Front End Development Jobs in England

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 233 219
Rank change year-on-year +2 -14 -135
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 710 1,067 1,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.44% 1.24% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.45% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 429 919 1,053
10th Percentile £38,700 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £90,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,875
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.57% +0.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,536 73,513 84,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.12% 85.20% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,795 53,935 50,179
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in England.

Salary trend for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in England

Front End Development
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
London +45 219 £77,500 - 365
North of England -11 196 £57,500 +9.52% 178
North West -11 169 £57,500 - 106
Midlands +41 139 £46,250 +8.82% 57
East Midlands +50 80 £40,000 -3.03% 27
South East +4 77 £67,500 +12.50% 69
West Midlands +16 59 £62,500 +31.58% 29
East of England +34 40 £66,212 +0.90% 25
South West +22 31 £61,250 +22.50% 32
North East +33 16 £56,500 +7.62% 35
Yorkshire -9 11 £56,250 +25.00% 41
Front End Development
UK

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 117 (16.48%) Confluence
2 31 (4.37%) CMS
3 29 (4.08%) WordPress
4 17 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (2.11%) nginx
6 11 (1.55%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.99%) Drupal
8 5 (0.70%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.70%) Liferay
9 4 (0.56%) Strapi
10 2 (0.28%) Apache
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.97%) Adobe XD
2 12 (1.69%) Sketch
3 7 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (0.99%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.28%) InVision
4 2 (0.28%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.28%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Moqups
5 1 (0.14%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (3.38%) Shopify
2 10 (1.41%) Magento
3 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 341 (48.03%) AWS
2 328 (46.20%) Azure
3 149 (20.99%) GCP
4 53 (7.46%) Serverless
5 44 (6.20%) Figma
6 35 (4.93%) GitHub
7 31 (4.37%) SaaS
8 30 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (2.11%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.97%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.97%) Dagster
12 14 (1.97%) dbt
12 14 (1.97%) npm
13 13 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (1.55%) Slack
14 11 (1.55%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.28%) Broadband
1 2 (0.28%) Internet
2 1 (0.14%) MQTT
2 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (29.86%) SQL Server
2 40 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (4.93%) MySQL
4 25 (3.52%) MongoDB
4 25 (3.52%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (1.97%) Apache Iceberg
6 14 (1.97%) Dremio
6 14 (1.97%) Redis
7 12 (1.69%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.55%) Power BI
9 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.56%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.42%) Big Data
11 3 (0.42%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 230 (32.39%) JIRA
2 207 (29.15%) GitLab
3 205 (28.87%) Bitbucket
3 205 (28.87%) Maven
3 205 (28.87%) Selenium
4 204 (28.73%) SonarQube
5 201 (28.31%) Cucumber
6 198 (27.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 120 (16.90%) Git
8 39 (5.49%) webpack
9 24 (3.38%) Babel
10 21 (2.96%) Jasmine
11 17 (2.39%) Cypress.io
11 17 (2.39%) Mocha
12 14 (1.97%) Karma Test Runner
13 9 (1.27%) Jenkins
14 8 (1.13%) Moq
14 8 (1.13%) rollup.js
14 8 (1.13%) SpecFlow
14 8 (1.13%) Vite
General
1 326 (45.92%) Finance
2 236 (33.24%) Banking
3 215 (30.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (16.06%) Social Skills
5 107 (15.07%) Retail
6 94 (13.24%) Investment Banking
7 90 (12.68%) Corporate Banking
8 36 (5.07%) Front Office
9 31 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
10 28 (3.94%) Law
11 17 (2.39%) Games
12 14 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.55%) Marketing
14 8 (1.13%) Legal
14 8 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.85%) Public Sector
16 6 (0.85%) Retail Banking
17 5 (0.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 384 (54.08%) Developer
2 239 (33.66%) Software Engineer
3 213 (30.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 136 (19.15%) Senior
5 110 (15.49%) Senior Developer
6 67 (9.44%) React Developer
7 58 (8.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 57 (8.03%) Lead
9 40 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 39 (5.49%) Lead Developer
11 26 (3.66%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 25 (3.52%) JavaScript Developer
13 20 (2.82%) Software Developer
13 20 (2.82%) Web Developer
14 19 (2.68%) Java Developer
15 17 (2.39%) Data Engineer
16 16 (2.25%) HTML Developer
16 16 (2.25%) PHP Developer
17 15 (2.11%) Designer
17 15 (2.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 471 (66.34%) React
2 431 (60.70%) CSS
3 428 (60.28%) HTML
4 251 (35.35%) Redux
5 213 (30.00%) Kafka
6 208 (29.30%) Spring Boot
7 207 (29.15%) Spring
8 200 (28.17%) JPA
9 168 (23.66%) RESTful
10 152 (21.41%) HTML5
11 146 (20.56%) REST
12 140 (19.72%) Jest
13 131 (18.45%) CSS3
14 130 (18.31%) Sass
15 110 (15.49%) Hibernate
16 86 (12.11%) .NET
17 83 (11.69%) AngularJS
18 76 (10.70%) Node.js
19 57 (8.03%) Vue
20 43 (6.06%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 240 (33.80%) Product Ownership
2 198 (27.89%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (4.93%) Fixed Income
4 26 (3.66%) Equities
4 26 (3.66%) Mobile App
5 20 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 19 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.54%) Hedge funds
8 16 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 12 (1.69%) Derivative
11 10 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.27%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.13%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.13%) Educational Technology
13 8 (1.13%) Learning Management System
14 7 (0.99%) EPoS
14 7 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.94%) Apple iOS
2 17 (2.39%) Android
3 11 (1.55%) Linux
4 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.42%) Windows
5 2 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (59.58%) Agile
2 311 (43.80%) DevOps
3 308 (43.38%) Software Engineering
4 292 (41.13%) User Experience
5 290 (40.85%) CI/CD
6 280 (39.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 263 (37.04%) Microservices
8 258 (36.34%) Test Automation
9 250 (35.21%) Containerisation
10 234 (32.96%) Performance Optimisation
11 227 (31.97%) SDLC
12 162 (22.82%) Mentoring
13 151 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
14 149 (20.99%) Responsive Web Design
15 145 (20.42%) Clean Code
16 143 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 135 (19.01%) TDD
18 124 (17.46%) UX Design
19 103 (14.51%) Migration
20 91 (12.82%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 497 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 297 (41.83%) TypeScript
3 270 (38.03%) Java
4 266 (37.46%) SQL
5 95 (13.38%) Python
6 92 (12.96%) C#
7 63 (8.87%) PHP
8 10 (1.41%) Go
9 7 (0.99%) C++
10 6 (0.85%) Bicep
10 6 (0.85%) Delphi
10 6 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.70%) R
12 4 (0.56%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.42%) Groovy
14 2 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.28%) Rust
14 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.28%) XAML
Qualifications
1 139 (19.58%) Degree
2 59 (8.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.25%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.41%) Master's Degree
4 10 (1.41%) SC Cleared
5 5 (0.70%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (34.93%) QA
2 146 (20.56%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.39%) WCAG
4 6 (0.85%) CDISC
4 6 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.70%) GDPR
5 5 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.14%) COBIT
6 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 300 (42.25%) Docker
2 5 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 261 (36.76%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.41%) Prometheus
3 7 (0.99%) Grafana
4 6 (0.85%) Terraform
5 5 (0.70%) Argo
6 2 (0.28%) Marathon
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 198 (27.89%) Solace
2 46 (6.48%) Microsoft
3 28 (3.94%) Adobe
4 13 (1.83%) WooCommerce
5 9 (1.27%) Google
6 8 (1.13%) OpenAI
7 7 (0.99%) Oracle
8 6 (0.85%) PayPal
9 5 (0.70%) New Relic
10 4 (0.56%) ANSYS
10 4 (0.56%) Apple
10 4 (0.56%) Databricks
11 2 (0.28%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.28%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.28%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.28%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.28%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.28%) Splunk
12 1 (0.14%) Facebook
12 1 (0.14%) Hitachi