Backends for Frontends Contracts in England

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Backends for Frontends skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backends for Frontends over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 668 778
Rank change year-on-year +131 +110 -162
Contract jobs citing Backends for Frontends 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.010% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.011% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £510 £511 £520
25th Percentile £516 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -3.30%
75th Percentile £563 £638 £606
90th Percentile £585 £825 £662
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -16.00% +5.93% +3.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Backends for Frontends is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,161 45,385 64,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.22% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,078 31,861 45,788
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,252 1,585 1,771
10th Percentile £12.93 £10.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Backends for Frontends as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Backends for Frontends in England

Backends for Frontends
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backends for Frontends in England.

Daily rate trend for Backends for Frontends in England

Backends for Frontends
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backends for Frontends within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
London +98 3 £563 -10.00% 1
Backends for Frontends
UK

Backends for Frontends
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Gradle
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RAML
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Code
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA