Front End Development Contracts

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 216 127
Rank change year-on-year +29 -89 -7
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 542 703 1,828
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.27% 1.23% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.37% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 501 1,357
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £758 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +12.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 22
10th Percentile £40.00 £42.28 £23.28
25th Percentile £53.75 £48.69 £39.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.15% -4.40% +92.31%
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.19 £75.73
90th Percentile £76.50 £77.83 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - £56.50
% change year-on-year - - +113.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England +20 468 £525 - 316
London +45 318 £540 -8.09% 130
Work from Home +40 226 £513 +2.50% 220
UK excluding London +11 154 £475 - 191
North of England +5 70 £525 +0.96% 60
North West +46 52 £500 - 33
South West +17 26 £450 +5.88% 24
Yorkshire -24 17 £550 +4.76% 23
Scotland +39 15 £465 -0.21% 10
Midlands -4 15 £425 -2.86% 39
South East -2 13 £460 +15.00% 32
Wales +18 9 £533 -3.14% 5
East Midlands -6 9 £425 +2.41% 12
East of England +2 6 £500 -19.03% 21
West Midlands +9 5 £400 -20.00% 27
North East +1 1 £350 -30.00% 5

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 37 (6.83%) CMS
2 15 (2.77%) Confluence
3 10 (1.85%) Apache
3 10 (1.85%) BizTalk Server
3 10 (1.85%) WordPress
4 8 (1.48%) Headless CMS
5 7 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.92%) Kentico
6 5 (0.92%) Tornado
7 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.55%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.37%) nginx
8 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Solana
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.55%) Sketch
3 1 (0.18%) InVision
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Endur
2 3 (0.55%) Shopify
3 2 (0.37%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 120 (22.14%) AWS
2 96 (17.71%) Azure
3 42 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (7.56%) GitHub
5 36 (6.64%) GCP
6 29 (5.35%) Serverless
7 28 (5.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 23 (4.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 19 (3.51%) Figma
10 15 (2.77%) Azure Functions
10 15 (2.77%) npm
11 14 (2.58%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.40%) Azure Pipelines
13 12 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.03%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.21%) HTTP
2 3 (0.55%) Intranet
3 1 (0.18%) 5G
3 1 (0.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.49%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (5.17%) Relational Database
4 21 (3.87%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.32%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (2.40%) MySQL
7 11 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.29%) Apache Ignite
9 6 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.74%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.74%) Redis
12 2 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.37%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.37%) Power BI
12 2 (0.37%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 99 (18.27%) Git
2 32 (5.90%) JIRA
3 29 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 27 (4.98%) webpack
5 25 (4.61%) Cypress.io
6 22 (4.06%) JUnit
7 18 (3.32%) GitLab
7 18 (3.32%) Storybook
8 9 (1.66%) Postman
9 8 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (1.29%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.11%) Babel
11 6 (1.11%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.11%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.92%) Pylint
13 4 (0.74%) Gradle
13 4 (0.74%) Jasmine
13 4 (0.74%) Maven
13 4 (0.74%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.55%) IntelliJ
General
1 88 (16.24%) Finance
2 77 (14.21%) Social Skills
3 60 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 49 (9.04%) Banking
5 32 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (5.72%) Front Office
7 16 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.40%) Local Government
9 12 (2.21%) Back Office
10 10 (1.85%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.85%) Marketing
11 6 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.92%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.74%) Advertising
13 4 (0.74%) Retail
13 4 (0.74%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.55%) Automotive
14 3 (0.55%) Law
14 3 (0.55%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 437 (80.63%) Developer
2 235 (43.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 104 (19.19%) Senior
4 81 (14.94%) Senior Developer
5 71 (13.10%) React Developer
6 52 (9.59%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 44 (8.12%) Full Stack Developer
8 40 (7.38%) Java Developer
9 38 (7.01%) Angular Developer
10 37 (6.83%) Software Engineer
11 32 (5.90%) UI Developer
12 22 (4.06%) C# Developer
13 21 (3.87%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 21 (3.87%) Lead
14 19 (3.51%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.32%) JavaScript Developer
15 18 (3.32%) UX Developer
16 14 (2.58%) Backend Developer
16 14 (2.58%) HTML Developer
17 13 (2.40%) HTML CSS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (51.48%) React
2 184 (33.95%) CSS
3 176 (32.47%) HTML
4 110 (20.30%) AngularJS
5 81 (14.94%) REST
6 80 (14.76%) Node.js
7 68 (12.55%) .NET
8 61 (11.25%) Redux
9 53 (9.78%) Spring
10 49 (9.04%) Next.js
11 48 (8.86%) Spring Boot
12 47 (8.67%) Vue
13 40 (7.38%) Hibernate
14 38 (7.01%) HTML5
15 35 (6.46%) GraphQL
16 34 (6.27%) JPA
17 31 (5.72%) .NET Core
18 30 (5.54%) jQuery
18 30 (5.54%) RESTful
19 26 (4.80%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.54%) Fixed Income
2 23 (4.24%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.69%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.95%) Renewable Energy
5 14 (2.58%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.48%) Solar Panel
9 7 (1.29%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.29%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.74%) Wiki
13 3 (0.55%) Derivative
13 3 (0.55%) Equities
13 3 (0.55%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.55%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.37%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.58%) Windows
2 10 (1.85%) Linux
3 3 (0.55%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) CentOS
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (36.72%) Agile
2 121 (22.32%) User Experience
3 108 (19.93%) Software Engineering
4 102 (18.82%) DevOps
5 101 (18.63%) CI/CD
6 84 (15.50%) Full Stack Development
7 71 (13.10%) UX Design
8 59 (10.89%) Microservices
9 55 (10.15%) Web Development
10 53 (9.78%) Mentoring
10 53 (9.78%) Unit Testing
11 49 (9.04%) TDD
12 43 (7.93%) Scrum
13 42 (7.75%) Code Quality
14 41 (7.56%) Clean Code
15 40 (7.38%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (7.20%) Test Automation
17 38 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (5.72%) MVC
19 28 (5.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 240 (44.28%) JavaScript
2 207 (38.19%) TypeScript
3 92 (16.97%) Java
4 82 (15.13%) C#
4 82 (15.13%) SQL
5 68 (12.55%) Python
6 16 (2.95%) Bicep
7 12 (2.21%) Go
8 11 (2.03%) PHP
8 11 (2.03%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.85%) C++
9 10 (1.85%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.48%) Bash
10 8 (1.48%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.29%) Ruby
12 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) JSX
14 2 (0.37%) F#
15 1 (0.18%) R
15 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.46%) Degree
4 19 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (9.41%) Accessibility
2 32 (5.90%) QA
2 32 (5.90%) WCAG
3 8 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 57 (10.52%) Docker
2 17 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) zsh
Systems Management
1 67 (12.36%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.29%) Terraform
4 5 (0.92%) Kibana
5 4 (0.74%) Grafana
6 3 (0.55%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (7.20%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.17%) Google
3 16 (2.95%) Oracle
4 10 (1.85%) MuleSoft
5 5 (0.92%) Adobe
5 5 (0.92%) Confluent
5 5 (0.92%) Databricks
6 4 (0.74%) Black Duck
6 4 (0.74%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.55%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.55%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.37%) Maxymiser
8 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.37%) SAP
8 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.18%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.18%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.18%) Okta
9 1 (0.18%) Splunk
9 1 (0.18%) Virgin Media