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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 56 63
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 +28
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 6 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.46% 0.88% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.98% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £50,300 £43,150 -
25th Percentile £50,750 £44,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £51,000 -
90th Percentile - £52,650 -
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process & 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 1,083 509 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.69% 89.14% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 429 255 388
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

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
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 10 January 2026. 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 -4 2 £51,500 +8.42% 3
Knutsford - 1 £57,500 -
Macclesfield - 1 £50,000 - 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Babel
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Django Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Python/Django Developer
3 1 (16.67%) React Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Redux
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) Django
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) Jest
3 1 (16.67%) Next.js
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) API Design
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google