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 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 421 311
Rank change year-on-year -84 -110 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 132 355 552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.52% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.54% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 105 233 493
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 38,927 65,264 51,744
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 95.19% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,272 39,661 39,990
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +8 47 £75,000 -3.23% 27
North of England +26 31 £60,000 +9.09% 20
North West +4 24 £60,000 - 11
South East -23 22 £42,500 -34.62% 20
Midlands +34 12 £42,500 -32.00% 4
West Midlands +42 8 £40,000 +9.59% 3
South West +30 7 £47,500 -5.00% 3
East of England -9 7 £47,500 +5.56% 6
Yorkshire 0 5 £37,500 +7.14% 7
East Midlands +3 4 £43,750 -37.50% 1
North East +9 2 £83,750 - 3
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 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.

1 121 (91.67%) Front End Development
2 91 (68.94%) JavaScript
3 90 (68.18%) React
4 73 (55.30%) CSS
5 67 (50.76%) HTML
6 64 (48.48%) TypeScript
7 62 (46.97%) User Experience
8 58 (43.94%) Agile
9 39 (29.55%) Finance
10 33 (25.00%) UX Design
11 32 (24.24%) Git
11 32 (24.24%) Software Engineering
12 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (21.21%) AWS
13 27 (20.45%) Node.js
14 26 (19.70%) Social Skills
15 25 (18.94%) Accessibility
16 23 (17.42%) Wireframes
16 23 (17.42%) Azure
17 22 (16.67%) Sass
17 22 (16.67%) Clean Code
18 21 (15.91%) CI/CD
18 21 (15.91%) Vue
19 20 (15.15%) Responsive Web Design
19 20 (15.15%) HTML5
20 18 (13.64%) Scrum
20 18 (13.64%) Computer Science
20 18 (13.64%) Figma
21 16 (12.12%) Next.js
21 16 (12.12%) Web Development

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 13 (9.85%) CMS
2 7 (5.30%) Umbraco
3 6 (4.55%) Drupal
3 6 (4.55%) WordPress
4 4 (3.03%) Confluence
4 4 (3.03%) Liferay
4 4 (3.03%) nginx
5 2 (1.52%) EPiServer
5 2 (1.52%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.52%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.03%) Adobe XD
3 3 (2.27%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.52%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.52%) Elementor
4 2 (1.52%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
1 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.21%) AWS
2 23 (17.42%) Azure
3 18 (13.64%) Figma
4 14 (10.61%) GitHub
5 9 (6.82%) npm
6 6 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.55%) Serverless
7 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.27%) GCP
8 3 (2.27%) SaaS
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (1.52%) Cloudflare
9 2 (1.52%) CloudFront
9 2 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.52%) Vercel
10 1 (0.76%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Broadband
1 1 (0.76%) Internet
1 1 (0.76%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.79%) Metadata
2 5 (3.79%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.79%) Redis
3 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.27%) Hazelcast
3 3 (2.27%) MySQL
4 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (24.24%) Git
2 11 (8.33%) webpack
3 9 (6.82%) gulp
3 9 (6.82%) Storybook
4 8 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.79%) Babel
5 5 (3.79%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.79%) JIRA
6 2 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.52%) GitLab
6 2 (1.52%) Grunt
6 2 (1.52%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.52%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.52%) Selenium
6 2 (1.52%) Vite
7 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.76%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (29.55%) Finance
2 26 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.55%) Law
4 6 (4.55%) Legal
4 6 (4.55%) Marketing
5 5 (3.79%) Banking
6 4 (3.03%) Front Office
7 3 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.27%) Fire and Rescue
7 3 (2.27%) Games
8 2 (1.52%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.76%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.76%) iGaming
9 1 (0.76%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (68.18%) React
2 73 (55.30%) CSS
3 67 (50.76%) HTML
4 27 (20.45%) Node.js
5 22 (16.67%) Sass
6 21 (15.91%) Vue
7 20 (15.15%) HTML5
8 16 (12.12%) Next.js
9 15 (11.36%) AngularJS
9 15 (11.36%) REST
9 15 (11.36%) RESTful
10 14 (10.61%) CSS3
11 12 (9.09%) Redux
11 12 (9.09%) WebSockets
12 11 (8.33%) .NET
12 11 (8.33%) React Native
12 11 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
13 10 (7.58%) Jest
14 8 (6.06%) GraphQL
15 7 (5.30%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (5.30%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.30%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.30%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.03%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.27%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.27%) Smart City
5 3 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.27%) W3C
6 2 (1.52%) Animation
6 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.52%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.76%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.76%) Social Media
7 1 (0.76%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.79%) Android
1 5 (3.79%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.27%) Linux
2 3 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (91.67%) Front End Development
2 62 (46.97%) User Experience
3 58 (43.94%) Agile
4 33 (25.00%) UX Design
5 32 (24.24%) Software Engineering
6 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (17.42%) Wireframes
8 22 (16.67%) Clean Code
9 21 (15.91%) CI/CD
10 20 (15.15%) Responsive Web Design
11 18 (13.64%) Computer Science
11 18 (13.64%) Scrum
12 16 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (12.12%) DevOps
12 16 (12.12%) Web Development
13 15 (11.36%) Mentoring
14 12 (9.09%) Visualisation
15 11 (8.33%) Mobile Development
15 11 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
15 11 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 91 (68.94%) JavaScript
2 64 (48.48%) TypeScript
3 14 (10.61%) Python
4 9 (6.82%) C#
5 5 (3.79%) R
6 4 (3.03%) PHP
7 3 (2.27%) SQL
7 3 (2.27%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.52%) Dart
8 2 (1.52%) Java
8 2 (1.52%) Julia
9 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (9.85%) Degree
2 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (3.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.94%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.09%) QA
3 4 (3.03%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (2.27%) GDPR
5 2 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (6.82%) Docker
2 4 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.58%) Adobe
3 3 (2.27%) DevExpress
4 2 (1.52%) Guidewire
4 2 (1.52%) Netlify
5 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.76%) Concur
5 1 (0.76%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.76%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.76%) Salesforce