Front End Development Contracts in Manchester

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 105 113
Rank change year-on-year +55 +8 -73
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 54 12 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.52% 0.63% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 0.69% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 11 26
10th Percentile £325 £313 £394
25th Percentile £450 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +24.22%
75th Percentile £550 £494 £550
90th Percentile £694 £569 £598
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £68.81 - -
25th Percentile £70.78 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £79.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £71.87 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Front End 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 advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,743 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.88% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,278 1,823
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £658 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +144.59% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Manchester

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Manchester

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Manchester

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in Manchester

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the Manchester 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
Salford - 1 £425 -
Bolton - 1 £500 -
Front End Development
North West

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (3.70%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 25 (46.30%) AWS
2 8 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (14.81%) Amazon ECR
2 8 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (14.81%) Amazon S3
2 8 (14.81%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (14.81%) Route 53
2 8 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) npm
3 4 (7.41%) Serverless
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.70%) Azure
6 1 (1.85%) Figma
6 1 (1.85%) Firebase
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) GitLab
1 8 (14.81%) Jenkins
1 8 (14.81%) webpack
2 6 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (1.85%) Crashlytics
3 1 (1.85%) Gradle
3 1 (1.85%) Storybook
General
1 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.26%) Finance
2 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 32 (59.26%) Developer
2 14 (25.93%) Java Developer
3 13 (24.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (16.67%) Senior
4 9 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 8 (14.81%) Lead
5 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 8 (14.81%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 7 (12.96%) Software Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) React Developer
7 6 (11.11%) User Researcher
8 4 (7.41%) AWS Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Technical Leader
9 2 (3.70%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Junior Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Junior Java Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Lead Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (57.41%) React
2 14 (25.93%) Hibernate
2 14 (25.93%) JPA
2 14 (25.93%) Redux
2 14 (25.93%) REST
2 14 (25.93%) Spring
2 14 (25.93%) Spring Boot
3 11 (20.37%) Node.js
4 8 (14.81%) Express.js
4 8 (14.81%) Spring Security
5 7 (12.96%) AngularJS
5 7 (12.96%) Vue
6 5 (9.26%) CSS
6 5 (9.26%) GraphQL
6 5 (9.26%) Next.js
7 4 (7.41%) HTML
7 4 (7.41%) RESTful
8 2 (3.70%) .NET
8 2 (3.70%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.70%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
1 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
1 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
1 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) Agile
2 17 (31.48%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.93%) Test Automation
4 13 (24.07%) Mentoring
5 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
5 11 (20.37%) User Experience
6 10 (18.52%) End-to-End Testing
6 10 (18.52%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (18.52%) Microservices
6 10 (18.52%) Scrum
7 9 (16.67%) API Development
7 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 9 (16.67%) DevOps
7 9 (16.67%) UX Design
8 8 (14.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (14.81%) Customer Engagement
8 8 (14.81%) ETL
8 8 (14.81%) Observability
8 8 (14.81%) QA Automation
9 7 (12.96%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.33%) Java
1 18 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.41%) PHP
3 4 (7.41%) Python
4 2 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (37.04%) SC Cleared
1 20 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) QA
2 6 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Grafana
2 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (1.85%) Google