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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 91 72
Rank change year-on-year +3 -19 -11
Contract jobs citing Full Stack Development 1,051 1,547 2,933
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.44% 2.67% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.98% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 1,154 2,266
10th Percentile £325 £400 £413
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -1.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 26
10th Percentile £41.80 £38.00 £42.50
25th Percentile £54.06 £42.50 £50.31
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 £76.44
90th Percentile £79.75 £58.38 £80.54
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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +3 906 £550 -4.35% 866
London +3 575 £575 -4.17% 378
Work from Home -3 404 £525 -4.55% 755
UK excluding London +9 368 £475 -3.85% 533
South East +31 93 £450 -18.18% 76
North of England -26 80 £500 -4.76% 161
South West -6 55 £475 +5.56% 95
Midlands +32 49 £386 -18.68% 98
Scotland +16 46 £486 +2.32% 39
North West -12 45 £500 -4.76% 102
West Midlands +29 33 £350 -33.33% 53
Yorkshire +6 32 £513 -2.38% 39
East of England +22 24 £479 +12.71% 50
Wales +21 23 £438 +2.94% 17
East Midlands +16 15 £410 -3.53% 45
North East -11 3 - - 21

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 84 (7.99%) Apache
2 63 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.19%) CMS
3 23 (2.19%) nginx
4 12 (1.14%) Confluence
5 10 (0.95%) Drupal
5 10 (0.95%) WordPress
6 9 (0.86%) BizTalk Server
7 7 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.67%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.48%) JBoss
9 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.095%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.095%) Simulink
2 1 (0.095%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.095%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 421 (40.06%) AWS
2 320 (30.45%) Azure
3 122 (11.61%) GCP
4 97 (9.23%) Serverless
5 62 (5.90%) GitHub
6 57 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (4.66%) Azure Functions
8 43 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 30 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 29 (2.76%) Amazon S3
12 27 (2.57%) SaaS
13 24 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (2.19%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
15 20 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (1.90%) npm
16 19 (1.81%) Entra ID
17 17 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
18 15 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
19 14 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.81%) VPN
2 16 (1.52%) Firewall
3 6 (0.57%) HTTP
4 5 (0.48%) DNS
5 2 (0.19%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.095%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.095%) DHCP
6 1 (0.095%) DWDM
6 1 (0.095%) FIX Connectivity
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%) Network Security
6 1 (0.095%) SSH
6 1 (0.095%) VLAN
6 1 (0.095%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (7.42%) NoSQL
3 75 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 73 (6.95%) MongoDB
5 66 (6.28%) MySQL
6 63 (5.99%) Apache Ignite
7 45 (4.28%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.33%) Flink
10 14 (1.33%) Redis
10 14 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.86%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.76%) Power BI
14 7 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
15 6 (0.57%) GIS
15 6 (0.57%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.48%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 106 (10.09%) Git
2 75 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 40 (3.81%) JIRA
4 38 (3.62%) GitLab
5 36 (3.43%) Jenkins
6 31 (2.95%) webpack
7 21 (2.00%) Selenium
8 18 (1.71%) JUnit
9 13 (1.24%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.05%) Postman
12 10 (0.95%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.76%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.67%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.67%) Mockito
14 7 (0.67%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.57%) Maven
15 6 (0.57%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.48%) Gradle
16 5 (0.48%) Jasmine
General
1 239 (22.74%) Finance
2 146 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 138 (13.13%) Front Office
4 110 (10.47%) Banking
5 92 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (6.28%) Public Sector
7 29 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (2.19%) Marketing
9 16 (1.52%) Tech for Good
10 14 (1.33%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.05%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.95%) Retail
13 8 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.67%) Automotive
15 6 (0.57%) Games
16 5 (0.48%) Aviation
16 5 (0.48%) Back Office
16 5 (0.48%) Billing
16 5 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.38%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 819 (77.93%) Developer
2 587 (55.85%) Full Stack Developer
3 171 (16.27%) React Developer
4 150 (14.27%) Software Engineer
5 141 (13.42%) Full Stack Engineer
6 118 (11.23%) .NET Developer
7 97 (9.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 90 (8.56%) Python Developer
9 84 (7.99%) Senior
10 82 (7.80%) Java Developer
11 73 (6.95%) C# Developer
12 71 (6.76%) Python Engineer
13 65 (6.18%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 62 (5.90%) Full Stack Java Developer
14 62 (5.90%) Python Software Engineer
15 60 (5.71%) Full Stack .NET Developer
16 59 (5.61%) Full-Stack C# Developer
17 56 (5.33%) Angular Developer
18 52 (4.95%) Azure Developer
18 52 (4.95%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (50.71%) React
2 242 (23.03%) AngularJS
3 227 (21.60%) .NET
4 225 (21.41%) CSS
5 216 (20.55%) HTML
6 205 (19.51%) Node.js
7 133 (12.65%) Redux
8 95 (9.04%) REST
9 85 (8.09%) Spring
10 78 (7.42%) Vue
11 74 (7.04%) GraphQL
12 71 (6.76%) .NET Core
13 66 (6.28%) Material-UI
14 64 (6.09%) ASP.NET
14 64 (6.09%) gRPC
14 64 (6.09%) Protocol Buffers
14 64 (6.09%) Spring Boot
15 59 (5.61%) Laravel
16 51 (4.85%) RESTful
17 49 (4.66%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.61%) Fixed Income
2 98 (9.32%) Hedge funds
3 50 (4.76%) Equities
4 48 (4.57%) Product Ownership
5 45 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
6 30 (2.85%) Derivative
7 29 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 22 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.00%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.24%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.24%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.86%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
16 5 (0.48%) Marketing Technology
17 4 (0.38%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 63 (5.99%) Linux
2 35 (3.33%) Unix
3 19 (1.81%) Windows
4 14 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.86%) Android
6 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.095%) AIX
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.095%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (39.87%) Agile
2 267 (25.40%) Software Engineering
3 224 (21.31%) CI/CD
4 216 (20.55%) DevOps
5 152 (14.46%) Microservices
6 132 (12.56%) TDD
7 125 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
8 120 (11.42%) Test Automation
9 103 (9.80%) Asset Management
10 97 (9.23%) Investment Management
11 93 (8.85%) SDLC
12 89 (8.47%) Machine Learning
13 86 (8.18%) Front End Development
14 84 (7.99%) Artificial Intelligence
15 76 (7.23%) Web Development
16 69 (6.57%) Unit Testing
17 63 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
17 63 (5.99%) User Experience
18 58 (5.52%) Scrum
19 57 (5.42%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 392 (37.30%) JavaScript
2 353 (33.59%) TypeScript
3 273 (25.98%) Java
4 264 (25.12%) C#
5 262 (24.93%) Python
6 218 (20.74%) SQL
7 79 (7.52%) PHP
8 34 (3.24%) C
9 33 (3.14%) Go
10 29 (2.76%) Kotlin
11 27 (2.57%) C++
12 24 (2.28%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.52%) Ruby
14 13 (1.24%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.14%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.95%) Bash
16 10 (0.95%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.67%) Scala
18 6 (0.57%) Bicep
19 5 (0.48%) ProC
Qualifications
1 135 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 112 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 52 (4.95%) Degree
4 22 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.095%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.095%) CCNA
10 1 (0.095%) CCNP
10 1 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.095%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.095%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.095%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (8.09%) QA
2 47 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.76%) WCAG
4 6 (0.57%) MiFID
5 3 (0.29%) 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 92 (8.75%) Docker
2 22 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 56 (5.33%) Terraform
3 14 (1.33%) Grafana
4 12 (1.14%) Ansible
5 5 (0.48%) Kibana
5 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.19%) Puppet
8 1 (0.095%) Istio
8 1 (0.095%) logstash
8 1 (0.095%) Packer
8 1 (0.095%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 69 (6.57%) Google
2 65 (6.18%) Microsoft
3 45 (4.28%) Oracle
4 12 (1.14%) Databricks
5 9 (0.86%) MuleSoft
6 6 (0.57%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.48%) Optimizely
7 5 (0.48%) Xamarin
8 4 (0.38%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.38%) IBM
8 4 (0.38%) VMware
9 3 (0.29%) Confluent
9 3 (0.29%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.29%) SAP
9 3 (0.29%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.29%) Splunk
9 3 (0.29%) WooCommerce
10 2 (0.19%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.095%) Arista
11 1 (0.095%) Mapbox