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 £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 331 356
Rank change year-on-year +56 +25 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 61 68 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.35% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 55 88
10th Percentile £312 £343 £325
25th Percentile £382 £381 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £464
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +2.32% +3.17%
75th Percentile £517 £550 £538
90th Percentile £537 £583 £628
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £81.50
% change year-on-year - -50.92% +24.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +25 28 £425 -10.53% 58
North West +23 21 £400 -15.79% 31
South East +49 14 £409 -0.85% 37
Midlands +27 9 £420 -23.64% 24
West Midlands +21 8 £440 - 12
North East - 7 £480 - 19
Scotland +10 6 £511 +9.78% 3
South West +36 3 - - 11
East of England +29 2 £575 +18.56% 6
East Midlands +8 1 £270 -50.91% 10
Wales -4 1 £425 -18.11% 1
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

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 1 May 2025, 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 57 (93.44%) Front End Development
2 49 (80.33%) JavaScript
3 47 (77.05%) CSS
4 44 (72.13%) HTML
5 34 (55.74%) React
6 28 (45.90%) Node.js
7 24 (39.34%) Agile
8 22 (36.07%) TypeScript
8 22 (36.07%) User Experience
9 21 (34.43%) Git
10 19 (31.15%) RESTful
11 18 (29.51%) Public Sector
12 17 (27.87%) HTML5
13 16 (26.23%) Accessibility
14 15 (24.59%) CI/CD
14 15 (24.59%) Test Automation
14 15 (24.59%) Azure
14 15 (24.59%) TDD
15 14 (22.95%) Sass
15 14 (22.95%) AngularJS
16 13 (21.31%) WCAG
16 13 (21.31%) Web Development
17 12 (19.67%) Java
18 11 (18.03%) .NET
18 11 (18.03%) REST
19 10 (16.39%) Security Cleared
20 9 (14.75%) UX Design
20 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
20 9 (14.75%) Jest
20 9 (14.75%) Microservices

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 (1.64%) CMS
1 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) Azure
2 6 (9.84%) AWS
3 4 (6.56%) GitHub
4 3 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (4.92%) Figma
4 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) Firebase
5 2 (3.28%) npm
5 2 (3.28%) SaaS
5 2 (3.28%) Veeva
6 1 (1.64%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
1 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.28%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (3.28%) GIS
2 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.28%) MySQL
2 2 (3.28%) ObjectStore
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (34.43%) Git
2 8 (13.11%) webpack
3 6 (9.84%) Jasmine
3 6 (9.84%) Mocha
4 5 (8.20%) Babel
5 4 (6.56%) Cypress.io
5 4 (6.56%) GitLab
5 4 (6.56%) Grunt
5 4 (6.56%) gulp
5 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.56%) Subversion
6 3 (4.92%) JIRA
6 3 (4.92%) Selenium
6 3 (4.92%) Vite
7 2 (3.28%) Maven
7 2 (3.28%) SpecFlow
7 2 (3.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.64%) JUnit
General
1 18 (29.51%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Finance
4 5 (8.20%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Electronics
6 3 (4.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.28%) Back Office
7 2 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.64%) Advertising
8 1 (1.64%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (77.05%) CSS
2 44 (72.13%) HTML
3 34 (55.74%) React
4 28 (45.90%) Node.js
5 19 (31.15%) RESTful
6 17 (27.87%) HTML5
7 14 (22.95%) AngularJS
7 14 (22.95%) Sass
8 11 (18.03%) .NET
8 11 (18.03%) REST
9 9 (14.75%) Jest
10 7 (11.48%) CSS3
10 7 (11.48%) Next.js
11 6 (9.84%) jQuery
11 6 (9.84%) Redux
11 6 (9.84%) Vue
12 5 (8.20%) Express.js
12 5 (8.20%) JSON
12 5 (8.20%) Mustache
13 4 (6.56%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.28%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Mac OS X
2 3 (4.92%) Unix
3 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (93.44%) Front End Development
2 24 (39.34%) Agile
3 22 (36.07%) User Experience
4 15 (24.59%) CI/CD
4 15 (24.59%) TDD
4 15 (24.59%) Test Automation
5 13 (21.31%) Web Development
6 9 (14.75%) Microservices
6 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (14.75%) UX Design
7 8 (13.11%) Code Quality
7 8 (13.11%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (11.48%) Wireframes
9 6 (9.84%) API Development
9 6 (9.84%) Clean Code
9 6 (9.84%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (9.84%) DevOps
9 6 (9.84%) Software Engineering
9 6 (9.84%) SOLID
10 5 (8.20%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 49 (80.33%) JavaScript
2 22 (36.07%) TypeScript
3 12 (19.67%) Java
4 6 (9.84%) C#
4 6 (9.84%) SQL
5 3 (4.92%) Python
6 1 (1.64%) Bash
6 1 (1.64%) PHP
6 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (26.23%) Accessibility
2 13 (21.31%) WCAG
3 4 (6.56%) QA
4 2 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Google
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle
3 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) Adobe
4 2 (3.28%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.64%) Veracode
5 1 (1.64%) Virgin Media