Front End Development Contracts

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 219 122
Rank change year-on-year +39 -97 -4
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 559 708 1,833
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 1.22% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.36% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 498 1,355
10th Percentile £354 £346 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £760 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 19
10th Percentile £40.00 £42.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £53.75 £48.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.15% -8.08% +100.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.19 £76.42
90th Percentile £76.50 £77.83 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +107.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Front End Development 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 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
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 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 8 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 8 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 +31 484 £525 - 305
London +47 328 £541 -5.87% 121
Work from Home +36 235 £500 - 177
UK excluding London +35 161 £485 +2.11% 206
North of England +13 74 £513 -1.44% 69
North West +56 55 £500 +2.56% 41
South West +28 28 £463 +8.82% 22
Yorkshire -10 18 £550 +4.76% 22
Scotland +47 16 £480 +3.00% 21
Midlands +4 15 £425 - 36
South East -4 14 £500 +25.00% 25
East Midlands +2 9 £425 +2.41% 11
Wales +18 8 £540 -1.82% 8
East of England -2 6 £500 -28.57% 24
West Midlands +11 5 £400 -20.00% 25
North East +5 1 £350 -31.37% 8

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 33 (5.90%) CMS
2 16 (2.86%) Confluence
3 10 (1.79%) WordPress
4 9 (1.61%) Apache
4 9 (1.61%) BizTalk Server
5 6 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.07%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.89%) Kentico
6 5 (0.89%) Tornado
7 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.36%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Solana
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.54%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) InVision
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Endur
2 4 (0.72%) Shopify
3 2 (0.36%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 127 (22.72%) AWS
2 93 (16.64%) Azure
3 42 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (7.16%) GitHub
5 32 (5.72%) GCP
6 28 (5.01%) Serverless
7 27 (4.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 23 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 19 (3.40%) Figma
10 17 (3.04%) npm
11 16 (2.86%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.33%) Azure Functions
14 13 (2.33%) Azure Pipelines
15 11 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (1.61%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.97%) HTTP
2 3 (0.54%) Intranet
3 2 (0.36%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) NFC
4 1 (0.18%) PPP
4 1 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.05%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 21 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 19 (3.40%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.15%) MySQL
8 10 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.07%) Apache Ignite
9 6 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.89%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.72%) Redis
12 2 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.36%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.36%) Power BI
12 2 (0.36%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 99 (17.71%) Git
2 37 (6.62%) Jenkins
3 36 (6.44%) JIRA
4 30 (5.37%) webpack
5 25 (4.47%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.94%) JUnit
7 18 (3.22%) GitLab
8 17 (3.04%) Storybook
9 10 (1.79%) Postman
10 8 (1.43%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.07%) Babel
12 6 (1.07%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.89%) Maven
13 5 (0.89%) Pylint
13 5 (0.89%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.72%) Gradle
14 4 (0.72%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.72%) Jasmine
General
1 88 (15.74%) Finance
2 83 (14.85%) Social Skills
3 63 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 50 (8.94%) Banking
5 35 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (5.90%) Front Office
7 16 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.33%) Local Government
9 12 (2.15%) Back Office
10 11 (1.97%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.79%) Marketing
12 6 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.89%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.72%) Advertising
14 4 (0.72%) Retail
15 3 (0.54%) Automotive
15 3 (0.54%) Law
15 3 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 454 (81.22%) Developer
2 244 (43.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 108 (19.32%) Senior
4 82 (14.67%) Senior Developer
5 71 (12.70%) React Developer
6 51 (9.12%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 44 (7.87%) Java Developer
8 41 (7.33%) Full Stack Developer
9 40 (7.16%) Angular Developer
10 37 (6.62%) Software Engineer
11 33 (5.90%) UI Developer
12 23 (4.11%) C# Developer
13 22 (3.94%) Lead
14 21 (3.76%) JavaScript Developer
15 19 (3.40%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 19 (3.40%) Software Developer
16 18 (3.22%) UX Developer
17 15 (2.68%) Backend Developer
18 14 (2.50%) HTML Developer
19 13 (2.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (51.52%) React
2 186 (33.27%) CSS
3 175 (31.31%) HTML
4 116 (20.75%) AngularJS
5 91 (16.28%) REST
6 88 (15.74%) Node.js
7 69 (12.34%) .NET
8 62 (11.09%) Redux
9 60 (10.73%) Spring
10 55 (9.84%) Spring Boot
11 49 (8.77%) Vue
12 47 (8.41%) Hibernate
13 46 (8.23%) Next.js
14 41 (7.33%) JPA
15 38 (6.80%) HTML5
16 36 (6.44%) GraphQL
17 31 (5.55%) .NET Core
18 30 (5.37%) jQuery
19 29 (5.19%) RESTful
20 27 (4.83%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.37%) Fixed Income
2 21 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.22%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
5 14 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.43%) Solar Panel
9 7 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.25%) Hedge funds
10 5 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.89%) Wiki
11 3 (0.54%) Derivative
11 3 (0.54%) Equities
11 3 (0.54%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.54%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.36%) Graphic Design
12 2 (0.36%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.33%) Windows
2 11 (1.97%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Android
3 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) CentOS
4 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (37.57%) Agile
2 117 (20.93%) User Experience
3 107 (19.14%) CI/CD
4 106 (18.96%) Software Engineering
5 102 (18.25%) DevOps
6 85 (15.21%) Full Stack Development
7 69 (12.34%) UX Design
8 63 (11.27%) Microservices
9 55 (9.84%) Mentoring
10 52 (9.30%) TDD
10 52 (9.30%) Unit Testing
10 52 (9.30%) Web Development
11 46 (8.23%) Scrum
12 44 (7.87%) Clean Code
13 43 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (7.16%) Code Quality
14 40 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (7.16%) Test Automation
15 31 (5.55%) Design Patterns
15 31 (5.55%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 246 (44.01%) JavaScript
2 206 (36.85%) TypeScript
3 104 (18.60%) Java
4 86 (15.38%) C#
5 82 (14.67%) SQL
6 69 (12.34%) Python
7 16 (2.86%) Bicep
8 10 (1.79%) C++
8 10 (1.79%) Go
8 10 (1.79%) PHP
8 10 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.61%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.43%) Bash
10 8 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.07%) Ruby
12 4 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.54%) JSX
14 2 (0.36%) F#
15 1 (0.18%) R
15 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 79 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.62%) Degree
4 19 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.30%) Accessibility
2 32 (5.72%) WCAG
3 31 (5.55%) QA
4 9 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 58 (10.38%) Docker
2 17 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.72%) zsh
Systems Management
1 68 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.25%) Terraform
4 6 (1.07%) Kibana
5 4 (0.72%) Grafana
6 3 (0.54%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (6.44%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.19%) Google
3 15 (2.68%) Oracle
4 9 (1.61%) MuleSoft
5 5 (0.89%) Adobe
5 5 (0.89%) Confluent
5 5 (0.89%) Databricks
6 4 (0.72%) Black Duck
6 4 (0.72%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.54%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.54%) Optimizely
7 3 (0.54%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.36%) Maxymiser
8 2 (0.36%) SAP
8 2 (0.36%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.18%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.18%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.18%) Okta
9 1 (0.18%) Splunk
9 1 (0.18%) Virgin Media