Front End Development Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Front End Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 23 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.13% 2.45% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 2.74% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £375 - £399
25th Percentile £413 - £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -40.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £388 £653
90th Percentile £665 £440 £726
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £300 £425
% change year-on-year +66.67% -29.41% -44.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 146 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.53% 89.57% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 64 122
10th Percentile £357 £240 £214
25th Percentile £438 £338 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £553 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £442 £450
% change year-on-year +18.78% -1.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 19
10th Percentile £17.95 £21.60 £16.72
25th Percentile £44.91 £30.63 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £62.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Cambridge

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Cambridge over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Cambridge

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) npm
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Express.js
2 1 (50.00%) NgRx
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript