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 £485 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 578 715
Rank change year-on-year +69 +137 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 32 69 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.087% 0.14% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.15% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 49 49
10th Percentile - £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £700
90th Percentile £800 £720 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +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
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 34,037 45,024 67,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.58% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,551 32,010 48,394
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.79% +7.05%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,522 1,314 1,828
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.74
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +93.05% +8.42%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.01 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%

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 28 May 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 28 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
London +64 25 £500 -16.67% 23
South East +15 3 £400 -17.95% 13
East of England +8 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 England

For the 6 months to 28 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 England region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 24 (75.00%) React
1 24 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 22 (68.75%) JavaScript
3 20 (62.50%) Agile
4 19 (59.38%) TypeScript
5 16 (50.00%) Redux
6 15 (46.88%) Finance
7 14 (43.75%) Node.js
7 14 (43.75%) AWS
7 14 (43.75%) GCP
8 13 (40.63%) User Experience
8 13 (40.63%) Software Engineering
9 12 (37.50%) Fintech
10 11 (34.38%) Full Stack Development
10 11 (34.38%) Python
11 10 (31.25%) Front Office
12 9 (28.13%) Performance Attribution
12 9 (28.13%) gRPC
12 9 (28.13%) Apache Airflow
12 9 (28.13%) Apache Ignite
12 9 (28.13%) Apache
12 9 (28.13%) Asset Management
12 9 (28.13%) Fixed Income
12 9 (28.13%) Protocol Buffers
12 9 (28.13%) Investment Management
13 7 (21.88%) Git
13 7 (21.88%) GitHub
13 7 (21.88%) Scrum
13 7 (21.88%) AngularJS
14 6 (18.75%) CSS

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 9 (28.13%) Apache
1 9 (28.13%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) AWS
1 14 (43.75%) GCP
2 7 (21.88%) GitHub
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Serverless
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.13%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) Apache Ignite
2 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.25%) webpack
4 1 (3.13%) Babel
General
1 15 (46.88%) Finance
2 10 (31.25%) Front Office
3 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (75.00%) React
2 16 (50.00%) Redux
3 14 (43.75%) Node.js
4 9 (28.13%) gRPC
4 9 (28.13%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (21.88%) AngularJS
6 6 (18.75%) CSS
7 4 (12.50%) HTML
7 4 (12.50%) Jest
8 2 (6.25%) ADO
8 2 (6.25%) GraphQL
8 2 (6.25%) Next.js
8 2 (6.25%) Spring
8 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 2 (6.25%) YAML
9 1 (3.13%) Enzyme
9 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (3.13%) RESTful
9 1 (3.13%) RxJS
9 1 (3.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (3.13%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 20 (62.50%) Agile
3 13 (40.63%) Software Engineering
3 13 (40.63%) User Experience
4 12 (37.50%) Fintech
5 11 (34.38%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (28.13%) Asset Management
6 9 (28.13%) Investment Management
6 9 (28.13%) Performance Attribution
7 7 (21.88%) Scrum
8 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
9 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
9 5 (15.63%) Clean Code
10 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
10 4 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
10 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
11 3 (9.38%) B2B
11 3 (9.38%) B2C
11 3 (9.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 19 (59.38%) TypeScript
3 11 (34.38%) Python
4 5 (15.63%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) Bash
6 2 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) zsh
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Monzo
3 1 (3.13%) Revolut