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 £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 360 355
Rank change year-on-year -97 -5 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 165 331 489
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.74% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.81% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 147 202 462
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,455 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,125 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.35% -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 53,516 41,112 62,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 91.53% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 34,293 21,800 49,647
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,940
25th Percentile £37,750 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
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% -8.33%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -12 55 £55,500 -1.77% 38
London -72 40 £80,000 +3.23% 25
South East 0 28 £55,000 -29.03% 16
North West +2 21 £60,000 +9.09% 19
Yorkshire -23 21 £47,372 -29.30% 13
South West -21 20 £45,000 -18.18% 10
North East -8 13 £59,500 +2.15% 6
West Midlands +17 10 £55,000 -2.22% 1
Midlands -19 10 £55,000 -4.35% 1
East of England -4 4 £40,000 -39.59% 2
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 12 February 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.

1 148 (89.70%) Front End Development
2 79 (47.88%) JavaScript
3 77 (46.67%) React
4 60 (36.36%) Agile
4 60 (36.36%) CSS
5 59 (35.76%) User Experience
6 54 (32.73%) HTML
7 48 (29.09%) TypeScript
8 43 (26.06%) Git
9 37 (22.42%) Accessibility
10 35 (21.21%) UX Design
11 30 (18.18%) Azure
11 30 (18.18%) CI/CD
12 29 (17.58%) Vue
13 23 (13.94%) Jest
14 20 (12.12%) Node.js
14 20 (12.12%) Wireframes
15 19 (11.52%) Mentoring
15 19 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (10.91%) GitHub
16 18 (10.91%) REST
17 17 (10.30%) Clean Code
17 17 (10.30%) Responsive Web Design
17 17 (10.30%) Software Engineering
18 15 (9.09%) AngularJS
18 15 (9.09%) API Integration
18 15 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
18 15 (9.09%) GraphQL
19 14 (8.48%) Full-Stack Development
19 14 (8.48%) Next.js

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 5 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (0.61%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.61%) nginx
2 1 (0.61%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.18%) Azure
2 18 (10.91%) GitHub
3 13 (7.88%) SaaS
4 12 (7.27%) AWS
5 9 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.64%) Figma
6 6 (3.64%) Miro
7 3 (1.82%) npm
8 2 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.61%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.61%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.61%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Sentry
9 1 (0.61%) Serverless
9 1 (0.61%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.21%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.21%) MySQL
4 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (26.06%) Git
2 12 (7.27%) Cypress.io
3 8 (4.85%) webpack
4 7 (4.24%) Visual Studio
5 6 (3.64%) Axure RP
5 6 (3.64%) JIRA
5 6 (3.64%) Storybook
6 5 (3.03%) gulp
6 5 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.82%) GitLab
7 3 (1.82%) Vite
8 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.61%) Babel
9 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.61%) Maven
9 1 (0.61%) Protractor
9 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (18.79%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.52%) Retail
3 12 (7.27%) Finance
4 9 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.03%) Legal
6 4 (2.42%) Law
6 4 (2.42%) Marketing
7 2 (1.21%) Front Office
7 2 (1.21%) Publishing
8 1 (0.61%) Automotive
8 1 (0.61%) Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Games
8 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (46.67%) React
2 60 (36.36%) CSS
3 54 (32.73%) HTML
4 29 (17.58%) Vue
5 23 (13.94%) Jest
6 20 (12.12%) Node.js
7 18 (10.91%) REST
8 15 (9.09%) AngularJS
8 15 (9.09%) GraphQL
9 14 (8.48%) Next.js
10 12 (7.27%) .NET
10 12 (7.27%) RESTful
10 12 (7.27%) Tailwind CSS
11 9 (5.45%) Nuxt
12 8 (4.85%) JSON
12 8 (4.85%) Sass
13 7 (4.24%) Web Services
14 6 (3.64%) Redux
14 6 (3.64%) WebSockets
14 6 (3.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.27%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.85%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.21%) Blog
7 2 (1.21%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.21%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.21%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.61%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.61%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.64%) Android
1 6 (3.64%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.82%) Linux
3 2 (1.21%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (89.70%) Front End Development
2 60 (36.36%) Agile
3 59 (35.76%) User Experience
4 35 (21.21%) UX Design
5 30 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 20 (12.12%) Wireframes
7 19 (11.52%) Mentoring
7 19 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (10.30%) Clean Code
8 17 (10.30%) Responsive Web Design
8 17 (10.30%) Software Engineering
9 15 (9.09%) API Integration
9 15 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (8.48%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (7.88%) DevOps
11 13 (7.88%) Web Development
12 12 (7.27%) E-Commerce
13 10 (6.06%) Performance Optimisation
14 9 (5.45%) Code Quality
14 9 (5.45%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 79 (47.88%) JavaScript
2 48 (29.09%) TypeScript
3 12 (7.27%) C#
4 6 (3.64%) Python
5 4 (2.42%) SQL
6 3 (1.82%) Java
6 3 (1.82%) PHP
6 3 (1.82%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.21%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (4.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.03%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.82%) Degree
3 3 (1.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (22.42%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.88%) QA
3 9 (5.45%) WCAG
4 6 (3.64%) GDPR
5 5 (3.03%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) Grafana
1 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.82%) DevExpress
3 2 (1.21%) Adobe
4 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.61%) Concur
4 1 (0.61%) SAP