Front End Development Contracts with Work from Home Options

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 188 102
Rank change year-on-year +44 -86 -8
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 226 333 1,092
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.53% 1.35% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.51% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 236 795
10th Percentile £368 £316 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £589 £646
90th Percentile £700 £694 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £40.00 - £21.85
25th Percentile £53.75 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% +8.57% +42.86%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £67.50
90th Percentile £76.50 - £78.97
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +17.15% -4.40% +92.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Front End Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front End Development trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front End Development.

Front End Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Front End Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front End Development.

Front End Development hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Front End Development hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (8.41%) CMS
2 9 (3.98%) Apache
3 7 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.21%) Confluence
4 5 (2.21%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.21%) Kentico
4 5 (2.21%) WordPress
5 2 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.88%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.44%) Drupal
6 1 (0.44%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 51 (22.57%) AWS
2 38 (16.81%) Azure
3 24 (10.62%) GCP
4 23 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.08%) GitHub
6 11 (4.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (3.98%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (3.54%) Azure Pipelines
8 8 (3.54%) npm
8 8 (3.54%) Serverless
9 6 (2.65%) Figma
9 6 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.21%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.77%) Google Analytics
12 3 (1.33%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.54%) HTTP
2 3 (1.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.62%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.10%) Apache Ignite
3 6 (2.65%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.65%) MySQL
3 6 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.88%) Power BI
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (16.37%) Git
2 13 (5.75%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.31%) Storybook
4 10 (4.42%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.98%) webpack
6 8 (3.54%) GitLab
6 8 (3.54%) JIRA
7 6 (2.65%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (1.77%) Babel
8 4 (1.77%) Postman
9 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.33%) Vite
10 2 (0.88%) Gradle
10 2 (0.88%) JUnit
10 2 (0.88%) Pylint
10 2 (0.88%) rollup.js
10 2 (0.88%) Selenium
10 2 (0.88%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.44%) Crashlytics
General
1 55 (24.34%) Finance
2 28 (12.39%) Banking
2 28 (12.39%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.73%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.96%) Front Office
5 8 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.65%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.21%) Marketing
8 4 (1.77%) Back Office
8 4 (1.77%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.77%) Retail
9 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.33%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 187 (82.74%) Developer
2 103 (45.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 42 (18.58%) React Developer
4 39 (17.26%) Senior
5 33 (14.60%) Senior Developer
6 21 (9.29%) C# Developer
7 19 (8.41%) Software Engineer
8 18 (7.96%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 17 (7.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 15 (6.64%) JavaScript Developer
11 14 (6.19%) UI Developer
12 13 (5.75%) Angular Developer
12 13 (5.75%) UI Engineer
13 11 (4.87%) Software Developer
14 10 (4.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 9 (3.98%) Front Office Developer
15 9 (3.98%) Full Stack Developer
15 9 (3.98%) Java Developer
16 8 (3.54%) HTML CSS Developer
16 8 (3.54%) HTML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (52.65%) React
2 80 (35.40%) CSS
3 74 (32.74%) HTML
4 58 (25.66%) AngularJS
5 31 (13.72%) Node.js
6 28 (12.39%) Redux
7 25 (11.06%) .NET
8 24 (10.62%) REST
9 21 (9.29%) Next.js
9 21 (9.29%) Vue
10 17 (7.52%) HTML5
10 17 (7.52%) RESTful
11 16 (7.08%) Tailwind CSS
12 14 (6.19%) GraphQL
12 14 (6.19%) jQuery
13 13 (5.75%) CSS3
14 11 (4.87%) .NET Core
14 11 (4.87%) Express.js
14 11 (4.87%) Jest
15 10 (4.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.18%) Fixed Income
2 12 (5.31%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.77%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.77%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.33%) Equities
6 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.44%) CCTV
7 1 (0.44%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.44%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.21%) Linux
2 2 (0.88%) Android
2 2 (0.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.09%) Agile
2 49 (21.68%) User Experience
3 38 (16.81%) Software Engineering
4 33 (14.60%) DevOps
5 32 (14.16%) CI/CD
6 28 (12.39%) Full Stack Development
7 27 (11.95%) UX Design
8 23 (10.18%) Clean Code
9 22 (9.73%) Web Development
10 20 (8.85%) Test Automation
11 18 (7.96%) MVC
12 17 (7.52%) TDD
13 14 (6.19%) Code Quality
13 14 (6.19%) Microservices
14 13 (5.75%) Containerisation
14 13 (5.75%) Fintech
14 13 (5.75%) Scrum
15 12 (5.31%) OO
15 12 (5.31%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (5.31%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 99 (43.81%) TypeScript
2 97 (42.92%) JavaScript
3 46 (20.35%) C#
4 30 (13.27%) Java
5 29 (12.83%) SQL
6 22 (9.73%) Python
7 10 (4.42%) Bicep
8 7 (3.10%) PHP
9 6 (2.65%) Bash
10 5 (2.21%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.77%) Ruby
12 3 (1.33%) Go
12 3 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.88%) C++
13 2 (0.88%) F#
13 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.44%) JSX
14 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (6.64%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.65%) Degree
4 4 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.95%) Accessibility
2 17 (7.52%) WCAG
3 11 (4.87%) QA
System Software
1 14 (6.19%) Docker
2 9 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 12 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.33%) Terraform
4 2 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.44%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) Istio
5 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (6.64%) Google
1 15 (6.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.77%) Oracle
3 3 (1.33%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.33%) Xamarin
4 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
4 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe
5 1 (0.44%) Avaloq
5 1 (0.44%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.44%) SAP
5 1 (0.44%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.44%) Splunk