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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 60 47
Rank change year-on-year -9 -13 +28
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 6 2 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.70% 0.27% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.33% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 22
10th Percentile £357 £252 £289
25th Percentile £358 £283 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £341 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -24.17% +8.43%
75th Percentile £406 £400 £563
90th Percentile £420 £432 £650
England median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -5.17%

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 741 613 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.46% 84.20% 84.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 373 493
10th Percentile £211 £266 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £619 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +32.86%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile - £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +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 4 November 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 - 5 £360 - 3
Nottinghamshire -2 1 £421 -5.39% 12
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 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Grunt
2 2 (33.33%) gulp
2 2 (33.33%) Jasmine
2 2 (33.33%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (33.33%) Mocha
2 2 (33.33%) Protractor
2 2 (33.33%) webpack
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Angular Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) CSS3
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) HTML5
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) Bootstrap
4 1 (16.67%) Enzyme
4 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (16.67%) Jest
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) React
4 1 (16.67%) Redux
4 1 (16.67%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Responsive Web Design
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) UX Design
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) SOLID
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) Google