Front End Development Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Front End Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 21.43% 4.88% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.67% 5.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £513 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +28.13% -20.00% +66.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £65.00 £40.59 -
% change year-on-year +60.14% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45 40 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 80.36% 97.56% 77.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 50
10th Percentile £208 £250 £199
25th Percentile £336 £306 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £504 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -1.71% -1.44%
75th Percentile £509 £581 £550
90th Percentile £519 £588 £763
Surrey median daily rate £505 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +6.88% -5.50% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 9
10th Percentile £55.00 £23.00 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £12.43
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% +125.35% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £13.14
90th Percentile - £30.30 £18.75
Surrey median hourly rate £66.99 £25.15 £18.35
% change year-on-year +166.36% +37.06% -59.22%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in Guildford

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Front End Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Front End Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Histogram in Guildford

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Front End Development in Guildford over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Front End Development in Guildford

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
1 7 (58.33%) Java Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 12 (100.00%) Quarkus
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 12 (100.00%) Scrum
1 12 (100.00%) SDLC
1 12 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 11 (91.67%) Software Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) Sprint Planning
2 11 (91.67%) Sprint Review
2 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (8.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Argo
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Red Hat