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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 98 96
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 23 32 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.30% 1.53% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.66% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 31
10th Percentile £406 £513 £369
25th Percentile £431 £519 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £651 £513
Median % change year-on-year -21.31% +27.07% -10.87%
75th Percentile £638 £756 £638
90th Percentile £678 £818 £838
Central London median daily rate £500 £628 £513
% change year-on-year -20.32% +22.44% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

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 1,661 1,932 2,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.21% 92.09% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,224 1,857
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
2 2 (8.70%) Storybook
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 9 (39.13%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Front Office
4 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.70%) Legal
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 12 (52.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (13.04%) Angular Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) React Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Dashboard Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Flutter Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) React
2 10 (43.48%) HTML
3 9 (39.13%) CSS
4 8 (34.78%) AngularJS
5 7 (30.43%) HTML5
6 5 (21.74%) REST
7 4 (17.39%) Next.js
8 3 (13.04%) CSS3
8 3 (13.04%) GraphQL
8 3 (13.04%) Kafka
8 3 (13.04%) Svelte
9 2 (8.70%) .NET
9 2 (8.70%) Django
9 2 (8.70%) Express.js
9 2 (8.70%) Jest
9 2 (8.70%) RESTful
9 2 (8.70%) Sass
9 2 (8.70%) Spring
9 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
10 1 (4.35%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (34.78%) User Experience
4 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) Code Quality
6 5 (21.74%) Microservices
7 4 (17.39%) UX Design
8 3 (13.04%) Analytics
8 3 (13.04%) DevOps
8 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (8.70%) Customer Experience
9 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps
9 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven
9 2 (8.70%) Fintech
9 2 (8.70%) Observability
9 2 (8.70%) Sprint Planning
9 2 (8.70%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) TypeScript
2 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) Python
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) SQL
6 1 (4.35%) Dart
6 1 (4.35%) Go
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Google
1 1 (4.35%) Kony