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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 75 102
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 +17
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 8 17 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.80% 1.33% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.54% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 12
10th Percentile £294 £326 £313
25th Percentile £363 £345 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% -13.16% -3.06%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £641
90th Percentile £537 £640 £688
North West median daily rate £464 £410 £475
% change year-on-year +13.23% -13.68% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 875 1,105 1,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.76% 86.73% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 717 1,188
10th Percentile £305 £325 £304
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £453 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.35% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 59 59
10th Percentile £17.08 £14.00 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.88 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +5.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £37.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.20 £65.20
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.77% +32.47%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Manchester

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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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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Apigee
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) CircleCI
1 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Node.js
1 5 (62.50%) React
2 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
3 3 (37.50%) Playwright
3 3 (37.50%) Puppeteer
3 3 (37.50%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (25.00%) OAuth
5 1 (12.50%) .NET
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (37.50%) API Development
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Observability
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) PagerDuty
97 Front End Development jobs in the North West