Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Contracts in London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
England > London

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in London is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 438 540
Rank change year-on-year +65 +102 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 27 46 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 39 43
10th Percentile £413 £394 £400
25th Percentile £427 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £716 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £730 £713
England median daily rate £493 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -17.92% - +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,438 23,913 36,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 95.07% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 17,448 27,145
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 279 411
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.57 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +6.54%
75th Percentile £46.68 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £80.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in London.

Daily rate trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
West London +26 2 £475 +58.33%
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 21 (77.78%) Front End Development
2 20 (74.07%) React
3 18 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 18 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 18 (66.67%) Agile
4 16 (59.26%) Finance
4 16 (59.26%) AWS
4 16 (59.26%) Node.js
5 14 (51.85%) Fintech
5 14 (51.85%) Redux
6 13 (48.15%) User Experience
6 13 (48.15%) GCP
7 12 (44.44%) Python
8 11 (40.74%) Front Office
8 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
9 10 (37.04%) gRPC
9 10 (37.04%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (37.04%) Protocol Buffers
9 10 (37.04%) Asset Management
9 10 (37.04%) Fixed Income
9 10 (37.04%) Investment Management
9 10 (37.04%) Apache
9 10 (37.04%) Performance Attribution
9 10 (37.04%) Apache Ignite
9 10 (37.04%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (22.22%) CSS
10 6 (22.22%) Scrum
10 6 (22.22%) AngularJS
11 5 (18.52%) Serverless
12 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (37.04%) Apache
1 10 (37.04%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (3.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) AWS
2 13 (48.15%) GCP
3 5 (18.52%) Serverless
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (14.81%) Azure
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) Stripe
6 1 (3.70%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Apache Ignite
2 4 (14.81%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 2 (7.41%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 16 (59.26%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Front Office
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (74.07%) React
2 16 (59.26%) Node.js
3 14 (51.85%) Redux
4 10 (37.04%) gRPC
4 10 (37.04%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 6 (22.22%) CSS
6 4 (14.81%) HTML
7 2 (7.41%) ADO
7 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
7 2 (7.41%) Next.js
7 2 (7.41%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (7.41%) YAML
8 1 (3.70%) Enzyme
8 1 (3.70%) Jest
8 1 (3.70%) Material-UI
8 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (3.70%) RxJS
8 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.70%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Front End Development
2 18 (66.67%) Agile
3 14 (51.85%) Fintech
4 13 (48.15%) User Experience
5 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
6 10 (37.04%) Asset Management
6 10 (37.04%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (37.04%) Investment Management
6 10 (37.04%) Performance Attribution
7 6 (22.22%) Scrum
8 4 (14.81%) Responsive Web Design
9 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 2 (7.41%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
10 2 (7.41%) Microservices
10 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (7.41%) Runbook
10 2 (7.41%) Software Testing
10 2 (7.41%) Unit Testing
10 2 (7.41%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 18 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.41%) Monzo
1 2 (7.41%) Revolut