Front End Development Contract Job Trends

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Front End Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 203 180
Rank change year-on-year -48 -23 -2
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 393 413 590
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.29% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.46% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 287 466
10th Percentile £350 £329 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £519
Median % change year-on-year - -8.43% -5.68%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £650
90th Percentile £694 £713 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £35.00 £37.65 £67.90
25th Percentile £44.50 £39.00 £71.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £41.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -46.45% +19.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £81.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £45.55 £81.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,180 28,256 37,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.89% 88.57% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,310 17,164 24,974
10th Percentile £304 £306 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £724 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,978 898 1,563
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -22.97% +23.04%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.64% -31.67% +62.56%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in the UK

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Front End Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Front End Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the UK over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. 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 -74 301 £475 - 426
London -38 173 £520 -5.45% 88
UK excluding London -56 147 £450 +5.88% 400
Work from Home -18 128 £500 +17.65% 189
North of England -32 62 £415 -5.14% 96
South East -33 27 £475 +16.14% 117
Yorkshire -40 27 £488 +8.33% 40
North West -32 25 £396 -0.94% 35
Scotland +9 22 £463 +8.82% 18
Midlands -40 21 £500 +6.95% 52
West Midlands -35 19 £500 +5.26% 21
North East 0 11 £364 +0.41% 21
Northern Ireland - 6 £390 - 8
Wales -3 5 £519 -5.68% 18
East of England -23 5 £413 +37.50% 61
South West -30 4 £170 -68.37% 39
East Midlands -19 2 £483 +8.54% 31

