Front End Development Contracts in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 171 109
Rank change year-on-year +26 -62 +7
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 301 402 971
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.72% 1.57% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 1.73% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 278 760
10th Percentile £400 £411 £413
25th Percentile £450 £477 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -2.08% +23.71%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £786 £788 £788
England median daily rate £525 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -1.87% -6.96% +22.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £38.63
25th Percentile - £80.75 £56.50
Median hourly rate - £81.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.38% +60.49%
75th Percentile - £82.25 £75.39
90th Percentile - - £76.77
England median hourly rate £71.87 £72.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -0.18% +20.00% +60.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +31 51 £525 -6.46% 12
South London +11 6 £586 +35.99% 2
East London -4 4 £443 +1.72% 1
West London +20 1 £350 -30.00% 2
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 23 (7.64%) CMS
2 12 (3.99%) Apache
3 9 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.66%) WordPress
5 7 (2.33%) BizTalk Server
5 7 (2.33%) Confluence
6 2 (0.66%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.00%) Sketch
3 1 (0.33%) InVision
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Endur
2 2 (0.66%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (22.59%) AWS
2 62 (20.60%) Azure
3 30 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (8.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 24 (7.97%) GitHub
6 23 (7.64%) GCP
7 21 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
8 20 (6.64%) Serverless
9 14 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (4.32%) Azure Pipelines
11 11 (3.65%) Figma
12 10 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (3.32%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.66%) Azure Storage
15 7 (2.33%) npm
16 6 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
17 5 (1.66%) Amazon S3
17 5 (1.66%) Contentful
18 4 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.66%) HTTP
2 3 (1.00%) Intranet
3 1 (0.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.29%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.99%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.99%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.99%) Apache Ignite
6 8 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.33%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.00%) MySQL
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.66%) Redis
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.33%) RavenDB
11 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (19.93%) Git
2 16 (5.32%) JIRA
3 12 (3.99%) Cypress.io
4 9 (2.99%) JUnit
4 9 (2.99%) webpack
5 7 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.99%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.66%) Pylint
8 4 (1.33%) Storybook
8 4 (1.33%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.00%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.66%) Babel
10 2 (0.66%) git-flow
10 2 (0.66%) GitLab
10 2 (0.66%) Gradle
10 2 (0.66%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.66%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.66%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 75 (24.92%) Finance
2 53 (17.61%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.62%) Banking
4 33 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 29 (9.63%) Front Office
6 24 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.99%) Back Office
7 12 (3.99%) Local Government
8 9 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.66%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.66%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.66%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.33%) Marketing
11 4 (1.33%) Wearables
12 3 (1.00%) Advertising
12 3 (1.00%) Automotive
12 3 (1.00%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.33%) Law
14 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 246 (81.73%) Developer
2 126 (41.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 74 (24.58%) Senior
4 56 (18.60%) Senior Developer
5 45 (14.95%) React Developer
6 33 (10.96%) Full Stack Developer
7 31 (10.30%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 27 (8.97%) UI Developer
9 25 (8.31%) Angular Developer
10 23 (7.64%) Software Engineer
11 21 (6.98%) C# Developer
12 19 (6.31%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 17 (5.65%) Java Developer
14 16 (5.32%) UI Engineer
15 14 (4.65%) Backend Developer
16 12 (3.99%) UX Developer
17 10 (3.32%) Senior Full Stack Developer
17 10 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
18 9 (2.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 9 (2.99%) UI/UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (50.83%) React
2 103 (34.22%) CSS
3 102 (33.89%) HTML
4 70 (23.26%) AngularJS
5 49 (16.28%) .NET
6 43 (14.29%) Node.js
6 43 (14.29%) REST
7 27 (8.97%) .NET Core
7 27 (8.97%) Redux
8 26 (8.64%) Spring
9 25 (8.31%) Spring Boot
10 23 (7.64%) jQuery
11 20 (6.64%) Next.js
12 19 (6.31%) Hibernate
13 17 (5.65%) HTML5
14 16 (5.32%) ASP.NET
15 15 (4.98%) RESTful
15 15 (4.98%) WebSockets
16 14 (4.65%) JPA
16 14 (4.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.63%) Fixed Income
2 15 (4.98%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.66%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (1.99%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.99%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.66%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.66%) Solar Panel
9 4 (1.33%) Wiki
10 3 (1.00%) Derivative
10 3 (1.00%) Equities
10 3 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.66%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.66%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.65%) Windows
2 6 (1.99%) Linux
3 1 (0.33%) Android
3 1 (0.33%) CentOS
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (37.54%) Agile
2 77 (25.58%) User Experience
3 67 (22.26%) DevOps
4 66 (21.93%) Software Engineering
5 55 (18.27%) CI/CD
5 55 (18.27%) Full Stack Development
6 43 (14.29%) UX Design
7 39 (12.96%) Microservices
8 32 (10.63%) TDD
9 31 (10.30%) Web Development
10 29 (9.63%) Clean Code
10 29 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (8.97%) Code Quality
11 27 (8.97%) Unit Testing
12 26 (8.64%) Mentoring
13 25 (8.31%) MVC
13 25 (8.31%) Scrum
14 24 (7.97%) SDLC
15 23 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (7.64%) OO
Programming Languages
1 150 (49.83%) JavaScript
2 98 (32.56%) TypeScript
3 63 (20.93%) C#
4 62 (20.60%) SQL
5 51 (16.94%) Java
6 46 (15.28%) Python
7 16 (5.32%) Bicep
8 8 (2.66%) Go
8 8 (2.66%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.66%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.33%) C++
9 7 (2.33%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.99%) Ruby
11 3 (1.00%) JSX
12 2 (0.66%) Bash
12 2 (0.66%) PHP
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) F#
13 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (11.30%) Security Cleared
2 33 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.97%) Degree
4 10 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.99%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.96%) Accessibility
2 23 (7.64%) WCAG
3 9 (2.99%) QA
4 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 28 (9.30%) Docker
2 17 (5.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.99%) Terraform
3 5 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.00%) Grafana
5 2 (0.66%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (7.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.99%) Oracle
3 10 (3.32%) Google
4 7 (2.33%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.33%) Black Duck
6 3 (1.00%) Adobe
7 2 (0.66%) Maxymiser
7 2 (0.66%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.66%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.33%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.33%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.33%) Monzo
8 1 (0.33%) Revolut
8 1 (0.33%) Virgin Media