Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 356 246
Rank change year-on-year +26 -110 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 257 379 1,026
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.66% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.70% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 273 763
10th Percentile £350 £328 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £726 £688 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile - - £44.99
25th Percentile - £80.75 £56.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £81.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.92% +35.83% +60.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £82.25 £66.39
90th Percentile £52.00 - £67.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £63.62
% change year-on-year - - +127.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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

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

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

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +8 203 £475 -9.52% 195
London +41 144 £505 -12.17% 89
Work from Home +62 116 £500 +5.26% 147
UK excluding London +4 62 £475 - 135
North of England +2 17 £475 -9.52% 37
South West +8 13 £399 +2.90% 12
South East +20 10 £413 -5.71% 51
North West +11 9 £475 -5.00% 16
Scotland +46 8 £480 +5.21% 3
Wales +22 7 £513 +13.89% 3
Yorkshire -3 7 £550 +4.76% 21
Midlands -5 4 £550 +18.03% 18
East Midlands +2 3 £550 +29.41% 7
East of England +1 3 £485 -9.35% 10
North East +12 1 £350 -37.78%
West Midlands +9 1 - - 11

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 232 (90.27%) Front End Development
2 159 (61.87%) React
3 142 (55.25%) TypeScript
4 130 (50.58%) JavaScript
5 118 (45.91%) CSS
6 95 (36.96%) HTML
7 71 (27.63%) Agile
8 59 (22.96%) User Experience
9 58 (22.57%) AngularJS
10 47 (18.29%) Next.js
11 45 (17.51%) Redux
12 40 (15.56%) AWS
13 38 (14.79%) DevOps
14 37 (14.40%) Node.js
14 37 (14.40%) Git
14 37 (14.40%) Web Development
14 37 (14.40%) Vue
15 33 (12.84%) Full Stack Development
16 32 (12.45%) Azure
17 31 (12.06%) TDD
18 30 (11.67%) C#
18 30 (11.67%) Social Skills
19 29 (11.28%) Accessibility
20 28 (10.89%) CMS
21 27 (10.51%) Software Engineering
21 27 (10.51%) WCAG
22 26 (10.12%) UX Design
22 26 (10.12%) GraphQL
22 26 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
23 25 (9.73%) jQuery

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 28 (10.89%) CMS
2 8 (3.11%) Headless CMS
3 7 (2.72%) Apache
3 7 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.72%) Confluence
4 5 (1.95%) Kentico
5 2 (0.78%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.39%) Drupal
6 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.39%) Solana
6 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Sketch
3 1 (0.39%) InVision
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (15.56%) AWS
2 32 (12.45%) Azure
3 26 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (9.34%) GCP
5 17 (6.61%) Azure Service Bus
6 16 (6.23%) GitHub
7 15 (5.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 13 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (5.06%) Azure Pipelines
9 12 (4.67%) Figma
10 7 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.72%) npm
11 6 (2.33%) SaaS
12 4 (1.56%) Contentful
13 2 (0.78%) Amplience
13 2 (0.78%) Serverless
13 2 (0.78%) Storyblok
13 2 (0.78%) Stripe
13 2 (0.78%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.78%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) HTTP
1 1 (0.39%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.72%) Apache Ignite
3 5 (1.95%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.56%) GIS
4 4 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.56%) Redis
5 3 (1.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.17%) MySQL
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.39%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.39%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (14.40%) Git
2 18 (7.00%) Cypress.io
3 17 (6.61%) JIRA
4 14 (5.45%) Storybook
5 13 (5.06%) webpack
6 10 (3.89%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.72%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.95%) GitLab
9 4 (1.56%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.17%) Vite
11 2 (0.78%) Babel
11 2 (0.78%) rollup.js
12 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.39%) ESLint
12 1 (0.39%) Lerna
12 1 (0.39%) Postman
12 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.39%) VersionOne
General
1 30 (11.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.56%) Finance
3 19 (7.39%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.23%) Front Office
6 10 (3.89%) Back Office
7 9 (3.50%) Banking
8 7 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.95%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.17%) Automotive
11 3 (1.17%) Marketing
11 3 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.78%) Advertising
12 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.78%) Law
12 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.39%) Aviation
13 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (61.87%) React
2 118 (45.91%) CSS
3 95 (36.96%) HTML
4 58 (22.57%) AngularJS
5 47 (18.29%) Next.js
6 45 (17.51%) Redux
7 37 (14.40%) Node.js
7 37 (14.40%) Vue
8 26 (10.12%) GraphQL
9 25 (9.73%) jQuery
10 24 (9.34%) .NET
10 24 (9.34%) Tailwind CSS
11 23 (8.95%) REST
12 19 (7.39%) HTML5
13 17 (6.61%) .NET Core
14 16 (6.23%) RESTful
15 14 (5.45%) ASP.NET
16 12 (4.67%) CSS3
17 11 (4.28%) SAML
18 10 (3.89%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.61%) Fixed Income
2 12 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.33%) Hedge funds
5 5 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.56%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.56%) Wiki
7 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.78%) Derivative
8 2 (0.78%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.78%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.78%) Social Media
9 1 (0.39%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.39%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.17%) Linux
2 2 (0.78%) Unix
2 2 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (90.27%) Front End Development
2 71 (27.63%) Agile
3 59 (22.96%) User Experience
4 38 (14.79%) DevOps
5 37 (14.40%) Web Development
6 33 (12.84%) Full Stack Development
7 31 (12.06%) TDD
8 27 (10.51%) Software Engineering
9 26 (10.12%) UX Design
10 24 (9.34%) CI/CD
11 22 (8.56%) Clean Code
12 17 (6.61%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (6.61%) OO
12 17 (6.61%) Test Automation
13 16 (6.23%) API Management
13 16 (6.23%) MVC
13 16 (6.23%) Unit Testing
14 15 (5.84%) Design Patterns
14 15 (5.84%) OOD
15 14 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 142 (55.25%) TypeScript
2 130 (50.58%) JavaScript
3 30 (11.67%) C#
4 16 (6.23%) SQL
5 15 (5.84%) Java
6 14 (5.45%) Bicep
6 14 (5.45%) Python
7 4 (1.56%) Bash
7 4 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.17%) JSX
9 2 (0.78%) F#
9 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.39%) C
10 1 (0.39%) Go
10 1 (0.39%) PHP
10 1 (0.39%) Ruby
10 1 (0.39%) Scala
10 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 24 (9.34%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.50%) Degree
4 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.28%) Accessibility
2 27 (10.51%) WCAG
3 7 (2.72%) QA
4 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (5.84%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.67%) Docker
3 3 (1.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 10 (3.89%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (2.72%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.33%) Terraform
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.61%) Google
3 4 (1.56%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle
4 2 (0.78%) SAP
5 1 (0.39%) Ariba
5 1 (0.39%) Foundry
5 1 (0.39%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.39%) Okta
5 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.39%) Xamarin
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