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 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 335 300
Rank change year-on-year +2 -35 -108
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 59 112 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.49% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.52% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 97 156
10th Percentile £346 £313 £313
25th Percentile £381 £403 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +10.43%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £525
90th Percentile £562 £629 £594
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £39.24
25th Percentile - - £56.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £63.62
75th Percentile - - £67.36
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £81.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -50.92% +35.83% +60.00%

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 19,126 21,496 29,151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 94.27% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,597 14,946 20,454
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,384 1,087 1,426
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.02 £14.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

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 29 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 29 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 +1 16 £475 -9.52% 25
South West +7 14 £410 +9.33% 5
North West +17 9 £475 -5.00% 15
South East +4 9 £413 -5.71% 27
Scotland +35 7 £465 +0.54% 2
Wales +22 6 £513 +20.59% 1
Yorkshire -9 6 £475 -9.52% 10
Midlands -4 4 £550 +25.71% 17
East of England -2 3 £485 -9.35% 9
East Midlands -5 3 £550 +29.41% 9
North East +10 1 £350 -30.00%
West Midlands +3 1 - - 8
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 29 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 54 (91.53%) Front End Development
2 36 (61.02%) React
3 35 (59.32%) TypeScript
4 19 (32.20%) Next.js
5 18 (30.51%) JavaScript
6 17 (28.81%) CSS
6 17 (28.81%) Vue
7 15 (25.42%) Agile
8 14 (23.73%) HTML
8 14 (23.73%) Redux
9 12 (20.34%) GraphQL
10 11 (18.64%) CI/CD
10 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
10 11 (18.64%) AngularJS
11 10 (16.95%) GitHub
12 9 (15.25%) AWS
12 9 (15.25%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (13.56%) Software Engineering
14 7 (11.86%) Google
14 7 (11.86%) TDD
14 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
14 7 (11.86%) Tailwind CSS
15 6 (10.17%) Storybook
15 6 (10.17%) Full Stack Development
15 6 (10.17%) Cypress.io
15 6 (10.17%) Node.js
15 6 (10.17%) User Experience
15 6 (10.17%) GCP
15 6 (10.17%) Git
15 6 (10.17%) E-Commerce

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 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.69%) CMS
1 1 (1.69%) Confluence
1 1 (1.69%) Drupal
1 1 (1.69%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.69%) Umbraco
1 1 (1.69%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) GitHub
2 9 (15.25%) AWS
3 6 (10.17%) GCP
4 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.08%) Azure
5 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.08%) SaaS
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.39%) Serverless
6 2 (3.39%) Stripe
7 1 (1.69%) Figma
7 1 (1.69%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.69%) MailChimp
7 1 (1.69%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) GIS
2 2 (3.39%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (3.39%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.39%) Redis
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.69%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.17%) Cypress.io
2 6 (10.17%) Git
2 6 (10.17%) Storybook
3 4 (6.78%) webpack
4 2 (3.39%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) GitLab
5 1 (1.69%) VersionOne
5 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
2 3 (5.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.69%) Aviation
4 1 (1.69%) Law
4 1 (1.69%) Legal
4 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.69%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (61.02%) React
2 19 (32.20%) Next.js
3 17 (28.81%) CSS
3 17 (28.81%) Vue
4 14 (23.73%) HTML
4 14 (23.73%) Redux
5 12 (20.34%) GraphQL
6 11 (18.64%) AngularJS
7 7 (11.86%) Tailwind CSS
8 6 (10.17%) Node.js
9 5 (8.47%) CSS3
9 5 (8.47%) HTML5
9 5 (8.47%) Playwright
9 5 (8.47%) RESTful
10 4 (6.78%) REST
11 3 (5.08%) .NET
11 3 (5.08%) SAML
12 2 (3.39%) Laravel
12 2 (3.39%) PostGIS
12 2 (3.39%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (91.53%) Front End Development
2 15 (25.42%) Agile
3 11 (18.64%) CI/CD
3 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
4 9 (15.25%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (13.56%) Software Engineering
6 7 (11.86%) TDD
7 6 (10.17%) E-Commerce
7 6 (10.17%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (10.17%) User Experience
8 5 (8.47%) Objectives and Key Results
8 5 (8.47%) Project Management
8 5 (8.47%) Unit Testing
9 4 (6.78%) Analytics
9 4 (6.78%) Clean Code
9 4 (6.78%) Pair Programming
9 4 (6.78%) UX Design
9 4 (6.78%) Web Development
10 3 (5.08%) Service Design
10 3 (5.08%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 35 (59.32%) TypeScript
2 18 (30.51%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.47%) Java
4 4 (6.78%) Bash
5 3 (5.08%) C#
6 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.69%) Python
6 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
1 3 (5.08%) zsh
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Google
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.69%) Ariba
3 1 (1.69%) Okta
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle
3 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.69%) SAP