Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Contracts

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 612 768
Rank change year-on-year +69 +156 -102
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 36 72 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.13% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.14% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 49 56
10th Percentile - £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £581
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.23% +16.25%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £700
90th Percentile £800 £703 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £508 £650
% change year-on-year -4.43% -21.92% +52.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +180.00% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £74.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +196.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
England +60 31 £493 -17.92% 27
London +78 25 £500 -16.67% 17
Work from Home +93 24 £600 - 16
UK excluding London +37 5 £485 -4.43% 10
East of England +8 3 £485 -16.88% 1
South East +9 2 £400 -17.95% 4

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 26 (72.22%) React
2 25 (69.44%) JavaScript
3 24 (66.67%) Front End Development
4 20 (55.56%) TypeScript
4 20 (55.56%) Agile
5 16 (44.44%) Redux
6 15 (41.67%) Finance
6 15 (41.67%) AWS
7 14 (38.89%) Node.js
7 14 (38.89%) Software Engineering
7 14 (38.89%) User Experience
7 14 (38.89%) GCP
8 12 (33.33%) Fintech
9 11 (30.56%) Python
9 11 (30.56%) Full Stack Development
10 10 (27.78%) Front Office
11 9 (25.00%) Apache
11 9 (25.00%) Asset Management
11 9 (25.00%) Fixed Income
11 9 (25.00%) Investment Management
11 9 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
11 9 (25.00%) Performance Attribution
11 9 (25.00%) gRPC
11 9 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
12 8 (22.22%) CSS
13 7 (19.44%) Scrum
13 7 (19.44%) GitHub
13 7 (19.44%) Git
13 7 (19.44%) AngularJS

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

Application Platforms
1 9 (25.00%) Apache
1 9 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (2.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 14 (38.89%) GCP
3 7 (19.44%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) Azure
4 4 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.78%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) Apache Ignite
2 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.56%) webpack
4 1 (2.78%) Babel
4 1 (2.78%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.78%) WebPageTest
General
1 15 (41.67%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Front Office
3 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (72.22%) React
2 16 (44.44%) Redux
3 14 (38.89%) Node.js
4 9 (25.00%) gRPC
4 9 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 8 (22.22%) CSS
6 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
7 6 (16.67%) HTML
8 4 (11.11%) Jest
9 2 (5.56%) ADO
9 2 (5.56%) GraphQL
9 2 (5.56%) Next.js
9 2 (5.56%) Spring
9 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
9 2 (5.56%) YAML
10 1 (2.78%) RESTful
10 1 (2.78%) RxJS
10 1 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
10 1 (2.78%) Vue
10 1 (2.78%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.78%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 20 (55.56%) Agile
3 14 (38.89%) Software Engineering
3 14 (38.89%) User Experience
4 12 (33.33%) Fintech
5 11 (30.56%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (25.00%) Asset Management
6 9 (25.00%) Investment Management
6 9 (25.00%) Performance Attribution
7 7 (19.44%) Scrum
8 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
9 5 (13.89%) Clean Code
9 5 (13.89%) E-Commerce
10 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 4 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
10 4 (11.11%) Software Testing
11 3 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (8.33%) TDD
11 3 (8.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) JavaScript
2 20 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 11 (30.56%) Python
4 5 (13.89%) Java
5 3 (8.33%) Bash
6 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.78%) Go
7 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Google
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Monzo
3 1 (2.78%) Revolut
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