Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) Contracts

Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
UK

The median Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 699 834
Rank change year-on-year +119 +135 -160
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) 10 4 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.007% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.007% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 19
10th Percentile £406 £421 £265
25th Percentile £420 £438 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% +3.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £519 - £640
90th Percentile £570 - £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £466 £360
% change year-on-year -11.48% +29.44% +32.11%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.62
% change year-on-year - - +7.82%

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 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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

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

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

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

Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
Top 5 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 Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) within the UK 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
England +131 10 £475 +1.93% 7
London +101 8 £488 +16.07% 2
Work from Home +130 6 £475 +13.10% 2
UK excluding London +53 2 £413 -11.48% 6
South East - 2 £413 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web 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 Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Web Development
2 9 (90.00%) CSS
3 7 (70.00%) HTML
4 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (50.00%) React
5 4 (40.00%) Front End Development
5 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (30.00%) Redux
6 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (30.00%) AWS
6 3 (30.00%) Microservices
6 3 (30.00%) HTML5
7 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds
7 2 (20.00%) Node.js
7 2 (20.00%) CSS3
7 2 (20.00%) UX Design
7 2 (20.00%) GIS
7 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 2 (20.00%) Scrum
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) API Development
7 2 (20.00%) SaaS
7 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 2 (20.00%) User Experience
7 2 (20.00%) Next.js
7 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (20.00%) Stripe
7 2 (20.00%) Accessibility

Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web 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 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) InVision
1 1 (10.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 2 (20.00%) Stripe
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (10.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (20.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Grunt
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (10.00%) Automotive
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) CSS
2 7 (70.00%) HTML
3 5 (50.00%) React
4 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (30.00%) HTML5
5 3 (30.00%) Redux
6 2 (20.00%) CSS3
6 2 (20.00%) Next.js
6 2 (20.00%) Node.js
6 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (10.00%) Framer.js
7 1 (10.00%) jQuery
7 1 (10.00%) Laravel
7 1 (10.00%) Sass
7 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Animation
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Web Development
2 4 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) API Development
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) UX Design
5 1 (10.00%) Content Management
5 1 (10.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian