Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK > England

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 370 239
Rank change year-on-year +46 -131 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 221 320 848
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.63% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.67% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 229 626
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £757 £696 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +19.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £40.46
25th Percentile - £80.75 £58.58
Median hourly rate £55.00 £81.50 £65.49
Median % change year-on-year -32.52% +24.45% +50.55%
75th Percentile - £82.25 £67.69
90th Percentile - - £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £81.50 £65.49
% change year-on-year -50.92% +24.45% +50.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England.

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +58 154 £531 -3.41% 53
North of England +10 22 £500 -2.44% 43
North West +18 16 £475 - 32
South West +19 13 £399 +6.33% 14
South East +25 11 £413 +3.13% 16
Yorkshire -2 6 £550 +4.76% 9
Midlands +1 4 £550 +18.03% 6
East of England +11 3 £485 -30.71% 9
East Midlands +4 3 £550 +25.71% 3
West Midlands +18 1 - - 3
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Front-End Developer (Client-Side 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 across the England region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 197 (89.14%) Front End Development
2 136 (61.54%) React
3 115 (52.04%) JavaScript
4 111 (50.23%) TypeScript
5 88 (39.82%) CSS
6 67 (30.32%) Agile
7 66 (29.86%) HTML
8 58 (26.24%) AngularJS
9 44 (19.91%) User Experience
10 39 (17.65%) AWS
11 38 (17.19%) Redux
12 36 (16.29%) Next.js
13 35 (15.84%) Social Skills
14 34 (15.38%) C#
15 33 (14.93%) TDD
15 33 (14.93%) DevOps
16 30 (13.57%) Node.js
17 29 (13.12%) .NET
18 28 (12.67%) Web Development
18 28 (12.67%) Accessibility
18 28 (12.67%) Full Stack Development
19 27 (12.22%) Vue
19 27 (12.22%) Security Cleared
20 26 (11.76%) Git
21 25 (11.31%) SC Cleared
22 24 (10.86%) Azure
23 23 (10.41%) REST
23 23 (10.41%) WCAG
24 22 (9.95%) Clean Code
25 21 (9.50%) Azure DevOps

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (9.05%) CMS
2 5 (2.26%) Apache
2 5 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.90%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.45%) Drupal
5 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Sketch
3 1 (0.45%) InVision
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (17.65%) AWS
2 24 (10.86%) Azure
3 21 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 17 (7.69%) GCP
5 15 (6.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
7 9 (4.07%) Figma
7 9 (4.07%) GitHub
8 7 (3.17%) npm
9 6 (2.71%) SaaS
10 4 (1.81%) Serverless
11 3 (1.36%) Contentful
11 3 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.90%) Slack
12 2 (0.90%) Stripe
12 2 (0.90%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.90%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.17%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.26%) Apache Ignite
3 5 (2.26%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.81%) GIS
4 4 (1.81%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.81%) Redis
5 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (0.90%) MySQL
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.45%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (11.76%) Git
2 17 (7.69%) JIRA
3 11 (4.98%) Cypress.io
4 10 (4.52%) webpack
5 6 (2.71%) GitLab
5 6 (2.71%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.71%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.90%) Babel
7 2 (0.90%) Storybook
7 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.45%) Grunt
8 1 (0.45%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.45%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.45%) Postman
8 1 (0.45%) Protractor
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) VersionOne
General
1 35 (15.84%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.60%) Finance
2 19 (8.60%) Public Sector
3 18 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.69%) Front Office
5 10 (4.52%) Back Office
6 8 (3.62%) Banking
7 4 (1.81%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.36%) Automotive
8 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.36%) Marketing
8 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Advertising
9 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.90%) Law
9 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.45%) Electronics
10 1 (0.45%) Legal
10 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (61.54%) React
2 88 (39.82%) CSS
3 66 (29.86%) HTML
4 58 (26.24%) AngularJS
5 38 (17.19%) Redux
6 36 (16.29%) Next.js
7 30 (13.57%) Node.js
8 29 (13.12%) .NET
9 27 (12.22%) Vue
10 23 (10.41%) REST
11 21 (9.50%) jQuery
12 19 (8.60%) .NET Core
13 18 (8.14%) Tailwind CSS
14 16 (7.24%) GraphQL
15 14 (6.33%) ASP.NET
16 12 (5.43%) HTML5
16 12 (5.43%) RESTful
17 10 (4.52%) ASP.NET MVC
17 10 (4.52%) CSS3
18 8 (3.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.14%) Fixed Income
2 8 (3.62%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.26%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.26%) Wiki
4 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.90%) Derivative
5 2 (0.90%) Graphic Design
5 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.90%) Social Media
6 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.45%) Animation
6 1 (0.45%) CCTV
6 1 (0.45%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.81%) Linux
2 2 (0.90%) Unix
2 2 (0.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (89.14%) Front End Development
2 67 (30.32%) Agile
3 44 (19.91%) User Experience
4 33 (14.93%) DevOps
4 33 (14.93%) TDD
5 28 (12.67%) Full Stack Development
5 28 (12.67%) Web Development
6 22 (9.95%) Clean Code
7 21 (9.50%) Software Engineering
8 20 (9.05%) UX Design
9 18 (8.14%) Design Patterns
9 18 (8.14%) OO
10 17 (7.69%) CI/CD
10 17 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (7.69%) MVC
11 15 (6.79%) API Management
11 15 (6.79%) OOD
12 14 (6.33%) Test Automation
13 13 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (5.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 115 (52.04%) JavaScript
2 111 (50.23%) TypeScript
3 34 (15.38%) C#
4 16 (7.24%) SQL
5 14 (6.33%) Bicep
5 14 (6.33%) Python
6 13 (5.88%) Java
7 4 (1.81%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.36%) Bash
8 3 (1.36%) JSX
9 1 (0.45%) C
9 1 (0.45%) F#
9 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.45%) PHP
9 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.07%) Degree
4 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.67%) Accessibility
2 23 (10.41%) WCAG
3 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 15 (6.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.62%) Docker
3 3 (1.36%) zsh
Systems Management
1 7 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (2.71%) Terraform
3 5 (2.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.79%) Google
3 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
3 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.45%) Foundry
4 1 (0.45%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.45%) Optimizely
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle
4 1 (0.45%) SAP
4 1 (0.45%) Xamarin