Front End Development Contracts in Central London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 120 107
Rank change year-on-year +34 -13 -10
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 51 54 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.13% 1.46% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.59% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 74
10th Percentile £397 £462 £363
25th Percentile £450 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £578
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -2.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £719 £684 £671
90th Percentile £793 £821 £700
London median daily rate £540 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -8.09% -2.08% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £77.00
London median hourly rate - £81.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +25.38% +60.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
City of London +34 41 £550 -3.93% 7
City of Westminster - 2 £513 -
Front End Development
London

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (9.80%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (3.92%) CMS
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) AWS
2 15 (29.41%) Azure
3 8 (15.69%) Serverless
4 6 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (11.76%) Azure Functions
4 6 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (11.76%) Azure Storage
5 5 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) GCP
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.92%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.96%) Figma
9 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.96%) Miro
9 1 (1.96%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (7.84%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.92%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.96%) Ant
3 1 (1.96%) Babel
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) Pylint
3 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 14 (27.45%) Finance
2 9 (17.65%) Banking
3 7 (13.73%) Local Government
4 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.88%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.92%) Back Office
8 2 (3.92%) Marketing
9 1 (1.96%) Front Office
9 1 (1.96%) Wearables
9 1 (1.96%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (74.51%) Developer
2 16 (31.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 13 (25.49%) Senior
4 12 (23.53%) Full Stack Developer
5 9 (17.65%) Software Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) Angular Developer
7 7 (13.73%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (11.76%) React Developer
8 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
9 5 (9.80%) UI Developer
10 3 (5.88%) Backend Developer
10 3 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
10 3 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
10 3 (5.88%) UI/UX Developer
10 3 (5.88%) UX Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Digital Architect
11 2 (3.92%) MongoDB Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Python Engineer
11 2 (3.92%) Senior Backend Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (39.22%) React
2 18 (35.29%) .NET
3 17 (33.33%) HTML
4 14 (27.45%) CSS
5 13 (25.49%) AngularJS
6 7 (13.73%) .NET Core
6 7 (13.73%) HTML5
7 6 (11.76%) Blazor
7 6 (11.76%) Node.js
8 5 (9.80%) CSS3
8 5 (9.80%) jQuery
8 5 (9.80%) RESTful
8 5 (9.80%) XML
9 4 (7.84%) REST
10 3 (5.88%) JSON
10 3 (5.88%) Kafka
11 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
11 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET
11 2 (3.92%) SQLAlchemy
11 2 (3.92%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.92%) Graphic Design
4 2 (3.92%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.92%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (3.92%) Social Media
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (1.96%) Android
2 1 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Microservices
2 16 (31.37%) CI/CD
2 16 (31.37%) Software Engineering
3 15 (29.41%) Agile
4 12 (23.53%) Full Stack Development
5 11 (21.57%) User Experience
6 10 (19.61%) DevOps
7 9 (17.65%) Web Development
8 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
8 7 (13.73%) SDLC
8 7 (13.73%) UX Design
9 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (11.76%) Data Development
9 6 (11.76%) Multithreading
9 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (9.80%) Code Quality
11 4 (7.84%) Clean Code
11 4 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) JavaScript
2 14 (27.45%) Python
3 11 (21.57%) C#
3 11 (21.57%) SQL
4 7 (13.73%) TypeScript
5 6 (11.76%) Java
6 5 (9.80%) C++
6 5 (9.80%) Go
6 5 (9.80%) PL/SQL
6 5 (9.80%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.96%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.96%) Degree
2 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) WCAG
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Oracle
2 5 (9.80%) MuleSoft
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.96%) Black Duck
4 1 (1.96%) Google