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 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 365 345
Rank change year-on-year -102 -20 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 152 350 465
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.74% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.80% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 134 207 439
10th Percentile £43,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £79,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 50,656 43,491 57,272
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 92.07% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 32,239 22,609 45,609
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.41%

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 29 January 2026.

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 29 January 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
North of England -11 51 £59,000 +3.51% 41
London -48 37 £80,000 +3.23% 27
South East -4 27 £55,000 -29.03% 39
North West +7 20 £61,250 +11.36% 14
Yorkshire -15 18 £47,372 -29.30% 19
South West -12 15 £45,000 -18.18% 17
North East -8 13 £59,500 +2.15% 8
West Midlands +29 10 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Midlands -12 10 £55,000 -6.38% 16
East of England +9 4 £40,000 -39.59% 20
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 29 January 2026, 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.

1 135 (88.82%) Front End Development
2 76 (50.00%) React
3 71 (46.71%) JavaScript
4 64 (42.11%) Agile
5 63 (41.45%) CSS
6 58 (38.16%) User Experience
7 56 (36.84%) HTML
8 47 (30.92%) TypeScript
9 41 (26.97%) Git
10 37 (24.34%) Accessibility
11 35 (23.03%) UX Design
12 29 (19.08%) Azure
12 29 (19.08%) CI/CD
13 28 (18.42%) Vue
14 23 (15.13%) Wireframes
15 22 (14.47%) Jest
16 20 (13.16%) Node.js
17 19 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (12.50%) Mentoring
18 18 (11.84%) Clean Code
18 18 (11.84%) GitHub
18 18 (11.84%) Responsive Web Design
18 18 (11.84%) REST
19 17 (11.18%) Software Engineering
20 16 (10.53%) API Integration
20 16 (10.53%) Next.js
20 16 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
21 15 (9.87%) AngularJS
21 15 (9.87%) GraphQL
22 13 (8.55%) 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 6 (3.95%) CMS
2 3 (1.97%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) Drupal
3 1 (0.66%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.66%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.08%) Azure
2 18 (11.84%) GitHub
3 13 (8.55%) SaaS
4 12 (7.89%) AWS
5 9 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.26%) Figma
7 6 (3.95%) Miro
8 3 (1.97%) npm
9 2 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.66%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.66%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.66%) Sentry
10 1 (0.66%) Serverless
10 1 (0.66%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.61%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.66%) Metadata
3 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (26.97%) Git
2 11 (7.24%) Cypress.io
3 9 (5.92%) webpack
4 8 (5.26%) Storybook
5 7 (4.61%) gulp
5 7 (4.61%) Visual Studio
6 6 (3.95%) Axure RP
6 6 (3.95%) JIRA
7 5 (3.29%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.97%) GitLab
9 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.32%) Vite
10 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.66%) Babel
10 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.66%) Grunt
10 1 (0.66%) Maven
10 1 (0.66%) Protractor
10 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.84%) Retail
3 12 (7.89%) Finance
4 9 (5.92%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.29%) Legal
6 4 (2.63%) Marketing
7 3 (1.97%) Law
8 2 (1.32%) Publishing
9 1 (0.66%) Automotive
9 1 (0.66%) Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Front Office
9 1 (0.66%) Games
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (50.00%) React
2 63 (41.45%) CSS
3 56 (36.84%) HTML
4 28 (18.42%) Vue
5 22 (14.47%) Jest
6 20 (13.16%) Node.js
7 18 (11.84%) REST
8 16 (10.53%) Next.js
9 15 (9.87%) AngularJS
9 15 (9.87%) GraphQL
10 13 (8.55%) RESTful
10 13 (8.55%) Tailwind CSS
11 12 (7.89%) .NET
12 9 (5.92%) Sass
13 8 (5.26%) JSON
13 8 (5.26%) Nuxt
14 7 (4.61%) Redux
14 7 (4.61%) Web Services
15 6 (3.95%) WebSockets
15 6 (3.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (5.92%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.32%) Blog
6 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.32%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.32%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.32%) W3C
7 1 (0.66%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.66%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.95%) Android
1 6 (3.95%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.32%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (88.82%) Front End Development
2 64 (42.11%) Agile
3 58 (38.16%) User Experience
4 35 (23.03%) UX Design
5 29 (19.08%) CI/CD
6 23 (15.13%) Wireframes
7 19 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 18 (11.84%) Clean Code
8 18 (11.84%) Responsive Web Design
9 17 (11.18%) Software Engineering
10 16 (10.53%) API Integration
10 16 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (8.55%) DevOps
11 13 (8.55%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (7.24%) Web Development
13 10 (6.58%) E-Commerce
13 10 (6.58%) Mobile Development
14 9 (5.92%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
14 9 (5.92%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (46.71%) JavaScript
2 47 (30.92%) TypeScript
3 12 (7.89%) C#
4 7 (4.61%) Python
5 3 (1.97%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.32%) Java
6 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.32%) PHP
6 2 (1.32%) Ruby
6 2 (1.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (5.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.95%) DV Cleared
3 4 (2.63%) Degree
4 3 (1.97%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (24.34%) Accessibility
2 13 (8.55%) QA
3 9 (5.92%) WCAG
4 7 (4.61%) GDPR
5 5 (3.29%) PERC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.66%) Grafana
1 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (3.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.97%) DevExpress
3 2 (1.32%) Adobe
4 1 (0.66%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.66%) Concur
4 1 (0.66%) SAP