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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 209 129
Rank change year-on-year -1 -80 -6
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 497 722 1,792
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.30% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.45% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 528 1,327
10th Percentile £363 £325 £400
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +18.92%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £739 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £472 £488
% change year-on-year +0.58% -3.13% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 28
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.98 £26.16
25th Percentile £53.75 £55.44 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.25 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.45% +4.18% +83.85%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.38 £75.51
90th Percentile £76.50 £76.70 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 £62.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year +14.99% +10.62% +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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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 -9 429 £516 -2.59% 302
London +12 295 £538 -7.80% 115
Work from Home +26 213 £500 - 182
UK excluding London -24 139 £475 +0.58% 189
North of England +6 68 £513 -2.38% 57
North West +39 51 £488 -2.50% 34
South West +15 23 £463 +8.82% 22
Yorkshire -28 16 £550 +4.76% 17
Midlands -11 13 £450 +5.88% 36
Scotland +33 12 £450 -2.70% 7
East Midlands -8 9 £425 +2.41% 18
South East -8 9 £425 +6.25% 39
Wales +20 8 £540 +16.76% 3
East of England -7 6 £493 -15.09% 24
West Midlands -5 3 £450 - 18
North East +6 1 £350 -30.00% 6

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 38 (7.65%) CMS
2 13 (2.62%) Apache
3 11 (2.21%) Confluence
4 10 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.01%) WordPress
5 8 (1.61%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.01%) BizTalk Server
6 5 (1.01%) Kentico
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.60%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) Drupal
9 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Solana
Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.60%) Sketch
3 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) InVision
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Endur
2 2 (0.40%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 115 (23.14%) AWS
2 87 (17.51%) Azure
3 42 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (8.45%) GCP
4 41 (8.25%) GitHub
5 27 (5.43%) Serverless
6 23 (4.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 23 (4.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (3.82%) Figma
8 15 (3.02%) Amazon S3
9 14 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (2.62%) Azure Pipelines
10 13 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.21%) npm
13 10 (2.01%) Azure Functions
14 9 (1.81%) Amazon ECR
14 9 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.41%) HTTP
2 2 (0.40%) Intranet
3 1 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (5.03%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.62%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 12 (2.41%) MySQL
6 11 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.01%) Apache Ignite
8 6 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.01%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.80%) Redis
11 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.40%) GIS
12 2 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.40%) Power BI
13 1 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 98 (19.72%) Git
2 29 (5.84%) Cypress.io
3 24 (4.83%) Jenkins
4 22 (4.43%) JUnit
5 21 (4.23%) JIRA
5 21 (4.23%) webpack
6 18 (3.62%) Storybook
7 17 (3.42%) GitLab
8 8 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.21%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.21%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.01%) Pylint
11 4 (0.80%) Babel
11 4 (0.80%) Gradle
11 4 (0.80%) Maven
11 4 (0.80%) Postman
11 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.60%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.60%) Vite
General
1 88 (17.71%) Finance
2 63 (12.68%) Social Skills
3 58 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 38 (7.65%) Banking
5 25 (5.03%) Front Office
6 24 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.41%) Back Office
9 11 (2.21%) Local Government
10 8 (1.61%) Marketing
11 7 (1.41%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.21%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.01%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.01%) Wearables
14 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.80%) Retail
15 3 (0.60%) Advertising
15 3 (0.60%) Automotive
15 3 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 405 (81.49%) Developer
2 224 (45.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 98 (19.72%) Senior
4 80 (16.10%) Senior Developer
5 69 (13.88%) React Developer
6 52 (10.46%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 40 (8.05%) Java Developer
8 37 (7.44%) Full Stack Developer
9 36 (7.24%) Software Engineer
10 32 (6.44%) Angular Developer
11 29 (5.84%) UI Developer
12 24 (4.83%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 21 (4.23%) Lead
14 20 (4.02%) C# Developer
15 17 (3.42%) JavaScript Developer
15 17 (3.42%) Software Developer
15 17 (3.42%) UX Developer
16 16 (3.22%) UI Engineer
17 14 (2.82%) Backend Developer
17 14 (2.82%) HTML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (51.91%) React
2 173 (34.81%) CSS
3 169 (34.00%) HTML
4 98 (19.72%) AngularJS
5 78 (15.69%) REST
6 75 (15.09%) Node.js
7 56 (11.27%) .NET
7 56 (11.27%) Redux
8 50 (10.06%) Spring
9 49 (9.86%) Next.js
10 47 (9.46%) Spring Boot
11 44 (8.85%) Vue
12 40 (8.05%) Hibernate
13 35 (7.04%) HTML5
14 34 (6.84%) JPA
15 31 (6.24%) GraphQL
15 31 (6.24%) jQuery
16 29 (5.84%) RESTful
17 25 (5.03%) .NET Core
17 25 (5.03%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.24%) Fixed Income
2 22 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.02%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.62%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.21%) Renewable Energy
6 8 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.21%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.01%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.01%) Solar Panel
10 3 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.60%) Derivative
10 3 (0.60%) Equities
10 3 (0.60%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.60%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.60%) Wiki
11 2 (0.40%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.01%) Windows
2 9 (1.81%) Linux
3 3 (0.60%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (34.41%) Agile
2 112 (22.54%) User Experience
3 99 (19.92%) DevOps
4 97 (19.52%) Software Engineering
5 90 (18.11%) CI/CD
6 73 (14.69%) Full Stack Development
7 66 (13.28%) UX Design
8 53 (10.66%) Unit Testing
9 52 (10.46%) Microservices
9 52 (10.46%) Web Development
10 49 (9.86%) Mentoring
11 42 (8.45%) TDD
12 41 (8.25%) Clean Code
13 40 (8.05%) Scrum
14 39 (7.85%) Test Automation
15 38 (7.65%) Code Quality
16 35 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (5.84%) MVC
18 26 (5.23%) Containerisation
19 24 (4.83%) OO
Programming Languages
1 220 (44.27%) JavaScript
2 191 (38.43%) TypeScript
3 87 (17.51%) Java
4 72 (14.49%) C#
5 66 (13.28%) SQL
6 58 (11.67%) Python
7 16 (3.22%) Bicep
8 11 (2.21%) PHP
9 8 (1.61%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.41%) Bash
10 7 (1.41%) Go
10 7 (1.41%) Ruby
11 6 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.01%) C++
12 5 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.80%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.60%) JSX
15 1 (0.20%) R
15 1 (0.20%) Scala
15 1 (0.20%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 70 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 68 (13.68%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.44%) Degree
4 18 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.21%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.46%) Accessibility
2 31 (6.24%) QA
2 31 (6.24%) WCAG
3 6 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.20%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 52 (10.46%) Docker
2 17 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) zsh
Systems Management
1 57 (11.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.41%) Terraform
4 4 (0.80%) Grafana
5 3 (0.60%) Istio
6 2 (0.40%) Kibana
7 1 (0.20%) Ansible
7 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.23%) Google
3 11 (2.21%) Oracle
4 5 (1.01%) Adobe
4 5 (1.01%) MuleSoft
5 4 (0.80%) Black Duck
5 4 (0.80%) Xamarin
6 3 (0.60%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.60%) Optimizely
6 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.40%) Maxymiser
7 2 (0.40%) Monzo
7 2 (0.40%) Revolut
7 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.40%) SAP
7 2 (0.40%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.20%) Ariba
8 1 (0.20%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.20%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.20%) Splunk