Front End Development Contracts in England

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 230 127
Rank change year-on-year +55 -103 -17
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 486 609 1,522
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.31% 1.20% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.33% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 434 1,161
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £423 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £669
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 15
10th Percentile £68.81 - £22.86
25th Percentile £70.78 £80.75 £32.63
Median hourly rate £71.87 £81.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +36.97% +56.83%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £67.43
90th Percentile £79.50 - £75.51
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.75 £57.25
% change year-on-year +17.15% +4.37% +52.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Front End Development 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 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in England.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in England.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
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 Front End Development within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +53 333 £548 -4.78% 130
North of England +10 73 £500 - 84
North West +47 57 £500 +5.26% 61
South West +28 27 £475 +11.76% 22
Yorkshire -20 16 £550 +4.76% 17
South East +12 14 £500 +25.00% 25
Midlands -3 14 £413 -2.94% 25
East Midlands 0 9 £425 +2.41% 6
East of England +7 6 £500 -28.57% 26
West Midlands +18 5 £400 -20.00% 19
Front End Development
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Front End Development
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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (4.94%) CMS
2 9 (1.85%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (1.85%) Confluence
2 9 (1.85%) WordPress
3 8 (1.65%) Apache
4 5 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.03%) Tornado
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.62%) Sketch
3 1 (0.21%) InVision
3 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.03%) Endur
2 4 (0.82%) Shopify
3 2 (0.41%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 116 (23.87%) AWS
2 76 (15.64%) Azure
3 34 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (5.97%) GitHub
5 28 (5.76%) Serverless
6 27 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 24 (4.94%) GCP
8 23 (4.73%) Azure Service Bus
9 18 (3.70%) npm
10 15 (3.09%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (2.88%) Figma
12 13 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.67%) Azure Functions
12 13 (2.67%) Azure Pipelines
13 10 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.26%) HTTP
2 3 (0.62%) Intranet
3 1 (0.21%) NFC
3 1 (0.21%) PPP
3 1 (0.21%) RTSP
3 1 (0.21%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.85%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (6.17%) Relational Database
4 22 (4.53%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.91%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.65%) MySQL
9 6 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.03%) Apache Ignite
10 5 (1.03%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.82%) Redis
12 2 (0.41%) GIS
12 2 (0.41%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.41%) RavenDB
13 1 (0.21%) Big Data
13 1 (0.21%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 79 (16.26%) Git
2 33 (6.79%) JIRA
3 28 (5.76%) webpack
4 24 (4.94%) Jenkins
5 21 (4.32%) JUnit
6 18 (3.70%) GitLab
7 15 (3.09%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.85%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.23%) Babel
9 6 (1.23%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.03%) Maven
10 5 (1.03%) Pylint
10 5 (1.03%) Storybook
11 4 (0.82%) Gradle
11 4 (0.82%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.82%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.62%) git-flow
12 3 (0.62%) Postman
12 3 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 82 (16.87%) Finance
2 76 (15.64%) Social Skills
3 57 (11.73%) Public Sector
4 53 (10.91%) Banking
5 37 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (7.41%) Front Office
7 13 (2.67%) Local Government
8 12 (2.47%) Back Office
8 12 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.65%) Marketing
10 6 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.03%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.82%) Advertising
12 4 (0.82%) Law
12 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.62%) Automotive
13 3 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.62%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 395 (81.28%) Developer
2 197 (40.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 92 (18.93%) Senior
4 71 (14.61%) Senior Developer
5 56 (11.52%) React Developer
6 42 (8.64%) Full Stack Developer
6 42 (8.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 41 (8.44%) Java Developer
8 39 (8.02%) Angular Developer
9 34 (7.00%) Software Engineer
10 31 (6.38%) UI Developer
11 24 (4.94%) C# Developer
12 19 (3.91%) Lead
13 18 (3.70%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 18 (3.70%) Software Developer
14 15 (3.09%) Backend Developer
15 13 (2.67%) JavaScript Developer
15 13 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
15 13 (2.67%) UX Developer
16 12 (2.47%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (51.65%) React
2 144 (29.63%) CSS
3 138 (28.40%) HTML
4 107 (22.02%) AngularJS
5 87 (17.90%) REST
6 72 (14.81%) Node.js
7 68 (13.99%) .NET
8 55 (11.32%) Redux
9 54 (11.11%) Spring
10 49 (10.08%) Spring Boot
11 42 (8.64%) Hibernate
12 38 (7.82%) Next.js
13 37 (7.61%) JPA
14 33 (6.79%) Vue
15 31 (6.38%) .NET Core
16 26 (5.35%) HTML5
16 26 (5.35%) WebSockets
17 25 (5.14%) jQuery
18 23 (4.73%) RESTful
19 22 (4.53%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.97%) Fixed Income
2 17 (3.50%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.09%) Renewable Energy
5 12 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.85%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.65%) Solar Panel
9 6 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.23%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.03%) Wiki
11 4 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.62%) Derivative
12 3 (0.62%) Equities
12 3 (0.62%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.41%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.41%) Graphic Design
13 2 (0.41%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.47%) Windows
2 8 (1.65%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) CentOS
4 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (37.86%) Agile
2 97 (19.96%) User Experience
3 96 (19.75%) Software Engineering
4 93 (19.14%) DevOps
5 87 (17.90%) CI/CD
6 84 (17.28%) Full Stack Development
7 64 (13.17%) Microservices
8 60 (12.35%) UX Design
9 53 (10.91%) Mentoring
10 50 (10.29%) TDD
11 47 (9.67%) Scrum
12 44 (9.05%) Clean Code
13 42 (8.64%) Web Development
14 40 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (8.23%) Unit Testing
15 38 (7.82%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (6.79%) Design Patterns
17 32 (6.58%) Test Automation
18 30 (6.17%) Code Quality
18 30 (6.17%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 218 (44.86%) JavaScript
2 169 (34.77%) TypeScript
3 97 (19.96%) Java
4 87 (17.90%) C#
5 76 (15.64%) SQL
6 64 (13.17%) Python
7 16 (3.29%) Bicep
8 10 (2.06%) C++
8 10 (2.06%) Go
8 10 (2.06%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.85%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.23%) Bash
11 6 (1.23%) PHP
11 6 (1.23%) Ruby
12 3 (0.62%) JSX
12 3 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.21%) R
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
13 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 81 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 77 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.38%) Degree
4 20 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.05%) Accessibility
2 24 (4.94%) WCAG
3 21 (4.32%) QA
4 7 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (9.67%) Docker
2 17 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.82%) zsh
Systems Management
1 62 (12.76%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.44%) Terraform
4 4 (0.82%) Grafana
5 3 (0.62%) Istio
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Kibana
6 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (5.35%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.94%) Google
3 14 (2.88%) Oracle
4 9 (1.85%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.03%) Confluent
5 5 (1.03%) Databricks
6 4 (0.82%) Adobe
6 4 (0.82%) Black Duck
6 4 (0.82%) Optimizely
7 3 (0.62%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.41%) Maxymiser
8 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.21%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.21%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.21%) Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.21%) SAP
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.21%) Splunk
9 1 (0.21%) Sun