Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Job Trends in England

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 376 340
Rank change year-on-year -109 -36 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 130 347 371
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.67% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.72% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 109 213 336
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +13.82% -5.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 46,551 48,165 41,083
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 93.58% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,124 26,193 32,109
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job vacancy trend in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job vacancies in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
North of England -7 35 £60,000 +4.35% 21
South East -2 31 £55,000 -25.42% 9
London -32 31 £85,000 +9.68% 15
North West +25 21 £60,000 +4.35% 8
West Midlands +23 11 £52,500 +43.84% 2
Midlands +4 11 £52,500 -8.70% 2
South West -13 11 £45,000 -18.18% 6
Yorkshire -18 10 £57,500 +18.56% 6
East of England +16 4 £40,000 -25.58% 1
North East -6 4 £58,500 -14.91% 7
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 115 (88.46%) Front End Development
2 69 (53.08%) React
3 66 (50.77%) JavaScript
4 63 (48.46%) Agile
5 60 (46.15%) CSS
6 56 (43.08%) User Experience
7 53 (40.77%) HTML
8 45 (34.62%) TypeScript
9 41 (31.54%) Git
10 40 (30.77%) Accessibility
11 36 (27.69%) UX Design
12 30 (23.08%) Azure
13 28 (21.54%) CI/CD
14 27 (20.77%) Vue
15 24 (18.46%) Wireframes
16 21 (16.15%) GitHub
17 20 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (15.38%) Node.js
17 20 (15.38%) Responsive Web Design
18 19 (14.62%) Clean Code
18 19 (14.62%) Jest
18 19 (14.62%) Mentoring
19 18 (13.85%) Next.js
19 18 (13.85%) REST
20 17 (13.08%) API Integration
20 17 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
21 15 (11.54%) .NET
21 15 (11.54%) AngularJS
21 15 (11.54%) Software Engineering
22 14 (10.77%) DevOps

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 8 (6.15%) CMS
2 5 (3.85%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.54%) Drupal
3 2 (1.54%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.08%) Azure
2 21 (16.15%) GitHub
3 13 (10.00%) AWS
4 12 (9.23%) SaaS
5 9 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (6.92%) Figma
6 6 (4.62%) Miro
7 5 (3.85%) npm
8 2 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.77%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.77%) Firebase
9 1 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.54%) Metadata
3 2 (1.54%) MySQL
3 2 (1.54%) Redis
4 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (31.54%) Git
2 11 (8.46%) Storybook
3 10 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 10 (7.69%) webpack
4 8 (6.15%) gulp
5 7 (5.38%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.62%) Axure RP
6 6 (4.62%) JIRA
7 5 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (2.31%) GitLab
9 2 (1.54%) Grunt
9 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.54%) Vite
10 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.77%) Babel
10 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.77%) Maven
10 1 (0.77%) Protractor
10 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.08%) Retail
3 16 (12.31%) Finance
4 5 (3.85%) Legal
5 4 (3.08%) Marketing
5 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.31%) Law
7 2 (1.54%) Publishing
8 1 (0.77%) Automotive
8 1 (0.77%) Banking
8 1 (0.77%) Games
8 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (53.08%) React
2 60 (46.15%) CSS
3 53 (40.77%) HTML
4 27 (20.77%) Vue
5 20 (15.38%) Node.js
6 19 (14.62%) Jest
7 18 (13.85%) Next.js
7 18 (13.85%) REST
8 15 (11.54%) .NET
8 15 (11.54%) AngularJS
9 14 (10.77%) GraphQL
10 13 (10.00%) RESTful
11 12 (9.23%) Tailwind CSS
12 9 (6.92%) Sass
13 8 (6.15%) JSON
13 8 (6.15%) Nuxt
13 8 (6.15%) Redux
14 7 (5.38%) Web Services
14 7 (5.38%) WebSockets
15 6 (4.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.15%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.38%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.31%) W3C
7 2 (1.54%) Blog
7 2 (1.54%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.54%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.77%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.62%) Android
1 6 (4.62%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.54%) Linux
2 2 (1.54%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (88.46%) Front End Development
2 63 (48.46%) Agile
3 56 (43.08%) User Experience
4 36 (27.69%) UX Design
5 28 (21.54%) CI/CD
6 24 (18.46%) Wireframes
7 20 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (15.38%) Responsive Web Design
8 19 (14.62%) Clean Code
8 19 (14.62%) Mentoring
9 17 (13.08%) API Integration
9 17 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (11.54%) Software Engineering
11 14 (10.77%) DevOps
12 12 (9.23%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (8.46%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
13 11 (8.46%) E-Commerce
13 11 (8.46%) Mobile Development
14 10 (7.69%) AI
14 10 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (50.77%) JavaScript
2 45 (34.62%) TypeScript
3 12 (9.23%) C#
4 5 (3.85%) Python
5 3 (2.31%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.54%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.54%) PHP
6 2 (1.54%) Ruby
7 1 (0.77%) Java
7 1 (0.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (5.38%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.62%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.31%) Degree
4 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (30.77%) Accessibility
2 13 (10.00%) QA
3 8 (6.15%) GDPR
3 8 (6.15%) WCAG
4 5 (3.85%) PERC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.77%) Grafana
1 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.31%) DevExpress
3 2 (1.54%) Adobe
4 1 (0.77%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.77%) Concur