Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Jobs in the UK excluding London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 315 240
Rank change year-on-year -72 -75 -117
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 442 622 1,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 1.01% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.14% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 382 384 795
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,844 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,875 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 66,715 54,769 68,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 47,210 31,112 43,042
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
North of England -23 106 £50,000 - 37
South East -57 98 £60,000 +9.09% 16
North West +31 80 £52,500 -8.70% 22
Scotland -45 73 £52,500 -15.32% 10
South West +1 67 £50,000 -6.98% 14
Midlands +17 62 £42,500 -22.73% 11
West Midlands +32 45 £45,000 -14.29% 6
Yorkshire +13 25 £36,250 -13.69% 12
East of England -18 22 £71,500 +2.14% 8
East Midlands -28 17 £37,500 -31.82% 5
Wales -17 10 £80,000 +52.38% 7
Northern Ireland +24 4 - - 1
North East -12 1 £37,500 -21.05% 3
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 410 (92.76%) Front End Development
2 267 (60.41%) JavaScript
3 262 (59.28%) React
4 246 (55.66%) CSS
5 232 (52.49%) HTML
6 177 (40.05%) TypeScript
7 151 (34.16%) Agile
8 132 (29.86%) AngularJS
9 128 (28.96%) User Experience
10 113 (25.57%) Degree
11 111 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
12 104 (23.53%) Git
13 101 (22.85%) Social Skills
14 100 (22.62%) Node.js
15 91 (20.59%) HTML5
16 70 (15.84%) Azure
17 68 (15.38%) UX Design
17 68 (15.38%) PHP
18 66 (14.93%) CSS3
19 63 (14.25%) Vue
20 62 (14.03%) Computer Science
21 59 (13.35%) Web Development
21 59 (13.35%) Sass
21 59 (13.35%) AWS
22 58 (13.12%) C#
23 53 (11.99%) Jest
24 51 (11.54%) Docker
25 48 (10.86%) Finance
25 48 (10.86%) DevOps
26 46 (10.41%) Artificial Intelligence

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 39 (8.82%) WordPress
2 31 (7.01%) CMS
3 3 (0.68%) Confluence
4 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Moodle
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (3.85%) Adobe XD
2 8 (1.81%) Photoshop
3 6 (1.36%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.90%) Maya
5 3 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (4.52%) Shopify
2 3 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 70 (15.84%) Azure
2 59 (13.35%) AWS
3 24 (5.43%) SaaS
4 21 (4.75%) Figma
5 17 (3.85%) GitHub
6 16 (3.62%) npm
7 12 (2.71%) Google Analytics
8 7 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 3 (0.68%) BigCommerce
10 3 (0.68%) GCP
10 3 (0.68%) Google Ads
10 3 (0.68%) Google Play
10 3 (0.68%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.45%) dbt
11 2 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.45%) Google Tag Manager
11 2 (0.45%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.04%) Internet
2 7 (1.58%) HTTP
3 5 (1.13%) DNS
4 4 (0.90%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.49%) MySQL
2 10 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.58%) Redis
4 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.45%) Metabase
4 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.45%) Power BI
4 2 (0.45%) Power Query
4 2 (0.45%) Tableau
5 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.23%) GIS
5 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 104 (23.53%) Git
2 43 (9.73%) Cypress.io
3 41 (9.28%) Selenium
4 22 (4.98%) webpack
5 14 (3.17%) Cucumber
5 14 (3.17%) gulp
6 13 (2.94%) JIRA
6 13 (2.94%) Visual Studio
7 10 (2.26%) Storybook
8 6 (1.36%) ESLint
9 5 (1.13%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.13%) Vite
10 4 (0.90%) Babel
10 4 (0.90%) Grunt
10 4 (0.90%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.90%) PostCSS
10 4 (0.90%) rollup.js
11 3 (0.68%) GitLab
11 3 (0.68%) Maven
12 2 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 101 (22.85%) Social Skills
2 48 (10.86%) Finance
3 24 (5.43%) Marketing
4 22 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (4.52%) Retail
6 11 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.26%) Games
7 10 (2.26%) Tech for Good
8 9 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.58%) Electronics
9 7 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.13%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.68%) Aviation
12 3 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.45%) Automotive
13 2 (0.45%) Legal
14 1 (0.23%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (59.28%) React
2 246 (55.66%) CSS
3 232 (52.49%) HTML
4 132 (29.86%) AngularJS
5 100 (22.62%) Node.js
6 91 (20.59%) HTML5
7 66 (14.93%) CSS3
8 63 (14.25%) Vue
9 59 (13.35%) Sass
10 53 (11.99%) Jest
11 44 (9.95%) jQuery
12 43 (9.73%) Express.js
13 39 (8.82%) Redux
14 33 (7.47%) GraphQL
15 31 (7.01%) Next.js
16 25 (5.66%) .NET
17 22 (4.98%) REST
17 22 (4.98%) Tailwind CSS
18 20 (4.52%) React Native
19 19 (4.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.92%) Greenfield Project
2 23 (5.20%) Mobile App
3 20 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.81%) Animation
6 7 (1.58%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.36%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.36%) Social Media
8 5 (1.13%) Hackathon
9 4 (0.90%) Arduino
9 4 (0.90%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.90%) IoT
9 4 (0.90%) iPhone
9 4 (0.90%) Life Science
9 4 (0.90%) Raspberry Pi
10 3 (0.68%) Graphic Design
10 3 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.45%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.26%) Android
2 7 (1.58%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.45%) Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (92.76%) Front End Development
2 151 (34.16%) Agile
3 128 (28.96%) User Experience
4 111 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (15.38%) UX Design
6 62 (14.03%) Computer Science
7 59 (13.35%) Web Development
8 48 (10.86%) DevOps
9 46 (10.41%) Artificial Intelligence
10 45 (10.18%) E-Commerce
11 43 (9.73%) Software Engineering
12 39 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
13 38 (8.60%) Propensity Modelling
14 35 (7.92%) CI/CD
15 32 (7.24%) Full Stack Development
16 29 (6.56%) Mentoring
17 28 (6.33%) Unit Testing
18 26 (5.88%) Open Source
19 23 (5.20%) Clean Code
20 22 (4.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 267 (60.41%) JavaScript
2 177 (40.05%) TypeScript
3 68 (15.38%) PHP
4 58 (13.12%) C#
5 26 (5.88%) SQL
6 18 (4.07%) Java
7 16 (3.62%) Python
8 6 (1.36%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.13%) GLSL
10 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.45%) JSX
10 2 (0.45%) Lisp
11 1 (0.23%) Bash
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 113 (25.57%) Degree
2 40 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 37 (8.37%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.37%) WCAG
2 23 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.17%) QA
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (11.54%) Docker
2 4 (0.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (9.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) Plesk
Vendors
1 31 (7.01%) Google
2 28 (6.33%) Adobe
3 22 (4.98%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.81%) DevExpress
5 7 (1.58%) SAP
5 7 (1.58%) WooCommerce
6 5 (1.13%) Xamarin
7 4 (0.90%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.68%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.45%) Apple
9 2 (0.45%) F5
9 2 (0.45%) Facebook
10 1 (0.23%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.23%) BT
10 1 (0.23%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.23%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.23%) Mitel