Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs in England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK > England

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 734 568
Rank change year-on-year -10 -166 -100
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 98 195 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.21% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.23% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 73 115 289
10th Percentile £46,000 £54,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £124,500 £100,150
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

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

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

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +25 41 £85,000 -12.82% 14
North of England +55 19 £70,000 +7.69% 3
South West -18 19 £72,500 +11.54% 1
North West +17 17 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East of England +16 8 £77,500 +29.17% 4
Midlands +10 6 £60,000 -7.69%
West Midlands +27 5 £60,000 -7.69%
South East +3 5 £75,000 +20.00%
Yorkshire +91 2 £32,500 -23.53%
East Midlands -15 1 £55,000 +27.91%
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

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

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

1 76 (77.55%) TypeScript
2 68 (69.39%) React
3 57 (58.16%) JavaScript
4 56 (57.14%) Node.js
5 55 (56.12%) Software Engineering
6 50 (51.02%) Agile
7 44 (44.90%) Front End Development
8 38 (38.78%) User Experience
9 34 (34.69%) Finance
10 32 (32.65%) HTML
11 31 (31.63%) CSS
11 31 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (30.61%) AWS
13 25 (25.51%) Fintech
14 24 (24.49%) Redux
15 22 (22.45%) GCP
16 19 (19.39%) Jest
17 18 (18.37%) CI/CD
18 17 (17.35%) Accessibility
19 16 (16.33%) Continuous Delivery
19 16 (16.33%) Test Automation
20 15 (15.31%) Process Improvement
20 15 (15.31%) Java
20 15 (15.31%) TDD
20 15 (15.31%) GraphQL
20 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
21 14 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
21 14 (14.29%) Docker
21 14 (14.29%) DevOps
22 13 (13.27%) REST

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (10.20%) Apache
1 10 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.14%) Confluence
3 2 (2.04%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.61%) AWS
2 22 (22.45%) GCP
3 12 (12.24%) SaaS
4 10 (10.20%) npm
5 5 (5.10%) Azure
6 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.06%) Figma
6 3 (3.06%) Serverless
7 2 (2.04%) Firebase
7 2 (2.04%) GitHub
7 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.02%) Datadog
8 1 (1.02%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.06%) HTTP
2 2 (2.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.20%) Apache Ignite
2 3 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.04%) MySQL
3 2 (2.04%) Redis
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Storybook
2 11 (11.22%) webpack
3 9 (9.18%) Bitbucket
4 8 (8.16%) Jenkins
5 7 (7.14%) Git
5 7 (7.14%) gulp
5 7 (7.14%) JIRA
6 5 (5.10%) GitLab
6 5 (5.10%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.04%) Appium
7 2 (2.04%) Crashlytics
7 2 (2.04%) Vite
8 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (34.69%) Finance
2 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (10.20%) Front Office
5 9 (9.18%) Financial Institution
6 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.14%) Law
7 6 (6.12%) Aerospace
7 6 (6.12%) Marketing
8 4 (4.08%) Legal
9 3 (3.06%) Retail
10 1 (1.02%) Banking
10 1 (1.02%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.02%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (69.39%) React
2 56 (57.14%) Node.js
3 32 (32.65%) HTML
4 31 (31.63%) CSS
5 24 (24.49%) Redux
6 19 (19.39%) Jest
7 15 (15.31%) GraphQL
8 13 (13.27%) REST
9 12 (12.24%) AngularJS
9 12 (12.24%) React Native
9 12 (12.24%) Sass
9 12 (12.24%) Vue
10 11 (11.22%) Next.js
11 10 (10.20%) gRPC
11 10 (10.20%) Protocol Buffers
12 9 (9.18%) RESTful
13 6 (6.12%) Software Packaging
14 4 (4.08%) HTML5
14 4 (4.08%) Playwright
15 3 (3.06%) Apollo GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (12.24%) Mobile App
3 10 (10.20%) Fixed Income
4 4 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.04%) Social Media
7 1 (1.02%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.04%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (56.12%) Software Engineering
2 50 (51.02%) Agile
3 44 (44.90%) Front End Development
4 38 (38.78%) User Experience
5 31 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (25.51%) Fintech
7 18 (18.37%) CI/CD
8 16 (16.33%) Continuous Delivery
8 16 (16.33%) Test Automation
9 15 (15.31%) Process Improvement
9 15 (15.31%) TDD
10 14 (14.29%) DevOps
11 13 (13.27%) Unit Testing
12 11 (11.22%) Clean Code
12 11 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (11.22%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (11.22%) E-Commerce
12 11 (11.22%) End-to-End Testing
12 11 (11.22%) Full Stack Development
12 11 (11.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 76 (77.55%) TypeScript
2 57 (58.16%) JavaScript
3 15 (15.31%) Java
4 10 (10.20%) Python
5 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.04%) Go
6 2 (2.04%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.04%) Ruby
6 2 (2.04%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (10.20%) Degree
2 6 (6.12%) DV Cleared
2 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.06%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.35%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.16%) WCAG
3 3 (3.06%) QA
System Software
1 14 (14.29%) Docker
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) SCCM
2 5 (5.10%) Terraform
3 4 (4.08%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.06%) Consul
4 3 (3.06%) Packer
5 1 (1.02%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (11.22%) Google
2 8 (8.16%) Atlassian
2 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.12%) Citrix
4 2 (2.04%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.02%) Spotify