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 25 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
25 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 359 245
Rank change year-on-year +28 -114 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 252 375 1,017
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.66% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.70% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 275 756
10th Percentile £358 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £730 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile - - £44.99
25th Percentile - £80.75 £56.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £81.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.92% +35.83% +60.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £82.25 £66.39
90th Percentile £52.00 - £67.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £63.62
% change year-on-year - - +127.20%

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 39,578 53,370 83,505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.62% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,754 37,256 58,766
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,746 1,484 1,999
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.86%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 25 May 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 25 May 2024.

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Top 16 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 25 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
England -15 199 £475 -9.52% 187
London +28 140 £515 -10.43% 89
Work from Home +68 115 £500 +5.26% 147
UK excluding London +7 62 £475 - 130
North of England +3 17 £475 -9.52% 28
South West +13 14 £410 +5.81% 7
South East +13 10 £413 -5.71% 56
North West +19 9 £475 -5.00% 16
Scotland +34 7 £465 +0.54% 3
Wales +21 7 £513 +20.59% 1
Yorkshire -14 7 £550 +4.76% 12
Midlands +9 4 £550 +22.22% 20
East of England -1 3 £485 -9.35% 15
East Midlands -2 3 £550 +29.41% 10
North East +13 1 £350 -30.00%
West Midlands 0 1 - - 9

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 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.

1 227 (90.08%) Front End Development
2 156 (61.90%) React
3 142 (56.35%) TypeScript
4 129 (51.19%) JavaScript
5 118 (46.83%) CSS
6 95 (37.70%) HTML
7 69 (27.38%) Agile
8 58 (23.02%) User Experience
9 57 (22.62%) AngularJS
10 46 (18.25%) Next.js
11 43 (17.06%) Redux
12 41 (16.27%) AWS
13 38 (15.08%) DevOps
14 37 (14.68%) Git
14 37 (14.68%) Web Development
14 37 (14.68%) Vue
15 35 (13.89%) Node.js
16 34 (13.49%) Full Stack Development
17 32 (12.70%) Azure
18 30 (11.90%) C#
18 30 (11.90%) Social Skills
19 29 (11.51%) Software Engineering
20 28 (11.11%) TDD
20 28 (11.11%) CMS
20 28 (11.11%) Accessibility
21 27 (10.71%) WCAG
22 26 (10.32%) jQuery
22 26 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
23 25 (9.92%) GraphQL
23 25 (9.92%) GCP

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 28 (11.11%) CMS
2 8 (3.17%) Apache
2 8 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.17%) Headless CMS
3 6 (2.38%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Kentico
5 2 (0.79%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Drupal
6 1 (0.40%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.40%) Solana
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Sketch
3 1 (0.40%) InVision
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 41 (16.27%) AWS
2 32 (12.70%) Azure
3 26 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (9.92%) GCP
5 17 (6.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (5.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 15 (5.95%) GitHub
7 13 (5.16%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (5.16%) Azure Pipelines
8 11 (4.37%) Figma
9 7 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.78%) npm
10 6 (2.38%) SaaS
11 4 (1.59%) Contentful
12 2 (0.79%) Amplience
12 2 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 2 (0.79%) Storyblok
12 2 (0.79%) Stripe
12 2 (0.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) HTTP
1 1 (0.40%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.17%) Apache Ignite
3 5 (1.98%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.59%) GIS
4 4 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.59%) Redis
5 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.19%) MySQL
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (14.68%) Git
2 16 (6.35%) Cypress.io
2 16 (6.35%) JIRA
3 14 (5.56%) Storybook
4 13 (5.16%) webpack
5 10 (3.97%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.98%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.59%) GitLab
8 4 (1.59%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.19%) Vite
10 2 (0.79%) Babel
10 2 (0.79%) rollup.js
11 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.40%) ESLint
11 1 (0.40%) Grunt
11 1 (0.40%) Postman
11 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.40%) VersionOne
11 1 (0.40%) WebPageTest
General
1 30 (11.90%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.13%) Finance
3 19 (7.54%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.75%) Front Office
5 10 (3.97%) Back Office
6 9 (3.57%) Banking
7 7 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.98%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.19%) Automotive
10 3 (1.19%) Marketing
10 3 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.79%) Advertising
11 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.79%) Law
11 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Aviation
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (61.90%) React
2 118 (46.83%) CSS
3 95 (37.70%) HTML
4 57 (22.62%) AngularJS
5 46 (18.25%) Next.js
6 43 (17.06%) Redux
7 37 (14.68%) Vue
8 35 (13.89%) Node.js
9 26 (10.32%) jQuery
10 25 (9.92%) GraphQL
11 24 (9.52%) .NET
12 23 (9.13%) Tailwind CSS
13 22 (8.73%) REST
14 18 (7.14%) HTML5
15 17 (6.75%) .NET Core
16 16 (6.35%) RESTful
17 14 (5.56%) ASP.NET
18 12 (4.76%) CSS3
19 11 (4.37%) SAML
20 10 (3.97%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.14%) Fixed Income
2 12 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.38%) Hedge funds
5 5 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.59%) Wiki
7 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.79%) Derivative
8 2 (0.79%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.79%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.79%) Social Media
9 1 (0.40%) Animation
9 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.40%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.19%) Linux
2 2 (0.79%) Unix
2 2 (0.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (90.08%) Front End Development
2 69 (27.38%) Agile
3 58 (23.02%) User Experience
4 38 (15.08%) DevOps
5 37 (14.68%) Web Development
6 34 (13.49%) Full Stack Development
7 29 (11.51%) Software Engineering
8 28 (11.11%) TDD
9 24 (9.52%) UX Design
10 22 (8.73%) Clean Code
11 21 (8.33%) CI/CD
12 17 (6.75%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (6.75%) OO
12 17 (6.75%) Test Automation
13 16 (6.35%) API Management
14 15 (5.95%) Design Patterns
14 15 (5.95%) Fintech
14 15 (5.95%) MVC
14 15 (5.95%) OOD
14 15 (5.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 142 (56.35%) TypeScript
2 129 (51.19%) JavaScript
3 30 (11.90%) C#
4 16 (6.35%) SQL
5 15 (5.95%) Java
5 15 (5.95%) Python
6 14 (5.56%) Bicep
7 4 (1.59%) Bash
7 4 (1.59%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.19%) JSX
9 2 (0.79%) F#
9 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.40%) C
10 1 (0.40%) Go
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) Ruby
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.40%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 21 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.57%) Degree
4 4 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 27 (10.71%) WCAG
3 7 (2.78%) QA
4 3 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.76%) Docker
3 3 (1.19%) zsh
Systems Management
1 10 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.38%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.75%) Google
3 4 (1.59%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle
4 2 (0.79%) SAP
5 1 (0.40%) Ariba
5 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.40%) Okta
5 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.40%) Xamarin
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