Front End Development Contracts

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 184 227 126
Rank change year-on-year +43 -101 -14
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 558 710 1,894
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.19% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.32% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 501 1,410
10th Percentile £363 £350 £389
25th Percentile £420 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 16
10th Percentile £40.00 £42.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £53.75 £48.69 £28.54
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.75 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.15% +4.37% +52.67%
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.19 £67.40
90th Percentile £76.50 £77.83 £75.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +21.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +55 486 £525 - 323
London +53 333 £548 -4.78% 131
Work from Home +45 233 £500 - 184
UK excluding London +24 157 £500 +5.26% 207
North of England +10 73 £500 - 84
North West +47 57 £500 +5.26% 61
South West +28 27 £475 +11.76% 22
Yorkshire -20 16 £550 +4.76% 17
Scotland +36 15 £480 +2.24% 16
South East +12 14 £500 +25.00% 25
Midlands -3 14 £413 -2.94% 25
East Midlands 0 9 £425 +2.41% 6
Wales +15 8 £540 -1.82% 10
East of England +7 6 £500 -28.57% 27
West Midlands +18 5 £400 -20.00% 19

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (5.56%) CMS
2 16 (2.87%) Confluence
3 10 (1.79%) WordPress
4 9 (1.61%) BizTalk Server
5 8 (1.43%) Apache
6 6 (1.08%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.90%) Kentico
7 5 (0.90%) Tornado
8 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.36%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.54%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) InVision
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Endur
2 4 (0.72%) Shopify
3 2 (0.36%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 131 (23.48%) AWS
2 89 (15.95%) Azure
3 40 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (7.17%) GitHub
4 29 (5.20%) GCP
4 29 (5.20%) Serverless
5 27 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 23 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (3.41%) npm
8 18 (3.23%) Figma
9 16 (2.87%) Amazon S3
10 15 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (2.33%) Azure Functions
12 13 (2.33%) Azure Pipelines
13 11 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.97%) HTTP
2 3 (0.54%) Intranet
3 2 (0.36%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) NFC
4 1 (0.18%) PPP
4 1 (0.18%) RTSP
4 1 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.71%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 22 (3.94%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (2.15%) MySQL
7 10 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.90%) Apache Ignite
9 5 (0.90%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.72%) Redis
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.36%) GIS
11 2 (0.36%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.36%) RavenDB
12 1 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 98 (17.56%) Git
2 40 (7.17%) JIRA
3 36 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.91%) webpack
5 25 (4.48%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.94%) JUnit
7 21 (3.76%) GitLab
8 16 (2.87%) Storybook
9 9 (1.61%) Postman
9 9 (1.61%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.08%) Babel
12 6 (1.08%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.90%) Maven
13 5 (0.90%) Pylint
14 4 (0.72%) Gradle
14 4 (0.72%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.72%) Jasmine
14 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (15.59%) Finance
2 85 (15.23%) Social Skills
3 65 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.68%) Banking
5 39 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (6.45%) Front Office
7 16 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.33%) Local Government
9 12 (2.15%) Back Office
10 8 (1.43%) Marketing
11 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.90%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.72%) Advertising
13 4 (0.72%) Law
13 4 (0.72%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.54%) Automotive
14 3 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.54%) Retail
14 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 455 (81.54%) Developer
2 243 (43.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 106 (19.00%) Senior
4 79 (14.16%) Senior Developer
5 70 (12.54%) React Developer
6 50 (8.96%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 45 (8.06%) Java Developer
8 44 (7.89%) Full Stack Developer
9 39 (6.99%) Angular Developer
10 37 (6.63%) Software Engineer
11 34 (6.09%) UI Developer
12 24 (4.30%) C# Developer
13 22 (3.94%) JavaScript Developer
14 20 (3.58%) Lead
15 19 (3.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 18 (3.23%) Software Developer
16 18 (3.23%) UX Developer
17 15 (2.69%) Backend Developer
17 15 (2.69%) HTML Developer
18 14 (2.51%) HTML CSS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (52.69%) React
2 184 (32.97%) CSS
3 172 (30.82%) HTML
4 116 (20.79%) AngularJS
5 93 (16.67%) REST
6 86 (15.41%) Node.js
7 68 (12.19%) .NET
8 61 (10.93%) Redux
9 59 (10.57%) Spring
10 54 (9.68%) Spring Boot
11 46 (8.24%) Hibernate
11 46 (8.24%) Next.js
11 46 (8.24%) Vue
12 41 (7.35%) JPA
13 35 (6.27%) GraphQL
14 34 (6.09%) HTML5
15 31 (5.56%) .NET Core
16 30 (5.38%) jQuery
17 28 (5.02%) RESTful
18 27 (4.84%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.20%) Fixed Income
2 22 (3.94%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.41%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.87%) Renewable Energy
5 14 (2.51%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.43%) Solar Panel
9 7 (1.25%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.90%) Wiki
12 3 (0.54%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.54%) Derivative
12 3 (0.54%) Equities
12 3 (0.54%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.54%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.15%) Windows
2 11 (1.97%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Android
3 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) CentOS
4 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (37.99%) Agile
2 118 (21.15%) User Experience
3 105 (18.82%) CI/CD
3 105 (18.82%) Software Engineering
4 99 (17.74%) DevOps
5 87 (15.59%) Full Stack Development
6 74 (13.26%) UX Design
7 66 (11.83%) Microservices
8 57 (10.22%) Mentoring
9 53 (9.50%) TDD
10 52 (9.32%) Unit Testing
11 51 (9.14%) Web Development
12 47 (8.42%) Scrum
13 45 (8.06%) Clean Code
14 42 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (7.35%) Test Automation
16 38 (6.81%) Code Quality
17 35 (6.27%) Design Patterns
18 31 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 248 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 205 (36.74%) TypeScript
3 108 (19.35%) Java
4 88 (15.77%) C#
5 79 (14.16%) SQL
6 66 (11.83%) Python
7 16 (2.87%) Bicep
8 10 (1.79%) C++
8 10 (1.79%) Go
8 10 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.61%) PHP
9 9 (1.61%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.43%) Bash
10 8 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.08%) Ruby
12 4 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.54%) JSX
14 2 (0.36%) F#
15 1 (0.18%) C
15 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 85 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 81 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.63%) Degree
4 20 (3.58%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (9.14%) Accessibility
2 31 (5.56%) QA
2 31 (5.56%) WCAG
3 10 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 56 (10.04%) Docker
2 17 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.72%) zsh
Systems Management
1 65 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.25%) Terraform
4 5 (0.90%) Kibana
5 4 (0.72%) Grafana
6 3 (0.54%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (5.73%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.02%) Google
3 15 (2.69%) Oracle
4 9 (1.61%) MuleSoft
5 5 (0.90%) Adobe
5 5 (0.90%) Confluent
5 5 (0.90%) Databricks
6 4 (0.72%) Black Duck
6 4 (0.72%) Optimizely
7 3 (0.54%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.54%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.54%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.36%) Maxymiser
9 1 (0.18%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.18%) Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.18%) SAP
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.18%) Splunk
9 1 (0.18%) Sun