Front End Development Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Front End Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 101 77
Rank change year-on-year -5 -24 +40
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 17 22 56
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.94% 1.17% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.27% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 31
10th Percentile £239 £418 £400
25th Percentile £425 £484 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £495
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -17.50%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £594
90th Percentile £638 £803 £675
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,626 1,728 2,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.59% 92.01% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,052 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £372 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.52% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -37.13%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -32.10%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in the City of London

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Front End Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the City of London

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Front End Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) GitHub
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
5 1 (5.88%) Google Gemini
5 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.88%) npm
5 1 (5.88%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Cypress.io
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Storybook
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) gulp
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Mockito
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.76%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) React
2 7 (41.18%) AngularJS
2 7 (41.18%) CSS
2 7 (41.18%) HTML
3 5 (29.41%) RESTful
4 3 (17.65%) HTML5
4 3 (17.65%) Jest
4 3 (17.65%) Vue
5 2 (11.76%) .NET
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.76%) CSS3
5 2 (11.76%) D3.js
5 2 (11.76%) Django
5 2 (11.76%) Express.js
5 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
5 2 (11.76%) Next.js
5 2 (11.76%) Node.js
5 2 (11.76%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) Spring
5 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) User Experience
4 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
5 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
5 3 (17.65%) Observability
5 3 (17.65%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (17.65%) User Research
5 3 (17.65%) UX Design
6 2 (11.76%) AI
6 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (11.76%) Refactoring
6 2 (11.76%) Scrum
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 4 (23.53%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (17.65%) WCAG
3 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Argo
2 1 (5.88%) Istio
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle