Front End Development Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 188 210
Rank change year-on-year -31 +22 -79
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 274 454 610
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.14% 1.25% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.45% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 365 436
10th Percentile £358 £365 £361
25th Percentile £408 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £653
90th Percentile £713 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £68.81 £63.20
25th Percentile £37.80 £70.78 £66.13
Median hourly rate £40.59 £71.87 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.52% -0.18% +15.20%
75th Percentile £43.39 £75.00 £77.63
90th Percentile - £79.50 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £40.59 £70.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year -42.01% +12.45% +3.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Front End Development 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 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 May 2025.

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 22 May 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
London -40 166 £525 -2.33% 443
North of England -9 42 £450 -14.29% 211
North West -8 31 £413 -15.38% 122
South East +61 27 £475 +3.26% 203
Midlands +12 14 £420 -1.18% 91
West Midlands +18 11 £461 +15.31% 49
South West +15 7 £533 +18.33% 55
Yorkshire -2 6 £485 -11.82% 58
North East +7 5 £480 +37.14% 35
East of England +23 3 £520 +4.00% 62
East Midlands -1 3 £402 -5.41% 38
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 20 (7.30%) CMS
2 10 (3.65%) Headless CMS
3 5 (1.82%) nginx
4 3 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.73%) Apache
5 2 (0.73%) Confluence
5 2 (0.73%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Adobe XD
1 6 (2.19%) Sketch
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Magento
1 2 (0.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 73 (26.64%) AWS
2 50 (18.25%) Azure
3 27 (9.85%) Figma
4 20 (7.30%) GitHub
5 14 (5.11%) GCP
6 11 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (3.28%) Serverless
8 8 (2.92%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.92%) npm
9 6 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.19%) SaaS
10 5 (1.82%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.46%) Apigee
11 4 (1.46%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.46%) Firebase
12 3 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.09%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.09%) Sentry
12 3 (1.09%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) HTTP
1 5 (1.82%) SSL
2 2 (0.73%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) ATM
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) NFC
3 1 (0.36%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.57%) MongoDB
3 15 (5.47%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.74%) Redis
5 12 (4.38%) MySQL
6 7 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.19%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.46%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.73%) GIS
10 2 (0.73%) ObjectStore
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.36%) Flink
11 1 (0.36%) Power BI
11 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (20.80%) Git
2 28 (10.22%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.30%) Cypress.io
4 15 (5.47%) webpack
5 14 (5.11%) GitLab
6 13 (4.74%) JIRA
7 12 (4.38%) Subversion
8 11 (4.01%) Babel
9 10 (3.65%) CircleCI
10 9 (3.28%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.92%) Postman
12 7 (2.55%) Grunt
13 6 (2.19%) Jasmine
13 6 (2.19%) Mocha
13 6 (2.19%) REST Assured
13 6 (2.19%) Xcode
14 5 (1.82%) gulp
15 4 (1.46%) Bitbucket
15 4 (1.46%) JUnit
15 4 (1.46%) Maven
General
1 68 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.99%) Finance
3 25 (9.12%) Banking
4 24 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.66%) Front Office
6 11 (4.01%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.92%) Military
9 7 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.19%) Retail
11 5 (1.82%) Marketing
12 4 (1.46%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.73%) Back Office
15 1 (0.36%) Automotive
15 1 (0.36%) Billing
15 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.36%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 201 (73.36%) Developer
2 112 (40.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 51 (18.61%) React Developer
4 43 (15.69%) Senior
5 31 (11.31%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (9.85%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.66%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.47%) Lead
9 13 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (4.38%) Angular Developer
11 11 (4.01%) JavaScript Developer
11 11 (4.01%) UI Developer
12 10 (3.65%) Designer
13 9 (3.28%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 9 (3.28%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.28%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 8 (2.92%) .NET Developer
14 8 (2.92%) Lead Developer
14 8 (2.92%) UX Designer
14 8 (2.92%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (54.38%) React
2 111 (40.51%) CSS
3 102 (37.23%) HTML
4 65 (23.72%) RESTful
5 61 (22.26%) AngularJS
6 57 (20.80%) Node.js
7 42 (15.33%) .NET
8 35 (12.77%) HTML5
9 34 (12.41%) Next.js
10 29 (10.58%) REST
11 26 (9.49%) Vue
12 23 (8.39%) CSS3
12 23 (8.39%) Redux
13 20 (7.30%) GraphQL
13 20 (7.30%) Sass
14 19 (6.93%) Jest
15 18 (6.57%) .NET Core
16 16 (5.84%) Spring
17 15 (5.47%) Web Services
18 14 (5.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.47%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.74%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.38%) Fixed Income
4 11 (4.01%) Mobile App
5 10 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.19%) Derivative
7 6 (2.19%) Equities
7 6 (2.19%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.46%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.09%) Mobile Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (1.09%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.65%) Linux
2 9 (3.28%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.92%) Unix
4 5 (1.82%) Mac OS X
5 4 (1.46%) Windows
6 3 (1.09%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (43.07%) Agile
2 80 (29.20%) User Experience
3 71 (25.91%) CI/CD
4 58 (21.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 56 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (16.79%) Microservices
7 44 (16.06%) Software Engineering
8 39 (14.23%) DevOps
9 37 (13.50%) UX Design
10 33 (12.04%) Code Quality
11 31 (11.31%) Test Automation
12 26 (9.49%) Containerisation
12 26 (9.49%) Web Development
13 25 (9.12%) Responsive Web Design
13 25 (9.12%) TDD
14 22 (8.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.66%) API Development
15 21 (7.66%) Mentoring
16 20 (7.30%) Analytics
17 18 (6.57%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 132 (48.18%) JavaScript
2 95 (34.67%) TypeScript
3 49 (17.88%) Java
4 38 (13.87%) Python
5 36 (13.14%) C#
6 24 (8.76%) SQL
7 10 (3.65%) Go
8 9 (3.28%) C++
8 9 (3.28%) PHP
9 8 (2.92%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.19%) Ruby
11 5 (1.82%) Scala
11 5 (1.82%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.46%) C
12 4 (1.46%) Groovy
12 4 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.09%) Bash
13 3 (1.09%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.47%) Degree
4 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.15%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.39%) WCAG
3 11 (4.01%) QA
4 3 (1.09%) GDPR
5 2 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) PERC
System Software
1 37 (13.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (15.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.38%) Terraform
3 7 (2.55%) Grafana
3 7 (2.55%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (8.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.11%) Adobe
3 11 (4.01%) Oracle
4 10 (3.65%) Google
5 4 (1.46%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.46%) SAP
5 4 (1.46%) Splunk
6 3 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.09%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.09%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.09%) Zend
7 2 (0.73%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.73%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.36%) IBM
8 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.36%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.36%) Virgin Media