Full Stack Developer Contracts

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK is £534 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 208 188
Rank change year-on-year +35 -20 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 589 716 1,327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.37% 1.28% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.35% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 550 1,009
10th Percentile £325 £400 £410
25th Percentile £414 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £788 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £488
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.13% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile £52.00 £45.75 £40.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £46.88 £50.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £73.60
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -32.06% +33.81%
75th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £75.62
90th Percentile £64.60 £56.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £76.10
% change year-on-year -2.27% -27.72% +90.24%

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £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 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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Top 16 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 1 June 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 +27 494 £550 - 199
London +28 317 £575 -4.17% 88
Work from Home +27 233 £550 +5.77% 127
UK excluding London +40 197 £450 -2.70% 120
South East +26 57 £600 +6.67% 16
South West +7 35 £400 -11.11% 22
North of England +2 34 £463 -11.90% 32
Scotland +34 23 £450 -5.26% 9
Wales +31 20 £444 +4.41% 4
North West +1 19 £463 -11.90% 24
Midlands +14 17 £350 -17.65% 30
Yorkshire +18 15 £400 -9.09% 4
West Midlands +12 10 £338 -25.00% 18
East of England +10 10 £375 -16.67% 9
East Midlands +5 7 £410 +4.46% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 589 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 306 (51.95%) React
3 224 (38.03%) Agile
4 210 (35.65%) AWS
5 203 (34.47%) JavaScript
6 185 (31.41%) Azure
7 165 (28.01%) TypeScript
8 160 (27.16%) AngularJS
9 158 (26.83%) C#
10 157 (26.66%) Java
11 145 (24.62%) .NET
12 141 (23.94%) Python
13 125 (21.22%) CSS
14 119 (20.20%) HTML
15 112 (19.02%) SQL
16 111 (18.85%) CI/CD
17 109 (18.51%) Finance
17 109 (18.51%) DevOps
18 108 (18.34%) Node.js
19 93 (15.79%) Microservices
20 88 (14.94%) PostgreSQL
20 88 (14.94%) Software Engineering
21 81 (13.75%) Security Cleared
21 81 (13.75%) Social Skills
22 77 (13.07%) Front Office
23 71 (12.05%) Test Automation
24 66 (11.21%) Git
24 66 (11.21%) SC Cleared
24 66 (11.21%) REST
25 65 (11.04%) Serverless

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 54 (9.17%) Apache
2 33 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.38%) nginx
4 12 (2.04%) CMS
5 7 (1.19%) Drupal
6 6 (1.02%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.85%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.68%) Confluence
9 3 (0.51%) JBoss
9 3 (0.51%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.34%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.34%) Camunda
10 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.34%) WildFly
11 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Sketch
2 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 210 (35.65%) AWS
2 185 (31.41%) Azure
3 65 (11.04%) Serverless
4 50 (8.49%) GCP
5 35 (5.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 34 (5.77%) Azure Functions
7 27 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (3.57%) GitHub
11 20 (3.40%) Entra ID
12 15 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (2.55%) npm
13 14 (2.38%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 12 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (2.04%) Amazon S3
15 9 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (1.36%) SaaS
17 7 (1.19%) Azure Storage
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 88 (14.94%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (9.00%) NoSQL
2 53 (9.00%) SQL Server
3 49 (8.32%) MongoDB
4 38 (6.45%) MySQL
5 33 (5.60%) Apache Ignite
6 25 (4.24%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.04%) Flink
9 11 (1.87%) Redis
10 5 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.85%) Power BI
11 4 (0.68%) GIS
11 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.51%) Big Data
13 2 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 66 (11.21%) Git
2 48 (8.15%) Cypress.io
3 23 (3.90%) JIRA
4 21 (3.57%) Selenium
5 16 (2.72%) Jenkins
6 14 (2.38%) GitLab
7 13 (2.21%) webpack
8 8 (1.36%) Postman
9 7 (1.19%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.02%) JUnit
11 5 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.85%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.68%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.68%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.51%) Maven
13 3 (0.51%) Mocha
13 3 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 109 (18.51%) Finance
2 81 (13.75%) Social Skills
3 77 (13.07%) Front Office
4 64 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (9.68%) Banking
6 41 (6.96%) Public Sector
7 10 (1.70%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.02%) Marketing
10 5 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.68%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.51%) Automotive
12 3 (0.51%) Law
12 3 (0.51%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.51%) Retail
13 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Publishing
13 2 (0.34%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.17%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (51.95%) React
2 160 (27.16%) AngularJS
3 145 (24.62%) .NET
4 125 (21.22%) CSS
5 119 (20.20%) HTML
6 108 (18.34%) Node.js
7 66 (11.21%) REST
8 59 (10.02%) Spring
9 57 (9.68%) Redux
10 39 (6.62%) Material-UI
11 38 (6.45%) GraphQL
11 38 (6.45%) Spring Boot
12 37 (6.28%) .NET Core
13 36 (6.11%) ASP.NET
14 35 (5.94%) Vue
15 34 (5.77%) gRPC
15 34 (5.77%) Laravel
15 34 (5.77%) Next.js
15 34 (5.77%) Protocol Buffers
16 31 (5.26%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.64%) Fixed Income
2 43 (7.30%) Hedge funds
3 35 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.89%) Equities
6 13 (2.21%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.70%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.02%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.34%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.34%) PropTech
12 2 (0.34%) Solar Panel
12 2 (0.34%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.75%) Linux
2 18 (3.06%) Unix
3 11 (1.87%) Windows
4 6 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.85%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 224 (38.03%) Agile
3 111 (18.85%) CI/CD
4 109 (18.51%) DevOps
5 93 (15.79%) Microservices
6 88 (14.94%) Software Engineering
7 71 (12.05%) Test Automation
8 61 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (9.51%) TDD
10 53 (9.00%) SDLC
11 51 (8.66%) Unit Testing
12 46 (7.81%) Asset Management
13 44 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (7.30%) Machine Learning
15 41 (6.96%) Artificial Intelligence
15 41 (6.96%) Front End Development
15 41 (6.96%) User Experience
16 40 (6.79%) Investment Management
17 39 (6.62%) MVC
18 37 (6.28%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 203 (34.47%) JavaScript
2 165 (28.01%) TypeScript
3 158 (26.83%) C#
4 157 (26.66%) Java
5 141 (23.94%) Python
6 112 (19.02%) SQL
7 51 (8.66%) PHP
8 22 (3.74%) C
9 18 (3.06%) Kotlin
10 12 (2.04%) Go
10 12 (2.04%) Ruby
11 9 (1.53%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.36%) C++
12 8 (1.36%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.02%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.85%) Bicep
15 2 (0.34%) Bash
15 2 (0.34%) Rust
15 2 (0.34%) Swift
16 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.11%) Degree
4 13 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.70%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.17%) OCP
9 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.26%) QA
2 21 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.68%) MiFID
4 3 (0.51%) SLA
5 2 (0.34%) WCAG
6 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.17%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (8.66%) Docker
2 22 (3.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.75%) Terraform
3 6 (1.02%) Ansible
3 6 (1.02%) Grafana
4 3 (0.51%) Kibana
5 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.17%) logstash
6 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (6.45%) Google
1 38 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.23%) Oracle
3 10 (1.70%) Databricks
4 6 (1.02%) MuleSoft
4 6 (1.02%) Xamarin
5 5 (0.85%) Virgin Media
6 4 (0.68%) Optimizely
7 3 (0.51%) Splunk
8 2 (0.34%) IBM
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.34%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.17%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.17%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.17%) Sybase
9 1 (0.17%) Syncfusion
9 1 (0.17%) VMware
9 1 (0.17%) Zuora
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