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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 498 409
Rank change year-on-year -41 -89 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 230 128 370
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.30% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.33% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 191 99 230
10th Percentile £43,481 £39,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £46,875 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +16.67%

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 96,354 38,754 63,738
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 90.47% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,687 22,906 37,121
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 29 September 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 September 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 0 102 £69,305 +15.51% 18
North West +6 54 £60,000 - 13
South East -36 38 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Midlands -33 30 £45,242 +6.45% 6
London -79 29 £85,000 +13.33% 46
Yorkshire -12 26 £70,000 +86.67% 2
North East -48 22 £65,000 -22.39% 3
South West -68 18 £52,500 +10.53% 5
East Midlands -27 17 £45,000 -5.26% 3
West Midlands -40 13 £69,305 +73.26% 3
East of England -29 9 £65,000 +36.84% 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 29 September 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.

1 209 (90.87%) Front End Development
2 95 (41.30%) TypeScript
3 90 (39.13%) JavaScript
4 78 (33.91%) React
5 48 (20.87%) Agile
6 44 (19.13%) Mentoring
7 43 (18.70%) CSS
7 43 (18.70%) HTML
8 40 (17.39%) Accessibility
9 35 (15.22%) E-Commerce
9 35 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (15.22%) User Experience
10 34 (14.78%) AI
11 33 (14.35%) CI/CD
12 28 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (11.74%) Performance Optimisation
14 26 (11.30%) AWS
15 25 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (10.87%) Security Cleared
16 22 (9.57%) DevOps
17 21 (9.13%) Azure
17 21 (9.13%) Roadmaps
17 21 (9.13%) UX Design
18 20 (8.70%) Web Development
19 19 (8.26%) SC Cleared
20 18 (7.83%) Node.js
20 18 (7.83%) Technical Leadership
21 17 (7.39%) Collaborative Working
21 17 (7.39%) Design Patterns
21 17 (7.39%) Vue

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 7 (3.04%) CMS
1 7 (3.04%) Headless CMS
2 2 (0.87%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (2.61%) Magento
2 2 (0.87%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.30%) AWS
2 21 (9.13%) Azure
3 7 (3.04%) Figma
4 5 (2.17%) SaaS
5 4 (1.74%) GitHub
5 4 (1.74%) Vercel
6 2 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.87%) Contentful
6 2 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (0.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (0.87%) Supabase
7 1 (0.43%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.43%) GCP
7 1 (0.43%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) Wireless
2 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.74%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.87%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.87%) GIS
Development Applications
1 16 (6.96%) Git
2 5 (2.17%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.30%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.30%) JIRA
4 2 (0.87%) Gradle
4 2 (0.87%) gulp
4 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.87%) webpack
4 2 (0.87%) Xcode
5 1 (0.43%) Babel
5 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.43%) Storybook
General
1 33 (14.35%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.00%) Finance
3 19 (8.26%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.35%) Marketing
5 9 (3.91%) Retail
6 7 (3.04%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.87%) Banking
9 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (33.91%) React
2 43 (18.70%) CSS
2 43 (18.70%) HTML
3 18 (7.83%) Node.js
4 17 (7.39%) Vue
5 16 (6.96%) AngularJS
5 16 (6.96%) Playwright
6 14 (6.09%) React Native
7 13 (5.65%) .NET
7 13 (5.65%) REST
8 12 (5.22%) Next.js
9 11 (4.78%) GraphQL
10 6 (2.61%) WebSockets
11 5 (2.17%) HTML5
11 5 (2.17%) Material-UI
11 5 (2.17%) Tailwind CSS
12 4 (1.74%) CSS3
12 4 (1.74%) Jest
12 4 (1.74%) Sass
12 4 (1.74%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.39%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (1.74%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.30%) PropTech
5 2 (0.87%) Animation
5 2 (0.87%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.87%) Hedge funds
5 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.43%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.43%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (90.87%) Front End Development
2 48 (20.87%) Agile
3 44 (19.13%) Mentoring
4 35 (15.22%) E-Commerce
4 35 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (15.22%) User Experience
5 34 (14.78%) AI
6 33 (14.35%) CI/CD
7 28 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (11.74%) Performance Optimisation
9 25 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (9.57%) DevOps
11 21 (9.13%) Roadmaps
11 21 (9.13%) UX Design
12 20 (8.70%) Web Development
13 18 (7.83%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (7.39%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (7.39%) Design Patterns
15 16 (6.96%) Code Quality
16 15 (6.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 95 (41.30%) TypeScript
2 90 (39.13%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.96%) Python
4 8 (3.48%) C#
5 5 (2.17%) SQL
6 3 (1.30%) PHP
7 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.61%) Degree
4 4 (1.74%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.39%) Accessibility
2 15 (6.52%) QA
3 13 (5.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.87%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (2.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.87%) SAP
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe
3 1 (0.43%) OpenAI