Front End Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 215 243 262
Rank change year-on-year +28 +19 -52
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 121 159 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 0.77% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.90% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 132 165
10th Percentile £351 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +3.68% -
75th Percentile £520 £550 £559
90th Percentile £574 £684 £670
UK median daily rate £513 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.91% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £68.81 -
25th Percentile £37.80 £70.78 -
Median hourly rate £40.59 £71.87 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.52% - -
75th Percentile £43.39 £75.00 -
90th Percentile - £79.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.59 £70.00 £59.75
% change year-on-year -42.01% +17.15% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North of England -8 45 £450 -10.00% 284
North West -9 30 £425 -15.00% 145
South East +60 28 £409 -18.20% 269
Scotland +18 21 £500 +4.17% 51
Midlands +24 16 £440 +6.67% 210
West Midlands +22 13 £460 +15.00% 110
South West +28 10 £625 +35.14% 123
North East - 9 £470 - 50
Yorkshire -2 7 £473 -14.09% 93
East Midlands +4 3 £402 -5.41% 87
East of England +26 2 £575 +15.00% 146
Wales -5 2 £425 -21.30% 23
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 4 (3.31%) CMS
2 3 (2.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.48%) WordPress
3 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Confluence
4 1 (0.83%) JBoss
4 1 (0.83%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 34 (28.10%) Azure
2 16 (13.22%) AWS
3 8 (6.61%) Serverless
4 7 (5.79%) GitHub
4 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.96%) Google Analytics
6 5 (4.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.13%) Figma
7 4 (3.31%) Azure AKS
7 4 (3.31%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.31%) GCP
7 4 (3.31%) npm
8 3 (2.48%) Apigee
8 3 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.48%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (2.48%) SaaS
9 2 (1.65%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) Internet
2 1 (0.83%) ATM
2 1 (0.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.92%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.26%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.79%) Redis
4 7 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.79%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.96%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (4.96%) MySQL
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.65%) GIS
6 2 (1.65%) ObjectStore
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.83%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 35 (28.93%) Git
2 8 (6.61%) webpack
3 7 (5.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.79%) Subversion
4 6 (4.96%) Babel
4 6 (4.96%) Cypress.io
4 6 (4.96%) Jasmine
4 6 (4.96%) Mocha
5 5 (4.13%) GitLab
5 5 (4.13%) Grunt
5 5 (4.13%) gulp
5 5 (4.13%) JIRA
6 4 (3.31%) Storybook
6 4 (3.31%) Vite
7 3 (2.48%) JUnit
8 2 (1.65%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.65%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.65%) Selenium
8 2 (1.65%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (23.14%) Public Sector
2 23 (19.01%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.40%) Finance
4 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.79%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.13%) Back Office
7 4 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.31%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.48%) Electronics
8 3 (2.48%) Marketing
9 2 (1.65%) Banking
9 2 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.83%) Advertising
10 1 (0.83%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) German Language
10 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 101 (83.47%) Developer
2 57 (47.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 16 (13.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (9.92%) React Developer
4 12 (9.92%) Senior
5 11 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
6 8 (6.61%) Java Developer
7 6 (4.96%) Senior Developer
7 6 (4.96%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Angular Developer
8 5 (4.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Architect
9 4 (3.31%) Backend Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Lead
9 4 (3.31%) Web Developer
10 3 (2.48%) PHP Developer
10 3 (2.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (2.48%) Software Developer
11 2 (1.65%) GIS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (57.02%) CSS
2 62 (51.24%) HTML
3 54 (44.63%) React
4 39 (32.23%) RESTful
5 34 (28.10%) Node.js
6 30 (24.79%) AngularJS
7 20 (16.53%) HTML5
8 19 (15.70%) REST
9 18 (14.88%) .NET
10 15 (12.40%) Sass
11 11 (9.09%) Vue
12 10 (8.26%) CSS3
12 10 (8.26%) Jest
13 9 (7.44%) jQuery
13 9 (7.44%) Web Services
14 8 (6.61%) GraphQL
14 8 (6.61%) Next.js
14 8 (6.61%) Spring
15 7 (5.79%) JSON
16 6 (4.96%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.31%) Algorithms
1 4 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
1 4 (3.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.83%) IoT
4 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.13%) Linux
2 3 (2.48%) Mac OS X
2 3 (2.48%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (41.32%) Agile
2 40 (33.06%) CI/CD
3 31 (25.62%) User Experience
4 29 (23.97%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (22.31%) Test Automation
6 26 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (19.01%) Microservices
7 23 (19.01%) Web Development
8 21 (17.36%) DevOps
9 18 (14.88%) Code Quality
9 18 (14.88%) Software Engineering
9 18 (14.88%) TDD
10 14 (11.57%) API Development
11 12 (9.92%) Containerisation
11 12 (9.92%) Design Patterns
12 10 (8.26%) Unit Testing
12 10 (8.26%) UX Design
13 9 (7.44%) Scrum
14 8 (6.61%) OO
14 8 (6.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 72 (59.50%) JavaScript
2 41 (33.88%) TypeScript
3 25 (20.66%) Java
4 14 (11.57%) C#
4 14 (11.57%) SQL
5 13 (10.74%) Python
6 7 (5.79%) PHP
7 3 (2.48%) Bash
8 2 (1.65%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.65%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.65%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) C++
9 1 (0.83%) Go
9 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.61%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) Degree
4 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.53%) Accessibility
2 17 (14.05%) WCAG
3 6 (4.96%) QA
4 4 (3.31%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (3.31%) PERC
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (12.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (15.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.79%) Terraform
3 6 (4.96%) Grafana
4 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (10.74%) Google
2 12 (9.92%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.61%) Oracle
4 5 (4.13%) Adobe
4 5 (4.13%) SAP
5 4 (3.31%) Splunk
6 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.48%) Zend
7 2 (1.65%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.65%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.83%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) Perforce
8 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.83%) Siemens
8 1 (0.83%) Sun
8 1 (0.83%) Virgin Media