Backends for Frontends Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backends for Frontends 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £566 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £489 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.20% -17.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,963 11,478 17,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.27% 90.54% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,542 7,310 10,794
10th Percentile £280 £240 £238
25th Percentile £400 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £581 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £665 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,999 766 1,963
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.84 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £15.16
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.39
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.17%

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Backends for Frontends job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Backends for Frontends.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Backends for Frontends

Backends for Frontends
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backends for Frontends in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Backends for Frontends in the UK excluding London

Backends for Frontends
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 April 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
North of England - 2 £650 -
North West - 2 £650 -
South East - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £489 -
Midlands - 1 £489 -
Backends for Frontends
UK

Backends for Frontends
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Bitrise
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Sentry
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) XCTest
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) SwiftUI
2 1 (25.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Async-Await
2 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Telematics
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (25.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace