Backends for Frontends Contracts

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Backends for Frontends skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backends for Frontends over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 713 837
Rank change year-on-year +126 +124 -147
Contract jobs citing Backends for Frontends 4 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.008% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.009% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 16
10th Percentile £510 £511 £525
25th Percentile £516 £538 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £590
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.93% -7.45%
75th Percentile £563 £638 -
90th Percentile £585 £825 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backends for Frontends is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backends for Frontends as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backends for Frontends in the UK

Backends for Frontends
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backends for Frontends.

Daily rate trend for Backends for Frontends in the UK

Backends for Frontends
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backends for Frontends within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +109 4 £525 -16.00% 3
London +99 3 £563 -10.00% 2
Work from Home +128 1 £513 -18.00%

Backends for Frontends
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Gradle
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RAML
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Code
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA