Front End Development Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 97 82 131
Rank change year-on-year -15 +49 +2
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 31 51 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.59% 1.89% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.22% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 44 19
10th Percentile £337 £325 £333
25th Percentile £381 £444 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £553
90th Percentile £537 £694 £648
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,753 2,295 2,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.08% 85.19% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 1,449 1,936
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £588
90th Percentile £662 £676 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 261 139
10th Percentile £13.88 £11.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.72 £14.00 £22.27
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +52.17%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.38
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.61 £66.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the North West

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the North West

Front End Development
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 Front End Development within the North West 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
Manchester -4 20 £425 -10.53% 136
Cheshire - 7 £375 - 85
Merseyside +1 2 £475 -9.52% 39
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) JBoss
2 1 (3.23%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) Apigee
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Figma
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) ATM
2 1 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) MongoDB
1 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.45%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (6.45%) GIS
2 2 (6.45%) ObjectStore
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Git
2 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.13%) Babel
3 5 (16.13%) GitLab
3 5 (16.13%) Jasmine
3 5 (16.13%) Mocha
3 5 (16.13%) webpack
4 4 (12.90%) JIRA
4 4 (12.90%) Subversion
5 3 (9.68%) CircleCI
5 3 (9.68%) Cypress.io
5 3 (9.68%) Gradle
5 3 (9.68%) Grunt
5 3 (9.68%) gulp
5 3 (9.68%) Xcode
6 2 (6.45%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (6.45%) UI Automator
7 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.23%) Hudson
General
1 5 (16.13%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Banking
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (80.65%) Developer
2 18 (58.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (29.03%) JavaScript Developer
4 5 (16.13%) React Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.68%) iOS Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (6.45%) GIS Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (6.45%) UI Developer
7 2 (6.45%) UI/UX Developer
7 2 (6.45%) UX Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Applications Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (67.74%) CSS
1 21 (67.74%) HTML
2 16 (51.61%) React
3 15 (48.39%) RESTful
4 14 (45.16%) Node.js
5 11 (35.48%) HTML5
6 10 (32.26%) .NET
7 8 (25.81%) AngularJS
7 8 (25.81%) REST
8 5 (16.13%) jQuery
8 5 (16.13%) Sass
9 4 (12.90%) GraphQL
9 4 (12.90%) Mustache
10 3 (9.68%) Ajax
10 3 (9.68%) JSON
10 3 (9.68%) Playwright
10 3 (9.68%) Puppeteer
10 3 (9.68%) Semantic HTML
10 3 (9.68%) Vue
11 2 (6.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.68%) Mobile App
1 3 (9.68%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Android
2 3 (9.68%) Apple iOS
2 3 (9.68%) Mac OS X
2 3 (9.68%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Agile
2 13 (41.94%) User Experience
3 9 (29.03%) API Development
3 9 (29.03%) Test Automation
4 8 (25.81%) TDD
5 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
5 6 (19.35%) Code Quality
5 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.13%) B2B
6 5 (16.13%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (16.13%) Microservices
6 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 5 (16.13%) Web Development
7 4 (12.90%) BDD
7 4 (12.90%) Responsive Web Design
7 4 (12.90%) Unit Testing
7 4 (12.90%) Web Accessibility
7 4 (12.90%) Web Design
8 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) JavaScript
2 12 (38.71%) Java
3 9 (29.03%) Python
4 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
5 4 (12.90%) C#
5 4 (12.90%) SQL
6 3 (9.68%) Bash
6 3 (9.68%) C
6 3 (9.68%) C++
6 3 (9.68%) Kotlin
6 3 (9.68%) Objective-C
6 3 (9.68%) Ruby
6 3 (9.68%) Scala
6 3 (9.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) Accessibility
2 7 (22.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Grafana
2 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Google
3 3 (9.68%) PagerDuty
4 2 (6.45%) Mapbox
4 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) Adobe
5 1 (3.23%) IBM
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle