Front End Development Contracts in Manchester

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 58 44 106
Rank change year-on-year -14 +62 +7
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 21 53 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.27% 3.49% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 4.01% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 48 11
10th Percentile £344 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £444 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £494
90th Percentile £537 £694 £569
North West median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
North West median hourly rate - £71.87 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Manchester

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Manchester

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Manchester

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Stockport - 6 £400 - 5
Front End Development
North West

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Apigee
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) GCP
2 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (9.52%) GIS
1 2 (9.52%) ObjectStore
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) Babel
2 5 (23.81%) Jasmine
2 5 (23.81%) Mocha
2 5 (23.81%) webpack
3 4 (19.05%) GitLab
3 4 (19.05%) Grunt
3 4 (19.05%) gulp
3 4 (19.05%) Subversion
4 2 (9.52%) CircleCI
4 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (85.71%) Developer
2 16 (76.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 8 (38.10%) JavaScript Developer
4 5 (23.81%) React Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Senior
6 3 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (9.52%) GIS Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Agile Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Angular Developer
8 1 (4.76%) HTML Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Linux Developer
8 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (71.43%) CSS
1 15 (71.43%) HTML
2 13 (61.90%) React
3 11 (52.38%) Node.js
4 10 (47.62%) .NET
4 10 (47.62%) HTML5
4 10 (47.62%) RESTful
5 6 (28.57%) REST
6 5 (23.81%) jQuery
6 5 (23.81%) Mustache
6 5 (23.81%) Sass
7 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
8 2 (9.52%) GeoJSON
8 2 (9.52%) Google Maps API
8 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
8 2 (9.52%) Leaflet
8 2 (9.52%) MapLibre
8 2 (9.52%) Playwright
8 2 (9.52%) Puppeteer
9 1 (4.76%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Mac OS X
2 3 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
3 7 (33.33%) API Development
3 7 (33.33%) User Experience
4 5 (23.81%) B2B
4 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
4 5 (23.81%) Responsive Web Design
4 5 (23.81%) Web Accessibility
4 5 (23.81%) Web Design
5 4 (19.05%) TDD
5 4 (19.05%) Web Development
6 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Task Automation
7 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) JavaScript
2 7 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (23.81%) TypeScript
4 4 (19.05%) C#
4 4 (19.05%) Python
5 2 (9.52%) Bash
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Accessibility
1 5 (23.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) Mapbox
3 2 (9.52%) PagerDuty