Grunt Contracts in England

Grunt
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Grunt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grunt over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 541 620
Rank change year-on-year +64 +79 +37
Contract jobs citing Grunt 8 1 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.003% 0.065%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.24% 0.023% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 26
10th Percentile £390 - £440
25th Percentile £425 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £400 £531
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -24.71% -24.11%
75th Percentile £542 - £628
90th Percentile £577 - £781
UK median daily rate £484 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +20.88% -23.81% -25.00%

All Development Application Skills
England

Grunt falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Grunt
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Grunt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Grunt in England

Grunt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Grunt in England.

Daily rate trend for Grunt in England

Grunt
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grunt in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grunt in England

Grunt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Grunt in England.

Hourly rate trend for Grunt in England

Grunt
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 Grunt within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West - 4 £600 - 1
North of England - 4 £600 - 2
London +40 3 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £367 -
Midlands - 1 £367 -
Grunt
UK

Grunt
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) BigCommerce
2 1 (12.50%) npm
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Git
2 6 (75.00%) gulp
3 5 (62.50%) Jasmine
3 5 (62.50%) Mocha
4 4 (50.00%) Subversion
5 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
5 2 (25.00%) webpack
6 1 (12.50%) ESLint
6 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Developer
4 1 (12.50%) HTML Developer
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Developer
4 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) CSS
1 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) HTML5
1 8 (100.00%) Node.js
1 8 (100.00%) Sass
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 5 (62.50%) Mustache
4 3 (37.50%) CSS3
4 3 (37.50%) LESS
5 2 (25.00%) Jest
5 2 (25.00%) Semantic HTML
5 2 (25.00%) VML
6 1 (12.50%) Ajax
6 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 1 (12.50%) JSON
6 1 (12.50%) REST
6 1 (12.50%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Mac OS X
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Responsive Web Design
3 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 5 (62.50%) User Experience
3 5 (62.50%) Web Accessibility
3 5 (62.50%) Web Design
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Web Development
6 2 (25.00%) B2B
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Acquisition
6 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
6 2 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (87.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (62.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Adobe
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
1 2 (25.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (12.50%) Perforce