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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 218 127
Rank change year-on-year +36 -91 -12
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 556 713 1,838
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.23% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.36% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 504 1,365
10th Percentile £363 £350 £392
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £759 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 20
10th Percentile £40.00 £42.28 £22.50
25th Percentile £53.75 £48.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.75 £66.18
Median % change year-on-year +17.15% -9.72% +103.63%
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.19 £76.13
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 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
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 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +30 480 £525 - 317
London +39 325 £540 -7.73% 125
Work from Home +37 232 £500 - 188
UK excluding London +20 159 £485 +2.11% 206
North of England +6 73 £525 +0.96% 67
North West +53 54 £500 +2.56% 39
South West +23 28 £463 +8.82% 19
Yorkshire -17 18 £550 +4.76% 22
Scotland +47 15 £510 +9.44% 17
Midlands -1 15 £425 -5.56% 48
South East +4 13 £485 +21.25% 27
Wales +20 9 £533 -3.14% 5
East Midlands +3 9 £425 +2.41% 14
East of England -2 6 £500 -25.93% 22
West Midlands 0 5 £400 -20.00% 34
North East +4 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 35 (6.29%) CMS
2 16 (2.88%) Confluence
3 10 (1.80%) WordPress
4 9 (1.62%) Apache
4 9 (1.62%) BizTalk Server
5 8 (1.44%) Headless CMS
6 6 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.90%) Kentico
7 5 (0.90%) Tornado
8 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.54%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.36%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Solana
10 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.90%) 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 (0.90%) Endur
2 3 (0.54%) 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
1 126 (22.66%) AWS
2 94 (16.91%) Azure
3 42 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (7.01%) GitHub
5 33 (5.94%) GCP
6 28 (5.04%) Serverless
7 27 (4.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 23 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
9 19 (3.42%) Figma
10 17 (3.06%) npm
11 15 (2.70%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.34%) Azure Functions
13 13 (2.34%) Azure Pipelines
14 12 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (1.62%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.16%) 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 (8.09%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (5.22%) Relational Database
4 21 (3.78%) NoSQL
5 19 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.16%) MySQL
8 10 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.08%) Apache Ignite
9 6 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.90%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.72%) Redis
12 2 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.36%) GIS
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 98 (17.63%) Git
2 37 (6.65%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.65%) JIRA
3 29 (5.22%) webpack
4 26 (4.68%) Cypress.io
5 22 (3.96%) JUnit
6 18 (3.24%) GitLab
6 18 (3.24%) Storybook
7 10 (1.80%) Postman
8 8 (1.44%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (1.26%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.08%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.90%) Babel
11 5 (0.90%) Maven
11 5 (0.90%) Pylint
11 5 (0.90%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.72%) Gradle
12 4 (0.72%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.72%) Jasmine
General
1 88 (15.83%) Finance
2 85 (15.29%) Social Skills
3 61 (10.97%) Public Sector
4 50 (8.99%) Banking
5 35 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (5.94%) Front Office
7 16 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.34%) Local Government
9 12 (2.16%) Back Office
10 11 (1.98%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.80%) Marketing
12 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.90%) 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
1 448 (80.58%) Developer
2 241 (43.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 108 (19.42%) Senior
4 82 (14.75%) Senior Developer
5 72 (12.95%) React Developer
6 52 (9.35%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 44 (7.91%) Java Developer
8 43 (7.73%) Full Stack Developer
9 39 (7.01%) Angular Developer
10 37 (6.65%) Software Engineer
11 33 (5.94%) UI Developer
12 22 (3.96%) C# Developer
12 22 (3.96%) Lead
13 20 (3.60%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 20 (3.60%) JavaScript Developer
14 19 (3.42%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.24%) UX Developer
16 14 (2.52%) Backend Developer
16 14 (2.52%) HTML Developer
17 13 (2.34%) HTML CSS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (51.62%) React
2 186 (33.45%) CSS
3 175 (31.47%) HTML
4 115 (20.68%) AngularJS
5 90 (16.19%) REST
6 87 (15.65%) Node.js
7 67 (12.05%) .NET
8 62 (11.15%) Redux
9 59 (10.61%) Spring
10 54 (9.71%) Spring Boot
11 49 (8.81%) Next.js
11 49 (8.81%) Vue
12 46 (8.27%) Hibernate
13 40 (7.19%) JPA
14 39 (7.01%) HTML5
15 36 (6.47%) GraphQL
16 30 (5.40%) .NET Core
16 30 (5.40%) jQuery
17 29 (5.22%) RESTful
18 26 (4.68%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.40%) Fixed Income
2 23 (4.14%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.24%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.88%) Renewable Energy
5 14 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.44%) Solar Panel
9 7 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.26%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.90%) Wiki
12 3 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.54%) Derivative
12 3 (0.54%) Equities
12 3 (0.54%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.54%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.36%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.34%) Windows
2 11 (1.98%) Linux
3 3 (0.54%) Android
4 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (37.95%) Agile
2 119 (21.40%) User Experience
3 109 (19.60%) Software Engineering
4 105 (18.88%) CI/CD
5 101 (18.17%) DevOps
6 86 (15.47%) Full Stack Development
7 69 (12.41%) UX Design
8 60 (10.79%) Microservices
9 55 (9.89%) Web Development
10 54 (9.71%) Mentoring
11 53 (9.53%) Unit Testing
12 52 (9.35%) TDD
13 45 (8.09%) Scrum
14 43 (7.73%) Code Quality
14 43 (7.73%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (7.55%) Clean Code
16 41 (7.37%) Test Automation
17 40 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (5.58%) Design Patterns
18 31 (5.58%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 246 (44.24%) JavaScript
2 206 (37.05%) TypeScript
3 103 (18.53%) Java
4 84 (15.11%) C#
5 82 (14.75%) SQL
6 67 (12.05%) Python
7 16 (2.88%) Bicep
8 11 (1.98%) Go
9 10 (1.80%) C++
9 10 (1.80%) PHP
9 10 (1.80%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.62%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.44%) Bash
11 8 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.26%) Ruby
13 4 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.54%) JSX
15 2 (0.36%) F#
16 1 (0.18%) C
16 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 80 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 77 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.65%) Degree
4 19 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.44%) 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 50 (8.99%) Accessibility
2 32 (5.76%) QA
3 30 (5.40%) WCAG
4 9 (1.62%) 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 (10.43%) Docker
2 17 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.72%) zsh
Systems Management
1 66 (11.87%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.26%) Terraform
4 6 (1.08%) 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 37 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.22%) Google
3 15 (2.70%) Oracle
4 9 (1.62%) MuleSoft
5 5 (0.90%) Adobe
5 5 (0.90%) Confluent
5 5 (0.90%) Databricks
6 4 (0.72%) Black Duck
6 4 (0.72%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.54%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.54%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.36%) Maxymiser
8 2 (0.36%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.36%) SAP
8 2 (0.36%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.18%) Ariba
9 1 (0.18%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.18%) Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Splunk
9 1 (0.18%) Sun