Front End Development Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 118 102
Rank change year-on-year +33 -16 -16
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 44 55 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.98% 1.51% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.64% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 69
10th Percentile £363 £462 £410
25th Percentile £453 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -0.43% +21.05%
75th Percentile £722 £693 £688
90th Percentile £780 £818 £732
Central London median daily rate £475 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -15.37% -2.39% +17.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,011 3,350 3,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.88% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 2,249 2,943
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 25 April 2024.

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 6 (13.64%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Tornado
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) AWS
3 8 (18.18%) Serverless
4 6 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (13.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (13.64%) Azure Functions
4 6 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (13.64%) Azure Storage
5 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.55%) GCP
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub
6 2 (4.55%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.27%) npm
7 1 (2.27%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.27%) Ant
3 1 (2.27%) Babel
3 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) Pylint
3 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.27%) webpack
General
1 12 (27.27%) Finance
2 9 (20.45%) Banking
3 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Back Office
6 2 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Marketing
7 1 (2.27%) Front Office
7 1 (2.27%) Local Government
7 1 (2.27%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (86.36%) Developer
2 17 (38.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 13 (29.55%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior
5 6 (13.64%) Angular Developer
5 6 (13.64%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Backend Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) CSS Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Digital Architect
8 2 (4.55%) HTML CSS Developer
8 2 (4.55%) MongoDB Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Python Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) React Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Backend Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Full Stack Developer
8 2 (4.55%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.82%) AngularJS
1 14 (31.82%) HTML
2 12 (27.27%) .NET
2 12 (27.27%) React
3 11 (25.00%) CSS
4 9 (20.45%) Node.js
5 6 (13.64%) .NET Core
5 6 (13.64%) Blazor
5 6 (13.64%) RESTful
6 5 (11.36%) HTML5
6 5 (11.36%) XML
7 4 (9.09%) CSS3
7 4 (9.09%) jQuery
7 4 (9.09%) Kafka
8 3 (6.82%) Flask
8 3 (6.82%) JSON
8 3 (6.82%) REST
8 3 (6.82%) WebSockets
9 2 (4.55%) MEAN Stack
9 2 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 7 (15.91%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Graphic Design
3 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (4.55%) Social Media
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Agile
1 15 (34.09%) CI/CD
2 13 (29.55%) Full Stack Development
3 12 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 11 (25.00%) Microservices
5 8 (18.18%) DevOps
5 8 (18.18%) SDLC
5 8 (18.18%) User Experience
5 8 (18.18%) Web Development
6 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.91%) Data Development
7 6 (13.64%) Multithreading
8 5 (11.36%) Code Quality
8 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (9.09%) UX Design
10 3 (6.82%) B2B
10 3 (6.82%) Clean Code
10 3 (6.82%) ETL
10 3 (6.82%) Fintech
11 2 (4.55%) OO
Programming Languages
1 23 (52.27%) JavaScript
2 15 (34.09%) Python
3 13 (29.55%) SQL
4 6 (13.64%) C++
4 6 (13.64%) Go
4 6 (13.64%) PL/SQL
4 6 (13.64%) T-SQL
4 6 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 5 (11.36%) C#
5 5 (11.36%) Java
6 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Oracle
2 6 (13.64%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.27%) Black Duck
4 1 (2.27%) Confluent
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Google