Senior Front-End Developer Contracts

Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer)
UK

The median Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer) daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 661 746
Rank change year-on-year +123 +85 -149
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 53 46 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.076% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.081% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 88
10th Percentile £400 £416 £450
25th Percentile £436 £506 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £560 £569
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -1.54% +13.75%
75th Percentile £575 £660 £656
90th Percentile £676 £765 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -13.64% +18.92% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £63.62
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.62
% change year-on-year - - +7.82%

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 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Front-End Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer.

Daily rate trend for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +124 45 £475 -18.98% 35
London +105 32 £475 -24.00% 9
Work from Home +116 19 £538 +7.50% 22
UK excluding London +65 14 £475 -13.64% 31
North of England +39 10 £475 - 9
North West - 8 £475 - 8
Yorkshire +21 2 £575 - 1
South West - 2 £410 - 5
South East +19 1 £500 +5.26% 7
Scotland - 1 £575 - 3

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Senior Front-End 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 Senior Front-End Developer in the job title.

1 49 (92.45%) Front End Development
2 38 (71.70%) React
3 31 (58.49%) JavaScript
4 30 (56.60%) TypeScript
5 29 (54.72%) CSS
6 27 (50.94%) HTML
7 19 (35.85%) Agile
8 15 (28.30%) DevOps
8 15 (28.30%) Accessibility
9 14 (26.42%) TDD
9 14 (26.42%) WCAG
10 13 (24.53%) Git
10 13 (24.53%) C#
10 13 (24.53%) CMS
11 12 (22.64%) .NET
11 12 (22.64%) SQL Server
11 12 (22.64%) User Experience
11 12 (22.64%) Vue
11 12 (22.64%) Azure
11 12 (22.64%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (20.75%) .NET Core
12 11 (20.75%) Next.js
12 11 (20.75%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (20.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (20.75%) Bicep
12 11 (20.75%) API Management
12 11 (20.75%) OO
12 11 (20.75%) OOD
12 11 (20.75%) MVC
12 11 (20.75%) Active Directory

Senior Front-End 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 13 (24.53%) CMS
2 4 (7.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.64%) Azure
1 12 (22.64%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (20.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 11 (20.75%) Azure Service Bus
3 10 (18.87%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (18.87%) Azure Pipelines
4 5 (9.43%) AWS
5 3 (5.66%) Contentful
5 3 (5.66%) Figma
5 3 (5.66%) GitHub
6 2 (3.77%) GCP
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.89%) Firebase
7 1 (1.89%) npm
7 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.89%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.89%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.89%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.89%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (24.53%) Git
2 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket
2 5 (9.43%) JIRA
3 4 (7.55%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.66%) GitLab
5 2 (3.77%) Storybook
6 1 (1.89%) Babel
6 1 (1.89%) VersionOne
6 1 (1.89%) webpack
General
1 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.32%) Back Office
2 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Banking
3 2 (3.77%) Finance
3 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Advertising
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Automotive
4 1 (1.89%) Aviation
4 1 (1.89%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (71.70%) React
2 29 (54.72%) CSS
3 27 (50.94%) HTML
4 12 (22.64%) .NET
4 12 (22.64%) Vue
5 11 (20.75%) .NET Core
5 11 (20.75%) jQuery
5 11 (20.75%) Next.js
6 10 (18.87%) ASP.NET
7 9 (16.98%) AngularJS
7 9 (16.98%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (16.98%) Redux
8 6 (11.32%) GraphQL
8 6 (11.32%) Node.js
9 5 (9.43%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (7.55%) HTML5
10 4 (7.55%) REST
10 4 (7.55%) Semantic HTML
11 3 (5.66%) CSS3
11 3 (5.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) CentOS
2 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (92.45%) Front End Development
2 19 (35.85%) Agile
3 15 (28.30%) DevOps
4 14 (26.42%) TDD
5 12 (22.64%) User Experience
6 11 (20.75%) API Management
6 11 (20.75%) MVC
6 11 (20.75%) OO
6 11 (20.75%) OOD
7 9 (16.98%) Clean Code
7 9 (16.98%) Code Quality
7 9 (16.98%) UX Design
8 8 (15.09%) Web Development
9 7 (13.21%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
10 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.43%) Test Automation
12 4 (7.55%) Decision-Making
12 4 (7.55%) Mentoring
13 3 (5.66%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) JavaScript
2 30 (56.60%) TypeScript
3 13 (24.53%) C#
4 11 (20.75%) Bicep
5 2 (3.77%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.77%) SQL
6 1 (1.89%) Java
6 1 (1.89%) JSX
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.30%) Accessibility
2 14 (26.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Terraform
2 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.77%) Google
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle