Front End Development Contracts in Reading

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 50 87 84
Rank change year-on-year +37 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 10 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.68% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 0.37% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile £250 £255 £350
25th Percentile £376 £300 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £481 £500
90th Percentile £476 £515 £530
Berkshire median daily rate £409 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +2.25% -11.11% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Functions
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Figma
4 2 (20.00%) Veeva
5 1 (10.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Vite
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (40.00%) React Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Backend Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
6 1 (10.00%) UI/UX Developer
6 1 (10.00%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) CSS
1 6 (60.00%) HTML
2 5 (50.00%) React
3 4 (40.00%) GraphQL
3 4 (40.00%) Prisma
3 4 (40.00%) RESTful
4 3 (30.00%) Framer.js
4 3 (30.00%) Node.js
5 1 (10.00%) Material-UI
5 1 (10.00%) Next.js
5 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
5 1 (10.00%) Swagger
5 1 (10.00%) TanStack
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (50.00%) Microservices
1 5 (50.00%) User Experience
2 4 (40.00%) API Design
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Management
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (30.00%) UX Design
4 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) API Development
5 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
5 1 (10.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft