Front End Development Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Front End Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 238 222
Rank change year-on-year -122 -16 -33
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 499 549 784
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.28% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.44% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 375 271 470
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,375
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,950 £97,500 £100,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

All Process & 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 76,889 38,006 52,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 88.89% 82.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,783 21,806 28,108
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Front End Development job vacancy trend in England

Front End Development
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in England over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

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 13 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
London -44 174 £80,000 +6.67% 253
North of England -62 161 £65,000 +8.33% 60
North West -61 99 £60,000 - 32
South East -42 58 £55,000 - 22
Midlands -91 54 £62,500 +13.64% 30
South West -46 34 £60,000 +4.35% 30
Yorkshire -19 33 £70,000 +33.33% 18
West Midlands -58 31 £70,000 +27.27% 21
North East -46 29 £65,000 -3.70% 11
East Midlands -62 23 £45,000 -21.74% 9
East of England -49 12 £65,000 +8.33% 16
Front End Development
UK

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (3.81%) CMS
2 12 (2.40%) Confluence
3 11 (2.20%) Headless CMS
4 6 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.20%) WordPress
5 4 (0.80%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.40%) Apache
7 2 (0.40%) Camunda
7 2 (0.40%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) Kentico
8 1 (0.20%) Moodle
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle 10gAS
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.40%) InDesign
2 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Magento
2 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.60%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.40%) Shopify
4 2 (0.40%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 122 (24.45%) Azure
2 120 (24.05%) AWS
3 41 (8.22%) Serverless
4 37 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (7.21%) GitHub
6 30 (6.01%) Figma
6 30 (6.01%) LangSmith
7 23 (4.61%) GCP
8 21 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.81%) SaaS
10 18 (3.61%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (2.61%) Azure Functions
12 13 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.61%) Vercel
13 11 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
14 10 (2.00%) Power Platform
15 9 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.80%) Wireless
2 3 (0.60%) Broadband
3 2 (0.40%) Firewall
3 2 (0.40%) Intranet
4 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.20%) NFC
4 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (5.21%) MongoDB
3 24 (4.81%) Relational Database
4 23 (4.61%) SQL Server
5 20 (4.01%) MySQL
5 20 (4.01%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.60%) Chroma
7 8 (1.60%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.40%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.40%) MariaDB
9 6 (1.20%) Power BI
9 6 (1.20%) Redis
10 4 (0.80%) GIS
10 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.40%) Metadata
12 2 (0.40%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 71 (14.23%) Git
2 24 (4.81%) GitLab
3 22 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 15 (3.01%) JIRA
5 14 (2.81%) Vite
6 13 (2.61%) Claude Code
7 9 (1.80%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.00%) Postman
8 5 (1.00%) Storybook
9 3 (0.60%) Hudson
9 3 (0.60%) JUnit
9 3 (0.60%) Maven
9 3 (0.60%) PHPUnit
9 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.40%) Gradle
10 2 (0.40%) NUnit
10 2 (0.40%) Subversion
10 2 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 130 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 100 (20.04%) Finance
3 36 (7.21%) Marketing
3 36 (7.21%) Public Sector
4 34 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.61%) Financial Institution
6 27 (5.41%) Retail
7 17 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.40%) Advertising
10 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.00%) Back Office
12 3 (0.60%) Front Office
12 3 (0.60%) Legal
12 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.40%) Banking
13 2 (0.40%) Games
13 2 (0.40%) Law
13 2 (0.40%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.20%) Billing
Job Titles
1 328 (65.73%) Developer
2 203 (40.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 167 (33.47%) Senior
4 110 (22.04%) Senior Developer
5 80 (16.03%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 54 (10.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 53 (10.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 49 (9.82%) Software Engineer
9 45 (9.02%) React Developer
10 38 (7.62%) Lead
11 29 (5.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 28 (5.61%) .NET Developer
13 21 (4.21%) Lead Developer
14 18 (3.61%) Java Engineer
14 18 (3.61%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 18 (3.61%) Senior React Developer
15 17 (3.41%) Integration Engineer
15 17 (3.41%) Senior Integration Engineer
16 16 (3.21%) Software Developer
17 15 (3.01%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (36.27%) React
2 100 (20.04%) CSS
3 97 (19.44%) HTML
4 92 (18.44%) .NET
5 75 (15.03%) REST
6 54 (10.82%) AngularJS
7 53 (10.62%) RESTful
8 51 (10.22%) Node.js
9 41 (8.22%) LangChain
10 39 (7.82%) Terraform
11 37 (7.41%) .NET Core
12 36 (7.21%) Next.js
13 34 (6.81%) Vue
14 33 (6.61%) Blazor
15 30 (6.01%) Langfuse
16 28 (5.61%) ASP.NET
16 28 (5.61%) Model Context Protocol
17 26 (5.21%) Spring
18 25 (5.01%) LlamaIndex
19 24 (4.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 81 (16.23%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (6.81%) AI Agents
4 26 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (5.01%) e-Learning
6 14 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.00%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.80%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.80%) Taxonomies
10 4 (0.80%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.60%) PropTech
11 3 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.00%) Linux
2 5 (1.00%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Debian
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (35.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 160 (32.06%) Agile
2 160 (32.06%) CI/CD
3 127 (25.45%) AI
4 105 (21.04%) Microservices
5 100 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (20.04%) Software Engineering
5 100 (20.04%) User Experience
6 92 (18.44%) Mentoring
7 89 (17.84%) DevOps
8 82 (16.43%) Test Automation
9 71 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (12.22%) Code Quality
10 61 (12.22%) LLM
11 57 (11.42%) E-Commerce
12 56 (11.22%) Collaborative Culture
13 54 (10.82%) Observability
14 51 (10.22%) Technical Leadership
15 48 (9.62%) Responsive Web Design
16 47 (9.42%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 186 (37.27%) JavaScript
1 186 (37.27%) TypeScript
2 87 (17.43%) Python
3 86 (17.23%) C#
4 65 (13.03%) Java
5 55 (11.02%) SQL
6 21 (4.21%) PHP
7 19 (3.81%) Go
8 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.60%) VB
9 3 (0.60%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.40%) C++
10 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.40%) Rust
10 2 (0.40%) Solidity
11 1 (0.20%) Bash
11 1 (0.20%) Groovy
11 1 (0.20%) ProC
11 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 69 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 53 (10.62%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.02%) Degree
4 13 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.20%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (17.43%) Accessibility
2 35 (7.01%) QA
3 28 (5.61%) WCAG
4 5 (1.00%) GDPR
5 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) WAI
6 1 (0.20%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 72 (14.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.80%) Argo
2 4 (0.80%) Grafana
3 3 (0.60%) Puppet
4 2 (0.40%) Ansible
4 2 (0.40%) Plesk
4 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) Consul
5 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 42 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.61%) OpenAI
3 14 (2.81%) Google
4 12 (2.40%) Mistral
5 5 (1.00%) Databricks
5 5 (1.00%) SAP
6 4 (0.80%) Facebook
6 4 (0.80%) Instagram
6 4 (0.80%) TikTok
7 3 (0.60%) Adobe
7 3 (0.60%) Oracle
8 2 (0.40%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.40%) WooCommerce
9 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.20%) Confluent
9 1 (0.20%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.20%) IBM
9 1 (0.20%) Monetate
9 1 (0.20%) Optimizely