Backends for Frontends Contract Job Trends in the North West

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backends for Frontends 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £560 £598 £525
% change year-on-year -6.32% +13.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Backends for Frontends 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,219 1,907 1,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.54% 88.41% 83.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,842 1,270 1,106
10th Percentile £295 £285 £294
25th Percentile £401 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -6.81% -2.35%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £585
90th Percentile £675 £678 £675
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 131 107
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.51 £16.40
25th Percentile £24.08 £17.34 £29.00
Median hourly rate £47.12 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.39% -40.84% +21.43%
75th Percentile £71.91 £45.95 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £67.25 £72.70
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backends for Frontends relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Backends for Frontends job vacancy trend in the North West

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Backends for Frontends.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Backends for Frontends

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backends for Frontends in the North West over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Backends for Frontends in the North West

Backends for Frontends
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backends for Frontends within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 September 2026. 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
Manchester - 7 £600 - 2
Backends for Frontends
England

Backends for Frontends
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 4 (57.14%) GraphQL
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) Jest
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) Vue
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) AI Agents
2 2 (28.57%) Educational Technology
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
2 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (71.43%) Micro Frontends
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) UX Design
4 3 (42.86%) A/B Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) AI
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Product Requirements
5 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (28.57%) User Research
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes