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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 96 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 -15 +47
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 27 31 60
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.61% 1.47% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.60% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 31
10th Percentile £413 £456 £369
25th Percentile £455 £516 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £557 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +12.42% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £631
90th Percentile £648 £806 £675
Central London median daily rate £500 £557 £495
% change year-on-year -10.15% +12.42% -10.00%
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 1,589 1,942 2,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.47% 91.86% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 1,193 1,798
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £783 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 17
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.08 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.04 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.39% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £41.19 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +30.84% -37.06%

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 24 October 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 & 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 3 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Drupal
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.41%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) Storybook
4 1 (3.70%) GitLab
4 1 (3.70%) gulp
4 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Front Office
4 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.41%) Retail
6 1 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Developer
2 14 (51.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (11.11%) Angular Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) React Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Applications Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (62.96%) React
2 12 (44.44%) HTML
3 11 (40.74%) CSS
4 9 (33.33%) AngularJS
5 8 (29.63%) HTML5
6 6 (22.22%) REST
7 5 (18.52%) Next.js
8 4 (14.81%) .NET
9 3 (11.11%) CSS3
9 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
9 3 (11.11%) Jest
9 3 (11.11%) Kafka
9 3 (11.11%) Sass
9 3 (11.11%) Svelte
10 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET
10 2 (7.41%) Django
10 2 (7.41%) Express.js
10 2 (7.41%) Playwright
10 2 (7.41%) Spring
10 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (33.33%) User Experience
4 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
5 6 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 6 (22.22%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
6 5 (18.52%) Microservices
6 5 (18.52%) UX Design
7 3 (11.11%) Analytics
7 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
7 3 (11.11%) Scrum
7 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (7.41%) DevSecOps
8 2 (7.41%) Observability
8 2 (7.41%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (7.41%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) TypeScript
2 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 6 (22.22%) Python
4 5 (18.52%) C#
5 3 (11.11%) Java
5 3 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (3.70%) Dart
6 1 (3.70%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 5 (18.52%) QA
3 4 (14.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Google
1 1 (3.70%) Kony
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft