Front End Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 251 213
Rank change year-on-year +19 -38 -72
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 156 210 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.89% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.00% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 164 272
10th Percentile £325 £313 £350
25th Percentile £406 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £557 £551
90th Percentile £688 £659 £622
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £68.81 - -
25th Percentile £70.78 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £71.87 - £55.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - £67.36
90th Percentile £79.50 - £73.14
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.75 £66.18
% change year-on-year +17.15% -9.72% +103.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,192 21,035 27,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.42% 89.50% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,233 14,534 19,060
10th Percentile £250 £256 £237
25th Percentile £379 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,280 1,365
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.55
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
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 Front End Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 +5 72 £525 +0.96% 68
North West +55 54 £500 +2.56% 38
South West +26 27 £450 +5.88% 21
Yorkshire -19 17 £550 +4.76% 24
Scotland +51 15 £510 +9.44% 17
Midlands +2 15 £425 -5.56% 45
South East +1 12 £470 +17.50% 28
Wales +21 9 £533 -3.14% 7
East Midlands +5 9 £425 +2.41% 14
East of England -2 6 £500 -25.93% 23
West Midlands +6 5 £400 -20.00% 31
North East +2 1 £350 -31.37% 8
Front End Development
UK

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.92%) CMS
2 3 (1.92%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.28%) WordPress
4 1 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.64%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 45 (28.85%) AWS
2 14 (8.97%) Azure
3 13 (8.33%) GitHub
4 9 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (5.77%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.13%) Amazon ECR
5 8 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (5.13%) Route 53
5 8 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (4.49%) GCP
6 7 (4.49%) Serverless
7 6 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.56%) npm
8 4 (2.56%) Pulumi
9 3 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.92%) Figma
9 3 (1.92%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.56%) HTTP
2 2 (1.28%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (4.49%) MySQL
5 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.28%) GIS
6 2 (1.28%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.28%) Power BI
6 2 (1.28%) Redis
6 2 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.64%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (15.38%) Git
2 20 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 12 (7.69%) JUnit
5 11 (7.05%) GitLab
5 11 (7.05%) webpack
6 8 (5.13%) JIRA
6 8 (5.13%) Postman
7 7 (4.49%) Storybook
8 4 (2.56%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.92%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.28%) VersionOne
11 1 (0.64%) Crashlytics
11 1 (0.64%) git-flow
11 1 (0.64%) Gradle
11 1 (0.64%) Maven
11 1 (0.64%) Subversion
11 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (12.82%) Public Sector
2 12 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.13%) Finance
4 4 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.92%) Marketing
6 2 (1.28%) Law
6 2 (1.28%) Retail
7 1 (0.64%) Advertising
7 1 (0.64%) Aviation
7 1 (0.64%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.64%) Legal
7 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 125 (80.13%) Developer
2 59 (37.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 23 (14.74%) Java Developer
4 20 (12.82%) Senior
5 16 (10.26%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.97%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 13 (8.33%) React Developer
7 13 (8.33%) Software Developer
8 12 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.41%) Lead
10 9 (5.77%) Angular Developer
11 8 (5.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (3.85%) User Researcher
13 5 (3.21%) Junior
13 5 (3.21%) Junior Developer
13 5 (3.21%) Web Developer
14 4 (2.56%) Junior Java Developer
14 4 (2.56%) Lead Developer
14 4 (2.56%) Lead Java Developer
14 4 (2.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (50.64%) React
2 38 (24.36%) CSS
2 38 (24.36%) HTML
3 32 (20.51%) REST
4 25 (16.03%) Node.js
4 25 (16.03%) Redux
5 24 (15.38%) Spring
6 23 (14.74%) AngularJS
6 23 (14.74%) Spring Boot
7 21 (13.46%) Hibernate
7 21 (13.46%) Vue
8 20 (12.82%) JPA
9 19 (12.18%) Next.js
10 16 (10.26%) GraphQL
11 11 (7.05%) CSS3
11 11 (7.05%) Express.js
11 11 (7.05%) RESTful
12 10 (6.41%) Flask
12 10 (6.41%) HTML5
12 10 (6.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (1.92%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.64%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.28%) Android
3 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.10%) Agile
2 33 (21.15%) CI/CD
3 28 (17.95%) Test Automation
4 26 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 24 (15.38%) Unit Testing
6 22 (14.10%) DevOps
6 22 (14.10%) Full Stack Development
6 22 (14.10%) Mentoring
7 20 (12.82%) User Experience
8 16 (10.26%) Microservices
9 15 (9.62%) Scrum
9 15 (9.62%) UX Design
10 14 (8.97%) API Development
10 14 (8.97%) TDD
11 13 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (7.69%) Clean Code
12 12 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 12 (7.69%) ETL
12 12 (7.69%) High Availability
13 11 (7.05%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (42.31%) TypeScript
2 52 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 36 (23.08%) Java
4 15 (9.62%) Python
5 8 (5.13%) C#
5 8 (5.13%) PHP
6 6 (3.85%) Bash
6 6 (3.85%) SQL
7 2 (1.28%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 31 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.92%) Degree
5 2 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.90%) QA
2 8 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (2.56%) zsh
Systems Management
1 21 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.21%) Kibana
3 3 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.05%) Google
3 2 (1.28%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.64%) Adobe
4 1 (0.64%) Ariba
4 1 (0.64%) Okta
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle
4 1 (0.64%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.64%) SAP