Front End Development Contracts in England

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 201 133
Rank change year-on-year -9 -68 -2
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 429 628 1,433
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.14% 1.34% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.49% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 461 1,094
10th Percentile £368 £338 £396
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +22.34%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £669
90th Percentile £700 £760 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 27
10th Percentile £68.81 £63.50 £27.73
25th Percentile £70.78 £66.88 £43.75
Median hourly rate £71.87 £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +25.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £79.88 £75.62
90th Percentile £79.50 £81.30 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £59.75
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.60% +83.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +17 298 £538 -7.80% 115
North of England -2 67 £500 -4.76% 55
North West +40 50 £475 -5.00% 34
South West +4 22 £475 +11.76% 25
Yorkshire -28 16 £550 +4.76% 14
Midlands -17 13 £450 +5.88% 34
South East -8 9 £425 +6.25% 37
East Midlands -14 9 £425 +2.41% 19
East of England -6 5 £485 -9.35% 24
West Midlands 0 3 £450 - 15
North East +2 1 £350 -30.00% 7
Front End Development
UK

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 30 (6.99%) CMS
2 13 (3.03%) Apache
3 10 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.86%) Confluence
4 8 (1.86%) WordPress
5 5 (1.17%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.70%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.23%) Drupal
8 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.70%) Sketch
3 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.23%) InVision
3 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Endur
2 2 (0.47%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 103 (24.01%) AWS
2 74 (17.25%) Azure
3 36 (8.39%) GCP
4 35 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (6.76%) GitHub
6 24 (5.59%) Serverless
7 23 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 23 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (3.50%) Figma
9 14 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (3.03%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.03%) Azure Pipelines
11 12 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (2.33%) npm
13 9 (2.10%) Amazon ECR
13 9 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.10%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.10%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.56%) HTTP
2 2 (0.47%) Intranet
3 1 (0.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.79%) SQL Server
2 35 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (5.59%) Relational Database
4 18 (4.20%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.80%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.33%) Apache Ignite
8 7 (1.63%) MySQL
9 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.17%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.93%) Redis
12 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.47%) GIS
12 2 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.47%) Power BI
13 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 80 (18.65%) Git
2 21 (4.90%) JUnit
3 19 (4.43%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.20%) JIRA
5 17 (3.96%) Cypress.io
6 16 (3.73%) webpack
7 14 (3.26%) GitLab
8 6 (1.40%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.17%) Pylint
9 5 (1.17%) Storybook
10 4 (0.93%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.93%) Gradle
10 4 (0.93%) Maven
10 4 (0.93%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.70%) Babel
11 3 (0.70%) Jasmine
11 3 (0.70%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.47%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.47%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 84 (19.58%) Finance
2 56 (13.05%) Social Skills
3 49 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 38 (8.86%) Banking
5 25 (5.83%) Front Office
6 22 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.80%) Back Office
8 11 (2.56%) Local Government
9 9 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.86%) Marketing
11 7 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.40%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.17%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.17%) Wearables
14 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.70%) Advertising
15 3 (0.70%) Automotive
15 3 (0.70%) Law
15 3 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 342 (79.72%) Developer
2 172 (40.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 91 (21.21%) Senior
4 73 (17.02%) Senior Developer
5 57 (13.29%) React Developer
6 45 (10.49%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 39 (9.09%) Java Developer
8 34 (7.93%) Full Stack Developer
8 34 (7.93%) Software Engineer
9 32 (7.46%) Angular Developer
10 27 (6.29%) UI Developer
11 23 (5.36%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 20 (4.66%) C# Developer
13 19 (4.43%) Lead
14 16 (3.73%) UI Engineer
15 15 (3.50%) Software Developer
16 14 (3.26%) Backend Developer
17 12 (2.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 12 (2.80%) UX Developer
18 11 (2.56%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (50.58%) React
2 134 (31.24%) CSS
2 134 (31.24%) HTML
3 89 (20.75%) AngularJS
4 74 (17.25%) REST
5 62 (14.45%) Node.js
6 57 (13.29%) .NET
7 53 (12.35%) Redux
8 48 (11.19%) Spring
9 45 (10.49%) Spring Boot
10 41 (9.56%) Next.js
11 39 (9.09%) Hibernate
12 33 (7.69%) JPA
13 28 (6.53%) Vue
14 27 (6.29%) HTML5
15 26 (6.06%) .NET Core
16 24 (5.59%) RESTful
17 23 (5.36%) GraphQL
17 23 (5.36%) jQuery
18 19 (4.43%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.23%) Fixed Income
2 15 (3.50%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
5 9 (2.10%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.17%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.17%) Solar Panel
9 3 (0.70%) Derivative
9 3 (0.70%) Equities
9 3 (0.70%) Graphic Design
9 3 (0.70%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.70%) Social Media
9 3 (0.70%) Wiki
10 2 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.33%) Windows
2 6 (1.40%) Linux
3 3 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) CentOS
4 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (34.97%) Agile
2 96 (22.38%) User Experience
3 92 (21.45%) DevOps
4 84 (19.58%) Software Engineering
5 77 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 71 (16.55%) Full Stack Development
7 56 (13.05%) UX Design
8 51 (11.89%) Microservices
9 48 (11.19%) Mentoring
10 45 (10.49%) Unit Testing
11 42 (9.79%) Web Development
12 41 (9.56%) Scrum
13 39 (9.09%) Clean Code
14 38 (8.86%) TDD
15 34 (7.93%) Code Quality
16 33 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (6.76%) MVC
18 28 (6.53%) Test Automation
19 27 (6.29%) Containerisation
20 25 (5.83%) OO
Programming Languages
1 186 (43.36%) JavaScript
2 150 (34.97%) TypeScript
3 81 (18.88%) Java
4 72 (16.78%) C#
5 62 (14.45%) SQL
6 56 (13.05%) Python
7 16 (3.73%) Bicep
8 8 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.63%) PHP
10 6 (1.40%) Go
10 6 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.40%) Ruby
11 5 (1.17%) C++
11 5 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.93%) Bash
13 3 (0.70%) JSX
13 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.23%) R
14 1 (0.23%) Scala
14 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 66 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 64 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.23%) Degree
4 18 (4.20%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 24 (5.59%) WCAG
3 20 (4.66%) QA
4 6 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 49 (11.42%) Docker
2 17 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) zsh
Systems Management
1 55 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.63%) Terraform
4 4 (0.93%) Grafana
5 3 (0.70%) Istio
6 2 (0.47%) Kibana
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
7 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.66%) Google
3 10 (2.33%) Oracle
4 5 (1.17%) Adobe
4 5 (1.17%) MuleSoft
5 4 (0.93%) Black Duck
5 4 (0.93%) Xamarin
6 3 (0.70%) Optimizely
6 3 (0.70%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.47%) Maxymiser
7 2 (0.47%) Monzo
7 2 (0.47%) Revolut
7 2 (0.47%) SAP
7 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.23%) Ariba
8 1 (0.23%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.23%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.23%) Okta
8 1 (0.23%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.23%) Sitecore