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 £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 261 245
Rank change year-on-year -40 -16 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 80 173 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.85% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.90% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 135 320
10th Percentile £351 £343 £413
25th Percentile £411 £433 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £555 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% -7.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £710 £800
England median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.31% -27.50%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £59.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £77.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year - +21.57% -5.97%

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 14,705 19,194 35,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.86% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,509 13,971 25,561
10th Percentile £338 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 212 302
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.02 £15.75
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.94 £20.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.75 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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
West London +17 3 £409 -33.50%
Central London -1 3 £438 +9.38% 3
East London +13 1 £575 +27.78% 6
North London - 1 £255 - 2
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 31 October 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 77 (96.25%) Front End Development
2 54 (67.50%) React
3 47 (58.75%) CSS
4 44 (55.00%) TypeScript
5 41 (51.25%) HTML
6 40 (50.00%) JavaScript
7 32 (40.00%) User Experience
8 25 (31.25%) Agile
9 19 (23.75%) Node.js
10 17 (21.25%) AngularJS
11 16 (20.00%) Finance
12 15 (18.75%) CMS
12 15 (18.75%) AWS
12 15 (18.75%) Next.js
13 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
13 14 (17.50%) Web Development
14 13 (16.25%) UX Design
15 12 (15.00%) HTML5
15 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
15 12 (15.00%) Figma
15 12 (15.00%) Redux
16 11 (13.75%) Azure
17 10 (12.50%) SEO
17 10 (12.50%) Wireframes
17 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
17 10 (12.50%) Code Quality
18 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
18 9 (11.25%) Headless CMS
18 9 (11.25%) Social Skills
18 9 (11.25%) Accessibility

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 15 (18.75%) CMS
2 9 (11.25%) Headless CMS
3 5 (6.25%) Apache
3 5 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.25%) Confluence
4 1 (1.25%) Drupal
4 1 (1.25%) Liferay
4 1 (1.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.75%) AWS
2 12 (15.00%) Figma
3 11 (13.75%) Azure
4 6 (7.50%) GCP
5 4 (5.00%) GitHub
6 3 (3.75%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.50%) Contentful
7 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (1.25%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.25%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.25%) Bitrise
8 1 (1.25%) npm
8 1 (1.25%) Vercel
8 1 (1.25%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.25%) Metadata
3 1 (1.25%) MySQL
3 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Git
2 6 (7.50%) JIRA
3 5 (6.25%) Vite
4 3 (3.75%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.75%) webpack
5 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.50%) Storybook
6 1 (1.25%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (20.00%) Finance
2 9 (11.25%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Banking
4 6 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.25%) Front Office
6 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Marketing
7 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (67.50%) React
2 47 (58.75%) CSS
3 41 (51.25%) HTML
4 19 (23.75%) Node.js
5 17 (21.25%) AngularJS
6 15 (18.75%) Next.js
7 12 (15.00%) HTML5
7 12 (15.00%) Redux
8 8 (10.00%) GraphQL
9 7 (8.75%) RESTful
9 7 (8.75%) Web Services
10 6 (7.50%) D3.js
11 5 (6.25%) Framer.js
11 5 (6.25%) gRPC
11 5 (6.25%) OAuth
11 5 (6.25%) OAuth2
11 5 (6.25%) OpenID
11 5 (6.25%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (6.25%) Vue
12 4 (5.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Fixed Income
1 5 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Animation
4 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.25%) NHS
4 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (96.25%) Front End Development
2 32 (40.00%) User Experience
3 25 (31.25%) Agile
4 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
4 14 (17.50%) Web Development
5 13 (16.25%) UX Design
6 10 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (12.50%) SEO
6 10 (12.50%) Wireframes
7 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
7 9 (11.25%) Unit Testing
8 7 (8.75%) Test Automation
8 7 (8.75%) Visual Effects
9 6 (7.50%) Asset Management
9 6 (7.50%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (7.50%) Refactoring
9 6 (7.50%) Validation
9 6 (7.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (55.00%) TypeScript
2 40 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (10.00%) Python
4 4 (5.00%) Clojure
4 4 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 3 (3.75%) SQL
6 2 (2.50%) C#
6 2 (2.50%) Java
7 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (3.75%) Degree
1 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.25%) WCAG
3 4 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (1.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) Virgin Media
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe
3 1 (1.25%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle
3 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.25%) Splunk
3 1 (1.25%) Thunderhead