Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts in the North of England

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in the North of England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 163 175
Rank change year-on-year +25 +12 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 28 22 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.85% 0.46% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.50% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 41
10th Percentile £332 £348 £338
25th Percentile £389 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £490 £550 £588
90th Percentile £540 £575 £688
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the North of England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the North of England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the North of England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the North of England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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 +23 21 £400 -15.79% 31
North East - 7 £480 - 19
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 25 (89.29%) JavaScript
3 23 (82.14%) HTML
3 23 (82.14%) CSS
4 17 (60.71%) Node.js
5 14 (50.00%) Sass
6 12 (42.86%) HTML5
6 12 (42.86%) WCAG
6 12 (42.86%) TDD
7 11 (39.29%) React
7 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
8 10 (35.71%) User Experience
8 10 (35.71%) Agile
8 10 (35.71%) RESTful
9 9 (32.14%) Git
9 9 (32.14%) Accessibility
10 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
10 8 (28.57%) .NET
11 7 (25.00%) Jest
12 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
12 6 (21.43%) Mocha
12 6 (21.43%) REST
12 6 (21.43%) Azure
12 6 (21.43%) Jasmine
13 5 (17.86%) Mustache
13 5 (17.86%) Responsive Web Design
13 5 (17.86%) Web Accessibility
13 5 (17.86%) Web Development
13 5 (17.86%) jQuery
13 5 (17.86%) Java

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 1 (3.57%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (7.14%) GIS
1 2 (7.14%) ObjectStore
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Git
2 6 (21.43%) Jasmine
2 6 (21.43%) Mocha
3 5 (17.86%) Babel
3 5 (17.86%) webpack
4 4 (14.29%) Grunt
4 4 (14.29%) gulp
4 4 (14.29%) Subversion
5 2 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Electronics
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.14%) Marketing
3 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (82.14%) CSS
1 23 (82.14%) HTML
2 17 (60.71%) Node.js
3 14 (50.00%) Sass
4 12 (42.86%) HTML5
5 11 (39.29%) React
6 10 (35.71%) RESTful
7 8 (28.57%) .NET
8 7 (25.00%) Jest
9 6 (21.43%) REST
10 5 (17.86%) jQuery
10 5 (17.86%) Mustache
11 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
12 2 (7.14%) CSS3
12 2 (7.14%) GeoJSON
12 2 (7.14%) Google Maps API
12 2 (7.14%) Leaflet
12 2 (7.14%) MapLibre
12 2 (7.14%) RxJS
13 1 (3.57%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Mac OS X
2 3 (10.71%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 12 (42.86%) TDD
3 10 (35.71%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) User Experience
4 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 5 (17.86%) API Development
5 5 (17.86%) B2B
5 5 (17.86%) Code Quality
5 5 (17.86%) Responsive Web Design
5 5 (17.86%) Web Accessibility
5 5 (17.86%) Web Design
5 5 (17.86%) Web Development
6 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (7.14%) API Integration
7 2 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (7.14%) Digital Twin
7 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (7.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 25 (89.29%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.86%) Java
3 2 (7.14%) C#
3 2 (7.14%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) WCAG
2 9 (32.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Google
2 2 (7.14%) Mapbox
2 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media