Backends for Frontends Contract Job Trends in England

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 476 550
Rank change year-on-year -68 +74 +148
Contract jobs citing Backends for Frontends 6 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.018% 0.035% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.039% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 1
10th Percentile £446 £405 -
25th Percentile £481 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% -18.00%
75th Percentile - £538 £519
90th Percentile £583 £619 -
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -1.08% +2.44% -18.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Backends for Frontends 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,666 23,261 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.57% 89.75% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 14,365 22,049
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,857 734 1,965
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.05 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backends for Frontends relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Backends for Frontends job vacancy trend in England

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Backends for Frontends.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Backends for Frontends

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backends for Frontends in England over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 11 February 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
London -41 3 £550 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire - 1 £596 - 6
Midlands - 1 £489 -
South East - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £489 -
North of England - 1 £596 - 6
Backends for Frontends
UK

Backends for Frontends
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (33.33%) Bitrise
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Run
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) XCTest
2 1 (16.67%) Bundler
2 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (16.67%) ESLint
2 1 (16.67%) Gradle
2 1 (16.67%) Jasmine
2 1 (16.67%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) React Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) SwiftUI
1 2 (33.33%) UIKit
2 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS3
2 1 (16.67%) DOM
2 1 (16.67%) Enzyme
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) Handlebars
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) Mustache
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
1 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Async-Await
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Telematics
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Swift
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft