Front End Development Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 184 189
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -57
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 10 31 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.55% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.62% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 31
10th Percentile £278 £300 £238
25th Percentile £356 £322 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £547
90th Percentile - £632 £625
England median daily rate £525 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% +23.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year - +125.39% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £47.55
90th Percentile - - £59.43
England median hourly rate £71.87 £72.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -0.18% +20.00% +60.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,681 5,025 6,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.11% 89.06% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,707 3,458 4,680
10th Percentile £260 £250 £230
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 217 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.14 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.16 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

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

Front End Development
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 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the South East

Front End Development
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 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
Thames Valley +7 5 £350 -12.50% 15
Berkshire -7 4 £400 -11.11% 3
West Sussex +7 2 £500 -13.04% 1
Hampshire -7 2 £525 +16.67% 11
Buckinghamshire +23 1 £300 -25.00% 6
Surrey +11 1 £425 +41.67% 11
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 1 (10.00%) Drupal
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) MailChimp
2 1 (10.00%) Veeva
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) VersionOne
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (10.00%) Aviation
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) HTML
2 6 (60.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) React
3 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (30.00%) Redux
3 3 (30.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) CSS3
4 1 (10.00%) DOM
4 1 (10.00%) GatsbyJS
4 1 (10.00%) HTML5
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) JWT
4 1 (10.00%) Next.js
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OpenID
4 1 (10.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) API Integration
1 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) TDD
1 2 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Scrum
2 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (10.00%) User Research
2 1 (10.00%) UX Design
2 1 (10.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce