Front End Development Contracts in England

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 211 130
Rank change year-on-year +32 -81 -7
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 467 616 1,455
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.28% 1.28% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.42% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 439 1,110
10th Percentile £364 £359 £389
25th Percentile £420 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -4.89% +21.62%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £669
90th Percentile £735 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 21
10th Percentile £68.81 £63.20 £30.25
25th Percentile £70.78 £66.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate £71.87 £72.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +10.77% +73.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £77.63 £75.84
90th Percentile £79.50 £80.40 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +12.45% -0.40% +92.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +44 318 £540 -8.09% 186
North of England +13 70 £525 +0.96% 67
North West +50 52 £500 - 35
South West +14 26 £450 +5.88% 26
Yorkshire -24 17 £550 +4.76% 26
Midlands -4 15 £425 - 47
South East +16 13 £460 +15.00% 83
East Midlands -3 9 £425 +2.41% 15
East of England -5 6 £500 -6.54% 29
West Midlands +9 5 £400 -20.00% 32
North East +3 1 £350 -30.00% 7
Front End Development
UK

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (6.21%) CMS
2 10 (2.14%) Apache
2 10 (2.14%) BizTalk Server
3 9 (1.93%) Confluence
3 9 (1.93%) WordPress
4 7 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.07%) Tornado
6 3 (0.64%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.43%) nginx
7 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Drupal
8 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.64%) Sketch
3 1 (0.21%) InVision
3 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.07%) Endur
2 3 (0.64%) Shopify
3 2 (0.43%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 107 (22.91%) AWS
2 83 (17.77%) Azure
3 36 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (6.42%) GCP
5 29 (6.21%) GitHub
6 28 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 28 (6.00%) Serverless
7 23 (4.93%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (3.21%) Azure Functions
8 15 (3.21%) Figma
9 14 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (3.00%) npm
10 13 (2.78%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.78%) Azure Pipelines
11 12 (2.57%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (2.36%) Azure Storage
13 10 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (1.93%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.36%) HTTP
2 3 (0.64%) Intranet
3 1 (0.21%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.64%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (5.78%) Relational Database
4 19 (4.07%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.71%) MySQL
9 7 (1.50%) Apache Ignite
10 6 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.86%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.86%) Redis
12 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.43%) GIS
12 2 (0.43%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.43%) Power BI
12 2 (0.43%) RavenDB
13 1 (0.21%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 79 (16.92%) Git
2 26 (5.57%) JIRA
3 22 (4.71%) webpack
4 21 (4.50%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.50%) JUnit
5 15 (3.21%) GitLab
6 14 (3.00%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.50%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.28%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.07%) Babel
9 5 (1.07%) Pylint
9 5 (1.07%) Storybook
10 4 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.86%) Gradle
10 4 (0.86%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.86%) Maven
10 4 (0.86%) Postman
10 4 (0.86%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.43%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 83 (17.77%) Finance
2 66 (14.13%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 48 (10.28%) Banking
5 31 (6.64%) Front Office
6 30 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.78%) Local Government
8 12 (2.57%) Back Office
8 12 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.93%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.93%) Marketing
10 6 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.07%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.86%) Advertising
12 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.64%) Automotive
13 3 (0.64%) Law
13 3 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 373 (79.87%) Developer
2 183 (39.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 93 (19.91%) Senior
4 74 (15.85%) Senior Developer
5 56 (11.99%) React Developer
6 45 (9.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 42 (8.99%) Full Stack Developer
8 39 (8.35%) Java Developer
9 37 (7.92%) Angular Developer
10 34 (7.28%) Software Engineer
11 29 (6.21%) UI Developer
12 22 (4.71%) C# Developer
13 20 (4.28%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 19 (4.07%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.85%) Lead
16 14 (3.00%) Backend Developer
17 13 (2.78%) UI Engineer
17 13 (2.78%) UX Developer
18 12 (2.57%) Senior Full Stack Developer
19 11 (2.36%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (50.11%) React
2 140 (29.98%) CSS
3 138 (29.55%) HTML
4 99 (21.20%) AngularJS
5 78 (16.70%) REST
6 67 (14.35%) Node.js
7 65 (13.92%) .NET
8 54 (11.56%) Redux
9 51 (10.92%) Spring
10 46 (9.85%) Spring Boot
11 42 (8.99%) Next.js
12 39 (8.35%) Hibernate
13 33 (7.07%) JPA
14 32 (6.85%) Vue
15 31 (6.64%) .NET Core
16 28 (6.00%) HTML5
17 25 (5.35%) jQuery
18 23 (4.93%) GraphQL
18 23 (4.93%) RESTful
19 22 (4.71%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.42%) Fixed Income
2 18 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.21%) Renewable Energy
5 13 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.71%) Solar Panel
9 6 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.28%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.86%) Wiki
12 3 (0.64%) Derivative
12 3 (0.64%) Equities
12 3 (0.64%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.43%) Graphic Design
13 2 (0.43%) Online Banking
13 2 (0.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.00%) Windows
2 7 (1.50%) Linux
3 3 (0.64%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) CentOS
4 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (37.47%) Agile
2 99 (21.20%) User Experience
3 97 (20.77%) Software Engineering
4 95 (20.34%) DevOps
5 85 (18.20%) CI/CD
6 81 (17.34%) Full Stack Development
7 57 (12.21%) Microservices
8 56 (11.99%) UX Design
9 50 (10.71%) Mentoring
10 46 (9.85%) TDD
11 45 (9.64%) Web Development
12 43 (9.21%) Scrum
13 41 (8.78%) Unit Testing
14 40 (8.57%) Clean Code
15 37 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (7.28%) Code Quality
17 33 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (6.64%) MVC
19 29 (6.21%) Test Automation
20 27 (5.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 208 (44.54%) JavaScript
2 166 (35.55%) TypeScript
3 84 (17.99%) Java
4 79 (16.92%) C#
4 79 (16.92%) SQL
5 66 (14.13%) Python
6 16 (3.43%) Bicep
7 11 (2.36%) Go
7 11 (2.36%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.14%) C++
8 10 (2.14%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.71%) PHP
9 8 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.28%) Bash
10 6 (1.28%) Ruby
11 3 (0.64%) JSX
11 3 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.21%) F#
12 1 (0.21%) R
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 72 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 69 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.42%) Degree
4 19 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.21%) Accessibility
2 25 (5.35%) WCAG
3 21 (4.50%) QA
4 6 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 49 (10.49%) Docker
2 17 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.86%) zsh
Systems Management
1 64 (13.70%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.50%) Terraform
4 4 (0.86%) Grafana
5 3 (0.64%) Istio
6 2 (0.43%) Kibana
7 1 (0.21%) Ansible
7 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.93%) Google
3 15 (3.21%) Oracle
4 10 (2.14%) MuleSoft
5 5 (1.07%) Confluent
5 5 (1.07%) Databricks
6 4 (0.86%) Adobe
6 4 (0.86%) Black Duck
6 4 (0.86%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.64%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.43%) Maxymiser
8 2 (0.43%) SAP
9 1 (0.21%) Ariba
9 1 (0.21%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.21%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.21%) Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.21%) Splunk
9 1 (0.21%) Sun