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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 210 189
Rank change year-on-year -48 -21 -22
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 394 425 584
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.25% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.42% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 293 459
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -6.25%
75th Percentile £564 £610 £650
90th Percentile £690 £713 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £47.20 £37.65 £67.90
25th Percentile £51.25 £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 - £44.13 £81.25
90th Percentile £64.00 £45.55 £81.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.23%

All Process and 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 32,705 29,929 38,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.13% 88.30% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 18,254 25,497
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
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 £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 971 1,514
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.43
25th Percentile £17.54 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%
75th Percentile £50.19 £62.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.44 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +40.63%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 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
England -65 305 £475 - 744
London -29 182 £520 -5.45% 156
UK excluding London -45 142 £450 +5.88% 693
Work from Home -20 133 £500 +17.65% 355
North of England -37 61 £405 -7.43% 185
Yorkshire -31 29 £488 +8.33% 70
North West -28 24 £388 -3.13% 89
Scotland +10 23 £463 +0.43% 42
South East -43 22 £475 +16.14% 181
Midlands -39 20 £500 +6.95% 115
West Midlands -32 18 £500 +5.26% 61
North East -3 9 £364 +0.41% 27
Northern Ireland - 6 £390 - 7
Wales -5 5 £519 -5.68% 21
East of England -24 4 £369 +22.92% 88
South West -26 4 £170 -68.37% 68
East Midlands -19 2 £483 +8.54% 48

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 14 (3.55%) CMS
2 8 (2.03%) Confluence
3 6 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.27%) WordPress
5 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
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%) ArcGIS
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 (1.52%) Sketch
2 5 (1.27%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.27%) Chatbot
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 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Maximo
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
3 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 109 (27.66%) AWS
2 80 (20.30%) Azure
3 41 (10.41%) GitHub
4 28 (7.11%) GCP
5 25 (6.35%) Serverless
6 24 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (4.82%) Figma
8 17 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.30%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (3.05%) npm
11 11 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.54%) Power Platform
13 8 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (1.78%) Cloud Run
14 7 (1.78%) OpenShift
15 6 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (1.52%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.02%) NFC
1 4 (1.02%) PPP
2 1 (0.25%) Skype
2 1 (0.25%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.63%) NoSQL
2 34 (8.63%) SQL Server
3 27 (6.85%) Relational Database
4 23 (5.84%) Redis
5 20 (5.08%) MongoDB
5 20 (5.08%) MySQL
6 7 (1.78%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.78%) Power BI
7 6 (1.52%) Flink
8 5 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.27%) Big Data
8 5 (1.27%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.02%) DB2
9 4 (1.02%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.02%) Tableau
10 3 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 89 (22.59%) Git
2 41 (10.41%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.36%) Cypress.io
4 25 (6.35%) webpack
5 22 (5.58%) GitLab
6 21 (5.33%) JIRA
7 20 (5.08%) JUnit
8 16 (4.06%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.79%) Maven
10 10 (2.54%) Mockito
10 10 (2.54%) Storybook
11 8 (2.03%) Eclipse
11 8 (2.03%) Xcode
12 7 (1.78%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.78%) Gradle
12 7 (1.78%) Mocha
12 7 (1.78%) Postman
13 6 (1.52%) Vite
14 5 (1.27%) ESLint
14 5 (1.27%) XCTest
General
1 99 (25.13%) Social Skills
2 89 (22.59%) Finance
3 55 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 44 (11.17%) Banking
5 16 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.55%) Front Office
7 11 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.28%) Marketing
9 8 (2.03%) Retail
10 6 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.27%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.02%) Back Office
12 4 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.76%) Electronics
14 2 (0.51%) Advertising
14 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Military
14 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 274 (69.54%) Developer
2 149 (37.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 54 (13.71%) Senior
4 49 (12.44%) Full-Stack Developer
5 41 (10.41%) Senior Developer
6 35 (8.88%) React Developer
7 32 (8.12%) Java Developer
8 26 (6.60%) Software Engineer
9 23 (5.84%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 17 (4.31%) Lead
10 17 (4.31%) Python Developer
11 16 (4.06%) Designer
12 15 (3.81%) Angular Developer
13 11 (2.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (2.79%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 11 (2.79%) Python Engineer
14 10 (2.54%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (2.54%) User Researcher
15 8 (2.03%) Backend Developer
15 8 (2.03%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (53.05%) React
2 146 (37.06%) CSS
3 143 (36.29%) HTML
4 81 (20.56%) AngularJS
4 81 (20.56%) RESTful
5 73 (18.53%) Node.js
6 68 (17.26%) REST
7 54 (13.71%) Spring
8 50 (12.69%) Jest
9 48 (12.18%) HTML5
10 47 (11.93%) Spring Boot
11 39 (9.90%) Next.js
11 39 (9.90%) Vue
12 37 (9.39%) .NET
12 37 (9.39%) CSS3
13 31 (7.87%) Kafka
13 31 (7.87%) Redux
14 25 (6.35%) GraphQL
15 22 (5.58%) Playwright
16 20 (5.08%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.58%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.05%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.28%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.78%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.52%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.27%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.27%) NHS
11 4 (1.02%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.02%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.02%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (1.02%) Smartcard
11 4 (1.02%) Spread Betting
12 3 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.03%) Unix
2 7 (1.78%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.78%) Linux
3 6 (1.52%) Android
4 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (46.95%) Agile
2 141 (35.79%) CI/CD
3 125 (31.73%) User Experience
4 90 (22.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 84 (21.32%) DevOps
6 79 (20.05%) Microservices
7 67 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (16.75%) UX Design
9 62 (15.74%) Test Automation
10 53 (13.45%) Containerisation
11 52 (13.20%) AI
11 52 (13.20%) Software Engineering
12 44 (11.17%) TDD
13 43 (10.91%) Code Quality
14 42 (10.66%) Clean Code
15 41 (10.41%) Unit Testing
16 40 (10.15%) Scrum
17 39 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
18 37 (9.39%) User Research
19 34 (8.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 171 (43.40%) JavaScript
2 136 (34.52%) TypeScript
3 100 (25.38%) Java
4 75 (19.04%) Python
4 75 (19.04%) SQL
5 44 (11.17%) C#
6 9 (2.28%) C++
7 8 (2.03%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.78%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.78%) Ruby
9 6 (1.52%) PHP
9 6 (1.52%) Scala
10 5 (1.27%) COBOL
10 5 (1.27%) Groovy
10 5 (1.27%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.76%) Bash
12 3 (0.76%) C
12 3 (0.76%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (14.47%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (5.08%) Degree
5 8 (2.03%) MCP
6 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (26.40%) Accessibility
2 48 (12.18%) WCAG
3 37 (9.39%) 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 85 (21.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 74 (18.78%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.12%) Terraform
3 16 (4.06%) Argo
4 7 (1.78%) Ansible
5 5 (1.27%) Istio
6 4 (1.02%) Grafana
7 2 (0.51%) Kibana
7 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
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 27 (6.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.60%) Oracle
3 19 (4.82%) Adobe
3 19 (4.82%) Google
4 7 (1.78%) Dynatrace
4 7 (1.78%) GoldenSource
4 7 (1.78%) Splunk
5 6 (1.52%) SAP
6 5 (1.27%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.76%) Perforce
8 3 (0.76%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.76%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.51%) Kony
9 2 (0.51%) Mercator
9 2 (0.51%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.51%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.51%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.25%) VMware
817 Front End Development jobs Nationwide