Grunt Contracts in the UK excluding London

Grunt
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Grunt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grunt over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 - 432
Rank change year-on-year - - +77
Contract jobs citing Grunt 5 0 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% - 0.096%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.29% - 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 19
10th Percentile £390 - £436
25th Percentile £425 - £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.53%
75th Percentile £542 - £550
90th Percentile £577 - £616
UK median daily rate £484 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +20.88% -23.81% -25.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Grunt falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,730 2,257 3,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.54% 10.90% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,461 2,379
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 180
10th Percentile £40.02 £40.85 £46.13
25th Percentile £52.05 £55.00 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Grunt
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Grunt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Grunt in the UK excluding London

Grunt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Grunt in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Grunt in the UK excluding London

Grunt
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grunt in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grunt in the UK excluding London

Grunt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Grunt in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Grunt in the UK excluding London

Grunt
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 Grunt within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 West - 4 £600 - 1
North of England - 4 £600 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £367 -
Midlands - 1 £367 -
Grunt
UK

Grunt
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) gulp
2 4 (80.00%) Git
2 4 (80.00%) Jasmine
2 4 (80.00%) Mocha
3 3 (60.00%) Subversion
4 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Developer
4 1 (20.00%) HTML Developer
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Linux Developer
4 1 (20.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) Node.js
1 5 (100.00%) Sass
2 4 (80.00%) Mustache
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) LESS
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) XHR
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Web Accessibility
2 4 (80.00%) Web Design
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (60.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (80.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Perforce