Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts in England

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 329 373
Rank change year-on-year -20 +44 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 126 217 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.59% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.63% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 177 223
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £636
90th Percentile £661 £752 £695
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £80.75
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £81.50
Median % change year-on-year - -32.52% +20.99%
75th Percentile - - £82.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £81.50
% change year-on-year - -50.92% +20.99%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,567 34,372 47,420
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 92.73% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,024 22,819 33,680
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 912 2,442 1,403
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.45 £36.50 £44.53
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -18.03% +97.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England.

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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 -41 62 £475 -10.59% 86
North of England +23 28 £425 -10.53% 60
North West +21 21 £400 -15.79% 33
South East +43 14 £409 -0.85% 40
Midlands +19 9 £420 -23.64% 25
West Midlands +23 8 £440 - 12
North East - 7 £480 - 18
South West +30 3 - - 13
East of England +34 2 £575 +18.56% 8
East Midlands +10 1 £270 -50.91% 10
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 114 (90.48%) Front End Development
2 88 (69.84%) React
3 67 (53.17%) JavaScript
4 61 (48.41%) CSS
5 53 (42.06%) HTML
6 49 (38.89%) TypeScript
7 44 (34.92%) User Experience
8 36 (28.57%) Agile
9 33 (26.19%) Node.js
10 25 (19.84%) Git
10 25 (19.84%) AWS
11 24 (19.05%) RESTful
11 24 (19.05%) Next.js
12 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
13 22 (17.46%) HTML5
14 21 (16.67%) Java
14 21 (16.67%) Finance
14 21 (16.67%) CI/CD
15 20 (15.87%) Accessibility
15 20 (15.87%) Sass
16 19 (15.08%) AngularJS
16 19 (15.08%) Web Development
17 18 (14.29%) TDD
17 18 (14.29%) Redux
18 17 (13.49%) SC Cleared
18 17 (13.49%) Azure
18 17 (13.49%) UX Design
18 17 (13.49%) Social Skills
19 16 (12.70%) Test Automation
19 16 (12.70%) WCAG

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 12 (9.52%) CMS
2 8 (6.35%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.59%) Confluence
3 2 (1.59%) nginx
4 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.79%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Magento
2 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.84%) AWS
2 17 (13.49%) Azure
3 14 (11.11%) Figma
4 6 (4.76%) GitHub
5 5 (3.97%) GCP
5 5 (3.97%) npm
6 3 (2.38%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.38%) Yarn
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.59%) Contentstack
7 2 (1.59%) Firebase
7 2 (1.59%) SaaS
7 2 (1.59%) Veeva
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon Ads
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.79%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) HTTP
1 1 (0.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.97%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.59%) GIS
4 2 (1.59%) MySQL
4 2 (1.59%) ObjectStore
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.79%) Power BI
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (19.84%) Git
2 11 (8.73%) webpack
3 10 (7.94%) Babel
4 8 (6.35%) Cypress.io
5 7 (5.56%) Jasmine
5 7 (5.56%) Mocha
6 6 (4.76%) Subversion
7 5 (3.97%) GitLab
7 5 (3.97%) Grunt
7 5 (3.97%) gulp
7 5 (3.97%) Jenkins
7 5 (3.97%) Selenium
8 4 (3.17%) JIRA
9 3 (2.38%) TeamCity
9 3 (2.38%) Vite
10 2 (1.59%) Ant
10 2 (1.59%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.59%) Maven
10 2 (1.59%) Postman
10 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (16.67%) Finance
2 17 (13.49%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.73%) Banking
5 9 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 8 (6.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (4.76%) Front Office
8 4 (3.17%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.17%) Marketing
9 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.38%) Electronics
10 2 (1.59%) Advertising
10 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.59%) Military
11 1 (0.79%) Automotive
11 1 (0.79%) Games
11 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Law
11 1 (0.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (69.84%) React
2 61 (48.41%) CSS
3 53 (42.06%) HTML
4 33 (26.19%) Node.js
5 24 (19.05%) Next.js
5 24 (19.05%) RESTful
6 22 (17.46%) HTML5
7 20 (15.87%) Sass
8 19 (15.08%) AngularJS
9 18 (14.29%) Redux
10 16 (12.70%) .NET
11 14 (11.11%) Jest
12 12 (9.52%) Vue
13 10 (7.94%) CSS3
13 10 (7.94%) REST
14 9 (7.14%) jQuery
15 6 (4.76%) GraphQL
15 6 (4.76%) JSON
15 6 (4.76%) Mustache
16 5 (3.97%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.35%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.97%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.56%) Linux
2 5 (3.97%) Mac OS X
2 5 (3.97%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (90.48%) Front End Development
2 44 (34.92%) User Experience
3 36 (28.57%) Agile
4 21 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 19 (15.08%) Web Development
6 18 (14.29%) TDD
7 17 (13.49%) UX Design
8 16 (12.70%) Test Automation
9 14 (11.11%) Clean Code
9 14 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 13 (10.32%) Microservices
10 13 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (7.14%) Code Quality
12 9 (7.14%) Responsive Web Design
13 8 (6.35%) DevOps
13 8 (6.35%) Investment Management
13 8 (6.35%) Web Accessibility
13 8 (6.35%) Web Design
13 8 (6.35%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 67 (53.17%) JavaScript
2 49 (38.89%) TypeScript
3 21 (16.67%) Java
4 11 (8.73%) C#
4 11 (8.73%) SQL
5 6 (4.76%) Python
6 1 (0.79%) JSX
6 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.79%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.79%) PHP
6 1 (0.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.35%) Degree
4 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.87%) Accessibility
2 16 (12.70%) WCAG
3 4 (3.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.56%) Google
3 5 (3.97%) Adobe
4 4 (3.17%) SAP
5 2 (1.59%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.79%) Splunk
6 1 (0.79%) Veracode
6 1 (0.79%) Virgin Media