Front End Development Contracts in the North of England

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 121 113 128
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 +6
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 45 73 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.37% 1.53% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.79% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 63 73
10th Percentile £335 £326 £364
25th Percentile £390 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £493 £563 £588
90th Percentile £537 £694 £698
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
England median hourly rate £40.59 £71.87 £81.50
% change year-on-year -43.52% -11.82% +35.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the North of England

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the North of England

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the North of England

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the North of England

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -9 30 £425 -15.00% 77
North East - 9 £470 - 30
Yorkshire -2 7 £473 -14.09% 22
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (4.44%) CMS
1 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) JBoss
2 1 (2.22%) OpenEdge
2 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (24.44%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 3 (6.67%) Apigee
3 3 (6.67%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.44%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.22%) npm
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) ATM
1 1 (2.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.44%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (4.44%) GIS
2 2 (4.44%) ObjectStore
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Git
2 6 (13.33%) Babel
2 6 (13.33%) Jasmine
2 6 (13.33%) Mocha
2 6 (13.33%) webpack
3 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.89%) GitLab
4 4 (8.89%) Grunt
4 4 (8.89%) gulp
4 4 (8.89%) Subversion
5 3 (6.67%) JIRA
6 2 (4.44%) CircleCI
6 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.22%) Hudson
General
1 14 (31.11%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Electronics
4 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.44%) Marketing
4 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Billing
5 1 (2.22%) German Language
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (82.22%) Developer
2 28 (62.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 11 (24.44%) JavaScript Developer
4 7 (15.56%) React Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.44%) GIS Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.22%) CMS Developer
8 1 (2.22%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.22%) SharePoint Developer
8 1 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (64.44%) CSS
1 29 (64.44%) HTML
2 21 (46.67%) Node.js
3 20 (44.44%) React
4 16 (35.56%) RESTful
5 14 (31.11%) HTML5
5 14 (31.11%) Sass
6 11 (24.44%) .NET
7 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 9 (20.00%) REST
8 7 (15.56%) Jest
9 6 (13.33%) jQuery
10 5 (11.11%) Mustache
11 4 (8.89%) CSS3
12 3 (6.67%) GraphQL
13 2 (4.44%) GeoJSON
13 2 (4.44%) Leaflet
13 2 (4.44%) RxJS
13 2 (4.44%) Swagger
13 2 (4.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Mac OS X
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Agile
2 13 (28.89%) TDD
2 13 (28.89%) User Experience
3 11 (24.44%) Test Automation
4 8 (17.78%) API Development
4 8 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.56%) Code Quality
5 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (13.33%) Microservices
6 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 6 (13.33%) Web Development
7 5 (11.11%) B2B
7 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 5 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
7 5 (11.11%) Web Accessibility
7 5 (11.11%) Web Design
8 4 (8.89%) DevOps
9 3 (6.67%) Continuous Deployment
9 3 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (68.89%) JavaScript
2 11 (24.44%) Java
3 7 (15.56%) Python
3 7 (15.56%) TypeScript
4 6 (13.33%) C#
5 3 (6.67%) SQL
6 2 (4.44%) Bash
6 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.67%) WCAG
2 9 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) Grafana
3 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) Mapbox
3 2 (4.44%) PagerDuty
3 2 (4.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Virgin Media