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

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 283 221
Rank change year-on-year +33 -62 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 140 204 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.80% 0.80% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.84% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 136 388
10th Percentile £370 £359 £406
25th Percentile £450 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -5.42% +26.32%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £700 £775
England median daily rate £480 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £56.60
25th Percentile - £80.75 £56.75
Median hourly rate - £81.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year - +38.14% +45.68%
75th Percentile - £82.25 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £62.20
England median hourly rate £55.00 £81.50 £59.14
% change year-on-year -32.52% +37.81% +57.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,359 24,202 36,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.18% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,819 17,639 27,124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 276 418
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.60 £22.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

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

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

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

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

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

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Central London +34 16 £475 -25.49% 5
South London +12 3 - - 1
East London - 3 £435 - 1
West London +27 1 £350 -30.00% 1
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 London region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 126 (90.00%) Front End Development
2 88 (62.86%) React
3 86 (61.43%) JavaScript
4 74 (52.86%) TypeScript
5 64 (45.71%) CSS
6 49 (35.00%) HTML
7 48 (34.29%) Agile
8 43 (30.71%) User Experience
9 36 (25.71%) AngularJS
10 29 (20.71%) DevOps
11 25 (17.86%) Redux
12 24 (17.14%) AWS
12 24 (17.14%) C#
12 24 (17.14%) Full Stack Development
13 23 (16.43%) Web Development
14 22 (15.71%) Git
14 22 (15.71%) Node.js
15 21 (15.00%) Social Skills
16 20 (14.29%) Azure
16 20 (14.29%) WCAG
16 20 (14.29%) TDD
17 19 (13.57%) Fixed Income
17 19 (13.57%) CMS
17 19 (13.57%) Finance
17 19 (13.57%) .NET
17 19 (13.57%) Software Engineering
17 19 (13.57%) jQuery
17 19 (13.57%) Next.js
17 19 (13.57%) Accessibility
18 18 (12.86%) Clean Code

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (13.57%) CMS
2 9 (6.43%) Apache
2 9 (6.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.43%) Confluence
3 2 (1.43%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.43%) Sketch
3 1 (0.71%) InVision
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (17.14%) AWS
2 20 (14.29%) Azure
3 18 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 15 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
4 15 (10.71%) GCP
5 13 (9.29%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (9.29%) Azure Pipelines
6 6 (4.29%) Figma
6 6 (4.29%) npm
7 4 (2.86%) Contentful
8 3 (2.14%) GitHub
8 3 (2.14%) SaaS
9 2 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.43%) Slack
9 2 (1.43%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.43%) Yarn
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.86%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.43%) Apache Ignite
3 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.43%) MySQL
5 2 (1.43%) Redis
6 1 (0.71%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (15.71%) Git
2 11 (7.86%) JIRA
3 8 (5.71%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.00%) webpack
5 4 (2.86%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.14%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.43%) Babel
7 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.71%) Ant
8 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.71%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.71%) Storybook
8 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.57%) Finance
3 18 (12.86%) Front Office
4 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.14%) Back Office
7 8 (5.71%) Banking
8 3 (2.14%) Automotive
8 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Advertising
9 2 (1.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Local Government
10 1 (0.71%) Publishing
10 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.71%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (62.86%) React
2 64 (45.71%) CSS
3 49 (35.00%) HTML
4 36 (25.71%) AngularJS
5 25 (17.86%) Redux
6 22 (15.71%) Node.js
7 19 (13.57%) .NET
7 19 (13.57%) jQuery
7 19 (13.57%) Next.js
8 15 (10.71%) .NET Core
9 14 (10.00%) REST
10 12 (8.57%) ASP.NET
11 11 (7.86%) RESTful
12 10 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (7.14%) Vue
13 9 (6.43%) gRPC
13 9 (6.43%) Protocol Buffers
14 7 (5.00%) HTML5
14 7 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
15 6 (4.29%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.57%) Fixed Income
2 7 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.57%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.86%) Wiki
5 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.43%) Derivative
6 2 (1.43%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.43%) Social Media
7 1 (0.71%) Animation
7 1 (0.71%) CCTV
7 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.71%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Linux
1 2 (1.43%) Windows
2 1 (0.71%) CentOS
2 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (90.00%) Front End Development
2 48 (34.29%) Agile
3 43 (30.71%) User Experience
4 29 (20.71%) DevOps
5 24 (17.14%) Full Stack Development
6 23 (16.43%) Web Development
7 20 (14.29%) TDD
8 19 (13.57%) Software Engineering
9 18 (12.86%) Clean Code
9 18 (12.86%) UX Design
10 16 (11.43%) API Management
10 16 (11.43%) OO
11 15 (10.71%) OOD
12 14 (10.00%) Design Patterns
13 13 (9.29%) MVC
14 12 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (8.57%) Fintech
15 11 (7.86%) Investment Management
16 10 (7.14%) Code Quality
17 9 (6.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 86 (61.43%) JavaScript
2 74 (52.86%) TypeScript
3 24 (17.14%) C#
4 15 (10.71%) Python
4 15 (10.71%) SQL
5 14 (10.00%) Bicep
6 7 (5.00%) Java
7 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.14%) JSX
9 1 (0.71%) C
9 1 (0.71%) F#
9 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.71%) Degree
3 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.29%) WCAG
2 19 (13.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.86%) Terraform
3 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.29%) Google
3 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.71%) Mapbox
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle
3 1 (0.71%) Xamarin