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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
North West > Manchester

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in Manchester is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 82 100
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.49% 0.096% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.10% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £550 £375 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile - £425 £575
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £600 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +50.00% -27.27% +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,134 977 1,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 94.12% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 606 1,071
10th Percentile £310 £310 £313
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -1.02%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £669 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 33 72
10th Percentile £18.16 £15.93 £12.00
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +44.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 £61.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £29.52 £34.21
% change year-on-year +42.10% -13.72% +32.55%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

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

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

For the 6 months to 29 January 2026, 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 Manchester region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) React
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 4 (66.67%) Next.js
2 4 (66.67%) Redux
2 4 (66.67%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) Zustand
3 3 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (50.00%) WebSockets
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Node.js
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Playwright
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) API Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Datadog
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Games
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) React
2 4 (66.67%) Next.js
2 4 (66.67%) Redux
2 4 (66.67%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) Zustand
3 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (50.00%) WebSockets
4 2 (33.33%) Node.js
4 2 (33.33%) Playwright
5 1 (16.67%) CSS
5 1 (16.67%) Jest
5 1 (16.67%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) API Integration
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform