Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Jobs

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 348 183
Rank change year-on-year -66 -165 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 618 940 3,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.97% 2.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 1.06% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 525 664 1,566
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,750 £90,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,915 88,821 160,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 91.42% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,754 56,171 84,699
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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

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

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Salary trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 -82 506 £60,000 -7.69% 142
UK excluding London -40 460 £52,500 -4.55% 88
Work from Home -47 307 £57,500 -11.54% 124
London -88 136 £77,500 +10.71% 55
North of England -21 112 £50,000 -9.09% 25
South East -52 96 £60,000 +9.09% 28
North West +21 79 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Scotland -30 77 £55,000 -4.35% 2
South West +16 71 £50,000 -4.76% 5
Midlands +5 67 £42,000 -23.64% 17
West Midlands +20 47 £42,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire +13 32 £37,500 -11.76% 10
East Midlands -25 20 £41,250 -36.54% 9
East of England -35 20 £70,750 -11.56% 9
Wales -15 12 £80,000 +52.38% 1
Northern Ireland +25 5 - - 1
North East -10 1 £37,500 -6.25%

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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 permanent job ads featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 580 (93.85%) Front End Development
2 374 (60.52%) React
3 371 (60.03%) JavaScript
4 297 (48.06%) CSS
5 270 (43.69%) HTML
6 264 (42.72%) TypeScript
7 191 (30.91%) Agile
8 184 (29.77%) User Experience
9 181 (29.29%) AngularJS
10 140 (22.65%) Node.js
11 131 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
12 124 (20.06%) Git
13 122 (19.74%) Degree
14 119 (19.26%) Social Skills
15 101 (16.34%) AWS
16 99 (16.02%) HTML5
17 88 (14.24%) Vue
18 87 (14.08%) Finance
19 84 (13.59%) Azure
20 83 (13.43%) UX Design
21 78 (12.62%) CSS3
22 74 (11.97%) Redux
23 72 (11.65%) Software Engineering
24 70 (11.33%) PHP
25 69 (11.17%) Computer Science
26 67 (10.84%) Web Development
26 67 (10.84%) Sass
27 66 (10.68%) DevOps
28 63 (10.19%) C#
29 62 (10.03%) Jest

