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

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

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in Central London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 128 154
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.26% 0.086% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.091% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £411
25th Percentile £613 £325 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -30.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £744 £375 £525
90th Percentile £808 - £615
London median daily rate £463 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -17.78% -6.25% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.72 - -
Median hourly rate £51.44 - -
75th Percentile £52.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £51.44 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,804 2,195 3,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 94.08% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 1,410 2,146
10th Percentile £314 £363 £328
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £578
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.52% +2.30%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
London median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 25 13
10th Percentile £18.33 £21.10 £16.69
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.40 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.83 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% - -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.85 £42.25 £42.32
90th Percentile £64.30 £119.50 £65.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.54
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.21% +13.30%

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

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

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

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) job vacancies in Central London

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in Central London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
City of London +13 4 £625 -
West End of London - 1 - -
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
London

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CSS3
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (80.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) React
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Google
4 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (40.00%) OAuth
4 2 (40.00%) OWASP
4 2 (40.00%) UX Design
4 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (40.00%) Express.js
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub
4 2 (40.00%) WebSockets
4 2 (40.00%) QA
4 2 (40.00%) Azure

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Run
2 2 (40.00%) Firebase
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Google Gemini
2 2 (40.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Google App Engine
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (40.00%) Snyk
1 2 (40.00%) Storybook
2 1 (20.00%) Ant
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) CSS3
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) React
3 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (40.00%) Express.js
4 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (40.00%) Jest
4 2 (40.00%) JWT
4 2 (40.00%) Next.js
4 2 (40.00%) OAuth
4 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (40.00%) Redux
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 2 (40.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (40.00%) WebSockets
4 2 (40.00%) Zustand
5 1 (20.00%) Highcharts JS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Fintech
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
4 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) OpenAI