Senior Front-End Developer Contracts in England

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

The median Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer) daily rate in England is £594, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 496 618
Rank change year-on-year +21 +122 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 10 46 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.12% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.13% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 37 21
10th Percentile £473 £410 £463
25th Percentile £548 £440 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £609 £556 £675
90th Percentile £638 £645 £788
UK median daily rate £588 £475 £560
% change year-on-year +23.68% -15.18% -2.61%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £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 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Front-End Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Front-End Developer in England

Senior Front-End Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Front-End Developer in England

Senior Front-End Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Front-End Developer in England

Senior Front-End Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Front-End Developer in England

Senior Front-End 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 Senior Front-End Developer 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
London +11 5 £581 +22.37% 38
South East +48 3 £625 +25.00% 17
North of England +11 2 £600 +26.32% 12
North West +11 2 £600 +26.32% 8
Senior Front-End Developer
UK

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Front-End 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 Senior Front-End Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 8 (80.00%) React
2 8 (80.00%) CSS
3 6 (60.00%) HTML
3 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) Accessibility
5 4 (40.00%) Git
5 4 (40.00%) User Experience
5 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (40.00%) Node.js
6 3 (30.00%) Azure
6 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (30.00%) DevOps
6 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (30.00%) Web Development
6 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (30.00%) Vue
6 3 (30.00%) Next.js
7 2 (20.00%) Progressive Web App
7 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (20.00%) SOLID
7 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
7 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (20.00%) Contentstack
7 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
7 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (20.00%) Technical Debt
7 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS

Senior Front-End 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 2 (20.00%) CMS
1 2 (20.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Contentstack
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (20.00%) Grunt
3 2 (20.00%) gulp
3 2 (20.00%) Jasmine
3 2 (20.00%) Mocha
3 2 (20.00%) Selenium
3 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
3 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (10.00%) Babel
4 1 (10.00%) Subversion
4 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) CSS
1 8 (80.00%) React
2 6 (60.00%) HTML
3 4 (40.00%) Node.js
4 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (30.00%) Next.js
4 3 (30.00%) Vue
5 2 (20.00%) Bootstrap
5 2 (20.00%) HTML5
5 2 (20.00%) jQuery
5 2 (20.00%) Mustache
5 2 (20.00%) RESTful
5 2 (20.00%) Sass
5 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (20.00%) YAML
6 1 (10.00%) Google Maps API
6 1 (10.00%) Jest
6 1 (10.00%) Material-UI
6 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
6 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (40.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Web Development
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Insurtech
5 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (20.00%) Product Backlog
5 2 (20.00%) Progressive Web App
5 2 (20.00%) SOLID
5 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Debt
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) UX Design
5 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google