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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 92 72
Rank change year-on-year +7 -20 -12
Contract jobs citing Full Stack Development 1,054 1,477 2,924
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.47% 2.60% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.90% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,111 2,265
10th Percentile £325 £400 £413
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £675
90th Percentile £788 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £499 £475
% change year-on-year -7.36% +5.11% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 25
10th Percentile £41.80 £38.00 £45.50
25th Percentile £54.06 £42.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £64.75 £50.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year +29.50% -23.71% +19.16%
75th Percentile £75.63 £57.81 £75.39
90th Percentile £79.75 £58.38 £77.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £56.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +24.44% -25.00% +50.00%

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 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 27 May 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 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Full Stack Development in the UK

Full Stack Development
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 Development within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +4 900 £550 -4.35% 1,226
London +5 566 £600 - 630
Work from Home +1 413 £525 -4.55% 916
UK excluding London +21 377 £463 -7.36% 844
South East +34 100 £463 -15.91% 331
North of England -18 77 £500 -6.98% 189
South West -2 54 £463 +2.78% 95
Scotland +33 53 £450 -5.16% 24
Midlands +38 48 £398 -16.32% 122
North West +4 44 £494 -5.95% 114
West Midlands +33 33 £350 -36.36% 75
Yorkshire +2 29 £500 -4.76% 49
East of England +21 24 £479 +12.71% 65
Wales +22 23 £438 +2.94% 24
East Midlands +14 14 £415 -2.47% 46
North East -12 4 - - 30

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 95 (9.01%) Apache
2 73 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.18%) CMS
4 22 (2.09%) nginx
5 12 (1.14%) Confluence
6 10 (0.95%) Drupal
6 10 (0.95%) WordPress
7 7 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
7 7 (0.66%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.47%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.19%) Camunda
10 2 (0.19%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.095%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.095%) Simulink
2 1 (0.095%) Sketch
2 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.095%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 423 (40.13%) AWS
2 331 (31.40%) Azure
3 131 (12.43%) GCP
4 105 (9.96%) Serverless
5 60 (5.69%) GitHub
6 57 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (5.03%) Azure Functions
8 46 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (4.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 34 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (3.04%) Amazon S3
11 28 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (2.37%) SaaS
13 24 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
14 23 (2.18%) Entra ID
15 22 (2.09%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
15 22 (2.09%) npm
16 16 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.90%) VPN
2 16 (1.52%) Firewall
3 6 (0.57%) DNS
3 6 (0.57%) HTTP
4 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) DHCP
5 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.19%) SSH
6 1 (0.095%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.095%) DWDM
6 1 (0.095%) FTP
6 1 (0.095%) Internet
6 1 (0.095%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.095%) LAN
6 1 (0.095%) LTE
6 1 (0.095%) Network Security
6 1 (0.095%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.095%) VLAN
6 1 (0.095%) WAN
6 1 (0.095%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (15.28%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (8.06%) NoSQL
3 77 (7.31%) SQL Server
4 73 (6.93%) Apache Ignite
5 69 (6.55%) MongoDB
6 67 (6.36%) MySQL
7 42 (3.98%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (1.52%) Redis
10 14 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.33%) Flink
11 12 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.04%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.76%) Power BI
15 7 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.66%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.57%) GIS
17 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 106 (10.06%) Git
2 89 (8.44%) Cypress.io
3 39 (3.70%) GitLab
4 38 (3.61%) JIRA
5 34 (3.23%) Jenkins
6 33 (3.13%) webpack
7 22 (2.09%) Selenium
8 19 (1.80%) JUnit
9 12 (1.14%) CircleCI
10 11 (1.04%) Postman
11 9 (0.85%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.76%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.76%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.76%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.66%) Mockito
14 6 (0.57%) Maven
14 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.47%) Gradle
15 5 (0.47%) Jasmine
15 5 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 246 (23.34%) Finance
2 144 (13.66%) Front Office
3 138 (13.09%) Social Skills
4 119 (11.29%) Banking
5 92 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 30 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.52%) Marketing
8 16 (1.52%) Tech for Good
9 13 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 10 (0.95%) Retail
12 8 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.66%) Automotive
14 6 (0.57%) Games
15 5 (0.47%) Aviation
15 5 (0.47%) Billing
16 4 (0.38%) Law
16 4 (0.38%) Music Industry
17 3 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 824 (78.18%) Developer
2 589 (55.88%) Full Stack Developer
3 179 (16.98%) React Developer
4 158 (14.99%) Software Engineer
5 146 (13.85%) Full Stack Engineer
6 117 (11.10%) .NET Developer
7 102 (9.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 102 (9.68%) Python Developer
8 86 (8.16%) Java Developer
9 81 (7.69%) Senior
10 80 (7.59%) Python Engineer
11 74 (7.02%) C# Developer
12 71 (6.74%) Python Software Engineer
13 69 (6.55%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 63 (5.98%) Full Stack .NET Developer
15 62 (5.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 60 (5.69%) Full-Stack C# Developer
17 59 (5.60%) Angular Developer
18 58 (5.50%) Full Stack Python Developer
19 54 (5.12%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (51.33%) React
2 246 (23.34%) AngularJS
3 228 (21.63%) .NET
4 218 (20.68%) CSS
5 212 (20.11%) HTML
6 194 (18.41%) Node.js
7 135 (12.81%) Redux
8 100 (9.49%) REST
9 85 (8.06%) Spring
10 75 (7.12%) Vue
11 74 (7.02%) gRPC
11 74 (7.02%) Protocol Buffers
12 72 (6.83%) Material-UI
13 71 (6.74%) GraphQL
14 68 (6.45%) .NET Core
15 63 (5.98%) Spring Boot
16 58 (5.50%) ASP.NET
16 58 (5.50%) Laravel
17 50 (4.74%) Next.js
18 49 (4.65%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.25%) Fixed Income
2 104 (9.87%) Hedge funds
3 55 (5.22%) Equities
3 55 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 47 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (2.66%) Derivative
6 26 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.80%) Cloud Native
8 19 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.85%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.76%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
16 6 (0.57%) Onboarding
17 5 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
17 5 (0.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.88%) Linux
2 35 (3.32%) Unix
3 17 (1.61%) Windows
4 15 (1.42%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.95%) Android
6 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.095%) AIX
7 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.095%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (40.42%) Agile
2 280 (26.57%) Software Engineering
3 234 (22.20%) CI/CD
4 227 (21.54%) DevOps
5 159 (15.09%) Microservices
6 129 (12.24%) TDD
7 127 (12.05%) Test Automation
8 123 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (10.34%) Asset Management
10 102 (9.68%) Investment Management
10 102 (9.68%) Machine Learning
11 96 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence
12 91 (8.63%) SDLC
13 80 (7.59%) Front End Development
14 73 (6.93%) Unit Testing
14 73 (6.93%) Web Development
15 72 (6.83%) User Experience
16 65 (6.17%) Automated Trading
17 60 (5.69%) Scrum
18 57 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 378 (35.86%) JavaScript
2 346 (32.83%) TypeScript
3 274 (26.00%) Java
3 274 (26.00%) Python
4 257 (24.38%) C#
5 212 (20.11%) SQL
6 78 (7.40%) PHP
7 33 (3.13%) C
8 29 (2.75%) Go
9 28 (2.66%) Kotlin
10 26 (2.47%) C++
11 22 (2.09%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.52%) Ruby
13 12 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.04%) Bash
14 11 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.95%) PowerShell
16 7 (0.66%) Scala
17 6 (0.57%) Bicep
18 5 (0.47%) ProC
Qualifications
1 116 (11.01%) Security Cleared
2 95 (9.01%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.22%) Degree
4 27 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.19%) OCP
11 1 (0.095%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.095%) CCNA
11 1 (0.095%) CCNP
11 1 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.095%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.095%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.095%) PhD
11 1 (0.095%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.78%) QA
2 47 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.66%) WCAG
4 6 (0.57%) MiFID
5 3 (0.28%) SLA
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.095%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.095%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.095%) GDPR
7 1 (0.095%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.095%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.095%) MISRA
7 1 (0.095%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.095%) NCSC
7 1 (0.095%) NIST
7 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 87 (8.25%) Docker
2 26 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 104 (9.87%) Kubernetes
2 50 (4.74%) Terraform
3 17 (1.61%) Grafana
4 10 (0.95%) Ansible
5 5 (0.47%) Kibana
5 5 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.095%) Istio
7 1 (0.095%) logstash
7 1 (0.095%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.095%) Puppet
Vendors
1 80 (7.59%) Google
2 64 (6.07%) Microsoft
3 42 (3.98%) Oracle
4 12 (1.14%) Databricks
5 8 (0.76%) Salesforce
6 7 (0.66%) MuleSoft
7 6 (0.57%) Xamarin
8 5 (0.47%) Optimizely
8 5 (0.47%) Virgin Media
9 4 (0.38%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.38%) VMware
10 3 (0.28%) Confluent
10 3 (0.28%) IBM
10 3 (0.28%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.28%) SAP
10 3 (0.28%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.28%) Splunk
10 3 (0.28%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.095%) Arista
11 1 (0.095%) Mapbox