Front End Development Contracts

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 211 126
Rank change year-on-year +25 -85 -6
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 531 710 1,841
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 1.24% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.38% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 500 1,359
10th Percentile £363 £350 £399
25th Percentile £418 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £717 £758 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 25
10th Percentile £40.00 £44.98 £24.59
25th Percentile £53.75 £55.44 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.45% +3.75% +84.62%
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.38 £75.39
90th Percentile £76.50 £76.70 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.99% +13.64% +107.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +24 460 £525 -1.87% 431
London +36 312 £538 -8.90% 200
Work from Home +36 224 £506 +1.25% 263
UK excluding London +4 151 £475 - 284
North of England +10 69 £525 +0.96% 73
North West +44 51 £488 -2.50% 37
South West +17 26 £450 +5.88% 28
Yorkshire -20 17 £550 +4.76% 30
Midlands -9 15 £425 - 49
Scotland +42 13 £450 -3.43% 11
South East +4 13 £460 +15.00% 92
Wales +20 9 £533 -3.14% 3
East Midlands -1 9 £425 +2.41% 17
East of England +2 6 £500 -6.54% 28
West Midlands +7 5 £400 -20.00% 32
North East +3 1 £350 -30.00% 7

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 38 (7.16%) CMS
2 13 (2.45%) Confluence
3 10 (1.88%) Apache
3 10 (1.88%) WordPress
4 8 (1.51%) BizTalk Server
4 8 (1.51%) Headless CMS
5 7 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.94%) Kentico
7 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.56%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.38%) nginx
8 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.38%) Tornado
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Drupal
9 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Solana
9 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.56%) Sketch
3 1 (0.19%) InVision
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.94%) Endur
2 3 (0.56%) Shopify
3 2 (0.38%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 117 (22.03%) AWS
2 91 (17.14%) Azure
3 42 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (7.72%) GitHub
5 36 (6.78%) GCP
6 27 (5.08%) Serverless
7 26 (4.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 23 (4.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 19 (3.58%) Figma
10 15 (2.82%) npm
11 14 (2.64%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.45%) Azure Functions
12 13 (2.45%) Azure Pipelines
13 12 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.26%) HTTP
2 3 (0.56%) Intranet
3 1 (0.19%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.10%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 19 (3.58%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.01%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (2.45%) MySQL
7 9 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.32%) Apache Ignite
9 6 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.75%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.75%) Redis
12 2 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.38%) GIS
12 2 (0.38%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.38%) Power BI
12 2 (0.38%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 97 (18.27%) Git
2 29 (5.46%) JIRA
3 27 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.08%) webpack
4 25 (4.71%) Cypress.io
5 22 (4.14%) JUnit
6 18 (3.39%) GitLab
6 18 (3.39%) Storybook
7 8 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (1.32%) Postman
9 6 (1.13%) Babel
9 6 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.13%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.13%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.94%) Pylint
11 4 (0.75%) Gradle
11 4 (0.75%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.75%) Maven
11 4 (0.75%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 86 (16.20%) Finance
2 71 (13.37%) Social Skills
3 59 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 45 (8.47%) Banking
5 31 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (5.65%) Front Office
7 14 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.45%) Local Government
9 12 (2.26%) Back Office
10 10 (1.88%) Marketing
11 9 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.94%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.94%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.75%) Advertising
14 4 (0.75%) Retail
14 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.56%) Automotive
15 3 (0.56%) Law
15 3 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 431 (81.17%) Developer
2 232 (43.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 103 (19.40%) Senior
4 82 (15.44%) Senior Developer
5 70 (13.18%) React Developer
6 53 (9.98%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 43 (8.10%) Full Stack Developer
8 40 (7.53%) Java Developer
9 38 (7.16%) Angular Developer
10 37 (6.97%) Software Engineer
11 32 (6.03%) UI Developer
12 22 (4.14%) C# Developer
13 21 (3.95%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 21 (3.95%) Lead
14 19 (3.58%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.39%) JavaScript Developer
15 18 (3.39%) UX Developer
16 14 (2.64%) Backend Developer
16 14 (2.64%) HTML Developer
17 13 (2.45%) HTML CSS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (51.41%) React
2 178 (33.52%) CSS
3 173 (32.58%) HTML
4 109 (20.53%) AngularJS
5 81 (15.25%) REST
6 75 (14.12%) Node.js
7 63 (11.86%) .NET
8 60 (11.30%) Redux
9 53 (9.98%) Spring
10 49 (9.23%) Next.js
11 48 (9.04%) Spring Boot
12 47 (8.85%) Vue
13 40 (7.53%) Hibernate
14 37 (6.97%) HTML5
15 34 (6.40%) JPA
16 33 (6.21%) GraphQL
17 30 (5.65%) jQuery
18 29 (5.46%) .NET Core
18 29 (5.46%) RESTful
19 24 (4.52%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.65%) Fixed Income
2 22 (4.14%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.64%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.64%) Renewable Energy
5 11 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.32%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.13%) Solar Panel
8 5 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.75%) Wiki
10 3 (0.56%) Derivative
10 3 (0.56%) Equities
10 3 (0.56%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.56%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.38%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.26%) Windows
2 9 (1.69%) Linux
3 3 (0.56%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.19%) CentOS
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (35.59%) Agile
2 116 (21.85%) User Experience
3 103 (19.40%) Software Engineering
4 99 (18.64%) DevOps
5 96 (18.08%) CI/CD
6 81 (15.25%) Full Stack Development
7 69 (12.99%) UX Design
8 56 (10.55%) Microservices
9 53 (9.98%) Web Development
10 52 (9.79%) Mentoring
10 52 (9.79%) Unit Testing
11 48 (9.04%) TDD
12 42 (7.91%) Scrum
13 41 (7.72%) Clean Code
14 40 (7.53%) Code Quality
15 39 (7.34%) Test Automation
16 37 (6.97%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 31 (5.84%) MVC
19 26 (4.90%) OO
Programming Languages
1 232 (43.69%) JavaScript
2 202 (38.04%) TypeScript
3 91 (17.14%) Java
4 80 (15.07%) C#
5 76 (14.31%) SQL
6 63 (11.86%) Python
7 16 (3.01%) Bicep
8 12 (2.26%) PHP
9 10 (1.88%) Go
10 9 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.51%) Bash
11 8 (1.51%) C++
11 8 (1.51%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.32%) Ruby
13 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.56%) JSX
15 2 (0.38%) F#
16 1 (0.19%) C
16 1 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 74 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.21%) Degree
4 19 (3.58%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (9.60%) Accessibility
2 32 (6.03%) QA
2 32 (6.03%) WCAG
3 7 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 55 (10.36%) Docker
2 17 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.75%) zsh
Systems Management
1 62 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.32%) Terraform
4 4 (0.75%) Grafana
5 3 (0.56%) Istio
5 3 (0.56%) Kibana
6 1 (0.19%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.27%) Google
3 14 (2.64%) Oracle
4 8 (1.51%) MuleSoft
5 5 (0.94%) Adobe
6 4 (0.75%) Black Duck
6 4 (0.75%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.56%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.56%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.38%) Confluent
8 2 (0.38%) Databricks
8 2 (0.38%) Maxymiser
8 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.38%) SAP
8 2 (0.38%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.19%) Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.19%) Okta
9 1 (0.19%) Splunk
9 1 (0.19%) Virgin Media