Front End Development Contracts

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 219 201
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 -67
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 399 462 729
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 1.07% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.25% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 346 541
10th Percentile £355 £363 £338
25th Percentile £402 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £636 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £475 £466
% change year-on-year -2.11% +1.93% -6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £40.00 £47.30
25th Percentile £37.80 £53.75 £61.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.01% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £43.39 £72.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - £76.50 £80.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.59 £71.87 £62.50
% change year-on-year -43.52% +14.99% +7.76%

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 28,883 36,949 50,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.68% 85.32% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,181 23,576 35,000
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,432 2,509 1,726
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.12 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Top 16 Contract 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 6 July 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 -3 298 £475 -9.52% 699
London -19 181 £512 -4.74% 312
Work from Home -1 152 £475 -7.32% 333
UK excluding London +50 125 £465 -2.11% 490
North of England -10 39 £460 -3.26% 165
South East +61 30 £475 - 114
North West -1 26 £438 -7.89% 109
Scotland +18 24 £488 +8.33% 35
Midlands +22 20 £405 -9.50% 68
West Midlands +17 12 £475 +5.56% 37
East Midlands +1 8 £385 -0.77% 30
Yorkshire -4 8 £469 -14.77% 44
South West +23 7 £425 -10.53% 41
East of England +30 6 £575 +18.56% 41
North East +3 5 £480 +37.14% 16
Wales 0 1 £425 -20.23% 17

Front End Development
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:

