Front End Development Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Front End Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 75 92
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 +20
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 4 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.25% 0.62% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.73% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile £313 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £300 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -50.00% -21.05%
75th Percentile £423 £338 £650
90th Percentile £432 £405 -
England median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,349 956 1,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.42% 84.15% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 409 791
10th Percentile £194 £240 £226
25th Percentile £363 £338 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 183 349
10th Percentile £14.25 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.75 £30.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +39.79% -2.45%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.20 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Front End Development job vacancy trend in the East of England

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Bedfordshire - 2 £325 - 2
Suffolk +3 1 £425 -5.56% 3
Hertfordshire - 1 £413 - 1
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (50.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (25.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) Immutable.js
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) API Development
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
1 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (25.00%) Web Development
1 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes