Front End Development Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 174 140 186
Rank change year-on-year -34 +46 -83
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 131 232 347
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.32% 1.51% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.72% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 183 242
10th Percentile £347 £353 £313
25th Percentile £378 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £586
90th Percentile £654 £700 £686
UK median daily rate £513 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.91% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year - +84.21% +8.57%
UK median hourly rate £40.59 £70.00 £59.75
% change year-on-year -42.01% +17.15% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Front End Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front End Development trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Front End Development.

Front End Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Front End Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Front End Development.

Front End Development hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (7.63%) CMS
2 5 (3.82%) WordPress
3 3 (2.29%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.76%) Drupal
4 1 (0.76%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.76%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.76%) MetaMask
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.76%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.48%) AWS
2 26 (19.85%) Azure
3 14 (10.69%) Figma
3 14 (10.69%) GCP
4 10 (7.63%) Serverless
5 7 (5.34%) GitHub
6 6 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.58%) Firebase
7 4 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.05%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.05%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon Lightsail
8 3 (2.29%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.29%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.53%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) SSL
2 2 (1.53%) Firewall
2 2 (1.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.11%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.34%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.58%) Redis
5 5 (3.82%) MySQL
6 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.29%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.53%) GIS
8 2 (1.53%) ObjectStore
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (22.14%) Git
2 11 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.34%) GitLab
3 7 (5.34%) JIRA
4 5 (3.82%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.82%) JUnit
5 4 (3.05%) Maven
5 4 (3.05%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.29%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.29%) Mockito
6 3 (2.29%) Postman
6 3 (2.29%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.29%) Storybook
6 3 (2.29%) Subversion
7 2 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.53%) Grunt
7 2 (1.53%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.53%) Mocha
7 2 (1.53%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.53%) Xcode
General
1 31 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.03%) Finance
3 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.92%) Banking
5 6 (4.58%) Front Office
6 3 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.29%) Games
7 2 (1.53%) Back Office
7 2 (1.53%) Marketing
7 2 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.76%) Advertising
8 1 (0.76%) Electronics
8 1 (0.76%) German Language
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (74.81%) Developer
2 42 (32.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 21 (16.03%) Full-Stack Developer
3 21 (16.03%) React Developer
4 14 (10.69%) Senior
5 9 (6.87%) Angular Developer
5 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (6.87%) Software Engineer
6 8 (6.11%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.34%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 7 (5.34%) JavaScript Developer
7 7 (5.34%) Software Developer
8 6 (4.58%) Designer
8 6 (4.58%) Java Developer
8 6 (4.58%) JavaScript Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Python Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 5 (3.82%) .NET Developer
9 5 (3.82%) C# Developer
9 5 (3.82%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (48.85%) React
2 51 (38.93%) CSS
3 43 (32.82%) AngularJS
3 43 (32.82%) HTML
4 26 (19.85%) Node.js
5 21 (16.03%) .NET
6 19 (14.50%) RESTful
7 18 (13.74%) Vue
8 17 (12.98%) REST
9 12 (9.16%) .NET Core
9 12 (9.16%) Redux
9 12 (9.16%) Tailwind CSS
10 11 (8.40%) Django
11 10 (7.63%) Ajax
11 10 (7.63%) FastAPI
11 10 (7.63%) Flask
11 10 (7.63%) React Native
12 8 (6.11%) Next.js
12 8 (6.11%) Spring
13 7 (5.34%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.40%) Mobile App
2 8 (6.11%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.82%) Fixed Income
3 5 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.29%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.76%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.76%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.76%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.76%) PKI
7 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.29%) Linux
1 3 (2.29%) Unix
2 2 (1.53%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.93%) Agile
2 43 (32.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (25.95%) CI/CD
3 34 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (21.37%) User Experience
5 26 (19.85%) DevOps
6 22 (16.79%) Microservices
7 16 (12.21%) Software Engineering
8 14 (10.69%) Code Quality
9 13 (9.92%) Containerisation
9 13 (9.92%) Test Automation
9 13 (9.92%) UX Design
10 11 (8.40%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (7.63%) OO
11 10 (7.63%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (7.63%) Web Development
12 9 (6.87%) Clean Code
12 9 (6.87%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
13 8 (6.11%) OOP
13 8 (6.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 52 (39.69%) JavaScript
2 39 (29.77%) TypeScript
3 23 (17.56%) Python
4 19 (14.50%) Java
5 18 (13.74%) C#
6 16 (12.21%) SQL
7 6 (4.58%) PHP
8 3 (2.29%) Groovy
8 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.53%) Bash
9 2 (1.53%) C++
9 2 (1.53%) Go
9 2 (1.53%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.76%) COBOL
10 1 (0.76%) JCL
10 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.76%) Rust
10 1 (0.76%) Solidity
10 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) Degree
4 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.11%) WCAG
3 4 (3.05%) QA
4 2 (1.53%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.53%) PERC
System Software
1 17 (12.98%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.82%) Terraform
3 3 (2.29%) Grafana
4 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.76%) Ansible
5 1 (0.76%) MIIS
Vendors
1 12 (9.16%) Google
2 7 (5.34%) Oracle
3 6 (4.58%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.05%) Splunk
5 2 (1.53%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.53%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.76%) Adobe
6 1 (0.76%) Databricks
6 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.76%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.76%) SAP
6 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.76%) Sun