Front End Development Contracts with Work from Home Options

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 179 101
Rank change year-on-year +36 -78 -14
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 232 342 1,097
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.54% 1.36% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.52% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 239 798
10th Percentile £371 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £642
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £40.00 - £21.85
25th Percentile £53.75 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% +8.57% +42.86%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £67.50
90th Percentile £76.50 - £78.97
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.75 £66.18
% change year-on-year +17.15% -9.72% +103.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,242 22,482 39,977
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,879 28,991
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 516 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.66 £13.78
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.29
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Front End Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front End Development trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front End Development.

Front End Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Front End Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front End Development.

Front End Development hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Front End Development hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (8.19%) CMS
2 8 (3.45%) Apache
3 6 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.16%) Confluence
4 5 (2.16%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.16%) Kentico
4 5 (2.16%) WordPress
5 2 (0.86%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.86%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Drupal
6 1 (0.43%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.43%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 56 (24.14%) AWS
2 38 (16.38%) Azure
3 23 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (9.91%) GCP
4 16 (6.90%) GitHub
5 11 (4.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (3.45%) Azure Pipelines
7 8 (3.45%) npm
7 8 (3.45%) Serverless
8 6 (2.59%) Figma
8 6 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.16%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.72%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.29%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.45%) HTTP
2 3 (1.29%) Intranet
3 1 (0.43%) NFC
3 1 (0.43%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.59%) Apache Ignite
2 6 (2.59%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.59%) MySQL
2 6 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (2.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.86%) Power BI
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (16.38%) Git
2 18 (7.76%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.17%) Storybook
4 10 (4.31%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.88%) JIRA
5 9 (3.88%) webpack
6 8 (3.45%) GitLab
7 6 (2.59%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.72%) Postman
9 3 (1.29%) Babel
9 3 (1.29%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.29%) Vite
10 2 (0.86%) git-flow
10 2 (0.86%) Gradle
10 2 (0.86%) JUnit
10 2 (0.86%) Pylint
10 2 (0.86%) rollup.js
10 2 (0.86%) Selenium
10 2 (0.86%) SpecFlow
General
1 55 (23.71%) Finance
2 31 (13.36%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.07%) Banking
4 22 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.33%) Front Office
6 7 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.16%) Marketing
9 4 (1.72%) Back Office
9 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.72%) Retail
10 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.29%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Electronics
12 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 193 (83.19%) Developer
2 106 (45.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 41 (17.67%) React Developer
4 39 (16.81%) Senior
5 32 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 21 (9.05%) C# Developer
7 19 (8.19%) Software Engineer
8 17 (7.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 16 (6.90%) JavaScript Developer
9 16 (6.90%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 13 (5.60%) Angular Developer
10 13 (5.60%) UI Developer
11 12 (5.17%) Java Developer
11 12 (5.17%) UI Engineer
12 11 (4.74%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 9 (3.88%) Front Office Developer
13 9 (3.88%) Full Stack Developer
14 8 (3.45%) HTML CSS Developer
14 8 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (51.29%) React
2 81 (34.91%) CSS
3 74 (31.90%) HTML
4 60 (25.86%) AngularJS
5 32 (13.79%) Node.js
6 29 (12.50%) REST
7 28 (12.07%) Redux
8 27 (11.64%) .NET
9 22 (9.48%) Vue
10 21 (9.05%) Next.js
11 17 (7.33%) HTML5
11 17 (7.33%) Tailwind CSS
12 16 (6.90%) RESTful
13 14 (6.03%) GraphQL
13 14 (6.03%) jQuery
13 14 (6.03%) Spring
13 14 (6.03%) Spring Boot
14 13 (5.60%) CSS3
15 12 (5.17%) .NET Core
16 11 (4.74%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.48%) Fixed Income
2 12 (5.17%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.72%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.29%) Equities
6 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.43%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.43%) CCTV
7 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.43%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.43%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.59%) Linux
2 3 (1.29%) Windows
3 2 (0.86%) Android
3 2 (0.86%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (31.03%) Agile
2 47 (20.26%) User Experience
3 38 (16.38%) Software Engineering
4 36 (15.52%) CI/CD
5 33 (14.22%) DevOps
6 28 (12.07%) Full Stack Development
7 27 (11.64%) UX Design
8 24 (10.34%) Clean Code
9 23 (9.91%) Web Development
10 21 (9.05%) Test Automation
11 18 (7.76%) MVC
11 18 (7.76%) TDD
12 16 (6.90%) Microservices
13 15 (6.47%) Scrum
14 14 (6.03%) Code Quality
14 14 (6.03%) OO
15 13 (5.60%) Containerisation
15 13 (5.60%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (5.17%) Fintech
17 11 (4.74%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 99 (42.67%) JavaScript
2 97 (41.81%) TypeScript
3 48 (20.69%) C#
4 36 (15.52%) Java
5 29 (12.50%) SQL
6 22 (9.48%) Python
7 10 (4.31%) Bicep
8 6 (2.59%) Bash
8 6 (2.59%) PHP
9 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.72%) Ruby
11 3 (1.29%) C++
11 3 (1.29%) Go
11 3 (1.29%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.86%) F#
12 2 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.43%) JSX
13 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.02%) Degree
4 5 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.64%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.33%) WCAG
3 11 (4.74%) QA
System Software
1 14 (6.03%) Docker
2 9 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.29%) zsh
Systems Management
1 12 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.29%) Terraform
4 2 (0.86%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) Istio
5 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (6.90%) Google
2 15 (6.47%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.72%) Oracle
4 3 (1.29%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.29%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.86%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe
6 1 (0.43%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.43%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.43%) SAP
6 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.43%) Splunk