Front End Development Contracts in Central London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 85 129
Rank change year-on-year -12 +44 -21
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 29 52 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.52% 2.17% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 2.39% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 38 23
10th Percentile £375 £403 £465
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -10.48% -0.43%
75th Percentile £706 £711 £693
90th Percentile £800 £791 £823
London median daily rate £525 £540 £590
% change year-on-year -2.78% -8.47% -1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,782 2,175 3,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.45% 90.93% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,157 1,539 2,277
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.38 £53.50
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Central London

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 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
City of London -7 26 £600 +9.09% 14
Front End Development
London

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) npm
3 2 (6.90%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.34%) Redis
3 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (10.34%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) GitLab
3 3 (10.34%) JUnit
3 3 (10.34%) Maven
3 3 (10.34%) Mockito
3 3 (10.34%) Postman
3 3 (10.34%) REST Assured
3 3 (10.34%) SoapUI
3 3 (10.34%) SonarQube
3 3 (10.34%) Subversion
3 3 (10.34%) Xcode
3 3 (10.34%) XCTest
4 2 (6.90%) Ant
4 2 (6.90%) Babel
4 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.90%) webpack
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Banking
4 7 (24.14%) Front Office
5 2 (6.90%) Legal
5 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Developer
2 11 (37.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (20.69%) React Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Algorithm Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Angular Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Applications Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Flutter Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
7 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) React
2 11 (37.93%) AngularJS
3 10 (34.48%) CSS
3 10 (34.48%) HTML
4 8 (27.59%) .NET
4 8 (27.59%) HTML5
4 8 (27.59%) REST
5 6 (20.69%) Kafka
6 5 (17.24%) CSS3
6 5 (17.24%) Material-UI
6 5 (17.24%) Spring
6 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
6 5 (17.24%) Web Services
7 4 (13.79%) .NET Core
8 3 (10.34%) Bootstrap
8 3 (10.34%) GraphQL
8 3 (10.34%) Next.js
8 3 (10.34%) Redux
8 3 (10.34%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (10.34%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Full-Stack Development
2 13 (44.83%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) Microservices
4 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
5 6 (20.69%) Code Quality
5 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (20.69%) Multithreading
6 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.24%) User Experience
6 5 (17.24%) UX Design
7 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.34%) Algorithmic Trading
8 3 (10.34%) DevOps
8 3 (10.34%) MVC
8 3 (10.34%) Software Architecture
8 3 (10.34%) Software Testing
8 3 (10.34%) Static Code Analysis
8 3 (10.34%) TDD
8 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) TypeScript
2 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
3 7 (24.14%) C#
4 6 (20.69%) SQL
5 5 (17.24%) Java
5 5 (17.24%) Python
6 3 (10.34%) Groovy
6 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.45%) COBOL
7 1 (3.45%) Dart
7 1 (3.45%) Go
7 1 (3.45%) JCL
7 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) CA Agile Central
1 3 (10.34%) Dynatrace
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle
1 3 (10.34%) Splunk