Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 353 244
Rank change year-on-year +9 -109 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 250 380 1,008
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.68% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.72% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 279 750
10th Percentile £356 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £731 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile - - £44.99
25th Percentile - £80.75 £56.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £81.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.92% +35.83% +60.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £82.25 £66.39
90th Percentile £52.00 - £67.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £63.62
% change year-on-year - - +127.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,824 53,123 83,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.61% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,845 37,082 58,755
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,796 1,480 1,998
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.28 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 -20 198 £480 -8.57% 133
London +25 142 £525 -8.70% 49
Work from Home +66 114 £500 +5.26% 116
UK excluding London +2 59 £475 - 84
North of England +1 16 £475 -9.52% 26
South West +7 14 £410 +9.33% 4
North West +17 9 £475 -5.00% 16
South East +4 9 £413 -5.71% 26
Scotland +35 7 £465 +0.54% 2
Wales +22 6 £513 +20.59% 1
Yorkshire -9 6 £475 -9.52% 10
Midlands -4 4 £550 +25.71% 16
East of England -2 3 £485 -9.35% 9
East Midlands -5 3 £550 +29.41% 9
North East +10 1 £350 -30.00%
West Midlands +3 1 - - 7

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 225 (90.00%) Front End Development
2 157 (62.80%) React
3 143 (57.20%) TypeScript
4 129 (51.60%) JavaScript
5 117 (46.80%) CSS
6 94 (37.60%) HTML
7 69 (27.60%) Agile
8 60 (24.00%) User Experience
9 56 (22.40%) AngularJS
10 46 (18.40%) Next.js
11 43 (17.20%) Redux
12 40 (16.00%) AWS
13 39 (15.60%) DevOps
14 38 (15.20%) Git
15 37 (14.80%) Node.js
15 37 (14.80%) Web Development
16 36 (14.40%) Vue
17 33 (13.20%) Full Stack Development
17 33 (13.20%) Azure
18 30 (12.00%) Software Engineering
18 30 (12.00%) C#
19 29 (11.60%) Social Skills
20 28 (11.20%) Accessibility
20 28 (11.20%) TDD
20 28 (11.20%) CMS
21 27 (10.80%) WCAG
21 27 (10.80%) GCP
22 26 (10.40%) GraphQL
22 26 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
23 25 (10.00%) UX Design

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 28 (11.20%) CMS
2 9 (3.60%) Apache
2 9 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.20%) Headless CMS
4 6 (2.40%) Confluence
5 5 (2.00%) Kentico
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Drupal
6 1 (0.40%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Solana
6 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.80%) Sketch
3 1 (0.40%) InVision
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.00%) AWS
2 33 (13.20%) Azure
3 27 (10.80%) GCP
4 26 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (6.80%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (6.80%) GitHub
6 15 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (5.20%) Azure Pipelines
8 11 (4.40%) Figma
9 7 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.80%) npm
10 6 (2.40%) SaaS
11 4 (1.60%) Contentful
12 2 (0.80%) Amplience
12 2 (0.80%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.80%) Serverless
12 2 (0.80%) Storyblok
12 2 (0.80%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.80%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.60%) Apache Ignite
3 5 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.60%) GIS
4 4 (1.60%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.60%) Redis
5 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.20%) MySQL
5 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (15.20%) Git
2 16 (6.40%) Cypress.io
2 16 (6.40%) JIRA
3 14 (5.60%) Storybook
4 13 (5.20%) webpack
5 9 (3.60%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (2.00%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.60%) GitLab
8 4 (1.60%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.20%) Vite
10 2 (0.80%) Babel
10 2 (0.80%) rollup.js
11 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.40%) ESLint
11 1 (0.40%) Lerna
11 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.40%) VersionOne
11 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.40%) WebPageTest
General
1 29 (11.60%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.60%) Finance
3 19 (7.60%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.20%) Front Office
5 16 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.00%) Back Office
7 9 (3.60%) Banking
8 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.00%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.20%) Automotive
11 3 (1.20%) Marketing
12 2 (0.80%) Advertising
12 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.40%) Aviation
13 1 (0.40%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (62.80%) React
2 117 (46.80%) CSS
3 94 (37.60%) HTML
4 56 (22.40%) AngularJS
5 46 (18.40%) Next.js
6 43 (17.20%) Redux
7 37 (14.80%) Node.js
8 36 (14.40%) Vue
9 26 (10.40%) GraphQL
10 25 (10.00%) jQuery
11 23 (9.20%) .NET
11 23 (9.20%) Tailwind CSS
12 22 (8.80%) REST
13 18 (7.20%) HTML5
14 17 (6.80%) .NET Core
15 16 (6.40%) RESTful
16 13 (5.20%) ASP.NET
17 12 (4.80%) CSS3
18 11 (4.40%) SAML
19 10 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.60%) Fixed Income
2 12 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.40%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.60%) Wiki
7 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.80%) Derivative
8 2 (0.80%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.80%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.80%) Social Media
9 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.40%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.20%) Linux
2 2 (0.80%) Unix
2 2 (0.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (90.00%) Front End Development
2 69 (27.60%) Agile
3 60 (24.00%) User Experience
4 39 (15.60%) DevOps
5 37 (14.80%) Web Development
6 33 (13.20%) Full Stack Development
7 30 (12.00%) Software Engineering
8 28 (11.20%) TDD
9 25 (10.00%) UX Design
10 22 (8.80%) Clean Code
11 21 (8.40%) CI/CD
12 18 (7.20%) Test Automation
13 17 (6.80%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (6.80%) OO
14 16 (6.40%) API Management
14 16 (6.40%) Design Patterns
14 16 (6.40%) Unit Testing
15 15 (6.00%) Fintech
15 15 (6.00%) MVC
15 15 (6.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 143 (57.20%) TypeScript
2 129 (51.60%) JavaScript
3 30 (12.00%) C#
4 16 (6.40%) Python
4 16 (6.40%) SQL
5 14 (5.60%) Bicep
6 13 (5.20%) Java
7 4 (1.60%) Bash
7 4 (1.60%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.20%) JSX
9 2 (0.80%) F#
9 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.40%) C
10 1 (0.40%) Go
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) Ruby
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.40%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 21 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.60%) Degree
4 4 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.20%) Accessibility
2 27 (10.80%) WCAG
3 7 (2.80%) QA
4 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.40%) Docker
3 3 (1.20%) zsh
Systems Management
1 10 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.40%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (8.80%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.80%) Google
3 4 (1.60%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle
4 2 (0.80%) SAP
5 1 (0.40%) Ariba
5 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.40%) Okta
5 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.40%) Xamarin