Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Contract Job Trends 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 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 366 383 433
Rank change year-on-year +17 +50 +121
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.030% 0.013% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.013% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £442 £390
25th Percentile - £498 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +21.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £469 £723 £525
90th Percentile £480 £784 -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -20.00%

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 12,380 14,992 19,412
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,241 9,739 14,154
10th Percentile £335 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 167 210
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.31
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £22.26
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -7.41% +24.62%
75th Percentile £48.00 £58.75 £61.15
90th Percentile £67.11 £79.55 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.61% +59.17%

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

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 London.

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

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

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the London 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
West London - 1 - -
Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Android
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Dart
2 2 (50.00%) Flutter
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) gRPC
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (25.00%) Redux
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing

Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Flutter
1 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Dart
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Go