Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 212 84
Rank change year-on-year -15 -128 -14
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 1,321 1,708 6,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.75% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.84% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 1,152 3,021
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,032 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,800 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £75,772 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development.

Salary trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -20 1,071 £60,000 -7.69% 333
UK excluding London +23 947 £52,500 -8.70% 205
Work from Home +7 660 £60,000 -7.69% 226
London -77 297 £77,500 +10.71% 136
North of England +49 261 £50,000 - 54
South East -39 168 £60,000 - 48
Midlands +71 155 £42,500 -25.11% 38
North West +32 150 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Scotland +2 143 £52,500 -8.70% 12
South West +17 126 £50,000 -4.76% 23
West Midlands +76 107 £46,250 -15.91% 23
Yorkshire +53 85 £45,000 -2.17% 18
East of England -37 52 £65,620 +0.95% 29
East Midlands +1 47 £40,000 -38.46% 15
North East +10 26 £52,500 +31.25% 4
Northern Ireland +16 21 £55,000 - 2
Wales -21 21 £70,000 +33.33% 1

Front End Development
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 69 (5.22%) CMS
2 55 (4.16%) WordPress
3 37 (2.80%) Tuxedo
4 24 (1.82%) Apache
5 18 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 14 (1.06%) Headless CMS
7 12 (0.91%) Confluence
8 11 (0.83%) nginx
9 6 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.45%) IIS
10 5 (0.38%) Kentico
10 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.23%) SAS
11 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.15%) Drupal
13 1 (0.076%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (1.59%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.21%) Photoshop
3 7 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.30%) Maya
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.30%) Sketch
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.15%) Notion
7 1 (0.076%) InVision
Business Applications
1 23 (1.74%) Shopify
2 8 (0.61%) Magento
3 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 285 (21.57%) AWS
2 264 (19.98%) Azure
3 81 (6.13%) SaaS
4 65 (4.92%) GCP
5 51 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (3.63%) Figma
7 39 (2.95%) GitHub
8 26 (1.97%) npm
9 19 (1.44%) Google Analytics
9 19 (1.44%) Serverless
10 16 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (0.68%) dbt
13 8 (0.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (0.61%) Firebase
13 8 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (0.61%) Google Tag Manager
13 8 (0.61%) Power Platform
14 7 (0.53%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.06%) HTTP
2 11 (0.83%) Internet
3 8 (0.61%) MQTT
4 7 (0.53%) DNS
5 6 (0.45%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.15%) SSH
7 1 (0.076%) Broadband
7 1 (0.076%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 67 (5.07%) MySQL
3 60 (4.54%) Relational Database
4 41 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 23 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 23 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (1.44%) NoSQL
7 19 (1.44%) Redis
8 18 (1.36%) Apache Ignite
9 16 (1.21%) GIS
10 11 (0.83%) MS Access
11 10 (0.76%) Big Data
12 7 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.45%) MariaDB
13 6 (0.45%) Power BI
14 3 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.23%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.23%) Event Store
14 3 (0.23%) Looker
Development Applications
1 253 (19.15%) Git
2 73 (5.53%) Cypress.io
3 46 (3.48%) Selenium
4 45 (3.41%) JIRA
5 39 (2.95%) webpack
6 33 (2.50%) Jenkins
7 29 (2.20%) gulp
7 29 (2.20%) Visual Studio
8 28 (2.12%) Cucumber
9 27 (2.04%) Jasmine
10 25 (1.89%) Bitbucket
11 22 (1.67%) Storybook
11 22 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
12 21 (1.59%) Karma Test Runner
13 19 (1.44%) GitLab
14 11 (0.83%) Postman
15 9 (0.68%) Grunt
15 9 (0.68%) Subversion
16 8 (0.61%) IntelliJ
16 8 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 297 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 202 (15.29%) Finance
3 87 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (6.21%) Marketing
5 63 (4.77%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (4.62%) Law
7 55 (4.16%) Public Sector
8 53 (4.01%) Retail
9 42 (3.18%) Banking
10 41 (3.10%) Manufacturing
11 27 (2.04%) Games
12 22 (1.67%) Front Office
12 22 (1.67%) Tech for Good
13 19 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.29%) Automotive
14 17 (1.29%) Electronics
15 16 (1.21%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.14%) Legal
16 15 (1.14%) Private Banking
17 14 (1.06%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,035 (78.35%) Developer
