Senior Full Stack Engineer Contracts

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the UK is £534 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 673 817
Rank change year-on-year +119 +144 -164
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer 22 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.019% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.020% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 29
10th Percentile £493 £405 £510
25th Percentile £506 £516 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £575 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% -20.69% +48.72%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £750
90th Percentile £725 £788 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £410 £525
% change year-on-year +30.24% -21.90% +10.53%

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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +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 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Full Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Full Stack Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +126 22 £534 -7.13% 33
London +111 16 £535 -6.96% 27
Work from Home +120 6 £534 -2.91% 20
UK excluding London +60 6 £534 +30.24% 6
East of England - 6 £534 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Full Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 20 (90.91%) Software Engineering
3 16 (72.73%) React
4 15 (68.18%) TypeScript
5 10 (45.45%) HTML
5 10 (45.45%) Java
5 10 (45.45%) CSS
5 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
6 9 (40.91%) DevOps
7 8 (36.36%) Node.js
7 8 (36.36%) Microservices
8 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
8 7 (31.82%) Agile
9 6 (27.27%) AWS
10 5 (22.73%) Load Balancing
10 5 (22.73%) HTML5
10 5 (22.73%) VPN
10 5 (22.73%) TDD
10 5 (22.73%) Firewall
10 5 (22.73%) Identity Management
10 5 (22.73%) Finance
10 5 (22.73%) SQL
10 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (22.73%) Azure
10 5 (22.73%) NoSQL
11 4 (18.18%) Prototyping
11 4 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (18.18%) Python
11 4 (18.18%) Marketing
11 4 (18.18%) Web Development

Senior 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 1 (4.55%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) IaaS
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Firewall
1 5 (22.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Gradle
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Marketing
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Tech for Good
4 1 (4.55%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (72.73%) React
2 10 (45.45%) CSS
2 10 (45.45%) HTML
3 8 (36.36%) Node.js
4 5 (22.73%) HTML5
5 2 (9.09%) REST
6 1 (4.55%) CSS3
6 1 (4.55%) Laravel
6 1 (4.55%) Next.js
6 1 (4.55%) Nuxt
6 1 (4.55%) Spring
6 1 (4.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 20 (90.91%) Software Engineering
3 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) DevOps
5 8 (36.36%) Microservices
6 7 (31.82%) Agile
7 5 (22.73%) Identity Management
7 5 (22.73%) Load Balancing
7 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (22.73%) TDD
8 4 (18.18%) Prototyping
8 4 (18.18%) Web Development
9 3 (13.64%) BDD
9 3 (13.64%) Technical Debt
10 2 (9.09%) Front End Development
10 2 (9.09%) Pair Programming
10 2 (9.09%) User Experience
10 2 (9.09%) UX Design
11 1 (4.55%) Extreme Programming
11 1 (4.55%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) TypeScript
2 10 (45.45%) Java
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
4 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 4 (18.18%) Python
6 3 (13.64%) Go
7 2 (9.09%) C#
8 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
8 1 (4.55%) PHP
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform