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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 212 129
Rank change year-on-year +30 -83 -7
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 480 612 1,474
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.31% 1.25% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.39% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 438 1,127
10th Percentile £363 £350 £389
25th Percentile £420 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £572
Median % change year-on-year - -8.22% +27.11%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 19
10th Percentile £68.81 - £28.70
25th Percentile £70.78 £80.75 £43.75
Median hourly rate £71.87 £81.50 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +20.99% +79.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £76.42
90th Percentile £79.50 - £77.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.75 £66.18
% change year-on-year +17.15% -9.72% +103.63%

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 31,798 44,069 63,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 30,926 45,337
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,559 1,731
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 11 May 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 11 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 +50 325 £540 -7.73% 125
North of England +17 73 £525 +0.96% 69
North West +48 54 £500 +2.56% 39
South West +22 28 £463 +8.82% 18
Yorkshire -19 18 £550 +4.76% 24
Midlands -1 15 £425 -2.86% 46
South East +3 13 £485 +21.25% 27
East Midlands +2 9 £425 +2.41% 14
East of England +4 6 £500 -25.93% 24
West Midlands -1 5 £400 -20.00% 32
North East +5 1 £350 -31.37% 8
Front End Development
UK

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 27 (5.63%) CMS
2 9 (1.88%) Apache
2 9 (1.88%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (1.88%) Confluence
2 9 (1.88%) WordPress
3 6 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.04%) Tornado
5 3 (0.63%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.42%) nginx
6 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) Drupal
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.63%) Sketch
3 1 (0.21%) InVision
3 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) Endur
2 3 (0.63%) Shopify
3 2 (0.42%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 110 (22.92%) AWS
2 81 (16.88%) Azure
3 36 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (5.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 27 (5.63%) GCP
4 27 (5.63%) GitHub
4 27 (5.63%) Serverless
5 23 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (3.33%) npm
7 15 (3.13%) Figma
8 14 (2.92%) Amazon S3
8 14 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (2.71%) Azure Functions
9 13 (2.71%) Azure Pipelines
10 12 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (1.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.29%) HTTP
2 3 (0.63%) Intranet
3 1 (0.21%) NFC
3 1 (0.21%) PPP
3 1 (0.21%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (5.83%) Relational Database
4 21 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 19 (3.96%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.67%) MySQL
9 6 (1.25%) Apache Ignite
9 6 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.04%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.83%) Redis
12 2 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.42%) GIS
12 2 (0.42%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.42%) Power BI
12 2 (0.42%) RavenDB
13 1 (0.21%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 79 (16.46%) Git
2 30 (6.25%) JIRA
3 25 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.00%) webpack
5 21 (4.38%) JUnit
6 15 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 15 (3.13%) GitLab
7 8 (1.67%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.25%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.04%) Babel
9 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.04%) Maven
9 5 (1.04%) Pylint
9 5 (1.04%) Storybook
9 5 (1.04%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.83%) Gradle
10 4 (0.83%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.83%) Postman
11 3 (0.63%) git-flow
11 3 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (17.29%) Finance
2 73 (15.21%) Social Skills
3 54 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 49 (10.21%) Banking
5 33 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.88%) Front Office
6 13 (2.71%) Local Government
7 12 (2.50%) Back Office
7 12 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.88%) Marketing
10 6 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.04%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.83%) Advertising
13 3 (0.63%) Automotive
13 3 (0.63%) Law
13 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.63%) Retail
13 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 384 (80.00%) Developer
2 191 (39.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 95 (19.79%) Senior
4 74 (15.42%) Senior Developer
5 57 (11.88%) React Developer
6 44 (9.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 41 (8.54%) Full Stack Developer
8 40 (8.33%) Java Developer
9 38 (7.92%) Angular Developer
10 34 (7.08%) Software Engineer
11 30 (6.25%) UI Developer
12 22 (4.58%) C# Developer
13 19 (3.96%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 19 (3.96%) Lead
13 19 (3.96%) Software Developer
14 14 (2.92%) Backend Developer
15 13 (2.71%) UX Developer
16 12 (2.50%) Senior Full Stack Developer
16 12 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
16 12 (2.50%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (50.21%) React
2 145 (30.21%) CSS
3 139 (28.96%) HTML
4 104 (21.67%) AngularJS
5 84 (17.50%) REST
6 73 (15.21%) Node.js
7 67 (13.96%) .NET
8 55 (11.46%) Redux
9 54 (11.25%) Spring
10 49 (10.21%) Spring Boot
11 42 (8.75%) Hibernate
11 42 (8.75%) Next.js
12 36 (7.50%) JPA
13 33 (6.88%) Vue
14 30 (6.25%) .NET Core
14 30 (6.25%) HTML5
15 25 (5.21%) jQuery
16 24 (5.00%) RESTful
16 24 (5.00%) WebSockets
17 23 (4.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 16 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
4 12 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.67%) Solar Panel
8 6 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.25%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.04%) Wiki
10 4 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.63%) Derivative
11 3 (0.63%) Equities
11 3 (0.63%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.42%) Graphic Design
12 2 (0.42%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.42%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.71%) Windows
2 8 (1.67%) Linux
3 3 (0.63%) 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
1 183 (38.13%) Agile
2 99 (20.63%) User Experience
3 98 (20.42%) Software Engineering
4 94 (19.58%) DevOps
5 86 (17.92%) CI/CD
6 83 (17.29%) Full Stack Development
7 58 (12.08%) Microservices
8 56 (11.67%) UX Design
9 51 (10.63%) Mentoring
10 49 (10.21%) TDD
11 46 (9.58%) Web Development
12 45 (9.38%) Scrum
13 41 (8.54%) Clean Code
14 40 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (8.33%) Unit Testing
15 37 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (7.08%) Code Quality
17 31 (6.46%) MVC
17 31 (6.46%) Test Automation
18 29 (6.04%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 214 (44.58%) JavaScript
2 166 (34.58%) TypeScript
3 92 (19.17%) Java
4 83 (17.29%) C#
5 79 (16.46%) SQL
6 65 (13.54%) Python
7 16 (3.33%) Bicep
8 10 (2.08%) C++
8 10 (2.08%) Go
8 10 (2.08%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.88%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.67%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.46%) PHP
12 6 (1.25%) Bash
12 6 (1.25%) Ruby
13 3 (0.63%) JSX
13 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.21%) F#
14 1 (0.21%) R
14 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 73 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.67%) Degree
4 19 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.75%) Accessibility
2 23 (4.79%) WCAG
3 21 (4.38%) QA
4 7 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 49 (10.21%) Docker
2 17 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.83%) zsh
Systems Management
1 63 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.46%) Terraform
4 4 (0.83%) Grafana
5 3 (0.63%) Istio
6 2 (0.42%) Kibana
7 1 (0.21%) Ansible
7 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (6.46%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.00%) Google
3 14 (2.92%) Oracle
4 9 (1.88%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.04%) Confluent
5 5 (1.04%) Databricks
6 4 (0.83%) Adobe
6 4 (0.83%) Black Duck
6 4 (0.83%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.63%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.42%) Maxymiser
8 2 (0.42%) SAP
9 1 (0.21%) Ariba
9 1 (0.21%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.21%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.21%) Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.21%) Splunk
9 1 (0.21%) Sun