Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 384 246
Rank change year-on-year +43 -138 -65
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 271 371 1,073
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.62% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.66% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 265 793
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £414 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +19.32%
75th Percentile £606 £606 £638
90th Percentile £739 £691 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £466 £450
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.44% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - £40.46
25th Percentile - £80.75 £58.58
Median hourly rate £40.00 £81.50 £65.49
Median % change year-on-year -50.92% +24.45% +50.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £82.25 £67.69
90th Percentile £52.00 - £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £67.58
% change year-on-year - - +14.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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 +46 221 £500 - 141
London +58 154 £531 -3.41% 53
Work from Home +83 124 £500 +11.11% 76
UK excluding London +22 67 £475 +2.04% 99
North of England +10 22 £500 -2.44% 42
North West +18 16 £475 - 31
South West +19 13 £399 +6.33% 14
South East +25 11 £413 +3.13% 16
Scotland +37 8 £465 +0.27% 10
Wales +16 6 £519 +18.63% 7
Yorkshire -2 6 £550 +4.76% 9
Midlands +1 4 £550 +18.03% 5
East of England +11 3 £485 -30.71% 9
East Midlands +4 3 £550 +25.71% 2
West Midlands +18 1 - - 3

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Front-End Developer (Client-Side 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 featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 243 (89.67%) Front End Development
2 169 (62.36%) React
3 144 (53.14%) TypeScript
4 135 (49.82%) JavaScript
5 121 (44.65%) CSS
6 94 (34.69%) HTML
7 77 (28.41%) Agile
8 65 (23.99%) AngularJS
9 59 (21.77%) User Experience
10 45 (16.61%) Next.js
11 44 (16.24%) Redux
11 44 (16.24%) AWS
12 39 (14.39%) Node.js
12 39 (14.39%) Social Skills
13 38 (14.02%) DevOps
14 37 (13.65%) Git
14 37 (13.65%) Vue
15 35 (12.92%) C#
15 35 (12.92%) TDD
15 35 (12.92%) Web Development
16 34 (12.55%) Accessibility
17 32 (11.81%) Azure
18 29 (10.70%) Security Cleared
18 29 (10.70%) WCAG
18 29 (10.70%) .NET
18 29 (10.70%) Full Stack Development
19 28 (10.33%) UX Design
20 27 (9.96%) SC Cleared
20 27 (9.96%) CMS
20 27 (9.96%) Tailwind CSS

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 27 (9.96%) CMS
2 7 (2.58%) Confluence
2 7 (2.58%) Headless CMS
3 5 (1.85%) Apache
3 5 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.85%) Kentico
4 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) Sketch
3 1 (0.37%) InVision
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.24%) AWS
2 32 (11.81%) Azure
3 26 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (8.12%) GCP
5 17 (6.27%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (6.27%) GitHub
6 15 (5.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (4.80%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (4.80%) Azure Pipelines
7 13 (4.80%) Figma
8 8 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (2.95%) npm
9 6 (2.21%) SaaS
10 4 (1.48%) Serverless
11 3 (1.11%) Contentful
12 2 (0.74%) Amplience
12 2 (0.74%) Storyblok
12 2 (0.74%) Stripe
12 2 (0.74%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.74%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) RFID
1 1 (0.37%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.58%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.85%) Apache Ignite
3 5 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.48%) GIS
4 4 (1.48%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.48%) Redis
5 3 (1.11%) MySQL
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.74%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.37%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (13.65%) Git
2 20 (7.38%) JIRA
3 18 (6.64%) Cypress.io
4 15 (5.54%) webpack
5 12 (4.43%) Storybook
6 9 (3.32%) Jenkins
7 8 (2.95%) GitLab
8 7 (2.58%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (2.21%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.11%) Vite
12 2 (0.74%) Babel
12 2 (0.74%) rollup.js
13 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.37%) ESLint
13 1 (0.37%) Lerna
13 1 (0.37%) Postman
13 1 (0.37%) Protractor
13 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.37%) VersionOne
General
1 39 (14.39%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.12%) Finance
2 22 (8.12%) Public Sector
3 20 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.27%) Front Office
5 10 (3.69%) Back Office
6 9 (3.32%) Banking
7 7 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.48%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.11%) Automotive
9 3 (1.11%) Marketing
9 3 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.74%) Advertising
10 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Law
10 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.37%) Aviation
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (62.36%) React
2 121 (44.65%) CSS
3 94 (34.69%) HTML
4 65 (23.99%) AngularJS
5 45 (16.61%) Next.js
6 44 (16.24%) Redux
7 39 (14.39%) Node.js
8 37 (13.65%) Vue
9 29 (10.70%) .NET
10 27 (9.96%) Tailwind CSS
11 25 (9.23%) GraphQL
11 25 (9.23%) jQuery
11 25 (9.23%) REST
12 19 (7.01%) .NET Core
13 18 (6.64%) HTML5
14 16 (5.90%) RESTful
15 14 (5.17%) ASP.NET
15 14 (5.17%) CSS3
16 10 (3.69%) ASP.NET MVC
16 10 (3.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.64%) Fixed Income
2 12 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (2.21%) Hedge funds
4 5 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.85%) Wiki
5 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.74%) Derivative
7 2 (0.74%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.74%) Graphic Design
7 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.74%) Social Media
8 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.37%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.37%) PropTech
8 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.48%) Linux
2 2 (0.74%) Unix
2 2 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (89.67%) Front End Development
2 77 (28.41%) Agile
3 59 (21.77%) User Experience
4 38 (14.02%) DevOps
5 35 (12.92%) TDD
5 35 (12.92%) Web Development
6 29 (10.70%) Full Stack Development
7 28 (10.33%) UX Design
8 26 (9.59%) CI/CD
8 26 (9.59%) Software Engineering
9 23 (8.49%) Clean Code
10 19 (7.01%) Design Patterns
10 19 (7.01%) Test Automation
11 18 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (6.64%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (6.64%) OO
12 17 (6.27%) MVC
13 15 (5.54%) Microservices
13 15 (5.54%) OOD
13 15 (5.54%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 144 (53.14%) TypeScript
2 135 (49.82%) JavaScript
3 35 (12.92%) C#
4 18 (6.64%) Java
5 17 (6.27%) SQL
6 14 (5.17%) Bicep
6 14 (5.17%) Python
7 4 (1.48%) Bash
7 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.11%) JSX
9 2 (0.74%) F#
9 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.37%) PHP
10 1 (0.37%) Scala
10 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (10.70%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.96%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.69%) Degree
4 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.55%) Accessibility
2 29 (10.70%) WCAG
3 7 (2.58%) QA
4 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (5.54%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.06%) Docker
3 3 (1.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 9 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (2.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.21%) Terraform
4 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (8.49%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.64%) Google
3 4 (1.48%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle
4 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.37%) Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.37%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.37%) SAP
5 1 (0.37%) Xamarin