Front End Development Job Trends in the East of England

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Front End Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 140 124
Rank change year-on-year -11 -16 +69
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 25 34 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.74% 0.77% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.04% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 23
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £51,750
25th Percentile £40,938 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -5.77% +36.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £93,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,928 3,280 2,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 86.65% 73.99% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 1,783 1,397
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,312 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% -1.27% +2.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the East of England

Front End Development
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Front End Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the East of England

Front End Development
Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Bedfordshire - 11 £60,000 - 4
Cambridgeshire +10 9 £47,500 -34.48% 7
Norfolk +10 3 - - 6
Essex -11 2 £75,000 +50.00% 15
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 13 (52.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 17 (68.00%) AWS
3 14 (56.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Alexa
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) BigCommerce
4 1 (4.00%) Firebase
4 1 (4.00%) npm
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (72.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (64.00%) GitLab
1 16 (64.00%) JIRA
2 15 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 15 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 15 (60.00%) Maven
2 15 (60.00%) Selenium
2 15 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 15 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (20.00%) Git
General
1 15 (60.00%) Banking
1 15 (60.00%) Finance
1 15 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (8.00%) Retail
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Automotive
3 1 (4.00%) Electronics
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (8.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Principal Java Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (80.00%) React
2 16 (64.00%) CSS
2 16 (64.00%) HTML
2 16 (64.00%) Kafka
2 16 (64.00%) Spring
2 16 (64.00%) Spring Boot
3 15 (60.00%) JPA
3 15 (60.00%) Redux
4 13 (52.00%) Hibernate
5 7 (28.00%) Vue
6 3 (12.00%) .NET
6 3 (12.00%) Jest
6 3 (12.00%) REST
6 3 (12.00%) Web Services
6 3 (12.00%) YAML
7 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (8.00%) CSS3
7 2 (8.00%) HTML5
7 2 (8.00%) RESTful
7 2 (8.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
1 15 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Home Automation
3 1 (4.00%) IoT
3 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Agile
1 19 (76.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (68.00%) DevOps
2 17 (68.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (68.00%) Microservices
3 16 (64.00%) Clean Code
3 16 (64.00%) Software Engineering
4 15 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 15 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 15 (60.00%) SDLC
4 15 (60.00%) Test Automation
5 14 (56.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (52.00%) TDD
7 5 (20.00%) User Experience
8 3 (12.00%) Dependency Injection
8 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
8 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (12.00%) Push Notifications
8 3 (12.00%) Scrum
8 3 (12.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (68.00%) Java
3 16 (64.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (12.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) VB.NET
6 1 (4.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Istio
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Solace
2 3 (12.00%) DevExpress
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle