Senior Front-End Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 431 487
Rank change year-on-year +57 +56 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 13 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.026% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.028% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 17
10th Percentile £410 £474 £390
25th Percentile £450 £490 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +18.89% -
75th Percentile £513 £589 £550
90th Percentile £584 £611 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -15.18% -2.61% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate - - £63.62
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £63.62
% change year-on-year - - +7.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,744 21,756 29,108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,430 15,189 20,397
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,113 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior Front-End Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Front-End Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Front-End Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Front-End Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Front-End Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
North of England +27 8 £475 - 9
North West - 6 £475 - 7
South West - 3 £443 - 3
Yorkshire +20 2 £575 - 2
South East +20 1 £500 +5.26% 5
Scotland - 1 £575 - 2
Senior Front-End Developer
UK

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Senior Front-End 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Front-End Developer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 10 (76.92%) React
3 8 (61.54%) Redux
4 7 (53.85%) GraphQL
5 6 (46.15%) Vue
5 6 (46.15%) Next.js
6 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
7 4 (30.77%) HTML
7 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
7 4 (30.77%) CSS
8 2 (15.38%) TDD
8 2 (15.38%) JIRA
8 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
8 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
8 2 (15.38%) REST
8 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
8 2 (15.38%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (7.69%) Figma
9 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
9 1 (7.69%) Inventory Management
9 1 (7.69%) Storybook
9 1 (7.69%) Human-Centred Design
9 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
9 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
9 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
9 1 (7.69%) Semantic HTML
9 1 (7.69%) Analytics
9 1 (7.69%) C#

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Figma
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Storybook
2 1 (7.69%) VersionOne
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Aviation
1 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) React
2 8 (61.54%) Redux
3 7 (53.85%) GraphQL
4 6 (46.15%) Next.js
4 6 (46.15%) Vue
5 4 (30.77%) CSS
5 4 (30.77%) HTML
6 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
6 2 (15.38%) REST
6 2 (15.38%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (7.69%) .NET
7 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 1 (7.69%) NgRx
7 1 (7.69%) RESTful
7 1 (7.69%) SAML
7 1 (7.69%) Semantic HTML
7 1 (7.69%) Svelte
7 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
2 2 (15.38%) TDD
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) API Integration
3 1 (7.69%) BDD
3 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
3 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (7.69%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (7.69%) Inventory Management
3 1 (7.69%) Logistics
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Pair Programming
3 1 (7.69%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.69%) User Experience
3 1 (7.69%) UX Design
3 1 (7.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Google
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft