Front End Development Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 90 83 114
Rank change year-on-year -7 +31 -3
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 26 41 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.53% 1.91% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.10% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 22
10th Percentile £413 £363 £464
25th Percentile £475 £456 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £574
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.14% -1.08%
75th Percentile £730 £725 £703
90th Percentile £804 £800 £824
Central London median daily rate £500 £513 £573
% change year-on-year -2.44% -10.48% -0.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,589 1,953 3,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.58% 90.75% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 1,368 2,128
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £452 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the City of London

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the City of London

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the City of London

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the City of London

Front End Development
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) npm
3 2 (7.69%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) MySQL
2 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) GitLab
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Ant
2 2 (7.69%) Babel
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
2 2 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Front Office
3 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Legal
5 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 11 (42.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (23.08%) React Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Algorithm Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Angular Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Applications Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Flutter Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (53.85%) React
2 8 (30.77%) .NET
2 8 (30.77%) AngularJS
3 7 (26.92%) CSS
3 7 (26.92%) HTML
4 5 (19.23%) HTML5
4 5 (19.23%) REST
5 4 (15.38%) .NET Core
6 3 (11.54%) Blazor
6 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
6 3 (11.54%) Kafka
6 3 (11.54%) Next.js
6 3 (11.54%) Redux
6 3 (11.54%) Svelte
7 2 (7.69%) CSS3
7 2 (7.69%) Material-UI
7 2 (7.69%) RESTful
7 2 (7.69%) Semantic UI
7 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
7 2 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (38.46%) Agile
3 7 (26.92%) Microservices
3 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 5 (19.23%) User Experience
4 5 (19.23%) UX Design
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) Algorithmic Trading
6 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.54%) DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Fintech
6 3 (11.54%) Multithreading
7 2 (7.69%) Analytics
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security
7 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (7.69%) Customer Experience
7 2 (7.69%) Functional Programming
7 2 (7.69%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 7 (26.92%) C#
2 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 5 (19.23%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) Dart
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker