Front End Development Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 42 41 45
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 2 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.58% 0.95% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.18% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £375 - £405
25th Percentile £413 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -29.41% -44.08%
75th Percentile £613 £388 £531
90th Percentile £665 £440 £678
East of England median daily rate £465 £300 £535
% change year-on-year +55.00% -43.93% -14.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 306 338 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.44% 80.67% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 108 208
10th Percentile £250 £220 £225
25th Percentile £400 £332 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £442 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.78% -1.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £541
90th Percentile £700 £638 £590
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 140 190
10th Percentile £14.34 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £19.63 £17.13 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.65 £27.63
East of England median hourly rate £27.53 £39.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -30.30% +99.39% -3.37%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Cambridgeshire

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Cambridgeshire

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Cambridge -6 2 £500 +66.67% 3
Front End Development
East of England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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