Front End Development Contracts in the South East

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 130 188 182
Rank change year-on-year +58 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 26 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.89% 0.20% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.24% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 23
10th Percentile £400 £285 £300
25th Percentile £409 £375 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £588
90th Percentile £663 - £633
England median daily rate £493 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.87% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.80 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 - £62.50
75th Percentile £43.39 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,668 4,666 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.34% 83.55% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 2,714 3,430
10th Percentile £250 £255 £249
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 446 214
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.23 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%
75th Percentile £62.37 £62.50 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.93 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the South East

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the South East

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the South East

Front End Development
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 Front End Development within the South East 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
Thames Valley +41 10 £475 +35.71% 249
Hampshire +46 9 £514 -2.10% 89
Berkshire +34 8 £515 +28.75% 154
Surrey +19 5 £408 -4.12% 66
Buckinghamshire +14 2 £475 +58.33% 57
West Sussex +14 1 - - 33
East Sussex - 1 £650 - 35
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Figma
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.69%) Firebase
4 2 (7.69%) npm
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.85%) CloudFront
5 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (3.85%) NFC
2 1 (3.85%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) MySQL
2 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
2 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Redis
2 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (11.54%) Vite
3 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.69%) Subversion
3 2 (7.69%) UI Automator
4 1 (3.85%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.85%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) Valgrind
4 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (84.62%) Developer
2 11 (42.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (26.92%) React Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior
5 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.54%) UI Developer
6 3 (11.54%) UI/UX Developer
6 3 (11.54%) UX Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Development Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) PHP Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Development Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (80.77%) React
2 11 (42.31%) CSS
3 9 (34.62%) HTML
4 7 (26.92%) Vue
5 6 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 6 (23.08%) RESTful
6 5 (19.23%) JSON
6 5 (19.23%) Next.js
7 4 (15.38%) Node.js
8 3 (11.54%) .NET
8 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
8 3 (11.54%) Framer.js
8 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
8 3 (11.54%) Symfony
8 3 (11.54%) Web Services
8 3 (11.54%) XML
9 2 (7.69%) Apollo GraphQL
9 2 (7.69%) Material-UI
9 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
9 2 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 8 (30.77%) User Experience
3 6 (23.08%) Code Quality
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) Microservices
3 6 (23.08%) Web Development
4 5 (19.23%) API Development
4 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
4 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (19.23%) UX Design
5 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps
6 3 (11.54%) MVC
6 3 (11.54%) Scrum
6 3 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (11.54%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (11.54%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
1 12 (46.15%) TypeScript
2 3 (11.54%) C#
2 3 (11.54%) PHP
3 2 (7.69%) C++
3 2 (7.69%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (3.85%) Go
4 1 (3.85%) Ruby
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Accessibility
2 4 (15.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.69%) Zend
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) SAP