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 £58,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 379 331
Rank change year-on-year -95 -48 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 140 372 426
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.62% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.66% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 115 222 385
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £71,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% +14.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,625 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £108,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -7.69%

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 41,414 56,629 44,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.54% 94.37% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,473 31,660 34,741
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -32 39 £80,000 +3.23% 76
North of England +22 37 £60,000 +2.13% 29
South East -19 30 £55,000 -21.43% 25
North West +39 27 £60,000 - 24
South West +14 11 £45,000 -12.20% 7
Midlands +15 10 £42,500 -34.62% 1
West Midlands +43 8 £40,000 +9.59%
Yorkshire 0 7 £47,372 -5.26% 4
East of England +14 6 £43,750 - 2
North East -4 3 £58,500 - 1
East Midlands +2 2 £47,500 -32.14% 1
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 18 November 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.

1 123 (87.86%) Front End Development
2 87 (62.14%) JavaScript
3 85 (60.71%) React
4 78 (55.71%) Agile
4 78 (55.71%) CSS
5 69 (49.29%) HTML
6 64 (45.71%) User Experience
7 61 (43.57%) TypeScript
8 46 (32.86%) Git
9 42 (30.00%) Accessibility
10 33 (23.57%) UX Design
11 31 (22.14%) CI/CD
11 31 (22.14%) Node.js
12 30 (21.43%) Azure
13 28 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (19.29%) Vue
14 27 (19.29%) Wireframes
15 25 (17.86%) Responsive Web Design
16 24 (17.14%) Software Engineering
17 23 (16.43%) AngularJS
17 23 (16.43%) GitHub
18 22 (15.71%) Clean Code
18 22 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
19 20 (14.29%) Jest
19 20 (14.29%) Mentoring
19 20 (14.29%) REST
20 18 (12.86%) AWS
20 18 (12.86%) Next.js
20 18 (12.86%) QA
20 18 (12.86%) RESTful

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 11 (7.86%) CMS
2 6 (4.29%) Umbraco
3 5 (3.57%) Drupal
3 5 (3.57%) WordPress
4 4 (2.86%) Confluence
5 2 (1.43%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.71%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (4.29%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.86%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.43%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.43%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.43%) Elementor
3 2 (1.43%) Sketch
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.43%) Azure
2 23 (16.43%) GitHub
3 18 (12.86%) AWS
4 11 (7.86%) Figma
5 10 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.00%) npm
7 6 (4.29%) Miro
7 6 (4.29%) SaaS
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.43%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.43%) Serverless
8 2 (1.43%) Vercel
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.71%) CloudFront
9 1 (0.71%) Firebase
9 1 (0.71%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.71%) Broadband
2 1 (0.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) Internet
2 1 (0.71%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.57%) Redis
2 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.14%) Hazelcast
4 3 (2.14%) MySQL
5 2 (1.43%) Metadata
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 46 (32.86%) Git
2 13 (9.29%) Cypress.io
3 12 (8.57%) webpack
4 10 (7.14%) Storybook
5 9 (6.43%) JIRA
6 8 (5.71%) gulp
7 6 (4.29%) Axure RP
8 5 (3.57%) Visual Studio
8 5 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (2.14%) Babel
10 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.43%) GitLab
10 2 (1.43%) Grunt
10 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
10 2 (1.43%) Vite
11 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.71%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.71%) Sourcetree
General
1 34 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.86%) Finance
3 13 (9.29%) Retail
4 8 (5.71%) Law
4 8 (5.71%) Legal
5 7 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.57%) Marketing
7 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Games
9 2 (1.43%) Publishing
10 1 (0.71%) Automotive
10 1 (0.71%) Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Front Office
10 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.71%) iGaming
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (60.71%) React
2 78 (55.71%) CSS
3 69 (49.29%) HTML
4 31 (22.14%) Node.js
5 27 (19.29%) Vue
6 23 (16.43%) AngularJS
7 20 (14.29%) Jest
7 20 (14.29%) REST
8 18 (12.86%) Next.js
8 18 (12.86%) RESTful
9 15 (10.71%) .NET
9 15 (10.71%) HTML5
9 15 (10.71%) Sass
10 14 (10.00%) GraphQL
10 14 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
11 11 (7.86%) CSS3
11 11 (7.86%) JSON
11 11 (7.86%) WebSockets
12 10 (7.14%) Redux
13 8 (5.71%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.43%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.86%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.14%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.14%) W3C
6 2 (1.43%) Blog
6 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.43%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.71%) Animation
7 1 (0.71%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.71%) Mobile Games
7 1 (0.71%) NHS
7 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.57%) Android
1 5 (3.57%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.43%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (87.86%) Front End Development
2 78 (55.71%) Agile
3 64 (45.71%) User Experience
4 33 (23.57%) UX Design
5 31 (22.14%) CI/CD
6 28 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (19.29%) Wireframes
8 25 (17.86%) Responsive Web Design
9 24 (17.14%) Software Engineering
10 22 (15.71%) Clean Code
10 22 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (14.29%) Mentoring
12 17 (12.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (11.43%) DevOps
13 16 (11.43%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (10.71%) API Integration
14 15 (10.71%) Scrum
15 14 (10.00%) Web Development
16 12 (8.57%) Code Quality
16 12 (8.57%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 87 (62.14%) JavaScript
2 61 (43.57%) TypeScript
3 10 (7.14%) C#
4 7 (5.00%) Python
5 4 (2.86%) PHP
6 3 (2.14%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.43%) Dart
7 2 (1.43%) Java
7 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.43%) Ruby
7 2 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (6.43%) Degree
2 8 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.29%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 18 (12.86%) QA
3 8 (5.71%) GDPR
4 5 (3.57%) PERC
4 5 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.71%) Grafana
1 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.86%) Adobe
3 3 (2.14%) DevExpress
4 2 (1.43%) Guidewire
4 2 (1.43%) Netlify
5 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.71%) Concur
5 1 (0.71%) Salesforce