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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 63 48
Rank change year-on-year 0 -15 +18
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 7 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.89% 0.38% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.46% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 22
10th Percentile £357 - £300
25th Percentile £358 £231 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £238 £425
Median % change year-on-year +69.26% -44.12% +3.03%
75th Percentile - £244 £500
90th Percentile £404 - £643
England median daily rate £475 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -9.52% -1.87% -6.96%

All Process and 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 670 648 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.57% 82.44% 85.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 411 537
10th Percentile £225 £267 £213
25th Percentile £345 £362 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £455 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% -7.14% +5.38%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £627 £625 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 35 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.83 £16.31
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -38.18% +47.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.97 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -41.51% +0.58% +47.41%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development 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
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 13 September 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
Northamptonshire - 7 £402 - 6
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Grunt
2 2 (28.57%) gulp
2 2 (28.57%) Jasmine
2 2 (28.57%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (28.57%) Mocha
2 2 (28.57%) Protractor
2 2 (28.57%) webpack
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Angular Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
4 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) AngularJS
1 6 (85.71%) CSS
1 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) CSS3
2 4 (57.14%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) Bootstrap
3 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 2 (28.57%) NgRx
3 2 (28.57%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) RxJS
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
1 4 (57.14%) Responsive Web Design
1 4 (57.14%) User Experience
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) UX Design
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) SOLID
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared