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

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

The median Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 525 575
Rank change year-on-year +5 +50 +155
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 8 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.028% 0.022% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.024% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £444 £462 £411
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £575
90th Percentile £578 £675 -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.00
Median hourly rate - - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £76.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £74.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 25,877 29,537 38,059
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 93.01% 93.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,643 18,048 26,525
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,469 1,194 1,399
10th Percentile £13.83 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -7.61% +59.17%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.96 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.94%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

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

Senior 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 Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the England region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
London +17 4 £450 -25.62% 18
Yorkshire - 2 £544 - 2
North of England - 2 £544 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
Midlands - 1 £475 -
South West - 1 - -
Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) React
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) HTML
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) Jest
3 3 (37.50%) Node.js
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (37.50%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) Android
4 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (25.00%) Dart
4 2 (25.00%) Flutter
4 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) User Experience
5 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration

Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Mocha
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) Jest
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) Flutter
3 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) gRPC
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (12.50%) Next.js
4 1 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (12.50%) React Native
4 1 (12.50%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) User Experience
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
5 1 (12.50%) Monorepo
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Dart
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes