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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 156 112
Rank change year-on-year +13 -44 +7
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 18 24 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.43% 0.68% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.79% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 28
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £46,375
25th Percentile £41,875 £60,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -16.13% +34.78%
75th Percentile £58,125 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £81,000 £88,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -

All Process & 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 3,109 3,053 2,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.43% 87.05% 86.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,820 1,193 1,508
10th Percentile £27,625 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,350 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Front End Development job vacancy trend 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 9 January 2026.

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 9 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
Cambridgeshire +14 17 £50,000 - 16
Essex -8 1 - - 17
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (16.67%) Redis
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Publishing
2 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 4 (22.22%) React Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) UI Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) UX Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Web Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) React
2 9 (50.00%) Vue
3 6 (33.33%) .NET
3 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (16.67%) Node.js
4 3 (16.67%) Web Services
4 3 (16.67%) YAML
5 1 (5.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (5.56%) CSS
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) HTML5
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) Micronaut
5 1 (5.56%) Spring
5 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) User Experience
2 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) UX Design
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) AI
5 3 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 3 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
5 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 3 (16.67%) Physics
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Push Notifications
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) SDLC
5 3 (16.67%) SOLID
5 3 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
4 4 (22.22%) Python
5 3 (16.67%) VB.NET
6 1 (5.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Istio
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) DevExpress
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Huawei