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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 209 174
Rank change year-on-year -45 -35 +11
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 398 413 590
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.30% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.46% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 290 465
10th Percentile £344 £331 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £650
90th Percentile £676 £713 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +9.12% -10.53% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £37.65 £68.57
25th Percentile £39.75 £39.00 £72.50
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 £81.88
90th Percentile - £45.55 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - £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 32,654 28,287 37,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.81% 88.79% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,662 17,217 24,715
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,980 898 1,602
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%
75th Percentile £56.06 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.80 £74.91 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.83
% change year-on-year -21.76% -30.52% +51.12%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -66 308 £475 - 437
London -28 175 £513 -6.82% 88
UK excluding London -53 147 £464 +9.12% 412
Work from Home -26 131 £500 +12.36% 209
North of England -41 63 £425 -2.86% 101
South East -30 27 £513 +25.31% 115
North West -22 26 £405 +1.25% 43
Yorkshire -46 26 £488 +8.33% 40
Midlands -39 23 £500 +6.95% 56
West Midlands -33 21 £500 +5.26% 26
Scotland +7 19 £463 +8.82% 20
North East -7 12 £364 -0.27% 18
East of England -18 6 £419 +39.58% 58
Northern Ireland - 6 £390 - 7
Wales -2 5 £519 -5.68% 20
South West -26 4 £170 -68.37% 44
East Midlands -25 2 £483 +8.54% 30

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 (3.02%) CMS
2 9 (2.26%) Confluence
2 9 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.26%) WordPress
5 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.75%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Apache
7 2 (0.50%) Drupal
7 2 (0.50%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.50%) SilverStripe
8 1 (0.25%) Camunda
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 (1.51%) Chatbot
1 6 (1.51%) Sketch
2 5 (1.26%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.01%) InVision
4 3 (0.75%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.50%) 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 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.25%) Maximo
4 1 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 114 (28.64%) AWS
2 76 (19.10%) Azure
3 40 (10.05%) GitHub
4 26 (6.53%) Serverless
5 25 (6.28%) GCP
6 23 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (5.53%) Figma
8 16 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.02%) npm
11 11 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (2.76%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.76%) Power Platform
12 10 (2.51%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.01%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (1.76%) Cloud Run
14 7 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.01%) NFC
1 4 (1.01%) PPP
2 2 (0.50%) Tactical Data Link
3 1 (0.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.54%) NoSQL
3 29 (7.29%) SQL Server
4 24 (6.03%) Relational Database
5 21 (5.28%) MySQL
6 17 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.52%) Redis
8 7 (1.76%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.76%) Power BI
9 6 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.51%) Flink
10 5 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.26%) Big Data
11 4 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.01%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.75%) DB2
12 3 (0.75%) Tableau
13 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 91 (22.86%) Git
2 34 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 30 (7.54%) Cypress.io
4 26 (6.53%) GitLab
5 21 (5.28%) JIRA
6 19 (4.77%) JUnit
7 17 (4.27%) webpack
8 16 (4.02%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.76%) Maven
9 11 (2.76%) Storybook
10 9 (2.26%) Mockito
11 8 (2.01%) Eclipse
12 7 (1.76%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.76%) Gradle
12 7 (1.76%) Mocha
13 5 (1.26%) Babel
13 5 (1.26%) Vite
13 5 (1.26%) Xcode
14 4 (1.01%) Selenium
14 4 (1.01%) Valgrind
General
1 91 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.84%) Finance
3 60 (15.08%) Public Sector
4 41 (10.30%) Banking
5 15 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.02%) Front Office
7 7 (1.76%) Marketing
7 7 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (1.76%) Retail
8 6 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.75%) Aviation
11 3 (0.75%) Electronics
12 2 (0.50%) Advertising
12 2 (0.50%) Back Office
12 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 290 (72.86%) Developer
2 153 (38.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 54 (13.57%) Senior
4 53 (13.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 40 (10.05%) Senior Developer
6 37 (9.30%) React Developer
7 35 (8.79%) Java Developer
8 25 (6.28%) Software Engineer
9 23 (5.78%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 20 (5.03%) Python Developer
11 19 (4.77%) Angular Developer
11 19 (4.77%) Lead
12 13 (3.27%) Designer
12 13 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (2.76%) Lead Developer
14 10 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (2.51%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 10 (2.51%) Python Engineer
14 10 (2.51%) UI Developer
14 10 (2.51%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (53.02%) React
2 137 (34.42%) CSS
3 136 (34.17%) HTML
4 87 (21.86%) AngularJS
5 82 (20.60%) RESTful
6 72 (18.09%) Node.js
7 62 (15.58%) REST
8 53 (13.32%) Spring
9 51 (12.81%) Jest
10 44 (11.06%) Spring Boot
11 43 (10.80%) Next.js
11 43 (10.80%) Vue
12 41 (10.30%) HTML5
13 37 (9.30%) .NET
14 34 (8.54%) CSS3
15 29 (7.29%) Redux
16 28 (7.04%) Kafka
17 26 (6.53%) Playwright
18 25 (6.28%) GraphQL
19 20 (5.03%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.03%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
2 20 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.27%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.51%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.51%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.51%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.26%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.26%) NHS
7 5 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.01%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.01%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.01%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (1.01%) Smartcard
8 4 (1.01%) Spread Betting
9 3 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.51%) Linux
2 7 (1.76%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.51%) Android
4 5 (1.26%) Unix
5 4 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (45.23%) Agile
2 145 (36.43%) CI/CD
3 116 (29.15%) User Experience
4 93 (23.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 84 (21.11%) DevOps
6 67 (16.83%) Microservices
7 66 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (16.08%) UX Design
9 60 (15.08%) Containerisation
10 58 (14.57%) Test Automation
11 55 (13.82%) Software Engineering
12 53 (13.32%) AI
13 44 (11.06%) Code Quality
13 44 (11.06%) Scrum
14 40 (10.05%) Performance Optimisation
14 40 (10.05%) TDD
15 39 (9.80%) Unit Testing
16 37 (9.30%) Analytics
16 37 (9.30%) Clean Code
17 36 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 173 (43.47%) JavaScript
2 138 (34.67%) TypeScript
3 101 (25.38%) Java
4 78 (19.60%) SQL
5 75 (18.84%) Python
6 44 (11.06%) C#
7 10 (2.51%) C++
8 7 (1.76%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.76%) Ruby
8 7 (1.76%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.26%) PHP
11 4 (1.01%) COBOL
11 4 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.01%) Scala
12 3 (0.75%) C
12 3 (0.75%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.75%) Swift
13 2 (0.50%) Bash
13 2 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 70 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 55 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (5.03%) Degree
5 9 (2.26%) MCP
6 5 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (27.14%) Accessibility
2 53 (13.32%) WCAG
3 34 (8.54%) QA
4 7 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 88 (22.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.29%) Terraform
3 19 (4.77%) Argo
4 7 (1.76%) Ansible
5 5 (1.26%) Istio
6 4 (1.01%) Kibana
7 3 (0.75%) Grafana
7 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.25%) Podman
9 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 28 (7.04%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.03%) Adobe
3 17 (4.27%) Google
3 17 (4.27%) Oracle
4 7 (1.76%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.51%) GoldenSource
5 6 (1.51%) SAP
6 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.75%) Perforce
6 3 (0.75%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.75%) Splunk
6 3 (0.75%) Virgin Media
7 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.50%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.50%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.25%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.25%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.25%) Xamarin
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