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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 214 82
Rank change year-on-year -11 -132 -12
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 1,329 1,788 6,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.34% 1.76% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.85% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,107 1,196 3,046
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +3.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £75,772 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,000 £97,395
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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 -13 1,076 £60,000 -7.69% 290
UK excluding London +17 941 £52,500 -8.70% 198
Work from Home 0 667 £60,000 -4.00% 162
London -72 313 £77,500 +10.71% 112
North of England +59 257 £52,500 +5.00% 73
South East -52 167 £60,000 - 25
North West +35 155 £55,000 - 41
Midlands +55 149 £42,500 -22.73% 32
Scotland -8 149 £52,500 -12.50% 20
South West +17 124 £50,000 -9.09% 19
West Midlands +71 102 £47,500 -13.64% 23
Yorkshire +63 78 £45,000 - 26
East of England -24 54 £71,500 +15.79% 22
East Midlands -9 46 £41,250 -25.00% 9
North East +9 24 £52,500 +10.53% 8
Northern Ireland +28 21 £55,000 - 3
Wales -28 20 £70,000 +36.59% 6

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 73 (5.49%) CMS
2 58 (4.36%) WordPress
3 37 (2.78%) Tuxedo
4 18 (1.35%) Apache
4 18 (1.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 15 (1.13%) Headless CMS
6 14 (1.05%) nginx
7 12 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.90%) JBoss
7 12 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
8 11 (0.83%) Confluence
9 8 (0.60%) IIS
10 6 (0.45%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.38%) Kentico
11 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.38%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.23%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) Drupal
14 1 (0.075%) Moodle
14 1 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (1.58%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.28%) 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
6 3 (0.23%) Sketch
7 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) Notion
8 1 (0.075%) InVision
Business Applications
1 26 (1.96%) Shopify
2 8 (0.60%) Magento
3 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.075%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 280 (21.07%) AWS
2 261 (19.64%) Azure
3 88 (6.62%) SaaS
4 62 (4.67%) GCP
5 49 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (3.61%) Figma
7 39 (2.93%) GitHub
8 26 (1.96%) npm
9 19 (1.43%) Serverless
10 18 (1.35%) Google Analytics
11 16 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (0.68%) dbt
14 8 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (0.60%) Firebase
15 7 (0.53%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.53%) Google Tag Manager
16 6 (0.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.05%) HTTP
2 10 (0.75%) Internet
3 8 (0.60%) DNS
3 8 (0.60%) MQTT
4 7 (0.53%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.15%) SSH
7 1 (0.075%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (7.52%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.97%) MySQL
3 59 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 44 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 25 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (1.88%) NoSQL
7 23 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.58%) Redis
9 12 (0.90%) Apache Ignite
10 11 (0.83%) MS Access
11 10 (0.75%) Big Data
12 9 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.45%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.38%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.30%) Power BI
16 3 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
16 3 (0.23%) Event Store
16 3 (0.23%) GIS
16 3 (0.23%) Looker
Development Applications
1 254 (19.11%) Git
2 75 (5.64%) Cypress.io
3 51 (3.84%) Selenium
4 44 (3.31%) JIRA
5 37 (2.78%) webpack
6 36 (2.71%) Jenkins
7 29 (2.18%) Cucumber
8 28 (2.11%) gulp
8 28 (2.11%) Jasmine
8 28 (2.11%) Visual Studio
9 25 (1.88%) Bitbucket
10 23 (1.73%) Visual Studio Code
11 22 (1.66%) Karma Test Runner
12 21 (1.58%) IntelliJ
13 20 (1.50%) Storybook
14 19 (1.43%) GitLab
15 13 (0.98%) Postman
16 9 (0.68%) Subversion
17 8 (0.60%) Maven
18 7 (0.53%) Eclipse
General
1 299 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 200 (15.05%) Finance
3 91 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (6.09%) Marketing
5 68 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (4.97%) Public Sector
7 63 (4.74%) Law
8 55 (4.14%) Retail
9 42 (3.16%) Manufacturing
10 39 (2.93%) Banking
11 27 (2.03%) Games
12 22 (1.66%) Tech for Good
13 20 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.35%) Electronics
15 17 (1.28%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.20%) Automotive
16 16 (1.20%) Front Office
16 16 (1.20%) Private Banking
17 14 (1.05%) Health Technology
17 14 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,031 (77.58%) Developer
2 560 (42.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 456 (34.31%) Senior
4 344 (25.88%) Senior Developer
5 198 (14.90%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 164 (12.34%) Lead
7 142 (10.68%) React Developer
8 117 (8.80%) Software Engineer
9 110 (8.28%) Full Stack Developer
10 96 (7.22%) Software Developer
11 78 (5.87%) Lead Developer
12 62 (4.67%) Senior React Developer
13 57 (4.29%) Web Developer
14 51 (3.84%) .NET Developer
14 51 (3.84%) PHP Developer
15 47 (3.54%) Angular Developer
16 46 (3.46%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
16 46 (3.46%) Senior Software Developer
16 46 (3.46%) Senior Software Engineer
17 43 (3.24%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 615 (46.28%) CSS
2 602 (45.30%) React
3 594 (44.70%) HTML
4 311 (23.40%) AngularJS
5 252 (18.96%) .NET
5 252 (18.96%) Node.js
6 176 (13.24%) Vue
7 159 (11.96%) RESTful
8 142 (10.68%) HTML5
9 125 (9.41%) Sass
10 121 (9.10%) CSS3
11 107 (8.05%) .NET Core
11 107 (8.05%) REST
12 105 (7.90%) jQuery
13 88 (6.62%) Jest
14 84 (6.32%) ASP.NET
15 76 (5.72%) Redux
16 68 (5.12%) .NET Framework
17 64 (4.82%) Next.js
18 63 (4.74%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.60%) Greenfield Project
2 49 (3.69%) Mobile App
3 48 (3.61%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 23 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.50%) Client/Server
8 15 (1.13%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.13%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.05%) Blockchain
10 13 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 12 (0.90%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.75%) Social Media
13 9 (0.68%) Animation
13 9 (0.68%) IoT
13 9 (0.68%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.60%) Digital Media
14 8 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.46%) Linux
2 18 (1.35%) Android
3 12 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 12 (0.90%) Windows
4 7 (0.53%) CentOS
5 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.075%) Unix
7 1 (0.075%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (34.61%) Agile
2 362 (27.24%) User Experience
3 317 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
4 289 (21.75%) Software Engineering
5 283 (21.29%) Full Stack Development
6 219 (16.48%) Computer Science
7 206 (15.50%) UX Design
8 191 (14.37%) DevOps
9 176 (13.24%) Mentoring
10 173 (13.02%) Web Development
11 139 (10.46%) CI/CD
12 124 (9.33%) E-Commerce
13 111 (8.35%) Continuous Integration
14 103 (7.75%) Test Automation
15 98 (7.37%) TDD
16 86 (6.47%) Artificial Intelligence
17 85 (6.40%) Microservices
18 78 (5.87%) Actionable Insight
19 77 (5.79%) MVC
19 77 (5.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 752 (56.58%) JavaScript
2 469 (35.29%) TypeScript
3 298 (22.42%) C#
4 217 (16.33%) SQL
5 198 (14.90%) Java
6 149 (11.21%) PHP
7 132 (9.93%) Python
8 47 (3.54%) T-SQL
9 42 (3.16%) COBOL
9 42 (3.16%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 37 (2.78%) Ruby
11 36 (2.71%) Go
12 16 (1.20%) VB.NET
13 11 (0.83%) C
14 9 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.53%) C++
15 7 (0.53%) Rust
15 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.38%) GLSL
17 4 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 261 (19.64%) Degree
2 112 (8.43%) Security Cleared
3 99 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 98 (7.37%) SC Cleared
5 35 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 27 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.45%) HND
8 5 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.23%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.15%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.075%) PhD
11 1 (0.075%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.075%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.50%) Accessibility
2 57 (4.29%) WCAG
3 50 (3.76%) QA
4 17 (1.28%) WAI
5 9 (0.68%) GDPR
6 4 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.075%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.075%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.075%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 138 (10.38%) Docker
2 7 (0.53%) Firmware
3 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.23%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 83 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.90%) Terraform
3 7 (0.53%) Ansible
4 4 (0.30%) Rancher
5 1 (0.075%) cPanel
5 1 (0.075%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.075%) Grafana
5 1 (0.075%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.075%) Packer
5 1 (0.075%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.075%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.075%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (8.35%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.12%) Google
3 59 (4.44%) Adobe
4 48 (3.61%) Oracle
5 42 (3.16%) Micro Focus
6 18 (1.35%) SAP
7 11 (0.83%) WooCommerce
8 9 (0.68%) DevExpress
9 8 (0.60%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.60%) Facebook
10 7 (0.53%) NVIDIA
11 5 (0.38%) IBM
11 5 (0.38%) Xamarin
12 4 (0.30%) Mercator
12 4 (0.30%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.30%) VMware
13 3 (0.23%) OutSystems
13 3 (0.23%) Sybase
14 2 (0.15%) Apple
14 2 (0.15%) F5