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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 110 114
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +34
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 42 68 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.27% 1.45% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.71% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 56 76
10th Percentile £337 £325 £397
25th Percentile £394 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -1.44% +9.76%
75th Percentile £493 £569 £606
90th Percentile £537 £694 £688
England median daily rate £493 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.87% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
England median hourly rate £40.59 £71.87 £72.00
% change year-on-year -43.52% -0.18% +15.20%

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 2,978 3,966 5,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 84.67% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,915 2,415 3,463
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £648 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 377 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.11 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +38.87% -34.95% +46.53%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.88 £43.94
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 -15 31 £413 -15.38% 298
Yorkshire 0 6 £485 -11.82% 231
North East +3 5 £480 +37.14% 83
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 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) JBoss
2 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) AWS
3 4 (9.52%) Apigee
3 4 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (4.76%) Figma
4 2 (4.76%) GitHub
4 2 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.38%) npm
5 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) ATM
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
1 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (4.76%) GIS
2 2 (4.76%) ObjectStore
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) Git
2 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.29%) Babel
3 6 (14.29%) webpack
4 5 (11.90%) GitLab
4 5 (11.90%) Jasmine
4 5 (11.90%) Mocha
5 4 (9.52%) JIRA
5 4 (9.52%) Subversion
6 3 (7.14%) CircleCI
6 3 (7.14%) Cypress.io
6 3 (7.14%) Gradle
6 3 (7.14%) Grunt
6 3 (7.14%) gulp
6 3 (7.14%) Xcode
7 2 (4.76%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (4.76%) UI Automator
8 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.38%) Hudson
General
1 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.29%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Billing
5 1 (2.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (78.57%) Developer
2 23 (54.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (21.43%) JavaScript Developer
4 7 (16.67%) React Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Senior
7 3 (7.14%) iOS Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.76%) GIS Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (4.76%) UI Developer
8 2 (4.76%) UI/UX Developer
8 2 (4.76%) UX Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (64.29%) CSS
1 27 (64.29%) HTML
2 19 (45.24%) Node.js
2 19 (45.24%) React
3 16 (38.10%) RESTful
4 11 (26.19%) .NET
4 11 (26.19%) AngularJS
4 11 (26.19%) HTML5
5 9 (21.43%) REST
5 9 (21.43%) Sass
6 5 (11.90%) Jest
6 5 (11.90%) jQuery
7 4 (9.52%) Ajax
7 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
7 4 (9.52%) JSON
7 4 (9.52%) Mustache
7 4 (9.52%) Vue
8 3 (7.14%) Playwright
8 3 (7.14%) Puppeteer
8 3 (7.14%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Android
2 3 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 3 (7.14%) Mac OS X
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) User Experience
2 15 (35.71%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) TDD
4 10 (23.81%) Test Automation
5 9 (21.43%) API Development
6 8 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 6 (14.29%) BDD
8 6 (14.29%) Code Quality
8 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 6 (14.29%) Microservices
9 5 (11.90%) B2B
9 5 (11.90%) Continuous Deployment
9 5 (11.90%) Web Development
10 4 (9.52%) Responsive Web Design
10 4 (9.52%) Unit Testing
10 4 (9.52%) Web Accessibility
10 4 (9.52%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) JavaScript
2 13 (30.95%) Java
3 11 (26.19%) Python
4 6 (14.29%) C#
4 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 4 (9.52%) Kotlin
5 4 (9.52%) SQL
6 3 (7.14%) Bash
6 3 (7.14%) C
6 3 (7.14%) C++
6 3 (7.14%) Objective-C
6 3 (7.14%) Ruby
6 3 (7.14%) Scala
6 3 (7.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) WCAG
2 8 (19.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Grafana
3 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Google
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) PagerDuty
3 2 (4.76%) Mapbox
3 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.38%) Adobe
4 1 (2.38%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) Virgin Media