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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 154 164
Rank change year-on-year -35 +10 -57
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 160 302 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.32% 1.73% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.95% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 244 275
10th Percentile £356 £400 £413
25th Percentile £409 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -8.47% -1.67%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £700
90th Percentile £754 £784 £788
England median daily rate £493 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.87% -4.89%
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 £72.00
% change year-on-year -43.52% -0.18% +15.20%

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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 -20 24 £600 +17.07% 22
West London +16 5 £475 +35.71% 60
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 17 (10.63%) CMS
2 9 (5.63%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.88%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.88%) nginx
4 2 (1.25%) Drupal
5 1 (0.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.63%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.63%) MetaMask
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Adobe XD
1 4 (2.50%) Sketch
2 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.63%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 51 (31.88%) AWS
2 28 (17.50%) Azure
3 16 (10.00%) Figma
4 14 (8.75%) GitHub
5 11 (6.88%) GCP
6 10 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.38%) Serverless
9 6 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.50%) npm
10 4 (2.50%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.50%) Yarn
11 3 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.88%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.88%) Azure Storage
11 3 (1.88%) Firebase
11 3 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) SSL
2 1 (0.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.38%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.63%) Redis
4 6 (3.75%) MySQL
4 6 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.88%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.25%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.63%) Flink
8 1 (0.63%) Looker
8 1 (0.63%) PouchDB
Development Applications
1 28 (17.50%) Git
2 17 (10.63%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.13%) Cypress.io
4 8 (5.00%) JIRA
4 8 (5.00%) Postman
4 8 (5.00%) webpack
5 7 (4.38%) GitLab
6 6 (3.75%) REST Assured
6 6 (3.75%) SonarQube
7 5 (3.13%) Babel
7 5 (3.13%) Maven
7 5 (3.13%) Subversion
8 4 (2.50%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.50%) JUnit
9 3 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.88%) Grunt
9 3 (1.88%) Selenium
9 3 (1.88%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.88%) Xcode
9 3 (1.88%) XCTest
General
1 50 (31.25%) Finance
2 41 (25.63%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.50%) Banking
4 15 (9.38%) Front Office
5 8 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.75%) Retail
8 5 (3.13%) Marketing
9 4 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.88%) Back Office
10 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Military
12 1 (0.63%) Automotive
12 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.63%) Games
12 1 (0.63%) Law
12 1 (0.63%) Legal
12 1 (0.63%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 115 (71.88%) Developer
2 56 (35.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 33 (20.63%) React Developer
4 28 (17.50%) Senior
5 20 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (10.63%) Software Engineer
7 16 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.50%) Lead
9 10 (6.25%) Angular Developer
10 9 (5.63%) Designer
10 9 (5.63%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 7 (4.38%) .NET Developer
11 7 (4.38%) UX Designer
12 6 (3.75%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) C# Developer
13 5 (3.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (58.13%) React
2 49 (30.63%) CSS
3 42 (26.25%) HTML
4 39 (24.38%) AngularJS
5 32 (20.00%) RESTful
6 30 (18.75%) Node.js
7 25 (15.63%) .NET
8 24 (15.00%) Next.js
9 19 (11.88%) HTML5
10 18 (11.25%) Redux
11 16 (10.00%) CSS3
11 16 (10.00%) REST
12 15 (9.38%) Vue
13 13 (8.13%) Jest
14 12 (7.50%) .NET Core
15 11 (6.88%) GraphQL
15 11 (6.88%) Spring
16 10 (6.25%) Kafka
16 10 (6.25%) Sass
16 10 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.38%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.75%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.88%) TWAP
7 3 (1.88%) VWAP
8 2 (1.25%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.25%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.13%) Unix
2 3 (1.88%) Windows
3 2 (1.25%) Linux
3 2 (1.25%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (40.63%) Agile
2 47 (29.38%) CI/CD
3 46 (28.75%) User Experience
4 42 (26.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (20.00%) Microservices
7 27 (16.88%) Software Engineering
8 22 (13.75%) DevOps
8 22 (13.75%) UX Design
9 21 (13.13%) Code Quality
10 20 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 19 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (10.63%) Responsive Web Design
13 15 (9.38%) Clean Code
13 15 (9.38%) Performance Optimisation
14 14 (8.75%) Containerisation
15 13 (8.13%) Analytics
15 13 (8.13%) Test Automation
16 10 (6.25%) SDLC
16 10 (6.25%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 68 (42.50%) JavaScript
2 66 (41.25%) TypeScript
3 24 (15.00%) C#
3 24 (15.00%) Java
4 23 (14.38%) Python
5 14 (8.75%) SQL
6 9 (5.63%) Go
7 4 (2.50%) C++
7 4 (2.50%) PHP
8 3 (1.88%) Groovy
8 3 (1.88%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.88%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.88%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.25%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.25%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.25%) Ruby
10 1 (0.63%) Dart
10 1 (0.63%) JSX
10 1 (0.63%) Rust
10 1 (0.63%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 22 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.75%) Degree
4 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.50%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.00%) QA
2 8 (5.00%) WCAG
3 2 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (11.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.50%) Ansible
2 4 (2.50%) Terraform
3 3 (1.88%) Grafana
3 3 (1.88%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.00%) Adobe
3 7 (4.38%) Oracle
4 4 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
4 4 (2.50%) Splunk
5 3 (1.88%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.88%) Google
5 3 (1.88%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.25%) SAP
6 2 (1.25%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.63%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow