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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 228 223
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 -140
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 682 1,079 1,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.38% 1.20% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.43% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 403 915 1,026
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £58,800 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.54% -9.54% +4.00%

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 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 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 31 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 +35 209 £73,750 -4.84% 180
North of England -13 189 £57,500 +15.00% 102
North West -3 168 £60,000 +9.09% 62
Midlands +40 140 £50,000 +17.65% 42
East Midlands +69 78 £40,000 -3.03% 16
South East -12 72 £57,500 -4.17% 37
West Midlands +15 62 £60,000 +26.32% 25
East of England +33 35 £66,212 +0.90% 17
South West +19 27 £60,000 +20.00% 24
North East +37 13 £56,500 +7.62% 18
Yorkshire -22 8 £47,500 +5.56% 23
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
1 119 (17.45%) Confluence
2 35 (5.13%) CMS
3 25 (3.67%) WordPress
4 17 (2.49%) nginx
5 11 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.17%) Drupal
7 5 (0.73%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.73%) Liferay
7 5 (0.73%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.59%) Strapi
9 3 (0.44%) IIS
10 2 (0.29%) Apache
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
Applications
1 8 (1.17%) Adobe XD
1 8 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 7 (1.03%) Sketch
3 2 (0.29%) InVision
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Moqups
4 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (3.37%) Shopify
2 10 (1.47%) Magento
3 4 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 339 (49.71%) AWS
2 328 (48.09%) Azure
3 147 (21.55%) GCP
4 53 (7.77%) Serverless
5 39 (5.72%) Figma
6 36 (5.28%) GitHub
7 29 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (4.25%) SaaS
8 19 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.20%) npm
10 14 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (2.05%) Power Platform
11 13 (1.91%) Amazon S3
12 12 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (1.47%) Dagster
14 10 (1.47%) dbt
15 9 (1.32%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.15%) Broadband
1 1 (0.15%) Internet
1 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.15%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (32.11%) SQL Server
2 40 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (5.57%) MySQL
4 24 (3.52%) MongoDB
4 24 (3.52%) NoSQL
5 20 (2.93%) Redis
6 17 (2.49%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 11 (1.61%) Power BI
8 10 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (1.47%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (1.47%) Dremio
9 6 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.73%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.59%) Big Data
11 4 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 235 (34.46%) JIRA
2 209 (30.65%) Bitbucket
3 207 (30.35%) GitLab
4 206 (30.21%) Maven
5 204 (29.91%) SonarQube
6 203 (29.77%) Selenium
7 201 (29.47%) Cucumber
8 198 (29.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 120 (17.60%) Git
10 34 (4.99%) webpack
11 19 (2.79%) Babel
12 18 (2.64%) Jasmine
13 16 (2.35%) Cypress.io
14 15 (2.20%) Mocha
15 13 (1.91%) Vite
16 11 (1.61%) Karma Test Runner
17 9 (1.32%) Jenkins
17 9 (1.32%) rollup.js
18 8 (1.17%) Moq
18 8 (1.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 322 (47.21%) Finance
2 233 (34.16%) Banking
3 221 (32.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (17.74%) Social Skills
5 106 (15.54%) Retail
6 94 (13.78%) Investment Banking
7 90 (13.20%) Corporate Banking
8 34 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
9 32 (4.69%) Law
10 20 (2.93%) Games
11 18 (2.64%) Front Office
12 15 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (2.05%) Legal
14 13 (1.91%) Marketing
15 9 (1.32%) Back Office
15 9 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.32%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.17%) Advertising
17 6 (0.88%) Automotive
17 6 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 379 (55.57%) Developer
2 243 (35.63%) Software Engineer
3 200 (29.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 131 (19.21%) Senior
5 108 (15.84%) Senior Developer
6 60 (8.80%) React Developer
7 59 (8.65%) Lead
8 52 (7.62%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 44 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 41 (6.01%) Lead Developer
11 25 (3.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 25 (3.67%) JavaScript Developer
12 23 (3.37%) Java Developer
13 22 (3.23%) Software Developer
14 19 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (2.49%) PHP Developer
16 16 (2.35%) HTML Developer
16 16 (2.35%) Web Developer
17 15 (2.20%) HTML CSS Developer
18 14 (2.05%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 453 (66.42%) React
2 422 (61.88%) CSS
3 417 (61.14%) HTML
4 245 (35.92%) Redux
5 216 (31.67%) Kafka
6 211 (30.94%) Spring Boot
7 208 (30.50%) Spring
8 201 (29.47%) JPA
9 166 (24.34%) RESTful
10 148 (21.70%) REST
11 146 (21.41%) HTML5
12 136 (19.94%) Jest
13 130 (19.06%) Sass
14 126 (18.48%) CSS3
15 112 (16.42%) Hibernate
16 85 (12.46%) .NET
17 71 (10.41%) AngularJS
17 71 (10.41%) Node.js
18 46 (6.74%) Vue
19 40 (5.87%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 224 (32.84%) Product Ownership
2 198 (29.03%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (4.25%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.49%) Fixed Income
4 17 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.05%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.47%) Equities
7 10 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 9 (1.32%) EPoS
8 9 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.03%) Learning Management System
11 6 (0.88%) Educational Technology
11 6 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.88%) Mobile Games
12 5 (0.73%) Animation
12 5 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.73%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.20%) Android
1 15 (2.20%) Apple iOS
2 12 (1.76%) Linux
3 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.44%) Unix
3 3 (0.44%) Windows
4 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (58.94%) Agile
2 314 (46.04%) DevOps
3 309 (45.31%) Software Engineering
4 292 (42.82%) CI/CD
5 284 (41.64%) User Experience
6 280 (41.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 264 (38.71%) Microservices
8 262 (38.42%) Test Automation
9 247 (36.22%) Containerisation
10 233 (34.16%) Performance Optimisation
11 232 (34.02%) SDLC
12 168 (24.63%) Mentoring
13 157 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
14 152 (22.29%) Clean Code
15 147 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 146 (21.41%) Responsive Web Design
17 138 (20.23%) TDD
18 113 (16.57%) UX Design
19 104 (15.25%) Migration
20 91 (13.34%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 482 (70.67%) JavaScript
2 281 (41.20%) TypeScript
3 277 (40.62%) SQL
4 265 (38.86%) Java
5 93 (13.64%) C#
6 85 (12.46%) Python
7 59 (8.65%) PHP
8 8 (1.17%) C++
8 8 (1.17%) Delphi
9 7 (1.03%) Go
10 6 (0.88%) Bicep
10 6 (0.88%) R
11 4 (0.59%) Groovy
12 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.44%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.29%) C
13 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.29%) Rust
13 2 (0.29%) XAML
Qualifications
1 114 (16.72%) Degree
2 56 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.20%) Security Cleared
4 9 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.17%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.73%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (36.66%) QA
2 149 (21.85%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.20%) WCAG
4 6 (0.88%) CDISC
4 6 (0.88%) GDPR
4 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.15%) COBIT
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 305 (44.72%) Docker
2 5 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 259 (37.98%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.47%) Terraform
3 9 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.03%) Grafana
5 5 (0.73%) Argo
6 2 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 198 (29.03%) Solace
2 44 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 22 (3.23%) Adobe
4 11 (1.61%) Google
5 10 (1.47%) Oracle
6 9 (1.32%) WooCommerce
7 8 (1.17%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.03%) PayPal
9 6 (0.88%) New Relic
10 5 (0.73%) Databricks
11 4 (0.59%) Apple
12 3 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.44%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.44%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.44%) Splunk
13 2 (0.29%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.29%) Optimizely
13 2 (0.29%) Rollbar
13 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
14 1 (0.15%) Dell