Front End Development Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 101 129 147
Rank change year-on-year +28 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 10 28 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.60% 0.88% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.05% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 16
10th Percentile £449 £368 £300
25th Percentile £504 £381 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £463 £413
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% +12.12% -17.50%
75th Percentile £661 £588 £475
90th Percentile £676 £696 £519
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +9 4 £640 +21.90% 2
Somerset +5 3 - - 2
Dorset - 2 £625 - 6
Devon +10 1 £425 -43.26% 5
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Storybook
2 1 (10.00%) Vite
2 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Production Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Interaction Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior UI Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior UI/UX Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior UX Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) UI Designer
4 1 (10.00%) UI Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (10.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) CSS
1 7 (70.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) CSS3
2 4 (40.00%) HTML5
3 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (30.00%) React
3 3 (30.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (20.00%) RxJS
4 2 (20.00%) Sass
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) Django
5 1 (10.00%) JavaFX
5 1 (10.00%) Redux
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) UX Design
4 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (10.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Data Science
5 1 (10.00%) Inclusive Design
5 1 (10.00%) Interaction Design
5 1 (10.00%) Kanban
5 1 (10.00%) LLM
5 1 (10.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk
1 1 (10.00%) Sun