11%) CSS
8 7 (11.11%) FastAPI
8 7 (11.11%) Flask
8 7 (11.11%) HTML
9 6 (9.52%) .NET
9 6 (9.52%) Ajax
9 6 (9.52%) Django
9 6 (9.52%) Next.js
10 3 (4.76%) RESTful
11 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
11 2 (3.17%) NestJS
11 2 (3.17%) Spring
12 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.92%) Fixed Income
1 22 (34.92%) Hedge funds
2 14 (22.22%) Equities
2 14 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 41 (65.08%) Agile
3 35 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 25 (39.68%) TDD
5 24 (38.10%) Asset Management
6 23 (36.51%) Analytics
6 23 (36.51%) Fintech
7 22 (34.92%) Investment Management
8 13 (20.63%) CI/CD
9 12 (19.05%) Microservices
9 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (15.87%) OO
11 8 (12.70%) Front End Development
12 6 (9.52%) API Development
12 6 (9.52%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
13 5 (7.94%) Containerisation
13 5 (7.94%) E-Commerce
13 5 (7.94%) OOP
14 4 (6.35%) Architectural Design
14 4 (6.35%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 45 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 40 (63.49%) Python
3 39 (61.90%) TypeScript
4 7 (11.11%) Java
5 6 (9.52%) C#
6 4 (6.35%) PHP
6 4 (6.35%) SQL
7 2 (3.17%) C++
7 2 (3.17%) Go
7 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.17%) Ruby
7 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.59%) Groovy
8 1 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Grafana
2 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (3.17%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.17%) New Relic
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle
3 1 (1.59%) Amplitude
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