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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 85 100
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 11 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.50% 0.40% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.45% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 2
10th Percentile £352 £375 £313
25th Percentile £458 £413 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £465 £375
Median % change year-on-year +34.41% +24.00% -34.78%
75th Percentile £681 £613 £431
90th Percentile £850 £665 £458
England median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

All Process & 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 1,725 1,122 1,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.59% 88.84% 83.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 509 503
10th Percentile £193 £200 £198
25th Percentile £400 £373 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £651 £649
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 276 465
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.67
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.43 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £36.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.25% -14.53% +117.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.73 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the East of England

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 19 August 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
Suffolk -8 5 £625 +47.06%
Essex -13 4 £353 -32.12% 4
Hertfordshire - 2 £850 - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
2 2 (18.18%) npm
2 2 (18.18%) Yarn
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (27.27%) Redis
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
2 5 (45.45%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Angular Developer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Development Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (9.09%) React Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) React
2 5 (45.45%) REST
3 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 3 (27.27%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) JWT
3 3 (27.27%) OAuth
4 2 (18.18%) Celery
4 2 (18.18%) Django
4 2 (18.18%) RxJS
4 2 (18.18%) Vue
5 1 (9.09%) Jest
5 1 (9.09%) Kafka
5 1 (9.09%) Node.js
5 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
5 1 (9.09%) Spring
5 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 1 (9.09%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (36.36%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (18.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Application Security
4 5 (45.45%) DevOps
5 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 4 (36.36%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
5 4 (36.36%) Product Vision
5 4 (36.36%) SDLC
5 4 (36.36%) SOLID
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (18.18%) AI
7 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
7 2 (18.18%) Data Validation
7 2 (18.18%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) TypeScript
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform