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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 48
Rank change year-on-year -21 -5 +16
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 2 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.22% 0.18% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.20% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 14
10th Percentile £424 - £314
25th Percentile £444 £438 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.54% -1.11% +9.76%
75th Percentile £517 £453 £650
90th Percentile £534 - £694
England median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -8.70%

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 772 492 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.30% 87.08% 82.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 298 416
10th Percentile £189 £244 £209
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £543 £567
90th Percentile £625 £629 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.43% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 23 43
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.48 £12.40
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +9.70% +21.87%
75th Percentile £24.49 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -23.60% +27.14%

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
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 9 January 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
Nottinghamshire -10 2 £483 +8.54% 10
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Enzyme
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Redux
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud