Front End Development Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 88 117
Rank change year-on-year -12 +29 -13
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 19 40 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.10% 1.74% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.94% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 31
10th Percentile £414 £364 £463
25th Percentile £475 £414 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -26.92% +15.81%
75th Percentile £738 £603 £713
90th Percentile £809 £778 £813
Central London median daily rate £575 £463 £625
% change year-on-year +24.32% -26.00% +8.70%

All Process and 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 1,598 2,066 3,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.26% 89.79% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,465 2,364
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £725
90th Percentile £772 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £593
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.17% +4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 30
10th Percentile £22.00 £18.93 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.07 £20.42
Median hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -45.65% +8.88%
75th Percentile £34.68 £40.92 £58.75
90th Percentile £51.75 £50.25 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -17.16%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the City of London

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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 1 April 2025.

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

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the City of London

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (5.26%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.53%) npm
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
3 2 (10.53%) Yarn
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Intranet
1 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Ant
2 2 (10.53%) Babel
2 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
2 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
2 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
2 2 (10.53%) webpack
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Front Office
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) React Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Software Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (21.05%) Algorithm Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) .NET Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Senior
7 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Front Office Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) .NET
2 8 (42.11%) React
3 7 (36.84%) .NET Core
4 5 (26.32%) CSS
5 4 (21.05%) Blazor
5 4 (21.05%) HTML
6 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
6 3 (15.79%) Redux
7 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
7 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (10.53%) CSS3
7 2 (10.53%) HTML5
7 2 (10.53%) Material-UI
7 2 (10.53%) RESTful
7 2 (10.53%) Semantic UI
7 2 (10.53%) Web Services
7 2 (10.53%) WPF
8 1 (5.26%) Fastify
8 1 (5.26%) Next.js
8 1 (5.26%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Code
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Algorithmic Trading
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Multithreading
4 4 (21.05%) User Experience
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Fintech
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) UX Design
6 2 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Database Optimisation
6 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) C#
2 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 7 (36.84%) TypeScript
4 5 (26.32%) SQL
5 3 (15.79%) Python
5 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
6 1 (5.26%) C++
6 1 (5.26%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle
1 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.26%) SAP
1 1 (5.26%) Splunk