Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 222 312
Rank change year-on-year -31 +90 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 51 123 169
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.80% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.86% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 99 121
10th Percentile £330 £343 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £519 £588 £565
90th Percentile £763 £730 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £81.50
% change year-on-year - -50.92% +24.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Front-End Developer (Client-Side 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 42 (82.35%) Front End Development
2 35 (68.63%) React
3 27 (52.94%) JavaScript
4 25 (49.02%) CSS
5 24 (47.06%) TypeScript
6 20 (39.22%) User Experience
6 20 (39.22%) AngularJS
6 20 (39.22%) HTML
7 16 (31.37%) Node.js
7 16 (31.37%) Git
8 15 (29.41%) Agile
9 11 (21.57%) Next.js
10 10 (19.61%) Redux
10 10 (19.61%) Figma
10 10 (19.61%) CI/CD
10 10 (19.61%) AWS
11 9 (17.65%) UX Design
11 9 (17.65%) Azure
11 9 (17.65%) Finance
11 9 (17.65%) Clean Code
11 9 (17.65%) Vue
12 8 (15.69%) Accessibility
12 8 (15.69%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (15.69%) Java
12 8 (15.69%) RESTful
13 7 (13.73%) HTML5
13 7 (13.73%) DevOps
13 7 (13.73%) SQL
13 7 (13.73%) CMS
14 6 (11.76%) Banking

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 7 (13.73%) CMS
2 5 (9.80%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.61%) AWS
1 10 (19.61%) Figma
2 9 (17.65%) Azure
3 6 (11.76%) Firebase
4 5 (9.80%) GCP
5 3 (5.88%) GitHub
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.92%) Contentstack
6 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.92%) npm
6 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.92%) Veeva
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Ads
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Lightsail
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.92%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (3.92%) GIS
2 2 (3.92%) MySQL
2 2 (3.92%) ObjectStore
2 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.96%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) GitLab
3 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) JIRA
3 3 (5.88%) webpack
4 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.92%) Grunt
4 2 (3.92%) gulp
4 2 (3.92%) Jasmine
4 2 (3.92%) Maven
4 2 (3.92%) Mocha
5 1 (1.96%) ESLint
5 1 (1.96%) JUnit
5 1 (1.96%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.96%) Mockito
5 1 (1.96%) Selenium
5 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.96%) Subversion
5 1 (1.96%) Vite
General
1 9 (17.65%) Finance
2 6 (11.76%) Banking
2 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.80%) Front Office
3 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Marketing
4 2 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.96%) Advertising
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Back Office
5 1 (1.96%) Electronics
5 1 (1.96%) Games
5 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
5 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (68.63%) React
2 25 (49.02%) CSS
3 20 (39.22%) AngularJS
3 20 (39.22%) HTML
4 16 (31.37%) Node.js
5 11 (21.57%) Next.js
6 10 (19.61%) Redux
7 9 (17.65%) Vue
8 8 (15.69%) RESTful
8 8 (15.69%) Tailwind CSS
9 7 (13.73%) HTML5
10 5 (9.80%) .NET
10 5 (9.80%) JSON
10 5 (9.80%) OpenFin
10 5 (9.80%) Sass
11 4 (7.84%) CSS3
11 4 (7.84%) Jest
12 3 (5.88%) jQuery
12 3 (5.88%) REST
12 3 (5.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Fixed Income
1 5 (9.80%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.88%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (82.35%) Front End Development
2 20 (39.22%) User Experience
3 15 (29.41%) Agile
4 10 (19.61%) CI/CD
5 9 (17.65%) Clean Code
5 9 (17.65%) UX Design
6 7 (13.73%) DevOps
7 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
7 6 (11.76%) Web Development
8 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (9.80%) Generative AI
8 5 (9.80%) Investment Management
8 5 (9.80%) Software Engineering
8 5 (9.80%) TDD
9 4 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (7.84%) Decision-Making
9 4 (7.84%) Microservices
9 4 (7.84%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 27 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 24 (47.06%) TypeScript
3 8 (15.69%) Java
4 7 (13.73%) SQL
5 4 (7.84%) C#
6 3 (5.88%) Python
7 1 (1.96%) Bash
7 1 (1.96%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.96%) PHP
7 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) Degree
2 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.88%) WCAG
3 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.88%) Google
2 2 (3.92%) Mapbox
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle
3 1 (1.96%) Databricks
3 1 (1.96%) SAP
3 1 (1.96%) Veracode