Application Platforms
1 30 (7.52%) CMS
2 10 (2.51%) Headless CMS
3 7 (1.75%) Apache
4 6 (1.50%) WordPress
5 5 (1.25%) Camunda
6 4 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.00%) Alfresco
6 4 (1.00%) Confluence
7 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.50%) Drupal
7 2 (0.50%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 2 (0.50%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.25%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Adobe XD
1 4 (1.00%) Sketch
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Magento
1 2 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 116 (29.07%) AWS
2 65 (16.29%) Azure
3 27 (6.77%) Figma
4 26 (6.52%) GCP
5 25 (6.27%) Serverless
6 23 (5.76%) GitHub
7 19 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 19 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (3.51%) npm
9 11 (2.76%) Firebase
9 11 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (2.01%) Google Analytics
10 8 (2.01%) OpenShift
11 7 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.75%) BlazeMeter
12 6 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.25%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.25%) NFC
1 5 (1.25%) PPP
2 4 (1.00%) HTTP
3 3 (0.75%) Internet
3 3 (0.75%) SSL
4 1 (0.25%) ATM
4 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.78%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (9.27%) MongoDB
3 32 (8.02%) NoSQL
4 25 (6.27%) MySQL
5 16 (4.01%) Redis
6 13 (3.26%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (2.01%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.50%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.25%) GIS
11 4 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.00%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.50%) Power BI
14 1 (0.25%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 80 (20.05%) Git
2 35 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.52%) Cypress.io
4 23 (5.76%) JUnit
5 18 (4.51%) JIRA
6 17 (4.26%) GitLab
6 17 (4.26%) webpack
7 12 (3.01%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.26%) Grunt
8 9 (2.26%) Jasmine
9 8 (2.01%) CircleCI
9 8 (2.01%) Gradle
9 8 (2.01%) Karma Test Runner
9 8 (2.01%) Maven
9 8 (2.01%) Mocha
9 8 (2.01%) Postman
9 8 (2.01%) Protractor
9 8 (2.01%) Storybook
10 7 (1.75%) gulp
10 7 (1.75%) Xcode
General
1 84 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 78 (19.55%) Finance
3 36 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.77%) Banking
5 15 (3.76%) Front Office
6 13 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.01%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.01%) Retail
9 7 (1.75%) Back Office
9 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.75%) Marketing
10 6 (1.50%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.50%) Military
11 5 (1.25%) Games
11 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.00%) Law
12 4 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.75%) Legal
14 2 (0.50%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 299 (74.94%) Developer
2 130 (32.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 61 (15.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 57 (14.29%) React Developer
5 51 (12.78%) Senior
6 35 (8.77%) Angular Developer
7 29 (7.27%) Senior Developer
8 27 (6.77%) Software Engineer
9 25 (6.27%) Java Developer
10 21 (5.26%) Lead
11 14 (3.51%) JavaScript Developer
12 13 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (3.26%) UI Developer
13 12 (3.01%) Designer
14 11 (2.76%) AWS Developer
14 11 (2.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 11 (2.76%) Node.js Developer
14 11 (2.76%) Python Developer
14 11 (2.76%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (2.51%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (53.38%) React
2 145 (36.34%) CSS
3 126 (31.58%) HTML
4 119 (29.82%) AngularJS
5 81 (20.30%) RESTful
6 75 (18.80%) Node.js
7 74 (18.55%) REST
8 48 (12.03%) .NET
9 47 (11.78%) HTML5
9 47 (11.78%) Spring
10 44 (11.03%) Next.js
11 40 (10.03%) CSS3
12 37 (9.27%) Spring Boot
12 37 (9.27%) Vue
13 28 (7.02%) Jest
13 28 (7.02%) Redux
14 27 (6.77%) GraphQL
15 25 (6.27%) Sass
16 24 (6.02%) Kafka
16 24 (6.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.51%) Mobile App
2 18 (4.51%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.26%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.25%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.25%) Smartcard
10 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.00%) Mobile Banking
10 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.75%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.75%) PKI
11 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.76%) Linux
2 5 (1.25%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
2 5 (1.25%) Unix
2 5 (1.25%) Windows
3 4 (1.00%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (37.34%) Agile
2 118 (29.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 103 (25.81%) User Experience
4 98 (24.56%) CI/CD
5 89 (22.31%) Microservices
6 83 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (17.29%) DevOps
8 64 (16.04%) Software Engineering
9 54 (13.53%) UX Design
10 41 (10.28%) Containerisation
11 40 (10.03%) Code Quality
11 40 (10.03%) Test Automation
12 39 (9.77%) Mentoring
13 38 (9.52%) Unit Testing
14 36 (9.02%) TDD
15 34 (8.52%) Clean Code
15 34 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 30 (7.52%) Performance Optimisation
16 30 (7.52%) Responsive Web Design
17 28 (7.02%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
Programming Languages
1 169 (42.36%) JavaScript
2 143 (35.84%) TypeScript
3 90 (22.56%) Java
4 72 (18.05%) Python
5 46 (11.53%) C#
6 33 (8.27%) SQL
7 15 (3.76%) C++
8 9 (2.26%) Go
8 9 (2.26%) PHP
8 9 (2.26%) Ruby
9 8 (2.01%) Scala
10 7 (1.75%) Bash
10 7 (1.75%) C
10 7 (1.75%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.25%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.25%) Swift
12 4 (1.00%) Groovy
12 4 (1.00%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (2.76%) Degree
5 8 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.53%) Accessibility
2 29 (7.27%) QA
3 25 (6.27%) WCAG
4 3 (0.75%) PERC
5 2 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (13.28%) Docker
2 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (16.04%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.01%) Terraform
3 15 (3.76%) Grafana
4 8 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.50%) Ansible
6 3 (0.75%) Kibana
7 2 (0.50%) Istio
8 1 (0.25%) MIIS
8 1 (0.25%) Puppet
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (8.27%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.26%) Google
3 20 (5.01%) Oracle
4 14 (3.51%) Adobe
5 11 (2.76%) Splunk
6 10 (2.51%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.51%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.51%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.01%) SAP
8 5 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.00%) Perforce
10 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.75%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.75%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.50%) IBM
11 2 (0.50%) Kony
11 2 (0.50%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.50%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.25%) Mercator
12 1 (0.25%) Red Hat