Front End Development Contracts in Essex

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 +21
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.27% 2.27% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 2.79% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £467
25th Percentile £458 £485 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +2.30% -15.73%
75th Percentile £473 £597 £498
90th Percentile - £599 £499
East of England median daily rate £520 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +4.00% -28.57% +20.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 179 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 94.94% 81.36% 83.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 95 125
10th Percentile £231 £216 £191
25th Percentile £315 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £611
East of England median daily rate £500 £461 £475
% change year-on-year +8.40% -2.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 £21.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £14.57 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £200.00 - £67.55
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Essex

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Essex.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Essex

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in Essex

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex 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
Basildon +4 1 £465 -15.22% 2
Front End Development
East of England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) OSGi
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI