Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 351 248
Rank change year-on-year +11 -103 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 249 377 1,004
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.67% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.71% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 278 750
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £643
90th Percentile £733 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £471 £450
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile - - £47.87
25th Percentile - £80.75 £56.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £81.50 £59.14
Median % change year-on-year -50.92% +37.81% +57.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £82.25 £65.91
90th Percentile £52.00 - £67.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.95
% change year-on-year - - +117.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -21 196 £480 -8.57% 125
London +38 140 £525 -7.49% 43
Work from Home +63 115 £500 +5.26% 69
UK excluding London -16 58 £475 +0.96% 82
North of England -5 16 £475 -9.52% 25
South West +5 14 £410 +9.33% 6
North West +15 9 £475 -5.00% 15
South East +7 8 £413 -13.16% 26
Scotland +38 7 £465 +1.92% 1
Yorkshire -5 6 £475 -9.52% 9
Wales +20 5 £519 +22.12% 2
Midlands 0 5 £550 +25.71% 14
East Midlands -3 4 £550 +29.41% 7
East of England -5 3 £485 -9.35% 8
West Midlands +2 1 - - 7
North East - 1 £350 - 1

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 226 (90.76%) Front End Development
2 158 (63.45%) React
3 144 (57.83%) TypeScript
4 129 (51.81%) JavaScript
5 118 (47.39%) CSS
6 95 (38.15%) HTML
7 70 (28.11%) Agile
8 60 (24.10%) User Experience
9 55 (22.09%) AngularJS
10 46 (18.47%) Next.js
11 43 (17.27%) Redux
12 39 (15.66%) DevOps
12 39 (15.66%) AWS
13 38 (15.26%) Git
14 37 (14.86%) Node.js
15 36 (14.46%) Vue
16 35 (14.06%) Web Development
17 33 (13.25%) Azure
17 33 (13.25%) Full Stack Development
18 31 (12.45%) Software Engineering
18 31 (12.45%) C#
19 28 (11.24%) CMS
19 28 (11.24%) Social Skills
20 27 (10.84%) Accessibility
20 27 (10.84%) GCP
20 27 (10.84%) TDD
20 27 (10.84%) WCAG
21 26 (10.44%) GraphQL
21 26 (10.44%) Azure DevOps
22 25 (10.04%) jQuery

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 28 (11.24%) CMS
2 9 (3.61%) Apache
2 9 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.21%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.01%) Confluence
4 5 (2.01%) Kentico
5 2 (0.80%) WordPress
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Drupal
6 1 (0.40%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.40%) Solana
6 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.80%) Sketch
3 1 (0.40%) InVision
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.66%) AWS
2 33 (13.25%) Azure
3 27 (10.84%) GCP
4 26 (10.44%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (6.83%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (6.83%) GitHub
6 15 (6.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (5.22%) Azure Pipelines
8 11 (4.42%) Figma
9 7 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.81%) npm
10 6 (2.41%) SaaS
11 4 (1.61%) Contentful
12 2 (0.80%) Amplience
12 2 (0.80%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.80%) Serverless
12 2 (0.80%) Storyblok
12 2 (0.80%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.80%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.61%) Apache Ignite
3 5 (2.01%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.61%) GIS
4 4 (1.61%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.61%) Redis
5 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.20%) MySQL
5 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (15.26%) Git
2 17 (6.83%) Cypress.io
3 15 (6.02%) JIRA
4 14 (5.62%) Storybook
5 13 (5.22%) webpack
6 9 (3.61%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.81%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (2.01%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.61%) GitLab
9 4 (1.61%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.20%) Vite
11 2 (0.80%) Babel
11 2 (0.80%) rollup.js
12 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.40%) ESLint
12 1 (0.40%) Lerna
12 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.40%) VersionOne
12 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.40%) WebPageTest
General
1 28 (11.24%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.24%) Finance
3 20 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.23%) Front Office
5 16 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.02%) Back Office
7 9 (3.61%) Banking
8 7 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.01%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.20%) Automotive
11 3 (1.20%) Marketing
12 2 (0.80%) Advertising
12 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.40%) Aviation
13 1 (0.40%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (63.45%) React
2 118 (47.39%) CSS
3 95 (38.15%) HTML
4 55 (22.09%) AngularJS
5 46 (18.47%) Next.js
6 43 (17.27%) Redux
7 37 (14.86%) Node.js
8 36 (14.46%) Vue
9 26 (10.44%) GraphQL
10 25 (10.04%) jQuery
11 23 (9.24%) .NET
11 23 (9.24%) Tailwind CSS
12 22 (8.84%) REST
13 17 (6.83%) .NET Core
13 17 (6.83%) HTML5
13 17 (6.83%) RESTful
14 13 (5.22%) ASP.NET
15 12 (4.82%) CSS3
16 11 (4.42%) SAML
17 10 (4.02%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.63%) Fixed Income
2 12 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.41%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.61%) Wiki
7 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.80%) Derivative
8 2 (0.80%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.80%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.80%) Social Media
9 1 (0.40%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.40%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.80%) Linux
1 2 (0.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.40%) CentOS
2 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (90.76%) Front End Development
2 70 (28.11%) Agile
3 60 (24.10%) User Experience
4 39 (15.66%) DevOps
5 35 (14.06%) Web Development
6 33 (13.25%) Full Stack Development
7 31 (12.45%) Software Engineering
8 27 (10.84%) TDD
9 25 (10.04%) UX Design
10 22 (8.84%) Clean Code
11 21 (8.43%) CI/CD
12 17 (6.83%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (6.83%) OO
12 17 (6.83%) Test Automation
13 16 (6.43%) API Management
13 16 (6.43%) Design Patterns
13 16 (6.43%) Unit Testing
14 15 (6.02%) Fintech
14 15 (6.02%) MVC
14 15 (6.02%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 144 (57.83%) TypeScript
2 129 (51.81%) JavaScript
3 31 (12.45%) C#
4 16 (6.43%) Python
4 16 (6.43%) SQL
5 14 (5.62%) Bicep
6 12 (4.82%) Java
7 4 (1.61%) Bash
7 4 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.20%) JSX
9 2 (0.80%) F#
9 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.40%) C
10 1 (0.40%) Go
10 1 (0.40%) Ruby
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.40%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 22 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.61%) Degree
4 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.84%) Accessibility
1 27 (10.84%) WCAG
2 7 (2.81%) QA
3 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.42%) Docker
3 3 (1.20%) zsh
Systems Management
1 10 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.41%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (8.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.83%) Google
3 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle
4 2 (0.80%) SAP
5 1 (0.40%) Ariba
5 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.40%) Okta
5 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.40%) Xamarin