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 £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 307 206
Rank change year-on-year +67 -101 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 155 198 561
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.87% 0.73% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.76% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 131 420
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £436 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -7.17% +24.74%
75th Percentile £675 £655 £675
90th Percentile £820 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £26.82
25th Percentile - £80.75 £31.93
Median hourly rate - £81.50 £41.71
Median % change year-on-year - +95.42% +2.98%
75th Percentile - £82.25 £52.73
90th Percentile - - £58.59
England median hourly rate £55.00 £81.50 £65.49
% change year-on-year -32.52% +24.45% +50.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 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 +43 20 £475 -22.29% 5
South London +18 4 - -
East London - 3 £435 - 1
West London +20 1 £350 -30.00%
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 26 April 2024, 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.

1 137 (88.39%) Front End Development
2 92 (59.35%) React
2 92 (59.35%) JavaScript
3 75 (48.39%) TypeScript
4 69 (44.52%) CSS
5 53 (34.19%) HTML
6 51 (32.90%) Agile
7 45 (29.03%) AngularJS
8 39 (25.16%) User Experience
9 30 (19.35%) Social Skills
9 30 (19.35%) DevOps
10 29 (18.71%) C#
11 26 (16.77%) TDD
11 26 (16.77%) Redux
12 25 (16.13%) Accessibility
13 24 (15.48%) AWS
14 23 (14.84%) Node.js
14 23 (14.84%) Web Development
14 23 (14.84%) .NET
15 22 (14.19%) WCAG
16 21 (13.55%) Git
16 21 (13.55%) jQuery
16 21 (13.55%) Security Cleared
17 20 (12.90%) SC Cleared
18 19 (12.26%) UX Design
18 19 (12.26%) Fixed Income
18 19 (12.26%) Azure
19 18 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
19 18 (11.61%) REST
19 18 (11.61%) Analytical Skills

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 18 (11.61%) CMS
2 5 (3.23%) Apache
2 5 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.58%) Confluence
4 2 (1.29%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.65%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.29%) Sketch
3 1 (0.65%) InVision
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (15.48%) AWS
2 19 (12.26%) Azure
3 18 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 15 (9.68%) Azure Service Bus
5 13 (8.39%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (8.39%) Azure Pipelines
6 10 (6.45%) GCP
7 8 (5.16%) npm
8 7 (4.52%) Figma
9 3 (1.94%) Contentful
9 3 (1.94%) GitHub
9 3 (1.94%) SaaS
10 2 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.29%) Serverless
10 2 (1.29%) Slack
10 2 (1.29%) WhatsApp
10 2 (1.29%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.61%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.52%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.23%) Apache Ignite
4 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.94%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.29%) MySQL
6 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.29%) Redis
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (13.55%) Git
2 17 (10.97%) JIRA
3 11 (7.10%) Cypress.io
4 10 (6.45%) webpack
5 6 (3.87%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.94%) GitLab
6 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.29%) Babel
8 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.65%) Grunt
8 1 (0.65%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.65%) Postman
8 1 (0.65%) Protractor
8 1 (0.65%) Selenium
8 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.65%) Storybook
8 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (11.61%) Finance
2 18 (11.61%) Front Office
3 16 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.45%) Back Office
5 8 (5.16%) Banking
6 3 (1.94%) Automotive
6 3 (1.94%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.29%) Advertising
7 2 (1.29%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Local Government
8 1 (0.65%) Publishing
8 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (59.35%) React
2 69 (44.52%) CSS
3 53 (34.19%) HTML
4 45 (29.03%) AngularJS
5 26 (16.77%) Redux
6 23 (14.84%) .NET
6 23 (14.84%) Node.js
7 21 (13.55%) jQuery
8 18 (11.61%) Next.js
8 18 (11.61%) REST
9 17 (10.97%) .NET Core
10 12 (7.74%) ASP.NET
10 12 (7.74%) Vue
11 11 (7.10%) RESTful
12 10 (6.45%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (5.81%) HTML5
14 8 (5.16%) Tailwind CSS
15 7 (4.52%) CSS3
15 7 (4.52%) Reactive Extensions
15 7 (4.52%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.26%) Fixed Income
2 8 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.87%) Wiki
4 5 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.29%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.29%) Derivative
6 2 (1.29%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.29%) Social Media
7 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.65%) Animation
7 1 (0.65%) CCTV
7 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.65%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.58%) Linux
2 2 (1.29%) Unix
2 2 (1.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (88.39%) Front End Development
2 51 (32.90%) Agile
3 39 (25.16%) User Experience
4 30 (19.35%) DevOps
5 26 (16.77%) TDD
6 23 (14.84%) Web Development
7 19 (12.26%) UX Design
8 18 (11.61%) Clean Code
8 18 (11.61%) Design Patterns
8 18 (11.61%) Full Stack Development
8 18 (11.61%) Software Engineering
9 17 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (10.97%) OO
10 15 (9.68%) API Management
10 15 (9.68%) OOD
11 14 (9.03%) MVC
12 13 (8.39%) Economics
12 13 (8.39%) Electronic Trading
13 12 (7.74%) CI/CD
14 10 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 92 (59.35%) JavaScript
2 75 (48.39%) TypeScript
3 29 (18.71%) C#
4 16 (10.32%) SQL
5 14 (9.03%) Bicep
6 13 (8.39%) Python
7 10 (6.45%) Java
8 4 (2.58%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.94%) JSX
10 1 (0.65%) C
10 1 (0.65%) F#
10 1 (0.65%) PHP
10 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.81%) Degree
4 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.13%) Accessibility
2 22 (14.19%) WCAG
3 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 15 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.52%) Google
3 2 (1.29%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.65%) Foundry
4 1 (0.65%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.65%) Optimizely
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle
4 1 (0.65%) Xamarin