Senior Front-End Developer Contracts in London

Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer)
England > London

The median Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer) daily rate in London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 419 539
Rank change year-on-year +47 +120 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 9 12 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.057% 0.059% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.063% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 36
10th Percentile £448 £421 £397
25th Percentile £463 £450 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £528 £595 £728
90th Percentile £540 £610 £775
England median daily rate £475 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 14,705 19,194 35,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.86% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,509 13,971 25,561
10th Percentile £338 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 212 302
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.02 £15.75
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.94 £20.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.75 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

Senior Front-End Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Front-End Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Front-End Developer in London

Senior Front-End Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Front-End Developer in London

Senior Front-End Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Front-End Developer in London

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior Front-End 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 job ads across the London region featuring Senior Front-End Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 8 (88.89%) React
3 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
4 4 (44.44%) CSS
4 4 (44.44%) HTML
5 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 3 (33.33%) Finance
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Web Development
5 3 (33.33%) Node.js
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (22.22%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
6 2 (22.22%) Next.js
6 2 (22.22%) Sass
6 2 (22.22%) Microservices
6 2 (22.22%) Vue
7 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
7 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
7 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (11.11%) API Integration
7 1 (11.11%) LESS
7 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 1 (11.11%) Semantic HTML
7 1 (11.11%) C#
7 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
7 1 (11.11%) User Experience

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (11.11%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) React
2 4 (44.44%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) Node.js
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) Next.js
4 2 (22.22%) Sass
4 2 (22.22%) Vue
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 1 (11.11%) CSS3
5 1 (11.11%) D3.js
5 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 1 (11.11%) HTML5
5 1 (11.11%) LESS
5 1 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 3 (33.33%) Web Development
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (11.11%) Backends for Frontends
4 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Micro Frontends
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Project Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) SEO
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
1 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle