Senior Front-End Developer Contracts

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

The median Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer) daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 659 732
Rank change year-on-year +123 +73 -132
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 55 46 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.079% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.084% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 27 86
10th Percentile £413 £416 £450
25th Percentile £443 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £560 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -4.68% +17.50%
75th Percentile £570 £660 £675
90th Percentile £670 £765 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £535 £450
% change year-on-year -11.21% +18.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
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% +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 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

Senior Front-End Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

Senior Front-End Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Front-End Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

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

Senior Front-End Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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 +125 47 £475 -18.98% 33
London +93 34 £475 -24.00% 12
Work from Home +123 19 £538 +7.50% 21
UK excluding London +59 14 £475 -11.21% 25
North of England +36 9 £475 - 8
North West - 7 £475 - 6
South West - 3 £443 - 3
Yorkshire +19 2 £575 - 2
South East +25 1 £500 +5.26% 5
Scotland - 1 £575 - 2

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Senior Front-End Developer in the job title.

1 51 (92.73%) Front End Development
2 40 (72.73%) React
3 32 (58.18%) JavaScript
4 31 (56.36%) TypeScript
5 29 (52.73%) CSS
6 27 (49.09%) HTML
7 19 (34.55%) Agile
8 15 (27.27%) DevOps
8 15 (27.27%) Accessibility
9 14 (25.45%) TDD
9 14 (25.45%) WCAG
10 13 (23.64%) Git
10 13 (23.64%) C#
10 13 (23.64%) CMS
10 13 (23.64%) Next.js
11 12 (21.82%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (21.82%) .NET
11 12 (21.82%) SQL Server
11 12 (21.82%) User Experience
11 12 (21.82%) Vue
11 12 (21.82%) Azure
12 11 (20.00%) OO
12 11 (20.00%) OOD
12 11 (20.00%) MVC
12 11 (20.00%) Active Directory
12 11 (20.00%) jQuery
12 11 (20.00%) .NET Core
12 11 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (20.00%) Bicep

Senior Front-End 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 13 (23.64%) CMS
2 4 (7.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) Azure
1 12 (21.82%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 11 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 10 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (18.18%) Azure Pipelines
4 5 (9.09%) AWS
5 3 (5.45%) Contentful
5 3 (5.45%) Figma
5 3 (5.45%) GitHub
6 2 (3.64%) GCP
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.82%) Firebase
7 1 (1.82%) npm
7 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.82%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.82%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.82%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.82%) MySQL
3 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (23.64%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 5 (9.09%) JIRA
3 4 (7.27%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.45%) GitLab
5 2 (3.64%) Storybook
6 1 (1.82%) Babel
6 1 (1.82%) VersionOne
6 1 (1.82%) webpack
General
1 8 (14.55%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.91%) Back Office
2 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.64%) Banking
3 2 (3.64%) Finance
3 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Advertising
4 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Automotive
4 1 (1.82%) Aviation
4 1 (1.82%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (72.73%) React
2 29 (52.73%) CSS
3 27 (49.09%) HTML
4 13 (23.64%) Next.js
5 12 (21.82%) .NET
5 12 (21.82%) Vue
6 11 (20.00%) .NET Core
6 11 (20.00%) jQuery
7 10 (18.18%) ASP.NET
7 10 (18.18%) Redux
8 9 (16.36%) AngularJS
8 9 (16.36%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (12.73%) GraphQL
10 6 (10.91%) Node.js
11 5 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
12 4 (7.27%) REST
12 4 (7.27%) Semantic HTML
13 3 (5.45%) HTML5
13 3 (5.45%) RESTful
14 2 (3.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) CentOS
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (92.73%) Front End Development
2 19 (34.55%) Agile
3 15 (27.27%) DevOps
4 14 (25.45%) TDD
5 12 (21.82%) User Experience
6 11 (20.00%) API Management
6 11 (20.00%) MVC
6 11 (20.00%) OO
6 11 (20.00%) OOD
7 10 (18.18%) Code Quality
8 9 (16.36%) Clean Code
8 9 (16.36%) UX Design
8 9 (16.36%) Web Development
9 8 (14.55%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (10.91%) CI/CD
10 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.09%) Test Automation
12 4 (7.27%) Decision-Making
12 4 (7.27%) Mentoring
13 3 (5.45%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 32 (58.18%) JavaScript
2 31 (56.36%) TypeScript
3 13 (23.64%) C#
4 11 (20.00%) Bicep
5 2 (3.64%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.64%) SQL
6 1 (1.82%) Java
6 1 (1.82%) JSX
6 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.64%) Degree
3 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 14 (25.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.64%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle