Front End Development Contracts in the South West

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 150 126
Rank change year-on-year +28 -24 -31
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 28 19 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.88% 0.54% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.60% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 39
10th Percentile £368 £300 £362
25th Percentile £381 £331 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £588 £475 £595
90th Percentile £696 £523 £631
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,638 3,178 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.17% 89.57% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 2,329 2,324
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 329 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.19 £15.44 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +12.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the South West

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the South West

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Bristol +17 14 £525 +35.48% 8
Devon -2 5 £749 +66.44% 3
Cornwall - 4 £388 -
Wiltshire +6 2 £450 +5.88% 2
Gloucestershire +4 2 £575 - 2
Somerset - 1 £413 - 3
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (7.14%) Umbraco
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Pulumi
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) Azure
4 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (7.14%) MySQL
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Postman
1 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) git-flow
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Maven
2 1 (3.57%) Subversion
General
1 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Developer
2 13 (46.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) PHP Developer
6 1 (3.57%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) React
2 9 (32.14%) Flask
2 9 (32.14%) HTML
3 8 (28.57%) CSS
3 8 (28.57%) Next.js
4 6 (21.43%) REST
5 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 4 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (10.71%) .NET
7 2 (7.14%) GraphQL
7 2 (7.14%) Node.js
7 2 (7.14%) SAML
8 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
8 1 (3.57%) HTML5
8 1 (3.57%) NgRx
8 1 (3.57%) Redux
8 1 (3.57%) RESTful
8 1 (3.57%) Spring
8 1 (3.57%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) API Development
1 6 (21.43%) Web Application Development
2 4 (14.29%) ETL
2 4 (14.29%) Prototyping
2 4 (14.29%) User Stories
3 3 (10.71%) Agile
3 3 (10.71%) ETL Development
3 3 (10.71%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.71%) Web Development
4 2 (7.14%) API Testing
4 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (7.14%) Clean Code
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
4 2 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Mobile Development
4 2 (7.14%) Secure Coding
4 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
4 2 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
2 11 (39.29%) TypeScript
3 9 (32.14%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) C#
5 3 (10.71%) SQL
6 1 (3.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.57%) QA
1 1 (3.57%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Google
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Xamarin
3 1 (3.57%) Adobe