Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 787 747 555
Rank change year-on-year -40 -192 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 109 224 913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.21% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.23% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 82 135 321
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +13.36%
75th Percentile £87,500 £102,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £116,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Top 14 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +14 99 £75,000 -6.25% 29
UK excluding London +10 68 £70,000 +12.00% 10
Work from Home +33 49 £78,750 -7.35% 17
London +31 40 £85,000 -13.92% 19
South West +9 22 £72,500 +3.57% 1
North of England +61 18 £70,000 +7.69% 3
North West +23 16 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Scotland -67 9 £67,500 -3.57%
East of England +14 8 £77,500 +29.17% 5
Midlands +10 6 £60,000 -7.69%
West Midlands +28 5 £60,000 -7.69%
South East +12 5 £75,000 +20.00%
Yorkshire +92 2 £32,500 -23.53%
East Midlands -14 1 £55,000 +27.91%

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 79 (72.48%) React
2 77 (70.64%) TypeScript
3 66 (60.55%) JavaScript
4 59 (54.13%) Software Engineering
4 59 (54.13%) Node.js
5 53 (48.62%) Agile
6 44 (40.37%) User Experience
7 43 (39.45%) Front End Development
8 35 (32.11%) Finance
9 34 (31.19%) CSS
9 34 (31.19%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (28.44%) HTML
11 30 (27.52%) AWS
12 27 (24.77%) GCP
13 24 (22.02%) Fintech
13 24 (22.02%) Redux
14 22 (20.18%) Accessibility
15 19 (17.43%) CI/CD
16 18 (16.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (16.51%) GraphQL
16 18 (16.51%) Jest
16 18 (16.51%) AngularJS
17 16 (14.68%) SaaS
17 16 (14.68%) Test Automation
17 16 (14.68%) Vue
17 16 (14.68%) Continuous Delivery
18 15 (13.76%) React Native
18 15 (13.76%) Social Skills
18 15 (13.76%) Process Improvement
18 15 (13.76%) Java

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 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 10 (9.17%) Apache
1 10 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.34%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.52%) AWS
2 27 (24.77%) GCP
3 16 (14.68%) SaaS
4 10 (9.17%) npm
5 7 (6.42%) Azure
6 5 (4.59%) ChatGPT
7 4 (3.67%) Figma
8 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.75%) Serverless
9 2 (1.83%) Firebase
10 1 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.92%) Datadog
10 1 (0.92%) GitHub
10 1 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.92%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) HTTP
2 2 (1.83%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) Apache Ignite
2 3 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.83%) MySQL
3 2 (1.83%) Redis
4 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (11.93%) Git
2 11 (10.09%) Storybook
2 11 (10.09%) webpack
3 9 (8.26%) Bitbucket
4 8 (7.34%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.34%) JIRA
5 7 (6.42%) gulp
6 5 (4.59%) GitLab
6 5 (4.59%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.83%) Appium
7 2 (1.83%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.92%) Vite
General
1 35 (32.11%) Finance
2 18 (16.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (13.76%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.17%) Front Office
5 9 (8.26%) Financial Institution
6 8 (7.34%) Law
7 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (6.42%) Marketing
8 6 (5.50%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.67%) Legal
10 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.75%) Retail
11 1 (0.92%) Banking
11 1 (0.92%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.92%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (72.48%) React
2 59 (54.13%) Node.js
3 34 (31.19%) CSS
4 31 (28.44%) HTML
5 24 (22.02%) Redux
6 18 (16.51%) AngularJS
6 18 (16.51%) GraphQL
6 18 (16.51%) Jest
7 16 (14.68%) Vue
8 15 (13.76%) React Native
9 14 (12.84%) Next.js
9 14 (12.84%) Sass
10 13 (11.93%) REST
11 10 (9.17%) gRPC
11 10 (9.17%) Protocol Buffers
12 9 (8.26%) RESTful
13 6 (5.50%) Software Packaging
14 4 (3.67%) Tailwind CSS
15 3 (2.75%) Apollo GraphQL
15 3 (2.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (11.01%) Mobile App
3 10 (9.17%) Fixed Income
4 8 (7.34%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.83%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.83%) Social Media
8 1 (0.92%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.83%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.13%) Software Engineering
2 53 (48.62%) Agile
3 44 (40.37%) User Experience
4 43 (39.45%) Front End Development
5 34 (31.19%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (22.02%) Fintech
7 19 (17.43%) CI/CD
8 16 (14.68%) Continuous Delivery
8 16 (14.68%) Test Automation
9 15 (13.76%) Process Improvement
9 15 (13.76%) TDD
10 14 (12.84%) DevOps
10 14 (12.84%) E-Commerce
11 13 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (11.01%) Scrum
12 12 (11.01%) Unit Testing
13 11 (10.09%) Clean Code
13 11 (10.09%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (10.09%) Full Stack Development
13 11 (10.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 77 (70.64%) TypeScript
2 66 (60.55%) JavaScript
3 15 (13.76%) Java
4 10 (9.17%) Python
5 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.75%) C#
7 2 (1.83%) Go
7 2 (1.83%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.83%) Ruby
7 2 (1.83%) Swift
8 1 (0.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (9.17%) Degree
2 6 (5.50%) DV Cleared
2 6 (5.50%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.75%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.18%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.34%) WCAG
3 3 (2.75%) QA
System Software
1 14 (12.84%) Docker
2 6 (5.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.50%) SCCM
3 5 (4.59%) Terraform
4 3 (2.75%) Consul
4 3 (2.75%) Packer
5 1 (0.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (10.09%) Google
2 8 (7.34%) Atlassian
3 7 (6.42%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.50%) Citrix
5 5 (4.59%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.83%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.92%) Spotify