2 576 (43.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 438 (33.16%) Senior
4 339 (25.66%) Senior Developer
5 199 (15.06%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 165 (12.49%) Lead
7 147 (11.13%) React Developer
8 113 (8.55%) Full Stack Developer
9 110 (8.33%) Software Engineer
10 93 (7.04%) Software Developer
11 76 (5.75%) Lead Developer
12 60 (4.54%) Senior React Developer
13 57 (4.31%) .NET Developer
14 56 (4.24%) Web Developer
15 53 (4.01%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 52 (3.94%) PHP Developer
17 50 (3.79%) UI Developer
18 46 (3.48%) Senior Software Developer
19 41 (3.10%) Angular Developer
20 39 (2.95%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 620 (46.93%) CSS
2 613 (46.40%) React
3 593 (44.89%) HTML
4 307 (23.24%) AngularJS
5 255 (19.30%) Node.js
6 252 (19.08%) .NET
7 181 (13.70%) Vue
8 148 (11.20%) RESTful
9 140 (10.60%) HTML5
10 128 (9.69%) Sass
11 122 (9.24%) CSS3
12 109 (8.25%) jQuery
13 102 (7.72%) .NET Core
14 97 (7.34%) REST
15 89 (6.74%) ASP.NET
16 86 (6.51%) Jest
17 84 (6.36%) Redux
18 65 (4.92%) .NET Framework
18 65 (4.92%) GraphQL
19 64 (4.84%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 98 (7.42%) Greenfield Project
2 52 (3.94%) Mobile App
3 51 (3.86%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 25 (1.89%) Cloud Native
6 24 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.51%) Client/Server
8 19 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (1.36%) Fixed Income
10 15 (1.14%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.14%) Private Cloud
11 13 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.91%) Blockchain
12 12 (0.91%) Operational Technology
12 12 (0.91%) Public Cloud
13 10 (0.76%) Social Media
14 9 (0.68%) Animation
14 9 (0.68%) IoT
14 9 (0.68%) Low-Code
14 9 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.48%) Linux
2 19 (1.44%) Android
3 13 (0.98%) Apple iOS
3 13 (0.98%) Windows
4 6 (0.45%) CentOS
5 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.076%) Unix
7 1 (0.076%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (33.99%) Agile
2 361 (27.33%) User Experience
3 312 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
4 289 (21.88%) Full Stack Development
5 278 (21.04%) Software Engineering
6 217 (16.43%) Computer Science
7 199 (15.06%) DevOps
8 196 (14.84%) UX Design
9 171 (12.94%) Web Development
10 160 (12.11%) Mentoring
11 139 (10.52%) CI/CD
12 119 (9.01%) E-Commerce
13 111 (8.40%) Continuous Integration
14 99 (7.49%) Test Automation
15 97 (7.34%) TDD
16 84 (6.36%) MVC
17 80 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence
18 78 (5.90%) Clean Code
19 77 (5.83%) Microservices
19 77 (5.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 774 (58.59%) JavaScript
2 465 (35.20%) TypeScript
3 290 (21.95%) C#
4 219 (16.58%) SQL
5 182 (13.78%) Java
6 147 (11.13%) PHP
7 137 (10.37%) Python
8 46 (3.48%) T-SQL
9 42 (3.18%) COBOL
9 42 (3.18%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 39 (2.95%) Go
11 35 (2.65%) Ruby
12 17 (1.29%) VB.NET
13 11 (0.83%) C
14 9 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.53%) C++
15 7 (0.53%) Rust
16 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.38%) GLSL
18 4 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 261 (19.76%) Degree
2 105 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 103 (7.80%) Security Cleared
4 86 (6.51%) SC Cleared
5 34 (2.57%) Master's Degree
6 31 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.45%) HND
8 5 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.15%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.076%) CIPD
10 1 (0.076%) PhD
10 1 (0.076%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.076%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.55%) Accessibility
2 52 (3.94%) WCAG
3 48 (3.63%) QA
4 16 (1.21%) WAI
5 9 (0.68%) GDPR
6 5 (0.38%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.076%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.076%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.076%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 125 (9.46%) Docker
2 7 (0.53%) Firmware
3 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.23%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 77 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.91%) Terraform
3 7 (0.53%) Ansible
4 4 (0.30%) Rancher
5 1 (0.076%) Packer
5 1 (0.076%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.00%) Google
3 57 (4.31%) Adobe
4 46 (3.48%) Oracle
5 42 (3.18%) Micro Focus
6 18 (1.36%) SAP
7 11 (0.83%) WooCommerce
8 9 (0.68%) DevExpress
9 8 (0.61%) Facebook
10 7 (0.53%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.53%) NVIDIA
11 5 (0.38%) Xamarin
12 4 (0.30%) Mercator
12 4 (0.30%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.30%) Sybase
12 4 (0.30%) VMware
13 3 (0.23%) OutSystems
14 2 (0.15%) Apple
14 2 (0.15%) F5
14 2 (0.15%) IBM