Front End Development Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 187 101
Rank change year-on-year +42 -86 -9
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 234 343 1,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 1.32% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.47% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 240 835
10th Percentile £350 £313 £375
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £582 £638
90th Percentile £700 £676 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £40.00 - £21.85
25th Percentile £53.75 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% +8.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £67.50
90th Percentile £76.50 - £78.97
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.75 £57.25
% change year-on-year +17.15% +4.37% +52.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,547 23,386 40,461
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.81% 89.84% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,028 16,509 29,350
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 544 541
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.18 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Front End Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front End Development trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 a work from home option citing Front End Development.

Front End Development hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Front End Development hourly rate histogram 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 17 (7.26%) CMS
2 7 (2.99%) Apache
3 5 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.14%) Confluence
3 5 (2.14%) Headless CMS
3 5 (2.14%) Kentico
3 5 (2.14%) WordPress
4 2 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Drupal
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Endur
2 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (24.79%) AWS
2 37 (15.81%) Azure
3 22 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (8.55%) GCP
5 17 (7.26%) GitHub
6 11 (4.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (3.42%) Azure Pipelines
8 8 (3.42%) npm
8 8 (3.42%) Serverless
9 7 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.14%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.71%) Figma
12 3 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.28%) Route 53
12 3 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.99%) HTTP
2 3 (1.28%) Intranet
3 1 (0.43%) NFC
3 1 (0.43%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.99%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.56%) MySQL
3 6 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (2.14%) Apache Ignite
5 4 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.71%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.43%) Power BI
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (16.67%) Git
2 18 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.70%) Storybook
4 10 (4.27%) Cypress.io
4 10 (4.27%) GitLab
4 10 (4.27%) webpack
5 8 (3.42%) JIRA
6 6 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (1.71%) Babel
7 4 (1.71%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.28%) Postman
8 3 (1.28%) Vite
9 2 (0.85%) git-flow
9 2 (0.85%) Gradle
9 2 (0.85%) JUnit
9 2 (0.85%) Pylint
9 2 (0.85%) rollup.js
9 2 (0.85%) Selenium
9 2 (0.85%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (23.93%) Finance
2 31 (13.25%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.39%) Banking
4 23 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.26%) Front Office
6 7 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.71%) Back Office
9 4 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.28%) Marketing
10 3 (1.28%) Retail
10 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.28%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Electronics
12 1 (0.43%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 198 (84.62%) Developer
2 109 (46.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 41 (17.52%) React Developer
4 40 (17.09%) Senior
5 33 (14.10%) Senior Developer
6 21 (8.97%) C# Developer
7 18 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
7 18 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 17 (7.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 16 (6.84%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 13 (5.56%) UI Developer
11 12 (5.13%) Angular Developer
11 12 (5.13%) Java Developer
12 11 (4.70%) UI Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) Full Stack Developer
13 10 (4.27%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.85%) Front Office Developer
14 9 (3.85%) HTML CSS Developer
14 9 (3.85%) HTML Developer
15 8 (3.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (53.85%) React
2 80 (34.19%) CSS
3 73 (31.20%) HTML
4 62 (26.50%) AngularJS
5 32 (13.68%) Node.js
6 29 (12.39%) REST
7 28 (11.97%) .NET
8 26 (11.11%) Redux
9 23 (9.83%) Next.js
10 22 (9.40%) Vue
11 18 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
12 16 (6.84%) RESTful
13 14 (5.98%) GraphQL
13 14 (5.98%) HTML5
13 14 (5.98%) jQuery
13 14 (5.98%) Spring
13 14 (5.98%) Spring Boot
14 13 (5.56%) .NET Core
15 11 (4.70%) Hibernate
15 11 (4.70%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.97%) Fixed Income
2 12 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.28%) Equities
5 3 (1.28%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.43%) CCTV
7 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.43%) PropTech
7 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.43%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.56%) Linux
2 3 (1.28%) Windows
3 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.20%) Agile
2 46 (19.66%) User Experience
3 37 (15.81%) CI/CD
3 37 (15.81%) Software Engineering
4 31 (13.25%) DevOps
5 29 (12.39%) UX Design
6 28 (11.97%) Full Stack Development
7 25 (10.68%) Clean Code
8 23 (9.83%) Web Development
9 22 (9.40%) Test Automation
10 19 (8.12%) Microservices
10 19 (8.12%) TDD
11 18 (7.69%) MVC
12 17 (7.26%) Scrum
13 15 (6.41%) OO
14 14 (5.98%) Containerisation
15 13 (5.56%) Code Quality
16 12 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
17 11 (4.70%) Fintech
17 11 (4.70%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 101 (43.16%) TypeScript
2 100 (42.74%) JavaScript
3 49 (20.94%) C#
4 39 (16.67%) Java
5 28 (11.97%) SQL
6 22 (9.40%) Python
7 10 (4.27%) Bicep
8 6 (2.56%) Bash
8 6 (2.56%) PHP
9 5 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.28%) C++
10 3 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.28%) Ruby
11 2 (0.85%) F#
11 2 (0.85%) Go
11 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.43%) JSX
12 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (8.55%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.12%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.99%) Degree
4 5 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.97%) Accessibility
2 18 (7.69%) WCAG
3 11 (4.70%) QA
System Software
1 14 (5.98%) Docker
2 9 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.28%) zsh
Systems Management
1 13 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.28%) Terraform
4 2 (0.85%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) Istio
5 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (5.98%) Google
1 14 (5.98%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle
3 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
4 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.85%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe
5 1 (0.43%) Avaloq
5 1 (0.43%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.43%) SAP
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.43%) Splunk