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 £59,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2026.

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 405 420
Rank change year-on-year -35 +15 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 254 232 471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.59% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.66% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 224 193 448
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £42,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,563 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -4.00%

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 76,166 35,415 79,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 89.91% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 51,416 20,957 60,651
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,822
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 May 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 17 May 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 96 £61,250 +11.36% 16
London -76 64 £80,000 +10.34% 21
North West +16 41 £62,500 +13.64% 7
Yorkshire -16 38 £63,750 +82.14% 4
South West -28 36 £45,000 -18.18% 14
South East -5 29 £45,000 -21.74% 8
North East -31 17 £60,000 +3.00% 5
Midlands -35 16 £55,000 +18.92% 3
West Midlands -25 14 £55,000 +12.82% 1
East of England -30 8 £65,000 -1.83% 5
East Midlands -41 2 £55,000 +22.22% 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 17 May 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.

1 224 (88.19%) Front End Development
2 100 (39.37%) JavaScript
3 98 (38.58%) React
4 83 (32.68%) TypeScript
5 52 (20.47%) User Experience
6 41 (16.14%) CSS
7 35 (13.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 34 (13.39%) HTML
8 34 (13.39%) UX Design
9 31 (12.20%) Agile
10 28 (11.02%) Accessibility
10 28 (11.02%) DevOps
10 28 (11.02%) Git
10 28 (11.02%) Vue
11 25 (9.84%) E-Commerce
12 24 (9.45%) Web Development
13 21 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (7.09%) CI/CD
15 17 (6.69%) AI
15 17 (6.69%) Azure
15 17 (6.69%) Mentoring
15 17 (6.69%) Node.js
15 17 (6.69%) SaaS
16 16 (6.30%) AngularJS
16 16 (6.30%) Jest
16 16 (6.30%) REST
17 14 (5.51%) Data Visualisation
17 14 (5.51%) Python
17 14 (5.51%) Visualisation
18 13 (5.12%) CRM

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 (1.97%) CMS
2 1 (0.39%) Confluence
2 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.39%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.69%) Azure
1 17 (6.69%) SaaS
2 12 (4.72%) Figma
3 9 (3.54%) AWS
4 8 (3.15%) npm
5 4 (1.57%) GitHub
6 3 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.79%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (0.79%) Serverless
7 2 (0.79%) Vercel
7 2 (0.79%) Yarn
8 1 (0.39%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.39%) Algolia
8 1 (0.39%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.39%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.79%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.39%) MySQL
3 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (11.02%) Git
2 8 (3.15%) webpack
3 7 (2.76%) Cypress.io
3 7 (2.76%) Vite
4 3 (1.18%) gulp
5 2 (0.79%) JIRA
5 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.39%) GitLab
6 1 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.39%) Storybook
6 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (7.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (4.72%) Finance
2 12 (4.72%) Retail
3 10 (3.94%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.15%) Legal
5 7 (2.76%) Law
6 6 (2.36%) Banking
6 6 (2.36%) Front Office
7 5 (1.97%) Marketing
8 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.39%) Automotive
9 1 (0.39%) Games
9 1 (0.39%) iGaming
9 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (38.58%) React
2 41 (16.14%) CSS
3 34 (13.39%) HTML
4 28 (11.02%) Vue
5 17 (6.69%) Node.js
6 16 (6.30%) AngularJS
6 16 (6.30%) Jest
6 16 (6.30%) REST
7 12 (4.72%) .NET
8 9 (3.54%) RESTful
8 9 (3.54%) Sass
9 8 (3.15%) HTML5
9 8 (3.15%) Tailwind CSS
9 8 (3.15%) WebSockets
10 7 (2.76%) Next.js
10 7 (2.76%) React Native
11 6 (2.36%) CSS3
11 6 (2.36%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.36%) Playwright
12 5 (1.97%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.24%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (3.54%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.76%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.36%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.18%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.18%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.79%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.79%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.39%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.79%) Android
1 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (88.19%) Front End Development
2 52 (20.47%) User Experience
3 35 (13.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (13.39%) UX Design
5 31 (12.20%) Agile
6 28 (11.02%) DevOps
7 25 (9.84%) E-Commerce
8 24 (9.45%) Web Development
9 21 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (7.09%) CI/CD
11 17 (6.69%) AI
11 17 (6.69%) Mentoring
12 14 (5.51%) Data Visualisation
12 14 (5.51%) Visualisation
13 13 (5.12%) CRM
13 13 (5.12%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (5.12%) Software Engineering
14 11 (4.33%) Clean Code
14 11 (4.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (4.33%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 100 (39.37%) JavaScript
2 83 (32.68%) TypeScript
3 14 (5.51%) Python
4 8 (3.15%) C#
5 7 (2.76%) Java
6 6 (2.36%) PHP
7 4 (1.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (4.72%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.36%) Degree
4 5 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.02%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.94%) WCAG
3 7 (2.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.39%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (1.18%) Adobe
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft
1 3 (1.18%) SAP