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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
South West > Bristol

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in Bristol is £85,253 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 157 168
Rank change year-on-year +63 +11 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 6 7 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.48% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.23% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £75,864 - -
25th Percentile £76,727 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.67% +25.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £93,778 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - £72,500
South West median annual salary £85,253 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.59% +11.54% +14.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,192 3,009 2,447
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 97.00% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 813 2,251 1,526
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £57,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -0.54% +8.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £73,853
90th Percentile £87,250 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 Bristol region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) React
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Micro Frontends
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
2 5 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) webpack
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) API Design
2 5 (83.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (83.33%) Release Automation
2 5 (83.33%) npm
2 5 (83.33%) Jest
2 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
2 5 (83.33%) Node.js
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Git
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) npm
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Cucumber
1 5 (83.33%) Cypress.io
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (83.33%) webpack
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) React
2 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (83.33%) Jest
2 5 (83.33%) Node.js
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) API Design
2 5 (83.33%) Change Management
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (83.33%) Micro Frontends
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Release Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes