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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 193 202
Rank change year-on-year -109 +9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 400 631 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.61% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.72% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 356 499 994
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 51,202 36,655 64,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.09% 93.66% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 31,769 20,174 50,526
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -82 137 £85,000 +6.25% 86
North of England -41 111 £55,000 -4.35% 75
South East -52 57 £50,000 -28.57% 45
Yorkshire -3 53 £50,000 -16.67% 22
North West -39 43 £55,000 -4.35% 40
South West -51 34 £45,000 -30.77% 35
Midlands -66 34 £55,000 +7.32% 39
West Midlands +1 31 £55,000 -15.38% 19
East of England -4 15 £50,000 -24.48% 20
North East -22 15 £59,000 +4.42% 14
East Midlands -74 3 £35,000 -3.45% 20
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 13 (3.25%) CMS
2 12 (3.00%) Confluence
3 3 (0.75%) nginx
3 3 (0.75%) WordPress
4 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.50%) IIS
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) CICS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 14 (3.50%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.25%) Adobe XD
4 4 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (0.75%) InDesign
5 3 (0.75%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.50%) Sketch
7 1 (0.25%) InVision
Business Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Shopify
2 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (19.50%) GitHub
2 69 (17.25%) Azure
3 68 (17.00%) AWS
4 41 (10.25%) SaaS
5 36 (9.00%) Serverless
6 32 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (6.25%) Figma
8 19 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (3.25%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (3.25%) npm
11 12 (3.00%) OpenShift
12 11 (2.75%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.50%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (1.50%) GCP
14 6 (1.50%) Miro
14 6 (1.50%) Vercel
15 5 (1.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.75%) HTTP
1 3 (0.75%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.75%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.25%) DB2
5 13 (3.25%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.00%) RDBMS
7 9 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.25%) Redis
8 7 (1.75%) MySQL
9 6 (1.50%) Flink
10 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.00%) Power BI
11 3 (0.75%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.50%) PostHog
13 1 (0.25%) Hazelcast
13 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 69 (17.25%) Git
2 29 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 19 (4.75%) JIRA
4 16 (4.00%) webpack
5 15 (3.75%) Visual Studio
5 15 (3.75%) Vite
6 14 (3.50%) Cypress.io
7 13 (3.25%) Selenium
7 13 (3.25%) TeamCity
8 12 (3.00%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.00%) GitLab
9 10 (2.50%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.50%) Axure RP
10 6 (1.50%) gulp
11 5 (1.25%) Storybook
11 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.50%) Bower
12 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.50%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.25%) MSTest
General
1 62 (15.50%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.75%) Finance
3 30 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.50%) Retail
5 24 (6.00%) Banking
6 20 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.00%) Billing
7 12 (3.00%) Marketing
7 12 (3.00%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.50%) Legal
9 6 (1.50%) Front Office
10 5 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.25%) Games
11 4 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.75%) Law
12 3 (0.75%) Publishing
13 2 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.25%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 328 (82.00%) Developer
2 183 (45.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 102 (25.50%) Senior
4 90 (22.50%) Senior Developer
5 63 (15.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 39 (9.75%) Java Developer
7 38 (9.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 31 (7.75%) React Developer
9 23 (5.75%) Designer
10 18 (4.50%) Lead
10 18 (4.50%) UX Developer
11 16 (4.00%) UX Designer
12 15 (3.75%) Python Developer
12 15 (3.75%) Software Engineer
12 15 (3.75%) Web Developer
13 12 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
13 12 (3.00%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.00%) UI Developer
14 11 (2.75%) Applications Developer
14 11 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (48.75%) React
2 135 (33.75%) CSS
3 129 (32.25%) HTML
4 55 (13.75%) .NET
4 55 (13.75%) Node.js
4 55 (13.75%) Vue
5 48 (12.00%) REST
6 44 (11.00%) AngularJS
6 44 (11.00%) RESTful
7 31 (7.75%) Bootstrap
7 31 (7.75%) Jest
8 29 (7.25%) Next.js
9 26 (6.50%) React Native
10 25 (6.25%) HTML5
10 25 (6.25%) Spring
10 25 (6.25%) Spring Boot
11 22 (5.50%) CSS3
12 21 (5.25%) FastAPI
13 19 (4.75%) GraphQL
13 19 (4.75%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
2 24 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.75%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.75%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.50%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.50%) Social Media
9 5 (1.25%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.75%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.50%) Blog
12 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.50%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.25%) Linux
2 4 (1.00%) Android
2 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (38.75%) Agile
2 126 (31.50%) User Experience
3 105 (26.25%) CI/CD
4 79 (19.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 69 (17.25%) UX Design
6 66 (16.50%) DevOps
7 61 (15.25%) AI
8 56 (14.00%) Clean Code
8 56 (14.00%) Mentoring
8 56 (14.00%) Software Engineering
9 55 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (11.25%) Wireframes
11 41 (10.25%) API Integration
12 40 (10.00%) Containerisation
12 40 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (10.00%) Microservices
13 39 (9.75%) Scrum
14 38 (9.50%) Responsive Web Design
15 37 (9.25%) Unit Testing
15 37 (9.25%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 191 (47.75%) JavaScript
2 124 (31.00%) TypeScript
3 65 (16.25%) Java
3 65 (16.25%) SQL
4 55 (13.75%) Python
5 36 (9.00%) C#
6 12 (3.00%) PHP
7 4 (1.00%) Ruby
8 3 (0.75%) Go
8 3 (0.75%) RPG
9 2 (0.50%) Bicep
9 2 (0.50%) C++
9 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.25%) Elm
10 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (4.75%) Security Cleared
2 18 (4.50%) Degree
3 11 (2.75%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (15.75%) Accessibility
2 22 (5.50%) WCAG
3 13 (3.25%) QA
4 5 (1.25%) GDPR
4 5 (1.25%) PERC
System Software
1 53 (13.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.25%) Terraform
3 6 (1.50%) Argo
4 4 (1.00%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (3.00%) Atlassian
2 10 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.00%) Adobe
3 8 (2.00%) OpenAI
4 6 (1.50%) Oracle
5 5 (1.25%) Guidewire
5 5 (1.25%) Sitecore
6 4 (1.00%) Google
7 3 (0.75%) IBM
7 3 (0.75%) Pega
8 2 (0.50%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.50%) SendGrid
8 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.25%) Databricks
9 1 (0.25%) Foundry
9 1 (0.25%) Huawei
9 1 (0.25%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.25%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.25%) Palantir
9 1 (0.25%) SAP