Front End Development Contracts in the North of England

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 115 128 141
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 -76
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 70 91 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.51% 1.62% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.80% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 68 83
10th Percentile £325 £392 £330
25th Percentile £388 £444 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +9.47% +17.28%
75th Percentile £569 £591 £550
90th Percentile £694 £691 £573
England median daily rate £525 £535 £563
% change year-on-year -1.87% -4.89% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £68.81 - -
25th Percentile £70.78 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £79.50 - -
England median hourly rate £71.87 £72.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.18% +10.77% +73.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,960 5,069 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.44% 90.47% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 3,492 4,629
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £570
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 204 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.54 £13.38
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.35% +46.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.89
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the North of England

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the North of England

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the North of England

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the North of England

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +50 52 £500 - 35
Yorkshire -24 17 £550 +4.76% 26
North East +3 1 £350 -30.00% 7
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (2.86%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) AWS
2 8 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (11.43%) Amazon ECR
2 8 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (11.43%) Amazon S3
2 8 (11.43%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (11.43%) Route 53
2 8 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 6 (8.57%) Serverless
4 4 (5.71%) Azure
4 4 (5.71%) npm
5 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.29%) Figma
6 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.86%) GitHub
7 1 (1.43%) Firebase
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.43%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (17.14%) Relational Database
3 8 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.86%) GIS
5 2 (2.86%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (2.86%) MySQL
5 2 (2.86%) Redis
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Git
1 12 (17.14%) JUnit
2 9 (12.86%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.43%) GitLab
3 8 (11.43%) webpack
4 1 (1.43%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.43%) Gradle
4 1 (1.43%) Storybook
General
1 14 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (2.86%) Retail
3 2 (2.86%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.43%) Law
4 1 (1.43%) Legal
4 1 (1.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 47 (67.14%) Developer
2 20 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 18 (25.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 10 (14.29%) Lead
4 10 (14.29%) Senior
5 9 (12.86%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) User Researcher
9 4 (5.71%) Designer
9 4 (5.71%) Junior
9 4 (5.71%) Junior Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Junior Java Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Technical Leader
10 3 (4.29%) React Developer
11 2 (2.86%) Angular Developer
11 2 (2.86%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (51.43%) React
2 22 (31.43%) Spring
2 22 (31.43%) Spring Boot
3 20 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 20 (28.57%) JPA
3 20 (28.57%) REST
4 16 (22.86%) Redux
5 12 (17.14%) Node.js
6 9 (12.86%) AngularJS
7 8 (11.43%) Express.js
7 8 (11.43%) Next.js
7 8 (11.43%) Spring Security
8 7 (10.00%) CSS
8 7 (10.00%) HTML
8 7 (10.00%) Vue
9 6 (8.57%) GraphQL
10 4 (5.71%) RESTful
11 3 (4.29%) .NET
11 3 (4.29%) CSS3
11 3 (4.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
1 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
1 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
1 1 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (48.57%) Agile
2 20 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 18 (25.71%) CI/CD
4 17 (24.29%) DevOps
5 15 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 14 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
7 13 (18.57%) Microservices
7 13 (18.57%) Scrum
7 13 (18.57%) Software Engineering
8 12 (17.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 12 (17.14%) High Availability
8 12 (17.14%) Unit Testing
9 11 (15.71%) Containerisation
10 10 (14.29%) User Experience
11 8 (11.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 8 (11.43%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (11.43%) ETL
11 8 (11.43%) Observability
11 8 (11.43%) User Research
11 8 (11.43%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 26 (37.14%) Java
2 23 (32.86%) TypeScript
3 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.71%) PHP
4 4 (5.71%) Python
5 3 (4.29%) C#
6 2 (2.86%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (38.57%) SC Cleared
1 27 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) QA
2 6 (8.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (24.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) Ariba
2 1 (1.43%) Google
2 1 (1.43%) Okta
2 1 (1.43%) SAP