Full Stack Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £470 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 430 488
Rank change year-on-year +102 +58 -69
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Engineer 57 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.061% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.065% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 11 17
10th Percentile £275 - £423
25th Percentile £375 £375 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £688
90th Percentile £600 £563 £775
UK median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +15.22% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Full Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Engineer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Scotland +57 17 £430 - 1
North of England +41 13 £400 -20.00% 24
East of England +14 11 £534 - 6
South East +37 7 £600 +31.87% 47
North West +26 6 £400 -23.81% 17
South West +10 5 £475 +18.75% 6
Yorkshire +15 4 £438 -12.50% 4
Midlands - 3 £300 - 9
North East - 3 - - 3
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 4
Wales +17 1 £490 +22.50% 2
Full Stack Engineer
UK

Full Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Full Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 42 (73.68%) Software Engineering
3 36 (63.16%) Java
4 35 (61.40%) React
4 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
5 34 (59.65%) Agile
6 33 (57.89%) TypeScript
7 22 (38.60%) AWS
7 22 (38.60%) CSS
7 22 (38.60%) HTML
8 17 (29.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (29.82%) JavaScript
8 17 (29.82%) SQL
9 16 (28.07%) AngularJS
10 15 (26.32%) DevOps
11 14 (24.56%) Microservices
11 14 (24.56%) SDLC
12 13 (22.81%) Azure
13 12 (21.05%) Python
14 11 (19.30%) Spring
14 11 (19.30%) REST
14 11 (19.30%) Spring Boot
14 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (19.30%) Operational Stability
15 10 (17.54%) GitHub
16 9 (15.79%) Load Balancing
16 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
16 9 (15.79%) C#
16 9 (15.79%) Firewall
16 9 (15.79%) Identity Management

Full Stack Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) AWS
2 13 (22.81%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) GitHub
4 8 (14.04%) Serverless
5 6 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (7.02%) BrowserStack
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.51%) SaaS
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.75%) BigCommerce
9 1 (1.75%) GCP
9 1 (1.75%) Heroku
9 1 (1.75%) PaaS
9 1 (1.75%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) Firewall
1 9 (15.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) MongoDB
1 6 (10.53%) MySQL
1 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.75%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Cypress.io
2 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.77%) Git
4 4 (7.02%) GitLab
5 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.26%) JUnit
5 3 (5.26%) Mockito
6 2 (3.51%) Selenium
6 2 (3.51%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.75%) JIRA
7 1 (1.75%) Postman
General
1 17 (29.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (10.53%) Finance
2 6 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.77%) Aviation
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Retail
5 1 (1.75%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (61.40%) React
2 22 (38.60%) CSS
2 22 (38.60%) HTML
3 16 (28.07%) AngularJS
4 11 (19.30%) REST
4 11 (19.30%) Spring
4 11 (19.30%) Spring Boot
5 8 (14.04%) JPA
5 8 (14.04%) Node.js
6 6 (10.53%) RESTful
7 5 (8.77%) Jest
7 5 (8.77%) Next.js
8 4 (7.02%) HTML5
8 4 (7.02%) React Native
9 3 (5.26%) .NET
9 3 (5.26%) CSS3
9 3 (5.26%) Vue
10 2 (3.51%) Kafka
10 2 (3.51%) Redux
10 2 (3.51%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 42 (73.68%) Software Engineering
3 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
4 34 (59.65%) Agile
5 15 (26.32%) DevOps
6 14 (24.56%) Microservices
6 14 (24.56%) SDLC
7 11 (19.30%) Operational Stability
7 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.79%) Identity Management
8 9 (15.79%) Load Balancing
8 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.04%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (14.04%) Decision-Making
9 8 (14.04%) Machine Learning
10 6 (10.53%) BDD
10 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (10.53%) TDD
11 4 (7.02%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (7.02%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (63.16%) Java
2 33 (57.89%) TypeScript
3 17 (29.82%) JavaScript
3 17 (29.82%) SQL
4 12 (21.05%) Python
5 9 (15.79%) C#
6 4 (7.02%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.51%) C++
7 2 (3.51%) PHP
8 1 (1.75%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.75%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Grafana
1 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
1 4 (7.02%) Terraform
2 1 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (3.51%) Confluent
2 1 (1.75%) Compaq
2 1 (1.75%) Google
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.75%) VMware