Front End Development Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Front End Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 60 59
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 -14
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 4 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.31% 0.91% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.07% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile £422 £357 -
25th Percentile £435 £358 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £402 £238
Median % change year-on-year +10.70% +69.26% -44.12%
75th Percentile £479 - £244
90th Percentile £537 £404 -
England median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 958 657 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.84% 85.32% 82.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 461 405
10th Percentile £235 £225 £266
25th Percentile £400 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £410 £455
Median % change year-on-year +18.29% -9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £630 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 55 34
10th Percentile £12.78 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £17.87 £14.74
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £17.66
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +6.85% -38.57%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £48.06
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.50
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Front End Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the East Midlands

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Front End Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. 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
Derbyshire - 3 £445 - 3
Northamptonshire +7 1 £550 +36.82% 2
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Case Management
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Line Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft