Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts with Work from Home Options

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK > Work from Home

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 280 199
Rank change year-on-year +50 -81 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 112 181 613
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 0.76% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.80% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 141 459
10th Percentile £335 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £616 £588 £638
90th Percentile £750 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £27.73
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £78.25 £59.14
% change year-on-year -48.88% +32.31% +57.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) trend for jobs with a WFH option

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 13 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 99 (88.39%) Front End Development
2 78 (69.64%) TypeScript
3 77 (68.75%) React
4 62 (55.36%) JavaScript
5 57 (50.89%) CSS
6 47 (41.96%) HTML
7 29 (25.89%) User Experience
7 29 (25.89%) Agile
8 23 (20.54%) AWS
9 21 (18.75%) Node.js
9 21 (18.75%) GCP
10 20 (17.86%) Vue
10 20 (17.86%) AngularJS
10 20 (17.86%) Git
11 19 (16.96%) Next.js
12 18 (16.07%) Full Stack Development
12 18 (16.07%) Redux
12 18 (16.07%) Finance
13 17 (15.18%) Software Engineering
13 17 (15.18%) Azure
13 17 (15.18%) DevOps
14 16 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
14 16 (14.29%) Web Development
14 16 (14.29%) C#
14 16 (14.29%) Accessibility
15 15 (13.39%) WCAG
16 14 (12.50%) CMS
17 13 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (11.61%) Fintech
18 12 (10.71%) .NET

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (12.50%) CMS
2 10 (8.93%) Apache
2 10 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.57%) Confluence
3 4 (3.57%) Headless CMS
3 4 (3.57%) Kentico
4 2 (1.79%) WordPress
5 1 (0.89%) Drupal
5 1 (0.89%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.89%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) InVision
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.89%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.54%) AWS
2 21 (18.75%) GCP
3 17 (15.18%) Azure
4 13 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.14%) GitHub
6 7 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
6 7 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.68%) Figma
7 3 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.68%) npm
7 3 (2.68%) SaaS
8 2 (1.79%) Amplience
8 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.79%) Storyblok
8 2 (1.79%) Stripe
8 2 (1.79%) Yarn
9 1 (0.89%) MailChimp
9 1 (0.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.93%) Apache Ignite
2 9 (8.04%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.68%) MySQL
3 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.79%) GIS
4 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.89%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.89%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (17.86%) Git
2 9 (8.04%) Storybook
3 5 (4.46%) JIRA
3 5 (4.46%) webpack
4 4 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (2.68%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.68%) Vite
6 2 (1.79%) Babel
6 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.79%) GitLab
6 2 (1.79%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.89%) Ant
7 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.89%) ESLint
7 1 (0.89%) Lerna
7 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.89%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.89%) WebPageTest
General
1 18 (16.07%) Finance
2 11 (9.82%) Front Office
3 10 (8.93%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.46%) Tech for Good
6 4 (3.57%) Banking
7 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Back Office
7 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.89%) Automotive
9 1 (0.89%) Electronics
9 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Law
9 1 (0.89%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (68.75%) React
2 57 (50.89%) CSS
3 47 (41.96%) HTML
4 21 (18.75%) Node.js
5 20 (17.86%) AngularJS
5 20 (17.86%) Vue
6 19 (16.96%) Next.js
7 18 (16.07%) Redux
8 16 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
9 12 (10.71%) .NET
10 10 (8.93%) gRPC
10 10 (8.93%) HTML5
10 10 (8.93%) jQuery
10 10 (8.93%) Protocol Buffers
11 9 (8.04%) .NET Core
11 9 (8.04%) REST
12 8 (7.14%) GraphQL
13 7 (6.25%) ASP.NET
13 7 (6.25%) Material-UI
13 7 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Fixed Income
2 5 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.79%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.89%) Animation
5 1 (0.89%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.89%) CCTV
5 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.89%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.89%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (88.39%) Front End Development
2 29 (25.89%) Agile
2 29 (25.89%) User Experience
3 18 (16.07%) Full Stack Development
4 17 (15.18%) DevOps
4 17 (15.18%) Software Engineering
5 16 (14.29%) Web Development
6 13 (11.61%) Fintech
7 12 (10.71%) Clean Code
8 11 (9.82%) UX Design
9 10 (8.93%) Asset Management
9 10 (8.93%) Investment Management
9 10 (8.93%) Performance Attribution
9 10 (8.93%) TDD
10 8 (7.14%) E-Commerce
10 8 (7.14%) OO
11 7 (6.25%) API Management
11 7 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (6.25%) OOD
12 6 (5.36%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 78 (69.64%) TypeScript
2 62 (55.36%) JavaScript
3 16 (14.29%) C#
4 10 (8.93%) Python
5 7 (6.25%) Bicep
6 4 (3.57%) SQL
7 3 (2.68%) Bash
7 3 (2.68%) Java
8 2 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.89%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.89%) Go
9 1 (0.89%) JSX
9 1 (0.89%) Ruby
9 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.89%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
1 6 (5.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 15 (13.39%) WCAG
3 3 (2.68%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.46%) Docker
3 2 (1.79%) zsh
Systems Management
1 4 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.89%) Ansible
3 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (8.93%) Google
2 8 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.68%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle
4 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.89%) SAP