Backends for Frontends Contract Job Trends in London

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 343 397
Rank change year-on-year -41 +54 +124
Contract jobs citing Backends for Frontends 3 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% 0.067% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.074% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 0
10th Percentile £449 £405 -
25th Percentile £487 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile - £538 -
90th Percentile - £619 -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% -18.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Backends for Frontends 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,733 12,232 16,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.75% 90.57% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,140 7,798 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.42
Median hourly rate £34.38 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.97 £55.25 £50.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backends for Frontends relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Backends for Frontends job vacancy trend in London

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Backends for Frontends.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Backends for Frontends

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backends for Frontends in London over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Backends for Frontends in London

Backends for Frontends
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backends for Frontends within the London region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. 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
West London - 2 £550 -
Backends for Frontends
England

Backends for Frontends
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (66.67%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Run
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Bitrise
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) XCTest
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) iOS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SwiftUI
2 1 (33.33%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) API Design
1 2 (66.67%) API Development
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Async-Await
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) iOS Development
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Telematics
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft