Front End Development Contracts in London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 183 107
Rank change year-on-year +53 -76 +2
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 333 387 1,024
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.88% 1.43% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.57% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 263 803
10th Percentile £400 £395 £406
25th Percentile £433 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -4.17% +25.00%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £700
90th Percentile £800 £788 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £33.84
25th Percentile - £80.75 £40.63
Median hourly rate - £81.50 £61.88
Median % change year-on-year - +31.72% +52.78%
75th Percentile - £82.25 £73.13
90th Percentile - - £77.41
England median hourly rate £71.87 £81.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year -11.82% +36.97% +56.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
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 Front End Development within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London +37 54 £475 -15.37% 10
South London +21 11 £425 -1.45%
East London -2 5 £443 +1.72% 3
West London +15 1 £350 -30.00% 1
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 19 (5.71%) CMS
2 9 (2.70%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (2.70%) Confluence
3 8 (2.40%) Apache
3 8 (2.40%) WordPress
4 5 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.50%) Tornado
5 2 (0.60%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.90%) Sketch
3 1 (0.30%) InVision
3 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Endur
2 4 (1.20%) Shopify
3 2 (0.60%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 72 (21.62%) AWS
2 63 (18.92%) Azure
3 29 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (8.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 22 (6.61%) GitHub
5 22 (6.61%) Serverless
6 21 (6.31%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (4.20%) GCP
8 13 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (3.90%) Azure Pipelines
8 13 (3.90%) npm
9 11 (3.30%) Azure Functions
9 11 (3.30%) Figma
10 10 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (2.70%) Azure Storage
12 8 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.10%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.50%) HTTP
2 3 (0.90%) Intranet
3 1 (0.30%) RTSP
3 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.31%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 18 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.11%) Relational Database
5 14 (4.20%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.50%) Apache Ignite
8 5 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.90%) MySQL
11 2 (0.60%) RavenDB
11 2 (0.60%) Redis
12 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.30%) Big Data
12 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (17.12%) Git
2 28 (8.41%) JIRA
3 19 (5.71%) webpack
4 12 (3.60%) Cypress.io
4 12 (3.60%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.70%) JUnit
5 9 (2.70%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.50%) Babel
7 5 (1.50%) GitLab
7 5 (1.50%) Pylint
8 4 (1.20%) Jasmine
8 4 (1.20%) Storybook
9 3 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.90%) Maven
10 2 (0.60%) Gradle
10 2 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.60%) NUnit
10 2 (0.60%) Selenium
10 2 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 74 (22.22%) Finance
2 67 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 53 (15.92%) Banking
4 37 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 36 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (10.81%) Front Office
6 13 (3.90%) Local Government
7 12 (3.60%) Back Office
7 12 (3.60%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.50%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.50%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.20%) Marketing
10 3 (0.90%) Advertising
10 3 (0.90%) Automotive
10 3 (0.90%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Law
12 1 (0.30%) Publishing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
12 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 273 (81.98%) Developer
2 136 (40.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 73 (21.92%) Senior
4 54 (16.22%) Senior Developer
5 38 (11.41%) React Developer
6 36 (10.81%) Full Stack Developer
7 30 (9.01%) UI Developer
8 28 (8.41%) Angular Developer
8 28 (8.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 24 (7.21%) C# Developer
10 21 (6.31%) Software Engineer
11 18 (5.41%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.50%) Backend Developer
13 13 (3.90%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 13 (3.90%) UX Developer
14 12 (3.60%) Senior Software Engineer
15 11 (3.30%) UI Engineer
16 10 (3.00%) Python Developer
16 10 (3.00%) UI/UX Developer
17 9 (2.70%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (51.65%) React
2 109 (32.73%) CSS
3 105 (31.53%) HTML
4 82 (24.62%) AngularJS
5 57 (17.12%) .NET
6 53 (15.92%) REST
7 48 (14.41%) Node.js
8 31 (9.31%) .NET Core
8 31 (9.31%) Redux
9 29 (8.71%) Spring
10 27 (8.11%) Spring Boot
11 26 (7.81%) WebSockets
12 25 (7.51%) jQuery
13 22 (6.61%) Hibernate
14 19 (5.71%) HTML5
14 19 (5.71%) Next.js
14 19 (5.71%) Vue
15 18 (5.41%) JPA
16 16 (4.80%) ASP.NET
16 16 (4.80%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.71%) Fixed Income
2 17 (5.11%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.30%) Renewable Energy
5 8 (2.40%) Solar Panel
6 6 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.50%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.50%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.50%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.50%) Wiki
8 3 (0.90%) Derivative
8 3 (0.90%) Equities
8 3 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.90%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.60%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.60%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (0.60%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.30%) Windows
2 7 (2.10%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) CentOS
3 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (40.54%) Agile
2 75 (22.52%) Software Engineering
2 75 (22.52%) User Experience
3 69 (20.72%) DevOps
4 65 (19.52%) CI/CD
5 60 (18.02%) Full Stack Development
6 46 (13.81%) Microservices
7 45 (13.51%) UX Design
8 39 (11.71%) TDD
9 36 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (9.91%) Web Development
11 31 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (9.01%) Clean Code
13 29 (8.71%) Mentoring
14 27 (8.11%) Design Patterns
14 27 (8.11%) OO
14 27 (8.11%) Scrum
15 26 (7.81%) SDLC
16 25 (7.51%) MVC
16 25 (7.51%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 167 (50.15%) JavaScript
2 106 (31.83%) TypeScript
3 76 (22.82%) C#
4 71 (21.32%) SQL
5 62 (18.62%) Java
6 50 (15.02%) Python
7 16 (4.80%) Bicep
8 10 (3.00%) Go
8 10 (3.00%) PL/SQL
9 9 (2.70%) C++
9 9 (2.70%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.40%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.80%) Ruby
12 3 (0.90%) JSX
13 2 (0.60%) Bash
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) F#
14 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 45 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.21%) Degree
4 9 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 23 (6.91%) WCAG
3 9 (2.70%) QA
4 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (8.41%) Docker
2 17 (5.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (11.41%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.80%) Terraform
3 5 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.90%) Grafana
5 2 (0.60%) Istio
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.20%) Oracle
3 11 (3.30%) Google
4 9 (2.70%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.50%) Confluent
5 5 (1.50%) Databricks
6 4 (1.20%) Black Duck
7 3 (0.90%) Adobe
7 3 (0.90%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.60%) Maxymiser
8 2 (0.60%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.30%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.30%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.30%) Foundry
9 1 (0.30%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.30%) Sun
9 1 (0.30%) Virgin Media