Front End Development Job Trends in Cheshire

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Front End Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 67 62
Rank change year-on-year +17 -5 +35
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 22 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 2.86% 0.53% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 0.71% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £50,525 £53,500 -
25th Percentile £51,125 £56,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £64,750 - -
North West median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 705 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.22% 75.32% 92.66%
Number of salaries quoted 393 379 316
10th Percentile £27,550 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £34,250 £40,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,677 £67,178
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,484 £78,375
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,292 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% -4.92% +4.76%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Front End Development
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Front End Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in Cheshire

Front End Development
Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Chester -3 3 £51,500 -1.90% 4
Crewe - 3 £52,500 -
Knutsford - 2 £57,500 -
Macclesfield - 2 £50,000 - 4
Wilmslow - 2 - -
Warrington - 2 £70,000 - 8
Northwich -5 1 - -
Runcorn - 1 - -
Widnes - 1 - -
Ellesmere Port - 1 - -
Front End Development
North West

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Azure App Service
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) GitLab
2 12 (54.55%) Bitbucket
2 12 (54.55%) SonarQube
2 12 (54.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 11 (50.00%) JIRA
3 11 (50.00%) Maven
3 11 (50.00%) Selenium
4 2 (9.09%) Babel
4 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.09%) webpack
5 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 13 (59.09%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Banking
2 11 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 11 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 11 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Developer
1 11 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (9.09%) React Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Blazor Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Django Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Python/Django Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (77.27%) React
2 15 (68.18%) RESTful
3 14 (63.64%) CSS
3 14 (63.64%) HTML
3 14 (63.64%) Redux
4 13 (59.09%) CSS3
4 13 (59.09%) HTML5
4 13 (59.09%) Spring
4 13 (59.09%) Spring Boot
5 12 (54.55%) Jest
6 11 (50.00%) JPA
6 11 (50.00%) Kafka
6 11 (50.00%) REST
6 11 (50.00%) Sass
7 2 (9.09%) .NET
7 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
8 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (4.55%) Next.js
8 1 (4.55%) Svelte
8 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Product Ownership
2 11 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (72.73%) User Experience
3 14 (63.64%) Agile
3 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 14 (63.64%) DevOps
4 12 (54.55%) Containerisation
4 12 (54.55%) Microservices
4 12 (54.55%) Responsive Web Design
4 12 (54.55%) Strategic Thinking
5 11 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 11 (50.00%) Migration
5 11 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 11 (50.00%) SDLC
5 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (18.18%) Clean Code
8 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (9.09%) Secure Coding
8 2 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) JavaScript
2 15 (68.18%) Java
3 14 (63.64%) TypeScript
4 13 (59.09%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (63.64%) Accessibility
2 11 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Solace
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft