Grunt Contracts

Grunt
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Grunt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grunt over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 599 675
Rank change year-on-year +88 +76 +42
Contract jobs citing Grunt 8 1 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.002% 0.064%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 0.019% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 27
10th Percentile £390 - £440
25th Percentile £425 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -23.81% -25.00%
75th Percentile £542 - £619
90th Percentile £577 - £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +23.53%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Grunt falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Grunt
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Grunt as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Grunt in the UK

Grunt
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Grunt.

Daily rate trend for Grunt in the UK

Grunt
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Grunt over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Grunt in the UK

Grunt
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Grunt.

Hourly rate trend for Grunt in the UK

Grunt
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Grunt within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +70 8 £484 +20.88% 5
UK excluding London - 5 £484 - 3
North of England - 4 £600 - 2
North West - 4 £600 - 1
London +37 3 - - 2
Work from Home - 2 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £367 -
Midlands - 1 £367 -

Grunt
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) BigCommerce
2 1 (12.50%) npm
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Git
2 6 (75.00%) gulp
3 5 (62.50%) Jasmine
3 5 (62.50%) Mocha
4 4 (50.00%) Subversion
5 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
5 2 (25.00%) webpack
6 1 (12.50%) ESLint
6 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Developer
4 1 (12.50%) HTML Developer
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Developer
4 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) CSS
1 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) HTML5
1 8 (100.00%) Node.js
1 8 (100.00%) Sass
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 5 (62.50%) Mustache
4 3 (37.50%) CSS3
4 3 (37.50%) LESS
5 2 (25.00%) Jest
5 2 (25.00%) Semantic HTML
5 2 (25.00%) VML
6 1 (12.50%) Ajax
6 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 1 (12.50%) JSON
6 1 (12.50%) REST
6 1 (12.50%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Mac OS X
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Responsive Web Design
3 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 5 (62.50%) User Experience
3 5 (62.50%) Web Accessibility
3 5 (62.50%) Web Design
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Web Development
6 2 (25.00%) B2B
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Acquisition
6 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
6 2 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (87.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (62.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Adobe
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
1 2 (25.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (12.50%) Perforce