Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts in Central London

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in Central London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 122 154
Rank change year-on-year +17 +32 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 21 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.05% 0.55% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.57% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 11
10th Percentile £436 £273 £206
25th Percentile £463 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £481 £573
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -15.94% -0.43%
75th Percentile £628 £603 £750
90th Percentile £722 £744 £850
London median daily rate £475 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,866 2,265 3,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 95.57% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 1,572 2,404
10th Percentile £338 £350 £321
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -8.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £790 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 22
10th Percentile £21.51 £20.07 £15.61
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.44 £18.93
Median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £51.31 £32.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.89 £47.00 £87.97
London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £37.34
% change year-on-year +16.86% -25.52% +6.69%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Central London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Central London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Central London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Central London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Central London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the Central London region over the 6 months to 4 July 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 +10 19 £550 +18.92% 36
City of Westminster +1 2 £409 -20.20% 1
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 19 (90.48%) React
2 13 (61.90%) Front End Development
3 9 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 8 (38.10%) CSS
4 8 (38.10%) Agile
5 7 (33.33%) HTML
5 7 (33.33%) Java
5 7 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (28.57%) Next.js
6 6 (28.57%) Finance
6 6 (28.57%) HTML5
6 6 (28.57%) AngularJS
7 5 (23.81%) Microservices
7 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
8 4 (19.05%) User Experience
8 4 (19.05%) AWS
8 4 (19.05%) JIRA
8 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
9 3 (14.29%) SQL
9 3 (14.29%) Python
9 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (14.29%) Front Office
9 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
9 3 (14.29%) Banking
9 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 3 (14.29%) UX Design
9 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
9 3 (14.29%) REST
9 3 (14.29%) Analytics

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 3 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) CMS
2 2 (9.52%) Headless CMS
3 1 (4.76%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.52%) npm
3 2 (9.52%) Yarn
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Ant
2 2 (9.52%) Babel
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) TeamCity
2 2 (9.52%) webpack
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Front Office
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (90.48%) React
2 8 (38.10%) CSS
3 7 (33.33%) HTML
4 6 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 6 (28.57%) HTML5
4 6 (28.57%) Next.js
5 3 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 3 (14.29%) Kafka
5 3 (14.29%) REST
5 3 (14.29%) Svelte
6 2 (9.52%) .NET
6 2 (9.52%) CSS3
6 2 (9.52%) Material-UI
6 2 (9.52%) Redux
6 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 2 (9.52%) Semantic UI
6 2 (9.52%) Vue
6 2 (9.52%) Web Services
6 2 (9.52%) WPF
7 1 (4.76%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Front End Development
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) Clean Code
4 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (23.81%) Microservices
6 4 (19.05%) User Experience
7 3 (14.29%) Analytics
7 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) UX Design
8 2 (9.52%) Asynchronous Programming
8 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
8 2 (9.52%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
8 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (9.52%) Fintech
8 2 (9.52%) Functional Programming
8 2 (9.52%) Wireframes
9 1 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 7 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) Dart
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) QA
1 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Google
1 1 (4.76%) Kony