Backends for Frontends Contract Job Trends in the South East

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backends for Frontends 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.021% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% -18.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,944 2,820 4,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.67% 90.07% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,604 1,727 2,926
10th Percentile £255 £252 £213
25th Percentile £400 £402 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £509
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -1.28% +1.80%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £691
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 102 355
10th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.11 £43.94 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.85% -7.49% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.15
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Backends for Frontends job vacancy trend in the South East

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Backends for Frontends.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Backends for Frontends

Backends for Frontends
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
West Sussex - 1 - -
Backends for Frontends
England

Backends for Frontends
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace