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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 55 62
Rank change year-on-year -24 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 6 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.54% 0.78% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.88% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 5
10th Percentile £384 - £269
25th Percentile £420 £358 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £367 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -13.65% +2.41%
75th Percentile £521 £402 £475
90th Percentile £560 - -
England median daily rate £525 £480 £516
% change year-on-year +9.38% -7.02% -3.50%

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 874 568 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.32% 88.34% 78.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 388 447
10th Percentile £200 £225 £200
25th Percentile £393 £338 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £423 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -0.59% -10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £550
90th Percentile £638 £590 £623
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 39 59
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.58
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.19 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.16 £18.51 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +8.88% -31.53%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.38 £26.15
90th Percentile £32.55 £37.41 £44.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.55 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.37% -23.87% +4.17%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 - 2
Northamptonshire -9 1 £550 +49.86% 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 £545 - 2
Leicestershire - 1 £360 - 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 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) Blazor
4 1 (16.67%) CSS3
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) Middleware
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (33.33%) API Integration
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) Case Management
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud