Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Contracts in the UK excluding London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £468 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 May 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 418 501
Rank change year-on-year +37 +83 -65
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 6 19 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.082% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.087% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £375 £451 -
25th Percentile £394 £481 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £508 £605
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -16.12% +38.29%
75th Percentile £485 £572 £656
90th Percentile £543 £582 £697
UK median daily rate £485 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -19.17% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £74.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,744 21,756 29,108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,430 15,189 20,397
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,113 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the UK excluding London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South East +20 3 £400 -17.95% 2
East of England +12 3 £485 -16.88% 2
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (83.33%) React
2 4 (66.67%) Front End Development
3 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (50.00%) B2B
3 3 (50.00%) B2C
3 3 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Google
3 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (50.00%) zsh
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Spring
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) SEO
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 2 (33.33%) Full Stack Development

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Jest
2 2 (33.33%) Redux
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Front End Development
3 3 (50.00%) B2B
3 3 (50.00%) B2C
3 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) SEO
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) zsh
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google