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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 245 247
Rank change year-on-year +21 +2 -36
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 118 150 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 0.74% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.88% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 122 162
10th Percentile £363 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £521 £550 £555
90th Percentile £593 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £68.81 -
25th Percentile £37.80 £70.78 £61.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £71.87 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.52% +14.99% +13.64%
75th Percentile £43.39 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile - £79.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.59 £70.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year -42.01% +12.45% +3.75%

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 11,541 17,047 20,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 84.14% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,211 10,194 14,065
10th Percentile £231 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.73%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 2,072 1,252
10th Percentile £14.09 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.29 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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 23 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 -11 42 £450 -14.29% 749
North West -12 31 £413 -15.38% 365
Scotland +21 27 £500 +11.11% 119
South East +63 25 £475 +3.26% 814
Midlands +18 14 £420 -4.00% 581
West Midlands +19 11 £461 +15.31% 306
South West +19 7 £533 +18.33% 338
Yorkshire +4 6 £485 -11.82% 282
North East +4 5 £480 +37.14% 106
East of England +27 3 £520 +4.00% 437
East Midlands +6 3 £402 -8.11% 241
Wales -9 2 £425 -20.23% 77
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 (4.24%) CMS
2 4 (3.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (2.54%) WordPress
4 1 (0.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) Camunda
4 1 (0.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.85%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.85%) JBoss
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 34 (28.81%) Azure
2 22 (18.64%) AWS
3 8 (6.78%) GCP
3 8 (6.78%) GitHub
4 7 (5.93%) Figma
5 6 (5.08%) Google Analytics
6 5 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (4.24%) BlazeMeter
6 5 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.24%) npm
6 5 (4.24%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.24%) Serverless
7 4 (3.39%) Apigee
7 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.54%) SaaS
9 2 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.69%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) HTTP
1 3 (2.54%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) ATM
2 1 (0.85%) NFC
2 1 (0.85%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.41%) NoSQL
2 16 (13.56%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.78%) Apache Cassandra
3 8 (6.78%) MySQL
4 6 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.08%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.39%) Redis
6 3 (2.54%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.54%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.69%) GIS
7 2 (1.69%) ObjectStore
7 2 (1.69%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.85%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 36 (30.51%) Git
2 14 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.47%) GitLab
3 10 (8.47%) webpack
4 7 (5.93%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.93%) JUnit
4 7 (5.93%) Subversion
5 6 (5.08%) Babel
6 5 (4.24%) Gradle
6 5 (4.24%) Jasmine
6 5 (4.24%) JIRA
6 5 (4.24%) Mocha
7 4 (3.39%) Grunt
7 4 (3.39%) gulp
7 4 (3.39%) Storybook
7 4 (3.39%) Vite
8 3 (2.54%) CircleCI
8 3 (2.54%) Xcode
9 2 (1.69%) Maven
9 2 (1.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.49%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.32%) Finance
4 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.24%) Back Office
4 5 (4.24%) Banking
4 5 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.85%) Billing
6 1 (0.85%) Marketing
6 1 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 97 (82.20%) Developer
2 53 (44.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 16 (13.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (12.71%) React Developer
5 13 (11.02%) Senior
6 10 (8.47%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.63%) JavaScript Developer
8 8 (6.78%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Angular Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) UI Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Web Developer
11 3 (2.54%) iOS Developer
11 3 (2.54%) Lead
11 3 (2.54%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (2.54%) UI/UX Developer
11 3 (2.54%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (55.93%) CSS
2 64 (54.24%) React
3 57 (48.31%) HTML
4 39 (33.05%) RESTful
5 34 (28.81%) AngularJS
5 34 (28.81%) Node.js
6 20 (16.95%) REST
7 19 (16.10%) HTML5
8 16 (13.56%) .NET
9 12 (10.17%) Spring
9 12 (10.17%) Vue
10 11 (9.32%) Sass
11 10 (8.47%) CSS3
11 10 (8.47%) JSON
11 10 (8.47%) Next.js
11 10 (8.47%) Web Services
12 9 (7.63%) Jest
13 8 (6.78%) GraphQL
14 7 (5.93%) Ajax
15 6 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.08%) Algorithms
2 5 (4.24%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.39%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.54%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (2.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.93%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Android
2 3 (2.54%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.54%) Mac OS X
2 3 (2.54%) Unix
3 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.76%) Agile
2 40 (33.90%) CI/CD
3 31 (26.27%) User Experience
4 29 (24.58%) Microservices
5 26 (22.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.64%) Test Automation
8 20 (16.95%) DevOps
8 20 (16.95%) Software Engineering
8 20 (16.95%) Web Development
9 17 (14.41%) TDD
10 16 (13.56%) API Development
10 16 (13.56%) Unit Testing
11 14 (11.86%) Code Quality
12 13 (11.02%) Containerisation
12 13 (11.02%) UX Design
13 11 (9.32%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (9.32%) Scrum
13 11 (9.32%) Visualisation
14 10 (8.47%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 70 (59.32%) JavaScript
2 41 (34.75%) TypeScript
3 31 (26.27%) Java
4 17 (14.41%) Python
5 12 (10.17%) SQL
6 11 (9.32%) C#
7 5 (4.24%) Bash
7 5 (4.24%) C++
7 5 (4.24%) PHP
7 5 (4.24%) Scala
8 4 (3.39%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.39%) Ruby
9 3 (2.54%) C
9 3 (2.54%) Objective-C
9 3 (2.54%) Swift
10 2 (1.69%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.85%) Go
11 1 (0.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.78%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.54%) Degree
4 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.95%) Accessibility
2 19 (16.10%) WCAG
3 7 (5.93%) QA
4 5 (4.24%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (3.39%) PERC
6 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (14.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (19.49%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.63%) Terraform
3 8 (6.78%) Grafana
4 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (11.02%) Google
2 11 (9.32%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.47%) Oracle
4 6 (5.08%) Adobe
5 5 (4.24%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.24%) Splunk
6 3 (2.54%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.54%) Zend
7 2 (1.69%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.69%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.85%) IBM
8 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.85%) Perforce
8 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.85%) Virgin Media