Front End Development Contract Job Trends in Surrey

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Front End Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 41 61
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 -3
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 12 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.77% 1.43% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 1.59% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £448 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -17.01%
75th Percentile £488 - £525
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £488 £409 £470
% change year-on-year +19.19% -12.98% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £57.50 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 351 314 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 81.06% 89.97% 82.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 202 366
10th Percentile £204 £188 £200
25th Percentile £381 £252 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £538 £575
90th Percentile £688 £656 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 18 39
10th Percentile £20.98 £17.98 £13.25
25th Percentile £27.31 £21.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £24.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.80% -51.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71.99 £27.25 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £42.38 £76.90
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £45.21
% change year-on-year -41.35% -5.15% +0.47%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in Surrey

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Front End Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Front End Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 26 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
Guildford +1 7 - - 3
Redhill - 3 £475 - 1
Front End Development
South East

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 7 (58.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) CloudFront
2 1 (8.33%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) NFC
1 3 (25.00%) PPP
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) SonarQube
2 3 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (25.00%) Valgrind
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Development Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Development Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Software Development Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 7 (58.33%) Quarkus
3 4 (33.33%) REST
4 3 (25.00%) JSON
4 3 (25.00%) Web Services
4 3 (25.00%) XML
5 2 (16.67%) CSS
5 2 (16.67%) HTML
5 2 (16.67%) React
6 1 (8.33%) CSS3
6 1 (8.33%) HTML5
6 1 (8.33%) Jest
6 1 (8.33%) Node.js
6 1 (8.33%) Playwright
6 1 (8.33%) RxJS
6 1 (8.33%) Sass
6 1 (8.33%) Svelte
6 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) DevSecOps
2 7 (58.33%) Scrum
2 7 (58.33%) SDLC
2 7 (58.33%) Sprint Planning
2 7 (58.33%) Sprint Review
2 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (33.33%) User Experience
4 3 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 3 (25.00%) Memory Management
4 3 (25.00%) Multithreaded Programming
4 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Open Source
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (58.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Red Hat