Front End Development Jobs in Central London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 161 175
Rank change year-on-year +41 +14 -11
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 39 37 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.66% 0.98% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.07% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 28 25 60
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £101,000 £103,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 3,471 4,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.64% 91.83% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 2,651 3,984
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Central London

Front End Development
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Central London.

Salary trend for Front End Development in Central London

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in Central London

Front End Development
Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
City of London +29 23 £73,750 +3.51% 18
Camden -8 5 - - 1
Southwark -4 4 £65,000 -
Front End Development
London

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 5 (12.82%) nginx
2 2 (5.13%) Liferay
3 1 (2.56%) CMS
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) AWS
1 21 (53.85%) Azure
2 11 (28.21%) GCP
2 11 (28.21%) GitHub
3 8 (20.51%) Serverless
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.69%) npm
6 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.69%) PowerApps
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.13%) SaaS
8 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.56%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (28.21%) MongoDB
2 11 (28.21%) NoSQL
3 7 (17.95%) MySQL
4 3 (7.69%) Metadata
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.13%) Power BI
5 2 (5.13%) Redis
6 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) Git
2 7 (17.95%) Maven
3 5 (12.82%) Gradle
4 3 (7.69%) Babel
4 3 (7.69%) gulp
4 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.69%) SoapUI
4 3 (7.69%) webpack
5 2 (5.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (5.13%) JIRA
5 2 (5.13%) JUnit
5 2 (5.13%) Mockito
5 2 (5.13%) Postman
5 2 (5.13%) REST Assured
5 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.13%) Subversion
5 2 (5.13%) Xcode
5 2 (5.13%) XCTest
6 1 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Games
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (5.13%) Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.13%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Marketing
7 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (84.62%) Developer
2 15 (38.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 12 (30.77%) Senior
4 11 (28.21%) Senior Developer
5 8 (20.51%) Lead
5 8 (20.51%) Lead Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Node.js Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Software Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Software Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) .NET Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 2 (5.13%) Power Platform Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Python Developer
9 2 (5.13%) React Developer
10 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (58.97%) React
2 17 (43.59%) CSS
2 17 (43.59%) HTML
3 14 (35.90%) RESTful
4 13 (33.33%) Node.js
5 7 (17.95%) Kafka
5 7 (17.95%) REST
5 7 (17.95%) Spring
6 6 (15.38%) OAuth
6 6 (15.38%) WebSockets
7 5 (12.82%) .NET
7 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
7 5 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (12.82%) Express.js
7 5 (12.82%) GraphQL
7 5 (12.82%) HTML5
7 5 (12.82%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (10.26%) Material-UI
8 4 (10.26%) Sass
8 4 (10.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
1 5 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Mobile Games
2 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.69%) Smart City
4 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.56%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.56%) PropTech
5 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
1 3 (7.69%) Ubuntu
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) Android
3 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (48.72%) DevOps
3 17 (43.59%) Test Automation
4 15 (38.46%) Agile
4 15 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 15 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 14 (35.90%) Computer Science
5 14 (35.90%) Microservices
6 12 (30.77%) Containerisation
7 11 (28.21%) User Experience
8 10 (25.64%) Code Quality
9 9 (23.08%) UX Design
10 8 (20.51%) Mentoring
10 8 (20.51%) Software Testing
11 7 (17.95%) API Development
11 7 (17.95%) Clean Code
11 7 (17.95%) Design Patterns
11 7 (17.95%) Unit Testing
12 6 (15.38%) API Design
12 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 17 (43.59%) TypeScript
3 16 (41.03%) SQL
4 10 (25.64%) Python
5 8 (20.51%) C#
6 7 (17.95%) Java
7 4 (10.26%) R
8 2 (5.13%) C
8 2 (5.13%) Groovy
8 2 (5.13%) PHP
8 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.56%) Go
9 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.56%) SOQL
9 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) Degree
2 9 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (12.82%) AWS Certification
3 5 (12.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.56%) CDISC
System Software
1 18 (46.15%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Argo
2 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Google
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
1 5 (12.82%) New Relic
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce