Front End Development Contracts in the West Midlands

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 96 91 150
Rank change year-on-year -5 +59 -38
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 16 24 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.85% 1.24% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.47% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 23 27
10th Percentile £452 £301 £340
25th Percentile £467 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -19.64% +24.44%
75th Percentile £494 £506 £572
90th Percentile £528 £625 £759
England median daily rate £475 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -13.64% -5.17% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.51
25th Percentile - - £56.54
Median hourly rate - - £58.14
75th Percentile - - £59.82
90th Percentile - - £59.88
England median hourly rate £41.50 £76.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -45.57% +17.31% -4.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,573 1,635 3,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.10% 84.76% 87.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 1,098 2,182
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £398 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +9.29%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £583
90th Percentile £713 £725 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 57 48
10th Percentile £14.70 £16.28 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £24.18 £27.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +55.19% +18.13%
75th Percentile £35.00 £43.75 £21.39
90th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £36.43
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +1 9 £445 -3.78% 6
Warwickshire -4 4 - - 3
Coventry +10 2 £475 +15.15%
Herefordshire -10 1 £550 +22.22%
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Magento
2 1 (6.25%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Azure App Service
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 9 (56.25%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Electronics
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Leader
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Interaction Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Interaction Designer
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) RESTful
2 8 (50.00%) CSS
2 8 (50.00%) HTML
3 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
3 7 (43.75%) Django
3 7 (43.75%) Flask
4 6 (37.50%) .NET
4 6 (37.50%) CSS3
4 6 (37.50%) HTML5
5 5 (31.25%) .NET Framework
5 5 (31.25%) Ajax
5 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET
5 5 (31.25%) Entity Framework
5 5 (31.25%) KnockoutJS
5 5 (31.25%) Node.js
5 5 (31.25%) RequireJS
6 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (18.75%) React
8 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
8 2 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) User Experience
4 5 (31.25%) Change Control
4 5 (31.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (31.25%) E-Commerce
4 5 (31.25%) Scrum
4 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
5 4 (25.00%) Release Management
5 4 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) C#
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Talend