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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 78 97
Rank change year-on-year -17 +19 +17
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 5 8 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.35% 0.61% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.76% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 14
10th Percentile £373 - £413
25th Percentile £406 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £588
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -48.94% -7.66%
75th Percentile £613 £450 £647
90th Percentile £665 £465 £650
England median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -5.17%

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 1,273 1,048 1,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.08% 79.94% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 418 896
10th Percentile £194 £225 £225
25th Percentile £375 £318 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £559 £600
90th Percentile £686 £650 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 223 374
10th Percentile £13.92 £15.00 £14.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 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
Cambridgeshire -9 2 £500 +66.67% 13
Suffolk +6 1 £425 -5.56% 3
Essex -1 1 £575 +91.67% 12
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (20.00%) npm
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Next.js
2 2 (40.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Express.js
3 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (20.00%) Immutable.js
3 1 (20.00%) Jest
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) JWT
3 1 (20.00%) NgRx
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
3 1 (20.00%) PySpark
3 1 (20.00%) pytest
3 1 (20.00%) Redux
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Content Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet