Full Stack Engineer Contracts

Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 584 633
Rank change year-on-year +143 +49 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Engineer 141 119 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 92 159
10th Percentile £376 £375 £450
25th Percentile £463 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £563
% change year-on-year +5.56% -20.00% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £62.75 - -
25th Percentile £63.13 £56.25 £75.00
Median hourly rate £66.25 £57.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -28.13% +45.45%
75th Percentile £71.88 £58.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +21.74% - -

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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Full Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +109 119 £613 -2.00% 131
London +90 80 £700 - 87
UK excluding London +100 57 £475 +5.56% 45
Work from Home +85 36 £534 -20.89% 72
Scotland +56 18 £435 - 3
North of England +42 13 £400 -20.00% 19
East of England +25 11 £534 - 3
South East +25 7 £600 +31.87% 3
North West +28 6 £400 -11.11% 13
South West +20 4 £538 +34.38% 6
Yorkshire +19 4 £438 -12.50% 3
Midlands - 3 £300 - 9
North East - 3 - - 3
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 3
Wales +16 1 £490 +22.50% 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 job ads featuring Full Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 141 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 101 (71.63%) React
3 99 (70.21%) Software Engineering
4 92 (65.25%) TypeScript
5 81 (57.45%) Agile
6 75 (53.19%) AWS
7 64 (45.39%) Python
8 56 (39.72%) Java
9 53 (37.59%) Azure
10 52 (36.88%) Finance
11 50 (35.46%) JavaScript
12 45 (31.91%) GCP
12 45 (31.91%) CI/CD
13 41 (29.08%) Redux
14 40 (28.37%) SQL
15 39 (27.66%) Artificial Intelligence
15 39 (27.66%) Node.js
16 38 (26.95%) Machine Learning
16 38 (26.95%) Investment Management
16 38 (26.95%) Front Office
16 38 (26.95%) Asset Management
16 38 (26.95%) Fixed Income
16 38 (26.95%) Material-UI
17 37 (26.24%) PostgreSQL
17 37 (26.24%) HTML
18 35 (24.82%) CSS
19 32 (22.70%) Google
20 29 (20.57%) Hedge funds
20 29 (20.57%) Apache
20 29 (20.57%) Banking

Full Stack Engineer 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 29 (20.57%) Apache
1 29 (20.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.13%) CMS
2 3 (2.13%) WordPress
3 2 (1.42%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 75 (53.19%) AWS
2 53 (37.59%) Azure
3 45 (31.91%) GCP
4 16 (11.35%) GitHub
5 14 (9.93%) Serverless
6 8 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.67%) SaaS
7 4 (2.84%) BrowserStack
8 3 (2.13%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.42%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.42%) Cloud Run
9 2 (1.42%) IaaS
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.71%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (0.71%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.09%) Firewall
1 10 (7.09%) VPN
2 1 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) DWDM
2 1 (0.71%) LAN
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (26.24%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (20.57%) Apache Ignite
3 14 (9.93%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.38%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.67%) MySQL
6 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.71%) Big Data
8 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.71%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.71%) Looker
8 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (19.86%) Cypress.io
2 9 (6.38%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.67%) Git
4 5 (3.55%) GitLab
5 3 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.13%) JUnit
5 3 (2.13%) Mockito
5 3 (2.13%) webpack
6 2 (1.42%) Gradle
6 2 (1.42%) JIRA
6 2 (1.42%) Maven
6 2 (1.42%) Postman
6 2 (1.42%) Selenium
6 2 (1.42%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (36.88%) Finance
2 38 (26.95%) Front Office
3 29 (20.57%) Banking
4 17 (12.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (12.06%) Social Skills
5 7 (4.96%) Marketing
6 5 (3.55%) Aviation
7 4 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.13%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.71%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (71.63%) React
2 41 (29.08%) Redux
3 39 (27.66%) Node.js
4 38 (26.95%) Material-UI
5 37 (26.24%) HTML
6 35 (24.82%) CSS
7 29 (20.57%) gRPC
7 29 (20.57%) Protocol Buffers
8 20 (14.18%) AngularJS
9 15 (10.64%) GraphQL
10 13 (9.22%) REST
10 13 (9.22%) Spring
10 13 (9.22%) Spring Boot
11 11 (7.80%) HTML5
12 8 (5.67%) JPA
13 7 (4.96%) Next.js
13 7 (4.96%) RESTful
13 7 (4.96%) Vue
14 6 (4.26%) .NET
14 6 (4.26%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.95%) Fixed Income
2 29 (20.57%) Hedge funds
3 13 (9.22%) Equities
4 8 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (5.67%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.55%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.71%) Genomics
8 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Life Science
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.71%) Solar Panel
8 1 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.55%) Linux
2 2 (1.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Android
3 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 99 (70.21%) Software Engineering
3 81 (57.45%) Agile
4 45 (31.91%) CI/CD
5 39 (27.66%) Artificial Intelligence
6 38 (26.95%) Asset Management
6 38 (26.95%) Investment Management
6 38 (26.95%) Machine Learning
7 29 (20.57%) Automated Trading
8 25 (17.73%) DevOps
8 25 (17.73%) Microservices
9 18 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (12.77%) SDLC
10 12 (8.51%) Test Automation
11 11 (7.80%) Operational Stability
11 11 (7.80%) TDD
12 10 (7.09%) Analytics
13 9 (6.38%) Fintech
13 9 (6.38%) Performance Attribution
13 9 (6.38%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 92 (65.25%) TypeScript
2 64 (45.39%) Python
3 56 (39.72%) Java
4 50 (35.46%) JavaScript
5 40 (28.37%) SQL
6 14 (9.93%) C#
6 14 (9.93%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.55%) PHP
8 4 (2.84%) Go
9 2 (1.42%) C++
10 1 (0.71%) Bash
10 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (5.67%) Degree
2 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.84%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.71%) CCNA
4 1 (0.71%) CCNP
4 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.71%) JNCIA
4 1 (0.71%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.55%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (5.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.71%) VirtualBox
2 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.67%) Terraform
3 4 (2.84%) Grafana
4 1 (0.71%) Ansible
4 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (22.70%) Google
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.13%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.42%) Confluent
4 1 (0.71%) Arista
4 1 (0.71%) Cisco
4 1 (0.71%) Compaq
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle
4 1 (0.71%) SAP
4 1 (0.71%) VMware
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