Front End Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 253 239 216
Rank change year-on-year -14 -23 -76
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 147 210 367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.92% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.03% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 169 259
10th Percentile £325 £313 £349
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £688 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile £68.81 - £22.50
25th Percentile £70.78 £61.25 £27.73
Median hourly rate £71.87 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.99% +10.62% +113.21%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £65.50
90th Percentile £79.50 - £68.32
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.25 £59.75
% change year-on-year +12.45% +4.18% +83.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

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 May 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 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 of England +5 68 £513 -2.38% 55
North West +45 51 £488 -2.50% 35
South West +15 26 £463 +8.82% 22
Yorkshire -24 16 £550 +4.76% 17
Midlands -8 15 £425 - 37
Scotland +36 13 £450 -2.70% 5
South East -10 10 £463 +15.63% 46
East Midlands -5 9 £425 +2.41% 19
Wales +24 8 £540 +8.27% 1
East of England +1 7 £500 -6.54% 27
West Midlands 0 5 £400 -11.11% 18
North East +4 1 £350 -30.00% 3
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 3 (2.04%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.36%) CMS
2 2 (1.36%) Confluence
2 2 (1.36%) WordPress
3 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.68%) Drupal
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 41 (27.89%) AWS
2 14 (9.52%) Azure
3 13 (8.84%) GitHub
4 10 (6.80%) Amazon S3
5 9 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (5.44%) Amazon ECR
6 8 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (5.44%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (5.44%) Route 53
6 8 (5.44%) Serverless
6 8 (5.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (4.76%) GCP
8 6 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.72%) npm
9 4 (2.72%) Pulumi
10 3 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.04%) Figma
11 2 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.84%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (4.76%) MySQL
5 4 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.36%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.36%) GIS
7 2 (1.36%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.36%) Power BI
7 2 (1.36%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.68%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (14.29%) Git
2 17 (11.56%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.16%) Cypress.io
3 12 (8.16%) JUnit
4 11 (7.48%) GitLab
4 11 (7.48%) webpack
5 7 (4.76%) Storybook
6 5 (3.40%) JIRA
6 5 (3.40%) Postman
7 3 (2.04%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.36%) VersionOne
9 1 (0.68%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.68%) Gradle
9 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.68%) Maven
9 1 (0.68%) Subversion
9 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 8 (5.44%) Finance
3 5 (3.40%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.72%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.36%) Law
5 2 (1.36%) Retail
6 1 (0.68%) Aviation
6 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.68%) German Language
6 1 (0.68%) Legal
6 1 (0.68%) Marketing
6 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (79.59%) Developer
2 53 (36.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 23 (15.65%) Java Developer
4 18 (12.24%) Senior
5 16 (10.88%) Senior Developer
6 14 (9.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 13 (8.84%) Software Developer
8 12 (8.16%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Lead
10 9 (6.12%) React Developer
11 8 (5.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 7 (4.76%) Angular Developer
13 6 (4.08%) User Researcher
14 5 (3.40%) Full Stack Developer
14 5 (3.40%) Junior
14 5 (3.40%) Junior Developer
15 4 (2.72%) Junior Java Developer
15 4 (2.72%) Lead Developer
15 4 (2.72%) Lead Java Developer
15 4 (2.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (49.66%) React
2 33 (22.45%) HTML
2 33 (22.45%) REST
3 31 (21.09%) CSS
4 24 (16.33%) Redux
5 23 (15.65%) Spring
6 22 (14.97%) Spring Boot
7 21 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 21 (14.29%) Hibernate
8 20 (13.61%) JPA
8 20 (13.61%) Node.js
8 20 (13.61%) Vue
9 19 (12.93%) Next.js
10 13 (8.84%) GraphQL
11 11 (7.48%) Express.js
11 11 (7.48%) RESTful
12 10 (6.80%) CSS3
12 10 (6.80%) Flask
12 10 (6.80%) HTML5
13 8 (5.44%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.44%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (2.72%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.68%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.04%) Linux
2 2 (1.36%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.73%) Agile
2 32 (21.77%) CI/CD
3 27 (18.37%) Test Automation
4 26 (17.69%) Software Engineering
5 23 (15.65%) DevOps
6 22 (14.97%) Mentoring
7 21 (14.29%) Unit Testing
8 20 (13.61%) Full Stack Development
9 17 (11.56%) User Experience
10 14 (9.52%) API Development
10 14 (9.52%) Microservices
10 14 (9.52%) UX Design
11 13 (8.84%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (8.84%) Scrum
11 13 (8.84%) TDD
12 12 (8.16%) Clean Code
12 12 (8.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 12 (8.16%) ETL
12 12 (8.16%) High Availability
13 11 (7.48%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 62 (42.18%) TypeScript
2 45 (30.61%) JavaScript
3 34 (23.13%) Java
4 15 (10.20%) Python
5 10 (6.80%) C#
6 8 (5.44%) PHP
7 6 (4.08%) Bash
8 5 (3.40%) SQL
9 2 (1.36%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.04%) Degree
5 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.88%) QA
2 6 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (14.29%) Docker
2 4 (2.72%) zsh
Systems Management
1 21 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.36%) Kibana
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.80%) Google
3 2 (1.36%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.68%) Adobe
4 1 (0.68%) Ariba
4 1 (0.68%) Okta
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle
4 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.68%) SAP