Frontend rates
£500-£800/day- React: £550-£800/day
- Vue: £500-£720/day
- TypeScript-heavy delivery drives premium bands
UK Contract Rates Q1 2026
Live rate benchmarks for startup teams hiring UK-based contract engineers.
Backend rates
£580-£950/day- Node.js: £600-£900/day
- Python: £620-£920/day
- Rust: £750-£1,100/day (specialist premium)
AI rates
£700-£1,100/day- Applied LLM engineers: £700-£980/day
- RAG/production inference specialists: £820-£1,100/day
- Domain context heavily impacts price