Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts in London

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 241 303
Rank change year-on-year -52 +62 -97
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 60 152 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.85% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.91% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 121 130
10th Percentile £353 £363 £363
25th Percentile £409 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £753 £800 £738
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
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 - £55.00 £81.50
% change year-on-year - -32.52% +24.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London.

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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 -4 12 £475 - 6
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 50 (83.33%) React
2 49 (81.67%) Front End Development
3 25 (41.67%) TypeScript
4 22 (36.67%) User Experience
5 21 (35.00%) JavaScript
6 18 (30.00%) CSS
7 15 (25.00%) AWS
7 15 (25.00%) Next.js
8 14 (23.33%) Finance
9 13 (21.67%) Agile
9 13 (21.67%) HTML
9 13 (21.67%) Redux
10 12 (20.00%) CI/CD
11 11 (18.33%) Clean Code
12 10 (16.67%) Banking
12 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
12 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
13 9 (15.00%) Node.js
13 9 (15.00%) CMS
13 9 (15.00%) Figma
14 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
14 8 (13.33%) Accessibility
14 8 (13.33%) Vue
14 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
14 8 (13.33%) Java
14 8 (13.33%) RESTful
14 8 (13.33%) Investment Management
14 8 (13.33%) UX Design
14 8 (13.33%) AngularJS
15 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 9 (15.00%) CMS
2 7 (11.67%) Headless CMS
3 2 (3.33%) nginx
4 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.67%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) AWS
2 9 (15.00%) Figma
3 5 (8.33%) Azure
3 5 (8.33%) GCP
4 3 (5.00%) npm
4 3 (5.00%) Yarn
5 2 (3.33%) Contentstack
5 2 (3.33%) GitHub
5 2 (3.33%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Git
2 6 (10.00%) webpack
3 5 (8.33%) Babel
4 4 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.33%) Ant
6 2 (3.33%) GitLab
6 2 (3.33%) Postman
6 2 (3.33%) Selenium
6 2 (3.33%) Subversion
7 1 (1.67%) Grunt
7 1 (1.67%) gulp
7 1 (1.67%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.67%) Mocha
General
1 14 (23.33%) Finance
2 10 (16.67%) Banking
3 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Front Office
5 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Automotive
6 1 (1.67%) Games
6 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Law
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (83.33%) React
2 18 (30.00%) CSS
3 15 (25.00%) Next.js
4 13 (21.67%) HTML
4 13 (21.67%) Redux
5 9 (15.00%) Node.js
6 8 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 8 (13.33%) RESTful
6 8 (13.33%) Vue
7 7 (11.67%) HTML5
8 6 (10.00%) CSS3
8 6 (10.00%) Sass
9 5 (8.33%) .NET
9 5 (8.33%) Jest
9 5 (8.33%) OpenFin
9 5 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (6.67%) Material-UI
11 3 (5.00%) GraphQL
11 3 (5.00%) jQuery
11 3 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Mac OS X
1 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (81.67%) Front End Development
2 22 (36.67%) User Experience
3 13 (21.67%) Agile
4 12 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (18.33%) Clean Code
6 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (13.33%) Investment Management
6 8 (13.33%) UX Design
7 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (11.67%) Microservices
8 6 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 4 (6.67%) DevOps
9 4 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (6.67%) Responsive Web Design
10 3 (5.00%) A/B Testing
10 3 (5.00%) Containerisation
10 3 (5.00%) Fintech
10 3 (5.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (5.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) TypeScript
2 21 (35.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (13.33%) Java
4 5 (8.33%) C#
4 5 (8.33%) SQL
5 3 (5.00%) Python
6 1 (1.67%) JSX
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.67%) WCAG
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) Adobe
2 3 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.67%) SAP
3 1 (1.67%) Splunk