Front End Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 238 219 196
Rank change year-on-year -19 -23 -43
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 133 207 393
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.99% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.12% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 174 299
10th Percentile £312 £316 £363
25th Percentile £387 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £453 £504
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% -10.22% +12.00%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £616
90th Percentile £554 £646 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 20
10th Percentile - £66.25 £27.73
25th Percentile - £71.88 £56.61
Median hourly rate - £77.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year - +21.57% +15.91%
75th Percentile - £81.25 £67.81
90th Percentile - £81.88 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £75.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -44.67% +15.38% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England -3 38 £438 -12.50% 78
South East +47 27 £409 -28.87% 28
South West +27 20 £600 +57.38% 20
Yorkshire 0 20 £450 -10.00% 18
Midlands -20 19 £463 +5.71% 22
North West +8 16 £400 -20.00% 44
West Midlands -5 16 £475 +5.56% 13
Scotland +4 13 £400 -8.57% 12
Wales +9 9 £550 +18.92% 3
East of England +8 8 £300 -48.94% 18
East Midlands -16 2 £341 -24.17% 9
North East - 2 £363 - 16
Front End Development
UK

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (6.77%) CMS
2 4 (3.01%) Confluence
2 4 (3.01%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.75%) Drupal
3 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Magento
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.75%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.82%) AWS
2 28 (21.05%) Azure
3 20 (15.04%) Serverless
4 14 (10.53%) Azure Functions
5 9 (6.77%) Azure AKS
6 8 (6.02%) Figma
7 7 (5.26%) GitHub
7 7 (5.26%) OpenShift
8 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.76%) npm
9 5 (3.76%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.01%) GCP
11 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.50%) Azure App Service
12 2 (1.50%) Azure Event Grid
13 1 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) FTP
2 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.27%) Redis
3 10 (7.52%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.26%) Big Data
4 7 (5.26%) MySQL
5 6 (4.51%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.26%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.75%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 29 (21.80%) Git
2 19 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.26%) Storybook
3 7 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
3 7 (5.26%) webpack
4 6 (4.51%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.51%) Vite
5 5 (3.76%) Babel
5 5 (3.76%) Jasmine
6 4 (3.01%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.01%) JIRA
6 4 (3.01%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (3.01%) Maven
7 3 (2.26%) Firebug
7 3 (2.26%) GitLab
7 3 (2.26%) Gradle
8 2 (1.50%) Mocha
8 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (13.53%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.02%) Finance
3 10 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.51%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.26%) Electronics
6 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.50%) Banking
7 2 (1.50%) Marketing
7 2 (1.50%) Retail
8 1 (0.75%) German Language
8 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 114 (85.71%) Developer
2 50 (37.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 23 (17.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (11.28%) Java Developer
4 15 (11.28%) Senior
5 14 (10.53%) Backend Developer
5 14 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 12 (9.02%) React Developer
6 12 (9.02%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 12 (9.02%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.77%) JavaScript Developer
8 8 (6.02%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Angular Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Azure Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Lead
10 6 (4.51%) PHP Developer
11 5 (3.76%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) PHP Laravel Developer
12 4 (3.01%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (39.10%) React
2 45 (33.83%) AngularJS
3 44 (33.08%) RESTful
4 38 (28.57%) CSS
5 30 (22.56%) HTML
6 26 (19.55%) Node.js
7 20 (15.04%) GraphQL
8 15 (11.28%) .NET
9 14 (10.53%) HTML5
9 14 (10.53%) Vue
10 13 (9.77%) Gherkin
11 11 (8.27%) CSS3
11 11 (8.27%) Prisma
12 10 (7.52%) .NET Framework
12 10 (7.52%) Entity Framework
13 9 (6.77%) Ajax
13 9 (6.77%) Flask
13 9 (6.77%) JSON
13 9 (6.77%) Redux
14 8 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.01%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.26%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.50%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.75%) FPGA
6 1 (0.75%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.52%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.75%) Unix
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 44 (33.08%) CI/CD
3 39 (29.32%) User Experience
4 38 (28.57%) Agile
5 29 (21.80%) DevOps
5 29 (21.80%) Test Automation
6 24 (18.05%) Software Engineering
7 22 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (15.04%) UX Design
9 19 (14.29%) Microservices
10 17 (12.78%) BDD
10 17 (12.78%) Containerisation
11 16 (12.03%) Design Patterns
12 15 (11.28%) Application Security
13 14 (10.53%) Web Development
14 11 (8.27%) Code Quality
14 11 (8.27%) Event-Driven
14 11 (8.27%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (7.52%) API Design
15 10 (7.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 58 (43.61%) JavaScript
2 56 (42.11%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.30%) Java
3 27 (20.30%) Python
4 14 (10.53%) C#
5 9 (6.77%) Bash
6 8 (6.02%) SQL
7 7 (5.26%) Ruby
8 6 (4.51%) PHP
9 2 (1.50%) Fortran
9 2 (1.50%) Go
10 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.28%) AWS Certification
3 15 (11.28%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (7.52%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.26%) Degree
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.03%) QA
2 7 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.26%) WCAG
4 1 (0.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) zsh
Systems Management
1 23 (17.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.26%) Rancher
3 5 (3.76%) Terraform
4 4 (3.01%) Kibana
5 3 (2.26%) logstash
6 1 (0.75%) Ansible
6 1 (0.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) Adobe
3 6 (4.51%) Google
4 5 (3.76%) SAP
5 4 (3.01%) Optimizely
6 3 (2.26%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.75%) F5
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle
7 1 (0.75%) Talend
7 1 (0.75%) Virgin Media