Front End Development Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 128 182
Rank change year-on-year -60 +54 -75
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 170 333 388
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.35% 1.87% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.11% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 263 263
10th Percentile £360 £400 £395
25th Percentile £413 £436 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £709
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £80.75
Median hourly rate - - £81.50
75th Percentile - - £82.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.59 £71.87 £81.50
% change year-on-year -43.52% -11.82% +35.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Central London -29 20 £575 +17.95% 22
West London +13 2 £409 +16.86% 11
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 15 (8.82%) CMS
2 8 (4.71%) Headless CMS
3 6 (3.53%) nginx
4 5 (2.94%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.59%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Drupal
5 1 (0.59%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.59%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.59%) MetaMask
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.71%) Adobe XD
1 8 (4.71%) Sketch
2 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.59%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (30.00%) AWS
2 29 (17.06%) Azure
3 18 (10.59%) Figma
4 13 (7.65%) GitHub
5 12 (7.06%) Serverless
6 10 (5.88%) GCP
7 9 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.71%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (3.53%) SaaS
10 5 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.94%) Azure Storage
11 4 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.35%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.76%) npm
12 3 (1.76%) Yarn
13 2 (1.18%) Contentstack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.94%) SSL
2 2 (1.18%) Firewall
2 2 (1.18%) HTTP
3 1 (0.59%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.47%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.29%) Redis
4 5 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.94%) MySQL
4 5 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.59%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 23 (13.53%) Git
2 18 (10.59%) Jenkins
3 13 (7.65%) Cypress.io
4 8 (4.71%) webpack
5 7 (4.12%) GitLab
5 7 (4.12%) Postman
5 7 (4.12%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.53%) JIRA
7 5 (2.94%) Babel
7 5 (2.94%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.35%) Subversion
9 3 (1.76%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.76%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.76%) Grunt
9 3 (1.76%) Maven
9 3 (1.76%) Selenium
9 3 (1.76%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.18%) Mockito
10 2 (1.18%) XCTest
General
1 59 (34.71%) Finance
2 42 (24.71%) Social Skills
3 31 (18.24%) Front Office
4 19 (11.18%) Banking
5 8 (4.71%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.12%) Retail
7 6 (3.53%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.94%) Marketing
9 4 (2.35%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Military
10 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.59%) Automotive
11 1 (0.59%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Law
11 1 (0.59%) Legal
11 1 (0.59%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 107 (62.94%) Developer
2 49 (28.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 34 (20.00%) React Developer
4 30 (17.65%) Senior
5 19 (11.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (10.59%) Analyst
6 18 (10.59%) Business Analyst
6 18 (10.59%) Business Manager
6 18 (10.59%) Product Analyst
6 18 (10.59%) Product Business Analyst
6 18 (10.59%) Product Manager
6 18 (10.59%) Software Engineer
7 17 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 13 (7.65%) Lead
9 10 (5.88%) Designer
10 9 (5.29%) .NET Developer
11 8 (4.71%) Angular Developer
11 8 (4.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 8 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.12%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (51.76%) React
2 49 (28.82%) CSS
3 42 (24.71%) HTML
4 30 (17.65%) AngularJS
4 30 (17.65%) RESTful
5 29 (17.06%) .NET
6 25 (14.71%) Node.js
7 19 (11.18%) Next.js
8 16 (9.41%) .NET Core
8 16 (9.41%) Redux
9 15 (8.82%) Vue
10 13 (7.65%) HTML5
11 12 (7.06%) CSS3
12 11 (6.47%) Jest
13 9 (5.29%) Spring Boot
14 8 (4.71%) Blazor
14 8 (4.71%) GraphQL
14 8 (4.71%) Kafka
14 8 (4.71%) Material-UI
14 8 (4.71%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 24 (14.12%) Fixed Income
3 22 (12.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (10.59%) Derivative
4 18 (10.59%) Equities
4 18 (10.59%) Hedge funds
5 11 (6.47%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (4.12%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.94%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.76%) TWAP
10 3 (1.76%) VWAP
11 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.59%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.94%) Windows
3 4 (2.35%) Unix
4 2 (1.18%) Linux
4 2 (1.18%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (45.88%) Agile
2 53 (31.18%) CI/CD
3 41 (24.12%) User Experience
4 40 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (17.65%) DevOps
6 28 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (15.88%) Microservices
8 26 (15.29%) Analytics
8 26 (15.29%) Investment Management
8 26 (15.29%) Software Engineering
9 25 (14.71%) Artificial Intelligence
9 25 (14.71%) UX Design
10 22 (12.94%) Asset Management
10 22 (12.94%) Machine Learning
11 21 (12.35%) Roadmaps
12 19 (11.18%) Code Quality
13 18 (10.59%) Order Management
13 18 (10.59%) Portfolio Management
13 18 (10.59%) Quantitative Analysis
13 18 (10.59%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 69 (40.59%) JavaScript
2 57 (33.53%) TypeScript
3 26 (15.29%) C#
4 22 (12.94%) Java
4 22 (12.94%) Python
5 15 (8.82%) SQL
6 9 (5.29%) Go
7 7 (4.12%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.53%) C++
9 5 (2.94%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.35%) PHP
11 2 (1.18%) Groovy
11 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.18%) Ruby
11 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.59%) Dart
12 1 (0.59%) JSX
12 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.59%) Rust
12 1 (0.59%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 25 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.53%) Degree
2 23 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.06%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.29%) WCAG
3 3 (1.76%) QA
4 2 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.59%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (12.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (13.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.53%) Terraform
3 4 (2.35%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) Grafana
4 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (7.06%) Adobe
2 8 (4.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.71%) Oracle
3 5 (2.94%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.35%) Google
4 4 (2.35%) Splunk
5 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.76%) SAP
6 2 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.18%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.18%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.59%) OutSystems