Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Contracts in the UK excluding London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £208, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 367 419
Rank change year-on-year +11 +52 +76
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 7 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.022% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.024% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile - £299 £474
25th Percentile £204 £428 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -58.50% -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £211 £519 £588
90th Percentile £321 £553 £601
UK median daily rate £450 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.00
Median hourly rate - - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £76.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £51.44 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +180.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,732 16,995 21,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 92.01% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,406 10,368 14,278
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £684 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 1,772 1,162
10th Percentile £13.36 £14.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

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

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

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

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
South East +29 5 £208 -58.50% 13
South West - 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £420 -
Midlands - 1 £420 - 2
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 UK excluding London region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 6 (85.71%) AngularJS
2 6 (85.71%) GraphQL
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
3 5 (71.43%) Unix
3 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 5 (71.43%) OO
3 5 (71.43%) Python
3 5 (71.43%) Eclipse
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (71.43%) Perl
3 5 (71.43%) MySQL
3 5 (71.43%) Oracle
3 5 (71.43%) Wireless
3 5 (71.43%) Xcode
3 5 (71.43%) Java
3 5 (71.43%) Ajax
3 5 (71.43%) Android
3 5 (71.43%) SaaS
3 5 (71.43%) Splunk
3 5 (71.43%) Sauce Labs
3 5 (71.43%) Mobile App
3 5 (71.43%) Mobile Application Development
3 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
3 5 (71.43%) Relational Database
3 5 (71.43%) Android Studio
3 5 (71.43%) User Experience
3 5 (71.43%) Social Skills

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

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) SaaS
1 5 (71.43%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MySQL
1 5 (71.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Android Studio
1 5 (71.43%) Browser DevTools
1 5 (71.43%) Eclipse
1 5 (71.43%) Xcode
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 6 (85.71%) AngularJS
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) GraphQL
3 5 (71.43%) Ajax
4 1 (14.29%) Express.js
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) Next.js
4 1 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (14.29%) Redux
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Android
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Unix
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Mobile Application Development
1 5 (71.43%) OO
1 5 (71.43%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) A/B Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Perl
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
1 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe