Front End Development Contracts in the West Midlands

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 106 122
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 +2
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 13 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.97% 0.26% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.31% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £363 £345 -
25th Percentile £410 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £513 £475 £700
90th Percentile £523 £494 -
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Shropshire - 5 £488 -
Birmingham +18 4 £425 +6.25% 14
Coventry - 1 £460 -
Warwickshire - 1 - - 2
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (7.69%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) React
2 5 (38.46%) CSS
2 5 (38.46%) HTML
3 3 (23.08%) Next.js
3 3 (23.08%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) Ajax
4 2 (15.38%) CSS3
4 2 (15.38%) HTML5
4 2 (15.38%) KnockoutJS
4 2 (15.38%) Play Framework
4 2 (15.38%) RequireJS
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.69%) Express.js
5 1 (7.69%) JSON
5 1 (7.69%) REST
5 1 (7.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Web Development
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Change Control
5 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
5 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Pair Programming
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
5 2 (15.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 2 (15.38%) Scala
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Siemens