Front End Development Contracts in the Midlands

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 121 118
Rank change year-on-year +18 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 14 14 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.71% 0.52% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.64% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 36
10th Percentile £363 £325 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.94% -8.11%
75th Percentile £491 £475 £516
90th Percentile £519 £478 £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,749 2,203 2,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.29% 81.87% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,485 2,002
10th Percentile £200 £233 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £595 £597
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 170 101
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.68% +28.06%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.53 £40.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
West Midlands +19 11 £461 +15.31% 307
East Midlands +6 3 £402 -8.11% 240
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) GitHub
1 1 (7.14%) Google Analytics
1 1 (7.14%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Grunt
1 1 (7.14%) gulp
1 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Angular Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) CSS
1 8 (57.14%) HTML
2 7 (50.00%) React
3 4 (28.57%) Node.js
3 4 (28.57%) RESTful
4 3 (21.43%) Ajax
4 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
4 3 (21.43%) CSS3
4 3 (21.43%) HTML5
4 3 (21.43%) Next.js
4 3 (21.43%) Spring
5 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 2 (14.29%) JSON
5 2 (14.29%) KnockoutJS
5 2 (14.29%) NgRx
5 2 (14.29%) Play Framework
5 2 (14.29%) RequireJS
5 2 (14.29%) REST
5 2 (14.29%) RxJS
5 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (21.43%) Microservices
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
3 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
4 2 (14.29%) BDD
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Change Control
4 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Pair Programming
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) User Experience
4 2 (14.29%) User Stories
4 2 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) Scala
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Perforce