Front End Development Contracts in the Thames Valley

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 89 130 136
Rank change year-on-year +41 +6 +16
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 10 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.69% 0.19% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.22% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile £405 £248 -
25th Percentile £421 £281 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -12.50% -4.48%
75th Percentile £588 £453 £469
90th Percentile £663 £504 £550
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,353 2,277 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.86% 86.64% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,262 1,750
10th Percentile £300 £213 £313
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 166 66
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.09 £16.88
25th Percentile £14.28 £19.25 £24.86
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% -13.96% +200.23%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.42 £69.05
90th Percentile £79.16 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the Thames Valley

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +34 8 £515 +28.75% 154
Buckinghamshire +14 2 £475 +58.33% 57
Front End Development
South East

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (50.00%) Figma
3 2 (20.00%) npm
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Vite
2 2 (20.00%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) UI Automator
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) React Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (30.00%) UI Developer
4 3 (30.00%) UI/UX Developer
4 3 (30.00%) UX Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack 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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) React
2 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 7 (70.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) Framer.js
3 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (30.00%) Node.js
3 3 (30.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) Ajax
4 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (20.00%) Apollo GraphQL
4 2 (20.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (20.00%) Material-UI
4 2 (20.00%) Next.js
4 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
4 2 (20.00%) Playwright
4 2 (20.00%) Semantic HTML
4 2 (20.00%) Swagger
4 2 (20.00%) Vue
4 2 (20.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) User Experience
2 5 (50.00%) UX Design
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
5 2 (20.00%) API Development
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Design Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (40.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat