Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in Cambridge is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.46% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 202 143 194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 88.27% 91.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 89 116
10th Percentile £211 £280 £206
25th Percentile £363 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +10.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £535
90th Percentile £675 £680 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £470 £471
% change year-on-year +3.72% -0.27% +4.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 29
10th Percentile - £18.20 £15.52
25th Percentile £14.64 £23.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £55.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.68% +120.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £34.38 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £44.35 - £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -25.44% +31.66% +5.16%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 1 March 2026, 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 of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#