Backends for Frontends Contracts in the City of London

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backends for Frontends 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 118 126 174
Rank change year-on-year +8 +48 -
Contract jobs citing Backends for Frontends 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.050% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £529
25th Percentile - - £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £625
75th Percentile - - £716
90th Percentile - - £856
Central London median daily rate £600 - £625

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Backends for Frontends 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Backends for Frontends as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Backends for Frontends in the City of London

Backends for Frontends
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backends for Frontends in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Backends for Frontends in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Okta