Front End Development Contracts in Birmingham

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 46 64 68
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 +17
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 4 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 0.39% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.47% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £381 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -42.86% +62.79%
75th Percentile £481 £450 -
90th Percentile £500 £465 -
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Birmingham

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Birmingham

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in Birmingham

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

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Magento
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS3
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) RequireJS
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe