Front End Development Contracts in the Thames Valley

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 131 142
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -41
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 7 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.49% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 13
10th Percentile £255 - £265
25th Percentile £300 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £469 £488
90th Percentile £605 £550 £521
South East median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,650 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 91.60% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,849 2,109
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +7.22%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 62 88
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £11.91
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.18
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.27% -20.00%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the Thames Valley

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the Thames Valley

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the Thames Valley

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the Thames Valley

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire 0 5 £400 -11.11% 2
Buckinghamshire +22 2 £475 +18.75% 3
Front End Development
South East

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (14.29%) Drupal
1 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) MailChimp
2 1 (14.29%) Veeva
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) CSS
1 4 (57.14%) HTML
1 4 (57.14%) React
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) Vue
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) GatsbyJS
3 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Next.js
3 1 (14.29%) Redux
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) User Experience
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) User Research
3 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Google