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

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

The median Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in London is £450, 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 352 385 480
Rank change year-on-year +33 +95 +110
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 1 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.008% 0.034% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.036% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - - £367
25th Percentile - £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £638
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -33.33% +6.25%
75th Percentile - £438 £747
90th Percentile - - £824
England median daily rate £450 £425 £625
% change year-on-year +5.88% -32.00% +4.17%

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%

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

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) Progressive Web App
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality

Senior 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:

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Progressive Web App