Full Stack Development Contracts

Full-Stack Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Full Stack Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Full Stack Development over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 93 72
Rank change year-on-year +8 -21 -13
Contract jobs citing Full Stack Development 1,064 1,436 2,916
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.46% 2.58% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.88% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 1,077 2,248
10th Percentile £325 £406 £413
25th Percentile £419 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 26
10th Percentile £41.80 £38.00 £45.00
25th Percentile £54.06 £42.50 £50.31
Median hourly rate £64.75 £50.00 £62.77
Median % change year-on-year +29.50% -20.34% +14.13%
75th Percentile £75.63 £57.81 £75.39
90th Percentile £79.75 £58.38 £76.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £56.25 £70.27
% change year-on-year +24.44% -19.95% +27.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Full Stack Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,910 49,947 79,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 89.66% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,591 34,538 56,189
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £648
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,563 1,686 1,877
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.54 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Full Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Full Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Development over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Full Stack Development over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
Top 17 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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +5 906 £550 -4.35% 903
London +4 571 £600 - 361
Work from Home +2 419 £525 -4.55% 614
UK excluding London +22 380 £463 -7.50% 585
South East +25 96 £463 -17.78% 86
North of England -16 80 £538 - 191
Scotland +45 55 £450 -5.26% 28
South West +12 54 £450 - 90
Midlands +25 49 £399 -16.05% 121
North West -5 46 £538 +1.18% 113
West Midlands +21 34 £350 -33.33% 65
Yorkshire +9 29 £513 -2.38% 54
Wales +32 24 £450 +5.88% 15
East of England +13 23 £472 +11.06% 48
East Midlands +5 14 £415 -2.47% 56
North East -11 5 - - 27
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 16

Full Stack Development
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 97 (9.12%) Apache
2 75 (7.05%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.07%) CMS
4 17 (1.60%) Confluence
5 16 (1.50%) nginx
6 10 (0.94%) Drupal
7 9 (0.85%) WordPress
8 7 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.66%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.47%) JBoss
10 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) Camunda
11 2 (0.19%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.094%) Simulink
2 1 (0.094%) Sketch
2 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.094%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 412 (38.72%) AWS
2 324 (30.45%) Azure
3 129 (12.12%) GCP
4 116 (10.90%) Serverless
5 60 (5.64%) GitHub
6 57 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (4.70%) Azure Functions
8 45 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 32 (3.01%) Amazon S3
11 30 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 29 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
13 25 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
13 25 (2.35%) SaaS
14 24 (2.26%) npm
15 20 (1.88%) Entra ID
16 16 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (1.41%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
18 14 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
19 13 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.88%) VPN
2 16 (1.50%) Firewall
3 6 (0.56%) DNS
3 6 (0.56%) HTTP
4 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) DHCP
5 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.19%) SSH
6 1 (0.094%) 5G
6 1 (0.094%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.094%) DWDM
6 1 (0.094%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.094%) FTP
6 1 (0.094%) Internet
6 1 (0.094%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.094%) LTE
6 1 (0.094%) Network Security
6 1 (0.094%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.094%) VLAN
6 1 (0.094%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (15.41%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (8.18%) NoSQL
3 80 (7.52%) SQL Server
4 75 (7.05%) Apache Ignite
4 75 (7.05%) MongoDB
5 69 (6.48%) MySQL
6 42 (3.95%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.79%) Redis
8 18 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (1.32%) Flink
10 12 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.03%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.94%) Big Data
13 9 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
14 7 (0.66%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.66%) Power BI
15 6 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 107 (10.06%) Git
2 92 (8.65%) Cypress.io
3 44 (4.14%) JIRA
4 38 (3.57%) GitLab
5 37 (3.48%) Jenkins
6 33 (3.10%) webpack
7 23 (2.16%) JUnit
7 23 (2.16%) Selenium
8 12 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.03%) CircleCI
9 11 (1.03%) Maven
9 11 (1.03%) Postman
10 9 (0.85%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.75%) Mockito
11 8 (0.75%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.66%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.56%) Gradle
13 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 243 (22.84%) Finance
2 146 (13.72%) Front Office
3 139 (13.06%) Social Skills
4 125 (11.75%) Banking
5 91 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 29 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 16 (1.50%) Tech for Good
10 13 (1.22%) Marketing
11 10 (0.94%) Financial Institution
11 10 (0.94%) Retail
12 7 (0.66%) Automotive
12 7 (0.66%) Games
12 7 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.47%) Aviation
13 5 (0.47%) Billing
13 5 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.38%) Law
14 4 (0.38%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 820 (77.07%) Developer
2 585 (54.98%) Full Stack Developer
3 184 (17.29%) React Developer
4 161 (15.13%) Software Engineer
5 146 (13.72%) Full Stack Engineer
6 117 (11.00%) .NET Developer
7 102 (9.59%) Python Developer
8 101 (9.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 98 (9.21%) Senior
10 97 (9.12%) Java Developer
11 83 (7.80%) Python Engineer
12 74 (6.95%) Python Software Engineer
13 72 (6.77%) C# Developer
14 70 (6.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 69 (6.48%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 65 (6.11%) Full Stack .NET Developer
17 59 (5.55%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 58 (5.45%) Full Stack Python Developer
19 57 (5.36%) Angular Developer
19 57 (5.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 527 (49.53%) React
2 234 (21.99%) AngularJS
3 229 (21.52%) .NET
4 208 (19.55%) Node.js
5 207 (19.45%) CSS
6 202 (18.98%) HTML
7 130 (12.22%) Redux
8 103 (9.68%) REST
9 86 (8.08%) Spring
10 77 (7.24%) gRPC
11 76 (7.14%) Protocol Buffers
12 70 (6.58%) GraphQL
12 70 (6.58%) Material-UI
12 70 (6.58%) Vue
13 68 (6.39%) .NET Core
14 67 (6.30%) Spring Boot
15 54 (5.08%) ASP.NET
16 52 (4.89%) Kafka
16 52 (4.89%) Next.js
17 51 (4.79%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.15%) Fixed Income
2 104 (9.77%) Hedge funds
3 55 (5.17%) Equities
4 51 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 47 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
6 29 (2.73%) Derivative
7 27 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 20 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.60%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.50%) Cloud Native
11 16 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.13%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.03%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.66%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
16 6 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 5 (0.47%) Onboarding
17 5 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (6.11%) Linux
2 29 (2.73%) Unix
3 15 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.41%) Windows
4 12 (1.13%) Android
5 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.094%) AIX
6 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.094%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (39.57%) Agile
2 284 (26.69%) Software Engineering
3 230 (21.62%) CI/CD
4 222 (20.86%) DevOps
5 152 (14.29%) Microservices
6 125 (11.75%) Test Automation
7 122 (11.47%) TDD
8 118 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
9 111 (10.43%) Asset Management
10 103 (9.68%) Machine Learning
11 101 (9.49%) Artificial Intelligence
11 101 (9.49%) Investment Management
12 79 (7.42%) SDLC
13 73 (6.86%) Front End Development
14 72 (6.77%) User Experience
15 65 (6.11%) Automated Trading
15 65 (6.11%) Scrum
15 65 (6.11%) Web Development
16 62 (5.83%) Unit Testing
17 51 (4.79%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 366 (34.40%) JavaScript
2 342 (32.14%) TypeScript
3 275 (25.85%) Java
4 264 (24.81%) Python
5 255 (23.97%) C#
6 213 (20.02%) SQL
7 72 (6.77%) PHP
8 29 (2.73%) C++
8 29 (2.73%) Kotlin
9 27 (2.54%) C
10 26 (2.44%) Go
11 21 (1.97%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.88%) Ruby
13 15 (1.41%) Bash
14 12 (1.13%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.94%) PowerShell
16 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.66%) Scala
18 6 (0.56%) Bicep
19 5 (0.47%) ProC
Qualifications
1 104 (9.77%) Security Cleared
2 83 (7.80%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.26%) Degree
4 29 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.41%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.28%) OCP
10 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.094%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.094%) CCNA
11 1 (0.094%) CCNP
11 1 (0.094%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.094%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.094%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.094%) PhD
11 1 (0.094%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (7.14%) QA
2 41 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.56%) MiFID
3 6 (0.56%) WCAG
4 3 (0.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.094%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.094%) GDPR
6 1 (0.094%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.094%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.094%) MISRA
6 1 (0.094%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.094%) NCSC
6 1 (0.094%) NIST
6 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (8.65%) Docker
2 23 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.51%) Terraform
3 18 (1.69%) Grafana
4 9 (0.85%) Ansible
4 9 (0.85%) Kibana
5 5 (0.47%) logstash
5 5 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.38%) Rancher
7 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.094%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.094%) Puppet
Vendors
1 80 (7.52%) Google
2 63 (5.92%) Microsoft
3 42 (3.95%) Oracle
4 12 (1.13%) Databricks
5 8 (0.75%) Atlassian
5 8 (0.75%) Xamarin
6 7 (0.66%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.47%) MuleSoft
7 5 (0.47%) Optimizely
7 5 (0.47%) Virgin Media
8 4 (0.38%) VMware
9 3 (0.28%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.28%) SAP
9 3 (0.28%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.28%) Splunk
9 3 (0.28%) WooCommerce
10 2 (0.19%) Confluent
10 2 (0.19%) IBM
10 2 (0.19%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.094%) Syncfusion