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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 36 68
Rank change year-on-year -42 +32 -6
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 13 67 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.70% 8.46% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 9.42% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 5
10th Percentile - £51,050 £45,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,250 £65,500 -
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.13%

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 1,200 711 756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 64.27% 89.77% 74.05%
Number of salaries quoted 894 339 435
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,457 £30,400
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,680 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,979 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +3.11% -1.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,854
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,200 £68,484
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 October 2026.

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 October 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 5 £60,000 +16.50%
Warrington -19 3 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Macclesfield -6 1 £60,000 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) ChatGPT
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) MariaDB
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Claude Code
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Shopify Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
1 3 (23.08%) Next.js
2 2 (15.38%) React
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) DOM
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) Nuxt
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
2 3 (23.08%) Code Quality
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (23.08%) Microservices
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) User Experience
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
3 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
3 2 (15.38%) TDD
3 2 (15.38%) Web Development
4 1 (7.69%) AI
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
4 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
4 1 (7.69%) Paid Search
4 1 (7.69%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
1 1 (7.69%) Optimizely