Front End Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 267 224 221
Rank change year-on-year -43 -3 -77
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 137 222 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.98% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.10% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 180 261
10th Percentile £325 £313 £350
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £472 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -3.43% +15.06%
75th Percentile £550 £554 £550
90th Percentile £693 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile £68.81 - £22.50
25th Percentile £70.78 £61.25 £27.73
Median hourly rate £71.87 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.99% +10.62% +113.21%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £65.50
90th Percentile £79.50 - £68.32
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
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% 33
Scotland +42 12 £450 -2.70% 9
Wales +23 9 £533 +15.19% 4
South East -8 9 £425 +6.25% 37
East Midlands -14 9 £425 +2.41% 18
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 the UK excluding 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 3 (2.19%) Umbraco
2 2 (1.46%) CMS
2 2 (1.46%) WordPress
3 1 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.73%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) Drupal
3 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.47%) AWS
2 13 (9.49%) Azure
3 12 (8.76%) GitHub
4 10 (7.30%) Amazon S3
5 9 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (5.84%) Amazon ECR
6 8 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (5.84%) Route 53
6 8 (5.84%) Serverless
6 8 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.65%) GCP
10 4 (2.92%) npm
11 3 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.19%) Figma
11 3 (2.19%) Pulumi
12 2 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.49%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.57%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.11%) MySQL
5 4 (2.92%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.19%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.46%) GIS
7 2 (1.46%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (1.46%) Power BI
7 2 (1.46%) Redis
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.73%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (13.14%) Git
2 14 (10.22%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.49%) Cypress.io
4 12 (8.76%) JUnit
5 11 (8.03%) GitLab
5 11 (8.03%) webpack
6 8 (5.84%) Storybook
7 4 (2.92%) JIRA
7 4 (2.92%) Postman
8 3 (2.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.46%) VersionOne
10 1 (0.73%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.73%) Gradle
10 1 (0.73%) Maven
10 1 (0.73%) Subversion
10 1 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (14.60%) Public Sector
2 8 (5.84%) Finance
3 4 (2.92%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.46%) Law
5 2 (1.46%) Retail
6 1 (0.73%) Aviation
6 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.73%) German Language
6 1 (0.73%) Legal
6 1 (0.73%) Marketing
6 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 108 (78.83%) Developer
2 49 (35.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 23 (16.79%) Java Developer
4 17 (12.41%) Senior
5 16 (11.68%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.22%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 11 (8.03%) Software Engineer
8 10 (7.30%) Lead
8 10 (7.30%) Software Developer
9 8 (5.84%) React Developer
9 8 (5.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 6 (4.38%) Angular Developer
10 6 (4.38%) User Researcher
11 5 (3.65%) Junior
11 5 (3.65%) Junior Developer
12 4 (2.92%) Designer
12 4 (2.92%) Junior Java Developer
12 4 (2.92%) Lead Developer
12 4 (2.92%) Lead Java Developer
12 4 (2.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (47.45%) React
2 32 (23.36%) REST
3 30 (21.90%) HTML
4 28 (20.44%) CSS
5 24 (17.52%) Redux
6 23 (16.79%) Spring
7 22 (16.06%) Spring Boot
8 21 (15.33%) Hibernate
8 21 (15.33%) Vue
9 20 (14.60%) AngularJS
9 20 (14.60%) JPA
10 19 (13.87%) Node.js
11 16 (11.68%) Next.js
12 11 (8.03%) GraphQL
12 11 (8.03%) RESTful
13 10 (7.30%) CSS3
13 10 (7.30%) Express.js
13 10 (7.30%) HTML5
14 8 (5.84%) Flask
14 8 (5.84%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.19%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.19%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.73%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.19%) Linux
2 2 (1.46%) Android
3 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.42%) Agile
2 33 (24.09%) CI/CD
3 26 (18.98%) Test Automation
4 25 (18.25%) Software Engineering
5 23 (16.79%) DevOps
6 22 (16.06%) Mentoring
7 21 (15.33%) Unit Testing
8 19 (13.87%) Full Stack Development
9 17 (12.41%) User Experience
10 14 (10.22%) Microservices
10 14 (10.22%) UX Design
11 13 (9.49%) API Development
11 13 (9.49%) Scrum
12 12 (8.76%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (8.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 12 (8.76%) High Availability
13 11 (8.03%) Containerisation
13 11 (8.03%) ETL
13 11 (8.03%) TDD
14 10 (7.30%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (40.88%) TypeScript
2 38 (27.74%) JavaScript
3 34 (24.82%) Java
4 13 (9.49%) Python
5 10 (7.30%) C#
6 8 (5.84%) PHP
7 5 (3.65%) SQL
8 4 (2.92%) Bash
9 2 (1.46%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.73%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.76%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.19%) Degree
5 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.41%) QA
2 6 (4.38%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (3.65%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (14.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) zsh
Systems Management
1 21 (15.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.73%) Grafana
3 1 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (8.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.84%) Google
3 2 (1.46%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.73%) Adobe
4 1 (0.73%) Ariba
4 1 (0.73%) Okta
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle
4 1 (0.73%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.73%) SAP