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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 41 (6.63%) WordPress
2 34 (5.50%) CMS
3 18 (2.91%) Apache
3 18 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.29%) nginx
5 6 (0.97%) Ethereum
6 4 (0.65%) Confluence
6 4 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Moodle
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (2.59%) Adobe XD
2 8 (1.29%) Photoshop
3 6 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.65%) Maya
5 3 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (3.24%) Shopify
2 6 (0.97%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 101 (16.34%) AWS
2 84 (13.59%) Azure
3 33 (5.34%) SaaS
4 27 (4.37%) GCP
5 26 (4.21%) Figma
6 22 (3.56%) GitHub
7 19 (3.07%) npm
8 13 (2.10%) Google Analytics
9 11 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.97%) WeChat
11 5 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.65%) Storyblok
13 3 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 3 (0.49%) BigCommerce
13 3 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.49%) Google Ads
13 3 (0.49%) Google Play
13 3 (0.49%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (0.49%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.46%) Internet
2 8 (1.29%) HTTP
3 6 (0.97%) OpenVPN
4 5 (0.81%) DNS
5 4 (0.65%) MQTT
6 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.91%) Apache Ignite
2 13 (2.10%) GIS
3 12 (1.94%) MySQL
3 12 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.46%) Redis
5 4 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.32%) Metabase
6 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.32%) Power BI
6 2 (0.32%) Power Query
6 2 (0.32%) Tableau
7 1 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 124 (20.06%) Git
2 46 (7.44%) Cypress.io
3 43 (6.96%) Selenium
4 30 (4.85%) webpack
5 18 (2.91%) Storybook
6 17 (2.75%) gulp
7 16 (2.59%) JIRA
8 14 (2.27%) Visual Studio
9 13 (2.10%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.13%) Jenkins
11 6 (0.97%) ESLint
11 6 (0.97%) Grunt
12 5 (0.81%) Babel
12 5 (0.81%) GitLab
12 5 (0.81%) PostCSS
13 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.65%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.65%) Vite
14 3 (0.49%) rollup.js
15 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 119 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 87 (14.08%) Finance
3 27 (4.37%) Marketing
4 24 (3.88%) Games
4 24 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (3.07%) Retail
6 18 (2.91%) Front Office
7 12 (1.94%) Advertising
7 12 (1.94%) Public Sector
7 12 (1.94%) Tech for Good
8 11 (1.78%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (1.62%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.62%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.13%) Banking
10 7 (1.13%) Health Technology
10 7 (1.13%) Mandarin Language
10 7 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.97%) Electronics
12 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (60.52%) React
2 297 (48.06%) CSS
3 270 (43.69%) HTML
4 181 (29.29%) AngularJS
5 140 (22.65%) Node.js
6 99 (16.02%) HTML5
7 88 (14.24%) Vue
8 78 (12.62%) CSS3
9 74 (11.97%) Redux
10 67 (10.84%) Sass
11 62 (10.03%) Jest
12 53 (8.58%) jQuery
13 51 (8.25%) Express.js
14 50 (8.09%) GraphQL
15 43 (6.96%) Next.js
16 31 (5.02%) Tailwind CSS
17 30 (4.85%) .NET
18 28 (4.53%) React Native
18 28 (4.53%) REST
19 23 (3.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.99%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (4.37%) Mobile App
3 20 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.91%) Fixed Income
5 16 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.94%) Operational Technology
7 9 (1.46%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.29%) Animation
8 8 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.13%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.13%) Social Media
9 7 (1.13%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.97%) Blockchain
10 6 (0.97%) Life Science
10 6 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.97%) Web3
11 5 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.81%) Hackathon
11 5 (0.81%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.65%) Arduino
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.78%) Android
2 8 (1.29%) Linux
3 7 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.97%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (93.85%) Front End Development
2 191 (30.91%) Agile
3 184 (29.77%) User Experience
4 131 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (13.43%) UX Design
6 72 (11.65%) Software Engineering
7 69 (11.17%) Computer Science
8 67 (10.84%) Web Development
9 66 (10.68%) DevOps
10 59 (9.55%) Full Stack Development
11 52 (8.41%) Artificial Intelligence
12 46 (7.44%) E-Commerce
13 44 (7.12%) Actionable Insight
14 43 (6.96%) Mentoring
15 41 (6.63%) Responsive Web Design
16 39 (6.31%) CI/CD
17 36 (5.83%) Clean Code
17 36 (5.83%) Propensity Modelling
18 34 (5.50%) Analytics
19 31 (5.02%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 371 (60.03%) JavaScript
2 264 (42.72%) TypeScript
3 70 (11.33%) PHP
4 63 (10.19%) C#
5 43 (6.96%) Python
6 30 (4.85%) SQL
7 28 (4.53%) Java
8 6 (0.97%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.97%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.81%) GLSL
10 3 (0.49%) Bash
10 3 (0.49%) JSX
10 3 (0.49%) Ruby
11 2 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.32%) Lisp
12 1 (0.16%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 122 (19.74%) Degree
2 48 (7.77%) Security Cleared
3 45 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.81%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.16%) CIPD
8 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.66%) WCAG
2 26 (4.21%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.27%) QA
4 2 (0.32%) WAI
5 1 (0.16%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (9.22%) Docker
2 4 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (6.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.16%) Plesk
2 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (6.47%) Google
2 32 (5.18%) Adobe
3 21 (3.40%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.29%) DevExpress
5 7 (1.13%) WooCommerce
6 6 (0.97%) SAP
7 5 (0.81%) Xamarin
8 4 (0.65%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.49%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.32%) Apple
10 2 (0.32%) F5
10 2 (0.32%) Facebook
11 1 (0.16%) BT
11 1 (0.16%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.16%) IBM
11 1 (0.16%) Mapbox
11 1 (0.16%) Mitel
11 1 (0.16%) Salesforce