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

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

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in London is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 372 451
Rank change year-on-year +32 +79 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 13 19 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 33
10th Percentile £409 - £412
25th Percentile £450 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -20.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £763 £769 £675
90th Percentile - £800 £790
England median daily rate £713 £476 £600
% change year-on-year +49.68% -20.67% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

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

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

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London - 2 £409 - 2
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) React
2 9 (69.23%) TypeScript
2 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) Front End Development
4 7 (53.85%) AWS
5 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
5 6 (46.15%) Banking
5 6 (46.15%) Finance
5 6 (46.15%) Redux
5 6 (46.15%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (46.15%) Next.js
6 5 (38.46%) Figma
6 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
6 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
6 5 (38.46%) OpenFin
6 5 (38.46%) User Experience
6 5 (38.46%) GCP
6 5 (38.46%) Front Office
6 5 (38.46%) Fixed Income
6 5 (38.46%) CSS
6 5 (38.46%) Investment Management
7 4 (30.77%) HTML
8 3 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
8 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
8 3 (23.08%) Vue
8 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
8 3 (23.08%) webpack
8 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) CMS
1 2 (15.38%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Figma
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) BigCommerce
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) webpack
2 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (15.38%) Grunt
3 1 (7.69%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (7.69%) ESLint
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Vite
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Front Office
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Retail
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) React
2 6 (46.15%) Next.js
2 6 (46.15%) Redux
3 5 (38.46%) CSS
3 5 (38.46%) OpenFin
4 4 (30.77%) HTML
5 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 3 (23.08%) HTML5
5 3 (23.08%) Jest
5 3 (23.08%) Sass
5 3 (23.08%) Vue
6 2 (15.38%) CSS3
6 2 (15.38%) LESS
6 2 (15.38%) Node.js
6 2 (15.38%) React Native
6 2 (15.38%) Semantic HTML
6 2 (15.38%) VML
7 1 (7.69%) GatsbyJS
7 1 (7.69%) Parceljs
7 1 (7.69%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (38.46%) Fixed Income
2 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
3 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) Front End Development
2 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Investment Management
3 5 (38.46%) User Experience
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Acquisition
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) Prototyping
5 2 (15.38%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (15.38%) Story Points
5 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
1 9 (69.23%) TypeScript
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
1 2 (15.38%) Sitecore
2 1 (7.69%) Amplitude