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

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

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in England is £476 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 586 724
Rank change year-on-year +71 +138 -163
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 28 62 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.075% 0.12% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.13% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 54
10th Percentile - £417 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% -0.83% +21.00%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £748 £709
UK median daily rate £477 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -20.50% - +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England

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

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London +84 19 £475 -20.83% 22
South East +18 3 £400 -17.95%
East of England - 3 £485 - 6
North of England +20 2 £514 +4.00% 3
North West +23 1 £550 +11.39% 3
North East - 1 £477 -
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 England region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 19 (67.86%) React
2 18 (64.29%) Front End Development
2 18 (64.29%) JavaScript
3 16 (57.14%) Agile
4 14 (50.00%) TypeScript
5 11 (39.29%) Redux
6 10 (35.71%) Node.js
7 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
7 9 (32.14%) Finance
7 9 (32.14%) User Experience
8 8 (28.57%) GCP
8 8 (28.57%) AWS
9 7 (25.00%) GitHub
9 7 (25.00%) AngularJS
9 7 (25.00%) Scrum
9 7 (25.00%) Java
9 7 (25.00%) Python
9 7 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (21.43%) Fintech
10 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
10 6 (21.43%) Git
10 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
11 5 (17.86%) Investment Management
11 5 (17.86%) CSS
11 5 (17.86%) Front Office
11 5 (17.86%) Apache
11 5 (17.86%) Fixed Income
11 5 (17.86%) Asset Management
11 5 (17.86%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (17.86%) gRPC

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (17.86%) Apache
1 5 (17.86%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
1 8 (28.57%) GCP
2 7 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (10.71%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Serverless
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.57%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.57%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Mixpanel
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) webpack
3 1 (3.57%) Babel
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Front Office
3 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (67.86%) React
2 11 (39.29%) Redux
3 10 (35.71%) Node.js
4 7 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (17.86%) CSS
5 5 (17.86%) gRPC
5 5 (17.86%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (14.29%) HTML
6 4 (14.29%) Jest
7 2 (7.14%) ADO
7 2 (7.14%) GraphQL
7 2 (7.14%) Spring
7 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
7 2 (7.14%) YAML
8 1 (3.57%) Enzyme
8 1 (3.57%) JSON
8 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (3.57%) Next.js
8 1 (3.57%) RESTful
8 1 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.57%) BBC
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.57%) Solar Panel
2 1 (3.57%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Front End Development
2 16 (57.14%) Agile
3 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
3 9 (32.14%) User Experience
4 7 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
4 7 (25.00%) Scrum
5 6 (21.43%) Fintech
5 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 5 (17.86%) Asset Management
6 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.86%) Investment Management
6 5 (17.86%) Performance Attribution
7 4 (14.29%) B2C
7 4 (14.29%) Clean Code
7 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 4 (14.29%) E-Commerce
7 4 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 4 (14.29%) TDD
8 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.71%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) JavaScript
2 14 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (25.00%) Java
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) zsh
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Adobe