Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 347 301
Rank change year-on-year +18 -46 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 65 104 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.44% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.47% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 86 156
10th Percentile £351 £319 £313
25th Percentile £399 £401 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £528
90th Percentile £575 £636 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +19.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £62.92
25th Percentile - - £64.58
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £67.36
75th Percentile - - £67.58
90th Percentile - - £67.71
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £81.50 £65.49
% change year-on-year -50.92% +24.45% +50.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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 +9 20 £475 -9.52% 37
South West +18 13 £399 +6.33% 13
North West +21 12 £475 -2.56% 22
South East +21 10 £413 +3.13% 16
Scotland +45 8 £480 +5.21% 7
Wales +19 7 £513 +13.89% 6
Yorkshire -3 7 £550 +4.76% 12
Midlands +4 4 £550 +16.90% 11
East Midlands +9 3 £550 +22.22% 5
East of England +7 3 £485 -21.46% 6
North East +15 1 £350 -37.78% 3
West Midlands +5 1 - - 6
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 59 (90.77%) Front End Development
2 40 (61.54%) React
3 38 (58.46%) TypeScript
4 21 (32.31%) JavaScript
5 20 (30.77%) Agile
6 19 (29.23%) CSS
6 19 (29.23%) Vue
6 19 (29.23%) Next.js
7 15 (23.08%) HTML
8 14 (21.54%) Redux
9 13 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 12 (18.46%) GraphQL
10 12 (18.46%) Test Automation
10 12 (18.46%) AWS
10 12 (18.46%) AngularJS
11 10 (15.38%) GitHub
12 9 (13.85%) TDD
12 9 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
13 8 (12.31%) User Experience
13 8 (12.31%) Full Stack Development
14 7 (10.77%) Tailwind CSS
14 7 (10.77%) Jenkins
14 7 (10.77%) Cypress.io
14 7 (10.77%) Node.js
14 7 (10.77%) Google
14 7 (10.77%) Java
14 7 (10.77%) E-Commerce
15 6 (9.23%) CSS3
15 6 (9.23%) Git

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 1 (1.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.54%) CMS
1 1 (1.54%) Confluence
1 1 (1.54%) Drupal
1 1 (1.54%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.54%) Umbraco
1 1 (1.54%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.46%) AWS
2 10 (15.38%) GitHub
3 6 (9.23%) GCP
4 5 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.62%) Azure
5 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.62%) SaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.08%) Serverless
6 2 (3.08%) Stripe
7 1 (1.54%) Figma
7 1 (1.54%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.54%) MailChimp
7 1 (1.54%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) GIS
2 2 (3.08%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (3.08%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.08%) Redis
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.54%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.54%) MySQL
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Cypress.io
1 7 (10.77%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.23%) Git
2 6 (9.23%) Storybook
3 4 (6.15%) webpack
4 2 (3.08%) JIRA
5 1 (1.54%) GitLab
5 1 (1.54%) VersionOne
5 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.54%) Aviation
5 1 (1.54%) Law
5 1 (1.54%) Legal
5 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (61.54%) React
2 19 (29.23%) CSS
2 19 (29.23%) Next.js
2 19 (29.23%) Vue
3 15 (23.08%) HTML
4 14 (21.54%) Redux
5 12 (18.46%) AngularJS
5 12 (18.46%) GraphQL
6 7 (10.77%) Node.js
6 7 (10.77%) Tailwind CSS
7 6 (9.23%) CSS3
8 5 (7.69%) HTML5
8 5 (7.69%) Playwright
8 5 (7.69%) RESTful
9 4 (6.15%) .NET
9 4 (6.15%) REST
10 3 (4.62%) SAML
11 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET
11 2 (3.08%) Laravel
11 2 (3.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.54%) Smartcard
3 1 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (90.77%) Front End Development
2 20 (30.77%) Agile
3 13 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (18.46%) Test Automation
5 9 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (13.85%) TDD
6 8 (12.31%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
6 8 (12.31%) User Experience
7 7 (10.77%) E-Commerce
8 5 (7.69%) Objectives and Key Results
8 5 (7.69%) Pair Programming
8 5 (7.69%) Project Management
8 5 (7.69%) Unit Testing
9 4 (6.15%) Analytics
9 4 (6.15%) Clean Code
9 4 (6.15%) Microservices
9 4 (6.15%) Scrum
9 4 (6.15%) UX Design
9 4 (6.15%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 38 (58.46%) TypeScript
2 21 (32.31%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.77%) Java
4 4 (6.15%) Bash
5 3 (4.62%) C#
6 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.54%) Python
6 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Docker
1 3 (4.62%) zsh
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Google
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.54%) Ariba
3 1 (1.54%) Okta
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle
3 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.54%) SAP