Front End Development Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 132 137
Rank change year-on-year +46 +5 -79
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 52 23 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.94% 0.75% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 0.83% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 18 42
10th Percentile £325 £330 £364
25th Percentile £450 £449 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +14.91%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £550
90th Percentile £694 £653 £575
England median daily rate £525 £525 £565
% change year-on-year - -7.08% +22.16%
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 £81.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.82% +25.38% +73.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,778 3,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.98% 90.31% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,950 2,599
10th Percentile £311 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 138 168
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.52 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.89% +54.23% +27.12%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.24 £50.01
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the North West

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the North West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Manchester +48 49 £475 -5.00% 25
Merseyside +15 3 £525 - 6
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.85%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) AWS
2 8 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
2 8 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 8 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (15.38%) Route 53
2 8 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (7.69%) npm
3 4 (7.69%) Serverless
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.85%) Azure
6 1 (1.92%) Figma
6 1 (1.92%) Firebase
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.92%) SaaS
6 1 (1.92%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) GitLab
1 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 8 (15.38%) webpack
2 6 (11.54%) Git
2 6 (11.54%) JUnit
3 1 (1.92%) Crashlytics
3 1 (1.92%) Gradle
3 1 (1.92%) Storybook
General
1 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.62%) Finance
3 2 (3.85%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.92%) Law
4 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (55.77%) Developer
2 14 (26.92%) Java Developer
3 10 (19.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 8 (15.38%) Lead
4 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior
5 7 (13.46%) Senior Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 6 (11.54%) User Researcher
7 4 (7.69%) Technical Leader
8 2 (3.85%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Designer
8 2 (3.85%) Junior
8 2 (3.85%) Junior Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Junior Java Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (51.92%) React
2 14 (26.92%) Hibernate
2 14 (26.92%) JPA
2 14 (26.92%) Redux
2 14 (26.92%) REST
2 14 (26.92%) Spring
2 14 (26.92%) Spring Boot
3 9 (17.31%) Node.js
4 8 (15.38%) Express.js
4 8 (15.38%) Spring Security
5 7 (13.46%) AngularJS
6 6 (11.54%) Next.js
6 6 (11.54%) Vue
7 5 (9.62%) GraphQL
8 4 (7.69%) RESTful
9 3 (5.77%) CSS
9 3 (5.77%) HTML
10 2 (3.85%) .NET
10 2 (3.85%) .NET Framework
10 2 (3.85%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.92%) Hedge funds
1 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
1 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Agile
2 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 13 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 12 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 11 (21.15%) Software Engineering
6 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
6 9 (17.31%) DevOps
6 9 (17.31%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (17.31%) User Experience
7 8 (15.38%) API Development
7 8 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 8 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
7 8 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
7 8 (15.38%) ETL
7 8 (15.38%) Observability
7 8 (15.38%) QA Automation
7 8 (15.38%) User Research
7 8 (15.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 8 (15.38%) UX Design
8 7 (13.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Java
2 13 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (9.62%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.69%) PHP
4 4 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 20 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) QA
2 6 (11.54%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (1.92%) Google