Front End Development Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Front End Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 71 127
Rank change year-on-year -48 +56 -16
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 1 19 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.054% 1.65% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 1.77% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 1
10th Percentile - £326 -
25th Percentile £513 £408 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £409 £525
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -22.10% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £421 £538
90th Percentile - £469 -
South East median daily rate £525 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +28.36% -18.20% +8.11%

All Process & 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 1,583 1,076 1,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.17% 93.32% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 628 980
10th Percentile £303 £312 £213
25th Percentile £403 £413 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +4.30% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £509 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +0.34% +1.50% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 28 105
10th Percentile £19.76 £25.77 £18.97
25th Percentile £65.00 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +2.25% +9.35%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £71.75
90th Percentile £99.25 £82.12 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £37.20 £32.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year +14.46% -22.62% -6.67%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Front End Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Front End Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Front End Development

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 29 March 2026. 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 -33 1 £525 +28.36% 1
Front End Development
South East

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Liquibase
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker