Full Stack Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 247 267
Rank change year-on-year +36 +20 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 181 208 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.91% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.96% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 169 172
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £325 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £617 £556 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £51.63 - £75.11
25th Percentile £52.19 £52.50 £75.27
Median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £76.10
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -27.72% +90.24%
75th Percentile £54.69 £57.50 £76.64
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £73.60
% change year-on-year +10.00% -32.06% +33.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Full Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full Stack Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +29 56 £565 +1.57% 47
South West -5 34 £381 -15.28% 27
North of England -1 32 £450 -14.29% 36
Wales +30 18 £438 +2.94% 8
Midlands +25 18 £350 -18.84% 31
North West -7 17 £456 -13.10% 29
Yorkshire +11 15 £400 -17.95% 4
Scotland +28 13 £500 +5.37% 9
West Midlands +26 11 £325 -27.78% 16
East of England +15 10 £375 -16.67% 12
East Midlands +7 7 £410 -3.53% 15
Full Stack Developer
UK

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 181 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 107 (59.12%) React
3 68 (37.57%) Agile
4 63 (34.81%) AngularJS
5 59 (32.60%) Java
5 59 (32.60%) JavaScript
6 55 (30.39%) Python
7 46 (25.41%) DevOps
7 46 (25.41%) Azure
7 46 (25.41%) AWS
7 46 (25.41%) CI/CD
8 43 (23.76%) TypeScript
9 34 (18.78%) SDLC
9 34 (18.78%) CSS
9 34 (18.78%) Spring
10 33 (18.23%) Microservices
11 30 (16.57%) SQL
12 29 (16.02%) HTML
13 28 (15.47%) C#
13 28 (15.47%) Unit Testing
13 28 (15.47%) Git
14 27 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (14.36%) .NET
16 25 (13.81%) Node.js
17 24 (13.26%) NoSQL
18 23 (12.71%) Security Cleared
18 23 (12.71%) Change Management
18 23 (12.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 22 (12.15%) Serverless
20 21 (11.60%) QA

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.87%) Apache
1 7 (3.87%) CMS
1 7 (3.87%) Drupal
2 3 (1.66%) Confluence
3 2 (1.10%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.10%) JBoss
3 2 (1.10%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.10%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.10%) WildFly
4 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.55%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.55%) Camunda
4 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.41%) AWS
1 46 (25.41%) Azure
2 23 (12.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 22 (12.15%) Serverless
4 20 (11.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (11.05%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (9.94%) Entra ID
6 16 (8.84%) Azure Functions
7 6 (3.31%) GitHub
7 6 (3.31%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.21%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.21%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.21%) SaaS
9 3 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.66%) npm
10 2 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.10%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) Firewall
1 2 (1.10%) VPN
2 1 (0.55%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.26%) NoSQL
2 18 (9.94%) MySQL
3 16 (8.84%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (7.18%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.52%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.76%) Power BI
8 4 (2.21%) GIS
9 3 (1.66%) Big Data
9 3 (1.66%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.10%) Redis
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.55%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (15.47%) Git
2 9 (4.97%) Cypress.io
3 7 (3.87%) Selenium
4 6 (3.31%) Postman
5 5 (2.76%) GitLab
5 5 (2.76%) JIRA
6 4 (2.21%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.21%) JUnit
7 2 (1.10%) Maven
7 2 (1.10%) Mocha
7 2 (1.10%) Subversion
7 2 (1.10%) webpack
8 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.55%) JMeter
8 1 (0.55%) Mockito
8 1 (0.55%) Storybook
General
1 20 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (8.84%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.73%) Finance
4 10 (5.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.76%) Banking
5 5 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.66%) Music Industry
7 2 (1.10%) Retail
8 1 (0.55%) Automotive
8 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.55%) Legal
8 1 (0.55%) Military
8 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (59.12%) React
2 63 (34.81%) AngularJS
3 34 (18.78%) CSS
3 34 (18.78%) Spring
4 29 (16.02%) HTML
5 26 (14.36%) .NET
6 25 (13.81%) Node.js
7 20 (11.05%) REST
8 19 (10.50%) Spring Boot
9 15 (8.29%) Vue
10 13 (7.18%) GraphQL
10 13 (7.18%) Next.js
11 12 (6.63%) Laravel
12 9 (4.97%) Express.js
12 9 (4.97%) Redux
13 8 (4.42%) HTML5
14 7 (3.87%) Angular 2
14 7 (3.87%) ASP.NET
14 7 (3.87%) Spring MVC
15 6 (3.31%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.60%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.10%) NHS
4 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.55%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.55%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.55%) PropTech
5 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.55%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.42%) Linux
2 4 (2.21%) Unix
3 3 (1.66%) Android
3 3 (1.66%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.55%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 68 (37.57%) Agile
3 46 (25.41%) CI/CD
3 46 (25.41%) DevOps
4 34 (18.78%) SDLC
5 33 (18.23%) Microservices
6 28 (15.47%) Unit Testing
7 27 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (12.71%) Change Management
9 18 (9.94%) Project Management
9 18 (9.94%) Test Automation
10 17 (9.39%) Product Backlog
11 16 (8.84%) MVC
12 15 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (8.29%) OO
13 13 (7.18%) Secure Coding
13 13 (7.18%) Software Architecture
13 13 (7.18%) TDD
14 12 (6.63%) API Integration
15 11 (6.08%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (32.60%) Java
1 59 (32.60%) JavaScript
2 55 (30.39%) Python
3 43 (23.76%) TypeScript
4 30 (16.57%) SQL
5 28 (15.47%) C#
6 21 (11.60%) PHP
7 14 (7.73%) C
8 3 (1.66%) Ruby
9 1 (0.55%) C++
9 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.55%) Scala
9 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.39%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.31%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.66%) Degree
5 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.60%) QA
2 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (11.05%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.66%) Terraform
3 2 (1.10%) Grafana
3 2 (1.10%) Kibana
3 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (5.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.21%) Oracle
3 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.55%) Databricks
4 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.55%) Google
4 1 (0.55%) IBM
4 1 (0.55%) Splunk
4 1 (0.55%) Sybase
4 1 (0.55%) VMware
4 1 (0.55%) Xamarin