Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
England > North of England

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in the North of England 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 208 155 188
Rank change year-on-year -53 +33 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 8 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.030% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.032% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £423 - £471
25th Percentile £494 £375 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £514
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -22.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile - £425 £553
90th Percentile £618 - £566
England median daily rate £445 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -1.11% -12.20% -14.58%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,590 3,100 4,529
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 92.43% 93.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,034 1,823 2,959
10th Percentile £213 £230 £263
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% -4.08% -2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £587
90th Percentile £650 £650 £674
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 140 322
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.22 £11.81
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.86 £13.99
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.62% +20.56% -5.68%
75th Percentile £57.50 £41.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.00 £68.72 £60.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) job vacancy trend in the North of England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the North of England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
North West -18 6 £600 +50.00% 6
Yorkshire - 2 £544 -
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
England

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

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 North of England region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) React
1 7 (87.50%) User Experience
2 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Next.js
3 4 (50.00%) Redux
3 4 (50.00%) REST
3 4 (50.00%) Zustand
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 3 (37.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 3 (37.50%) CSS
4 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
4 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
4 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (37.50%) Jest
4 3 (37.50%) Node.js
4 3 (37.50%) WebSockets
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Docker
5 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (25.00%) GCP
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Datadog
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Mocha
General
1 3 (37.50%) Games
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) React
2 4 (50.00%) Next.js
2 4 (50.00%) Redux
2 4 (50.00%) REST
2 4 (50.00%) Zustand
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
3 3 (37.50%) Jest
3 3 (37.50%) Node.js
3 3 (37.50%) WebSockets
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) Playwright
5 1 (12.50%) CSS3
5 1 (12.50%) HTML5
5 1 (12.50%) RESTful
5 1 (12.50%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) User Experience
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform