Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts in the East of England

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in the East of England is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 112 108
Rank change year-on-year +28 -4 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 3 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.29% 0.10% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.11% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £544 - £413
25th Percentile £553 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £485 £535
Median % change year-on-year +26.29% -9.35% -10.83%
75th Percentile £678 - £700
90th Percentile £691 - -
England median daily rate £478 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +0.53% -9.52% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 908 1,779 1,794
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.22% 89.26% 91.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 760 1,121
10th Percentile £200 £212 £200
25th Percentile £357 £306 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £441 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% -7.21% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 625 249
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £42.85 £43.00 £35.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +20.11% +92.99%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.45 £73.75
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.53 £45.00
% change year-on-year -27.26% -12.17% +83.67%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the East of England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the East of England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the East of England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 June 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 - 2 £613 - 23
Suffolk - 1 - - 9
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 18 June 2025, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) RxJS
2 2 (66.67%) npm
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) NgRx
2 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 2 (66.67%) Product Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Express.js
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Data Structures

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Express.js
2 2 (66.67%) NgRx
2 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) RxJS
3 1 (33.33%) Immutable.js
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) JWT
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Wireframes
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Product Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript