Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts in London

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 283 230
Rank change year-on-year +24 -53 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 141 208 496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.80% 0.83% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.87% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 141 383
10th Percentile £370 £356 £407
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £688
90th Percentile £800 £700 £785
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £73.33 £56.60
25th Percentile - £74.56 £56.75
Median hourly rate - £78.25 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.63% +45.68%
75th Percentile - £81.06 £61.75
90th Percentile - £81.78 £62.20
England median hourly rate £55.00 £78.25 £59.14
% change year-on-year -29.71% +32.31% +57.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London.

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the London 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
Central London +36 16 £475 -24.00% 2
South London +11 3 - -
East London - 3 £435 -
West London +19 1 £350 -30.00% 1
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 127 (90.07%) Front End Development
2 89 (63.12%) React
3 87 (61.70%) JavaScript
4 74 (52.48%) TypeScript
5 64 (45.39%) CSS
6 49 (34.75%) HTML
7 48 (34.04%) Agile
8 44 (31.21%) User Experience
9 34 (24.11%) AngularJS
10 28 (19.86%) DevOps
11 26 (18.44%) Redux
11 26 (18.44%) AWS
12 24 (17.02%) Web Development
12 24 (17.02%) Full Stack Development
13 23 (16.31%) Git
13 23 (16.31%) C#
13 23 (16.31%) Node.js
14 20 (14.18%) Finance
14 20 (14.18%) TDD
14 20 (14.18%) CMS
14 20 (14.18%) Azure
14 20 (14.18%) Software Engineering
14 20 (14.18%) Social Skills
15 19 (13.48%) Next.js
15 19 (13.48%) Clean Code
15 19 (13.48%) WCAG
15 19 (13.48%) jQuery
15 19 (13.48%) Fixed Income
15 19 (13.48%) .NET
16 18 (12.77%) SQL Server

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 20 (14.18%) CMS
2 10 (7.09%) Apache
2 10 (7.09%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.42%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.42%) Sketch
3 1 (0.71%) InVision
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.44%) AWS
2 20 (14.18%) Azure
3 18 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (11.35%) GCP
5 15 (10.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 15 (10.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (9.22%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (9.22%) Azure Pipelines
7 6 (4.26%) Figma
8 5 (3.55%) Contentful
8 5 (3.55%) npm
9 3 (2.13%) GitHub
9 3 (2.13%) SaaS
10 2 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.42%) Slack
10 2 (1.42%) WhatsApp
10 2 (1.42%) Yarn
11 1 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.71%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.77%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.09%) Apache Ignite
3 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.42%) MySQL
5 2 (1.42%) Redis
6 1 (0.71%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (16.31%) Git
2 10 (7.09%) JIRA
3 8 (5.67%) Cypress.io
4 6 (4.26%) webpack
5 4 (2.84%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.42%) Babel
8 1 (0.71%) Ant
8 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.71%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.71%) Storybook
8 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (14.18%) Finance
1 20 (14.18%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.77%) Front Office
3 12 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.09%) Back Office
6 7 (4.96%) Banking
7 3 (2.13%) Automotive
7 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Advertising
8 2 (1.42%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.42%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Publishing
9 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.71%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (63.12%) React
2 64 (45.39%) CSS
3 49 (34.75%) HTML
4 34 (24.11%) AngularJS
5 26 (18.44%) Redux
6 23 (16.31%) Node.js
7 19 (13.48%) .NET
7 19 (13.48%) jQuery
7 19 (13.48%) Next.js
8 15 (10.64%) .NET Core
9 13 (9.22%) REST
10 12 (8.51%) ASP.NET
11 11 (7.80%) RESTful
12 10 (7.09%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (7.09%) gRPC
12 10 (7.09%) Protocol Buffers
12 10 (7.09%) Vue
13 7 (4.96%) HTML5
13 7 (4.96%) Tailwind CSS
14 6 (4.26%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.48%) Fixed Income
2 7 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.84%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.13%) Wiki
6 2 (1.42%) Derivative
6 2 (1.42%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.42%) Social Media
7 1 (0.71%) Animation
7 1 (0.71%) CCTV
7 1 (0.71%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.42%) Linux
1 2 (1.42%) Windows
2 1 (0.71%) CentOS
2 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (90.07%) Front End Development
2 48 (34.04%) Agile
3 44 (31.21%) User Experience
4 28 (19.86%) DevOps
5 24 (17.02%) Full Stack Development
5 24 (17.02%) Web Development
6 20 (14.18%) Software Engineering
6 20 (14.18%) TDD
7 19 (13.48%) Clean Code
8 18 (12.77%) UX Design
9 16 (11.35%) API Management
9 16 (11.35%) OO
10 15 (10.64%) OOD
11 13 (9.22%) Design Patterns
11 13 (9.22%) Fintech
11 13 (9.22%) MVC
12 12 (8.51%) Investment Management
13 11 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (7.09%) Asset Management
14 10 (7.09%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 87 (61.70%) JavaScript
2 74 (52.48%) TypeScript
3 23 (16.31%) C#
4 16 (11.35%) Python
5 15 (10.64%) SQL
6 14 (9.93%) Bicep
7 7 (4.96%) Java
8 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.13%) JSX
10 1 (0.71%) C
10 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (10.64%) SC Cleared
1 15 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.67%) Degree
3 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.48%) WCAG
2 18 (12.77%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.84%) Terraform
3 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.26%) Google
3 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.71%) Mapbox
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle
3 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.71%) Virgin Media
3 1 (0.71%) Xamarin