Full Stack Developer Contracts

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £523 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 211 192
Rank change year-on-year +30 -19 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 590 766 1,340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 1.29% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.37% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 581 1,008
10th Percentile £325 £406 £400
25th Percentile £408 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £52.00 £45.75 £34.15
25th Percentile £53.13 £46.88 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.60 £56.25 £67.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer.

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England +33 496 £525 -4.55% 191
London +23 323 £550 -5.17% 83
Work from Home +29 234 £525 +5.00% 122
UK excluding London +30 189 £438 -2.78% 108
South East +34 56 £500 -9.09% 18
South West +11 37 £413 -8.33% 18
North of England -5 32 £425 -19.05% 29
Scotland +22 20 £473 +3.62% 4
Wales +26 17 £438 +2.94% 5
Midlands +19 17 £350 -17.65% 26
Yorkshire +18 16 £400 -17.95% 5
North West -12 16 £450 -14.29% 22
West Midlands +25 10 £325 -27.78% 14
East of England +20 10 £375 -16.67% 10
East Midlands +11 7 £410 +13.89% 12

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 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 featuring Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 590 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 305 (51.69%) React
3 233 (39.49%) AWS
4 229 (38.81%) JavaScript
5 225 (38.14%) Agile
6 177 (30.00%) TypeScript
7 168 (28.47%) Azure
8 164 (27.80%) Java
9 161 (27.29%) AngularJS
10 154 (26.10%) C#
11 143 (24.24%) Python
12 137 (23.22%) .NET
12 137 (23.22%) CSS
13 134 (22.71%) HTML
14 114 (19.32%) DevOps
14 114 (19.32%) Node.js
15 112 (18.98%) CI/CD
16 107 (18.14%) SQL
17 106 (17.97%) Security Cleared
18 105 (17.80%) Finance
19 101 (17.12%) Microservices
20 88 (14.92%) SC Cleared
21 86 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
22 81 (13.73%) Software Engineering
23 74 (12.54%) REST
24 73 (12.37%) Social Skills
25 71 (12.03%) Git
26 70 (11.86%) Test Automation
27 65 (11.02%) Spring
28 64 (10.85%) Front Office

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 44 (7.46%) Apache
2 25 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.22%) nginx
4 14 (2.37%) CMS
5 7 (1.19%) BizTalk Server
5 7 (1.19%) Drupal
6 5 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.68%) Confluence
7 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.51%) JBoss
8 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.51%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.34%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.34%) Camunda
9 2 (0.34%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.34%) WildFly
10 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (39.49%) AWS
2 168 (28.47%) Azure
3 51 (8.64%) Serverless
4 47 (7.97%) GCP
5 30 (5.08%) Azure Functions
6 28 (4.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 28 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (4.24%) GitHub
8 24 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (3.22%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 17 (2.88%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (2.20%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.20%) npm
13 9 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (1.53%) SaaS
14 8 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.68%) HTTP
2 3 (0.51%) Firewall
2 3 (0.51%) VPN
3 1 (0.17%) DHCP
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (8.81%) MongoDB
3 51 (8.64%) NoSQL
4 47 (7.97%) SQL Server
5 36 (6.10%) MySQL
6 29 (4.92%) Relational Database
7 25 (4.24%) Apache Ignite
8 14 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.03%) Flink
10 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.02%) Power BI
12 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.68%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.68%) GIS
13 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.68%) Redis
14 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 71 (12.03%) Git
2 40 (6.78%) Cypress.io
3 23 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.73%) JIRA
5 15 (2.54%) Selenium
6 14 (2.37%) GitLab
7 13 (2.20%) webpack
8 8 (1.36%) JUnit
8 8 (1.36%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.19%) Postman
10 5 (0.85%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.85%) Jasmine
10 5 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.85%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.85%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.51%) Mocha
12 3 (0.51%) NUnit
12 3 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 105 (17.80%) Finance
2 73 (12.37%) Social Skills
3 64 (10.85%) Front Office
4 54 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.14%) Banking
6 10 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 10 (1.69%) Marketing
7 8 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.85%) Back Office
8 5 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (0.68%) Tech for Good
10 3 (0.51%) Automotive
10 3 (0.51%) Law
10 3 (0.51%) Music Industry
10 3 (0.51%) Retail
10 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.34%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (51.69%) React
2 161 (27.29%) AngularJS
3 137 (23.22%) .NET
3 137 (23.22%) CSS
4 134 (22.71%) HTML
5 114 (19.32%) Node.js
6 74 (12.54%) REST
7 65 (11.02%) Spring
8 52 (8.81%) Redux
9 46 (7.80%) GraphQL
10 45 (7.63%) Spring Boot
11 43 (7.29%) ASP.NET
12 41 (6.95%) Laravel
13 38 (6.44%) .NET Core
13 38 (6.44%) Vue
14 34 (5.76%) Material-UI
14 34 (5.76%) Sass
15 30 (5.08%) Next.js
16 29 (4.92%) HTML5
16 29 (4.92%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.61%) Fixed Income
2 34 (5.76%) Hedge funds
3 29 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 10 (1.69%) Equities
6 9 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.34%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.34%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.34%) NHS
11 2 (0.34%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.76%) Linux
2 23 (3.90%) Unix
3 12 (2.03%) Windows
4 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.34%) Android
5 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 225 (38.14%) Agile
3 114 (19.32%) DevOps
4 112 (18.98%) CI/CD
5 101 (17.12%) Microservices
6 81 (13.73%) Software Engineering
7 70 (11.86%) Test Automation
8 63 (10.68%) TDD
9 62 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (9.83%) Unit Testing
11 56 (9.49%) SDLC
12 47 (7.97%) MVC
13 44 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (7.46%) Web Development
14 42 (7.12%) Front End Development
15 40 (6.78%) User Experience
16 39 (6.61%) Asset Management
17 35 (5.93%) OO
18 34 (5.76%) Investment Management
18 34 (5.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 229 (38.81%) JavaScript
2 177 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 164 (27.80%) Java
4 154 (26.10%) C#
5 143 (24.24%) Python
6 107 (18.14%) SQL
7 55 (9.32%) PHP
8 23 (3.90%) C
9 20 (3.39%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.71%) Go
11 12 (2.03%) Ruby
12 10 (1.69%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.53%) C++
13 9 (1.53%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.02%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.85%) Bicep
16 3 (0.51%) Bash
17 2 (0.34%) Rust
17 2 (0.34%) Scala
17 2 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 106 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 88 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.08%) Degree
4 12 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.59%) QA
2 30 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.68%) MiFID
4 3 (0.51%) SLA
4 3 (0.51%) WCAG
5 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (10.00%) Docker
2 18 (3.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.59%) Terraform
3 11 (1.86%) Ansible
4 9 (1.53%) Grafana
5 3 (0.51%) Kibana
6 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.34%) Puppet
6 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) logstash
7 1 (0.17%) Packer
7 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.08%) Google
3 22 (3.73%) Oracle
4 9 (1.53%) Databricks
5 7 (1.19%) MuleSoft
6 5 (0.85%) Optimizely
7 3 (0.51%) Splunk
7 3 (0.51%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.34%) IBM
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.17%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.17%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.17%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.17%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.17%) Sybase
9 1 (0.17%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.17%) VMware
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