Front End Development Contracts in Berkshire

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 119 112
Rank change year-on-year +38 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 12 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £261 £255 £350
25th Percentile £398 £300 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £458 £481 £500
90th Percentile £469 £515 £530
South East median daily rate £409 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -18.20% +25.00% -17.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Berkshire

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Berkshire

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Berkshire

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in Berkshire

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +37 10 £409 +2.25% 13
Front End Development
South East

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) Figma
4 2 (16.67%) Veeva
5 1 (8.33%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Vite
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (33.33%) React Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Backend Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (8.33%) UI Developer
6 1 (8.33%) UI/UX Developer
6 1 (8.33%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) CSS
1 8 (66.67%) HTML
2 5 (41.67%) React
3 4 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 4 (33.33%) Prisma
3 4 (33.33%) RESTful
4 3 (25.00%) Framer.js
4 3 (25.00%) Node.js
5 2 (16.67%) .NET
5 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
5 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 2 (16.67%) Ember.js
5 2 (16.67%) Entity Framework
6 1 (8.33%) Material-UI
6 1 (8.33%) Next.js
6 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
6 1 (8.33%) Swagger
6 1 (8.33%) TanStack
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) User Experience
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
4 4 (33.33%) API Design
4 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 4 (33.33%) Cost Management
4 4 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) UX Design
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) Pair Programming
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft