Front End Development Contracts in the South East

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 199 187
Rank change year-on-year +47 -12 -38
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 27 20 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 0.37% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.41% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 54
10th Percentile £383 £412 £336
25th Percentile £401 £456 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -4.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £419 £588 £649
90th Percentile £534 £650 £788
England median daily rate £475 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -13.64% -5.17% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 16
10th Percentile - - £27.73
25th Percentile - £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +5.86%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £67.81
90th Percentile - - £68.75
England median hourly rate £41.50 £76.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -45.57% +17.31% -4.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,528 4,905 6,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.52% 89.80% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,149 3,239 4,780
10th Percentile £260 £225 £271
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £695
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 252 269
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £30.00 £23.81 £17.76
Median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.53 £72.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the South East

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the South East over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the South East

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Thames Valley +32 25 £409 -13.89% 19
Berkshire +27 19 £405 -14.74% 6
Buckinghamshire +10 4 £494 +17.14% 8
Oxfordshire +11 2 £488 +2.63% 5
Surrey +23 1 £425 - 1
West Sussex +16 1 - - 2
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (14.81%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 9 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 9 (33.33%) Serverless
3 7 (25.93%) Figma
4 4 (14.81%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Vite
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.70%) Finance
2 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (85.19%) Developer
2 14 (51.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (33.33%) Backend Developer
4 3 (11.11%) React Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Designer
6 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) HTML CSS Developer
6 1 (3.70%) HTML Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Junior Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.70%) UI Designer
6 1 (3.70%) UI/UX Designer
6 1 (3.70%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) React
2 11 (40.74%) Prisma
2 11 (40.74%) RESTful
3 9 (33.33%) CSS
3 9 (33.33%) GraphQL
4 8 (29.63%) Node.js
5 6 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 6 (22.22%) Framer.js
5 6 (22.22%) OAuth
5 6 (22.22%) OAuth2
6 5 (18.52%) OpenID
7 4 (14.81%) Express.js
8 3 (11.11%) HTML
9 2 (7.41%) JWT
10 1 (3.70%) CSS3
10 1 (3.70%) HTML5
10 1 (3.70%) Middleware
10 1 (3.70%) REST
10 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
10 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Structures
2 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Smart Meter
4 1 (3.70%) Graphic Design
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Design Patterns
1 12 (44.44%) User Experience
2 10 (37.04%) API Design
2 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
2 10 (37.04%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (37.04%) Microservices
3 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 9 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 9 (33.33%) DevOps
3 9 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 9 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 9 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 8 (29.63%) Cost Optimisation
5 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 6 (22.22%) UX Design
5 6 (22.22%) Web Development
5 6 (22.22%) Wireframes
6 5 (18.52%) Personalization
6 5 (18.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) TypeScript
2 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
3 5 (18.52%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Adobe
2 4 (14.81%) Google
2 4 (14.81%) Optimizely
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) F5
4 1 (3.70%) Virgin Media