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.05%) CMS
2 9 (2.29%) Confluence
2 9 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.27%) WordPress
5 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.76%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.51%) Apache
7 2 (0.51%) Drupal
7 2 (0.51%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.51%) SilverStripe
8 1 (0.25%) Camunda
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
8 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.53%) Chatbot
1 6 (1.53%) Sketch
2 5 (1.27%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.02%) InVision
4 3 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.51%) Trello
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Blender
6 1 (0.25%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.25%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.25%) Maximo
4 1 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 113 (28.75%) AWS
2 79 (20.10%) Azure
3 41 (10.43%) GitHub
4 26 (6.62%) Serverless
5 25 (6.36%) GCP
6 24 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (5.34%) Figma
8 16 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.05%) npm
11 11 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.80%) Power Platform
12 9 (2.29%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.04%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (1.78%) Cloud Run
14 7 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.02%) NFC
1 4 (1.02%) PPP
2 2 (0.51%) Tactical Data Link
3 1 (0.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.65%) NoSQL
3 32 (8.14%) SQL Server
4 25 (6.36%) Relational Database
5 19 (4.83%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.58%) Redis
7 17 (4.33%) MySQL
8 7 (1.78%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.78%) Power BI
9 6 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.53%) Flink
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.27%) Big Data
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.02%) DB2
11 4 (1.02%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.76%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.76%) Tableau
13 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 91 (23.16%) Git
2 38 (9.67%) Jenkins
3 30 (7.63%) Cypress.io
4 24 (6.11%) webpack
5 23 (5.85%) GitLab
6 21 (5.34%) JIRA
7 18 (4.58%) JUnit
8 16 (4.07%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.54%) Storybook
10 9 (2.29%) Maven
11 8 (2.04%) Eclipse
11 8 (2.04%) Mockito
12 7 (1.78%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.78%) Gradle
12 7 (1.78%) Mocha
13 6 (1.53%) Vite
13 6 (1.53%) Xcode
14 5 (1.27%) Babel
14 5 (1.27%) ESLint
14 5 (1.27%) Postman
General
1 94 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 77 (19.59%) Finance
3 60 (15.27%) Public Sector
4 41 (10.43%) Banking
5 15 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.31%) Front Office
7 10 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.04%) Marketing
9 7 (1.78%) Retail
10 6 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.76%) Aviation
13 3 (0.76%) Electronics
13 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.51%) Back Office
14 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 281 (71.50%) Developer
2 152 (38.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 53 (13.49%) Senior
4 51 (12.98%) Full-Stack Developer
5 40 (10.18%) Senior Developer
6 36 (9.16%) React Developer
7 34 (8.65%) Java Developer
8 25 (6.36%) Software Engineer
9 23 (5.85%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 17 (4.33%) Angular Developer
10 17 (4.33%) Lead
11 16 (4.07%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.31%) Designer
12 13 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (2.54%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (2.54%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 10 (2.54%) Python Engineer
13 10 (2.54%) User Researcher
14 8 (2.04%) Backend Developer
14 8 (2.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (53.69%) React
2 145 (36.90%) CSS
3 144 (36.64%) HTML
4 84 (21.37%) AngularJS
5 81 (20.61%) RESTful
6 73 (18.58%) Node.js
7 64 (16.28%) REST
8 51 (12.98%) Jest
8 51 (12.98%) Spring
9 47 (11.96%) HTML5
10 44 (11.20%) Spring Boot
11 43 (10.94%) Next.js
12 42 (10.69%) Vue
13 39 (9.92%) .NET
14 37 (9.41%) CSS3
15 32 (8.14%) Redux
16 28 (7.12%) Kafka
17 24 (6.11%) GraphQL
18 22 (5.60%) Playwright
19 20 (5.09%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.11%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.09%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.05%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.53%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.53%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.27%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.27%) NHS
8 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.02%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.02%) Digital Media
9 4 (1.02%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (1.02%) Smartcard
9 4 (1.02%) Spread Betting
10 3 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.78%) Apple iOS
1 7 (1.78%) Linux
2 6 (1.53%) Android
2 6 (1.53%) Unix
3 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (46.06%) Agile
2 143 (36.39%) CI/CD
3 122 (31.04%) User Experience
4 90 (22.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 85 (21.63%) DevOps
6 71 (18.07%) Microservices
7 67 (17.05%) UX Design
8 66 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (15.52%) Test Automation
10 54 (13.74%) Containerisation
11 53 (13.49%) AI
12 52 (13.23%) Software Engineering
13 41 (10.43%) Code Quality
13 41 (10.43%) Scrum
13 41 (10.43%) TDD
14 39 (9.92%) Clean Code
14 39 (9.92%) Unit Testing
15 37 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (9.41%) Performance Optimisation
16 36 (9.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 176 (44.78%) JavaScript
2 137 (34.86%) TypeScript
3 98 (24.94%) Java
4 73 (18.58%) SQL
5 72 (18.32%) Python
6 46 (11.70%) C#
7 10 (2.54%) C++
8 7 (1.78%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.78%) Ruby
9 6 (1.53%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.27%) COBOL
10 5 (1.27%) PHP
11 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.02%) Scala
12 3 (0.76%) Bash
12 3 (0.76%) C
12 3 (0.76%) Groovy
12 3 (0.76%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.72%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.09%) Degree
4 19 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.29%) MCP
6 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (27.74%) Accessibility
2 51 (12.98%) WCAG
3 37 (9.41%) QA
4 7 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.76%) GDPR
6 2 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 84 (21.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 73 (18.58%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.40%) Terraform
3 18 (4.58%) Argo
4 7 (1.78%) Ansible
5 5 (1.27%) Istio
6 3 (0.76%) Grafana
6 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.51%) Kibana
7 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) Control-M
8 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.25%) Podman
8 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 26 (6.62%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.60%) Oracle
3 20 (5.09%) Adobe
4 17 (4.33%) Google
5 7 (1.78%) GoldenSource
6 6 (1.53%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.53%) SAP
7 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.02%) Splunk
8 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (0.76%) Perforce
8 3 (0.76%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.76%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.51%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.51%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.51%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.25%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.25%) Telerik
10 1 (0.25%) VMware
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