Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Jobs 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 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 409 332
Rank change year-on-year -21 -77 -148
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 240 499 945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.59% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.62% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 200 453 669
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £42,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £100,250
UK median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% +8.70%

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 41,555 80,517 84,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,558 60,256 53,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in England.

Salary trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +85 113 £75,000 - 87
North of England +32 45 £55,000 +10.00% 67
North West -27 32 £55,000 +4.76% 39
Midlands +23 21 £47,500 +11.76% 24
South West +69 20 £55,000 +10.00% 12
South East +30 19 £57,500 -4.17% 42
East of England +51 17 £66,212 -7.40% 8
East Midlands +47 11 £45,000 +20.00% 10
West Midlands +15 10 £48,750 +8.33% 12
North East +56 9 £56,500 +50.67% 20
Yorkshire +53 4 £32,500 -10.34% 10
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 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.

1 221 (92.08%) Front End Development
2 179 (74.58%) JavaScript
3 157 (65.42%) React
4 141 (58.75%) CSS
5 139 (57.92%) HTML
6 106 (44.17%) User Experience
7 102 (42.50%) TypeScript
8 99 (41.25%) Agile
9 71 (29.58%) Finance
10 63 (26.25%) AWS
11 61 (25.42%) AngularJS
12 60 (25.00%) UX Design
13 56 (23.33%) Social Skills
14 54 (22.50%) Git
15 46 (19.17%) Vue
16 45 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (17.92%) Docker
18 42 (17.50%) HTML5
18 42 (17.50%) Web Development
19 41 (17.08%) Accessibility
20 40 (16.67%) Code Quality
20 40 (16.67%) E-Commerce
21 39 (16.25%) Node.js
22 36 (15.00%) Responsive Web Design
22 36 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
23 35 (14.58%) Sass
23 35 (14.58%) C#
24 34 (14.17%) Degree
24 34 (14.17%) Redux
24 34 (14.17%) CI/CD

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (7.08%) CMS
2 15 (6.25%) WordPress
3 13 (5.42%) nginx
4 7 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.08%) Liferay
6 4 (1.67%) Apache
6 4 (1.67%) Headless CMS
7 3 (1.25%) Strapi
8 1 (0.42%) Confluence
8 1 (0.42%) Drupal
8 1 (0.42%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (3.33%) Adobe XD
2 6 (2.50%) Chatbot
3 5 (2.08%) Sketch
4 4 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.25%) Photoshop
5 3 (1.25%) Trello
6 2 (0.83%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.83%) InDesign
7 1 (0.42%) Moqups
7 1 (0.42%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.25%) Shopify
3 1 (0.42%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (26.25%) AWS
2 32 (13.33%) Azure
3 24 (10.00%) Figma
4 16 (6.67%) SaaS
5 15 (6.25%) GCP
6 11 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (4.58%) Serverless
7 10 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (3.75%) npm
8 9 (3.75%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.92%) GitHub
10 7 (2.92%) Stripe
11 6 (2.50%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.50%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.25%) Asana
13 3 (1.25%) CloudFront
13 3 (1.25%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) Broadband
1 1 (0.42%) Internet
1 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.42%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (3.33%) MySQL
2 4 (1.67%) Apache Ignite
2 4 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.25%) Redis
4 2 (0.83%) Big Data
4 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.42%) Metadata
5 1 (0.42%) Mixpanel
5 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 54 (22.50%) Git
2 25 (10.42%) webpack
3 19 (7.92%) Jasmine
4 14 (5.83%) Cypress.io
5 13 (5.42%) Babel
5 13 (5.42%) Karma Test Runner
6 12 (5.00%) JIRA
6 12 (5.00%) Mocha
7 7 (2.92%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.92%) Selenium
7 7 (2.92%) Vite
8 6 (2.50%) Grunt
9 3 (1.25%) gulp
10 2 (0.83%) GitLab
10 2 (0.83%) rollup.js
11 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.42%) Maven
11 1 (0.42%) Protractor
General
1 71 (29.58%) Finance
2 56 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 19 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.25%) Games
6 12 (5.00%) Banking
6 12 (5.00%) Marketing
7 9 (3.75%) Front Office
8 8 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.50%) Retail
9 6 (2.50%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.67%) Advertising
10 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.25%) Legal
11 3 (1.25%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.25%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.83%) Electronics
12 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (65.42%) React
2 141 (58.75%) CSS
3 139 (57.92%) HTML
4 61 (25.42%) AngularJS
5 46 (19.17%) Vue
6 42 (17.50%) HTML5
7 39 (16.25%) Node.js
8 35 (14.58%) Sass
9 34 (14.17%) Redux
10 30 (12.50%) .NET
11 28 (11.67%) CSS3
11 28 (11.67%) Next.js
12 27 (11.25%) RESTful
13 26 (10.83%) Jest
14 16 (6.67%) Bootstrap
14 16 (6.67%) REST
15 14 (5.83%) Tailwind CSS
15 14 (5.83%) WebSockets
16 13 (5.42%) jQuery
16 13 (5.42%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 10 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.75%) Fixed Income
3 9 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.75%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.92%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.92%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.92%) Learning Management System
4 7 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.67%) Sports Betting
7 2 (0.83%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (0.83%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.83%) Cybercrime
7 2 (0.83%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.42%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.42%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.83%) Android
2 2 (0.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (92.08%) Front End Development
2 106 (44.17%) User Experience
3 99 (41.25%) Agile
4 60 (25.00%) UX Design
5 45 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (17.50%) Web Development
7 40 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 40 (16.67%) E-Commerce
8 36 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
8 36 (15.00%) Responsive Web Design
9 34 (14.17%) CI/CD
10 29 (12.08%) Software Engineering
11 27 (11.25%) Computer Science
11 27 (11.25%) DevOps
11 27 (11.25%) Mentoring
11 27 (11.25%) Wireframes
12 26 (10.83%) Asset Management
12 26 (10.83%) Fintech
13 21 (8.75%) Visualisation
14 19 (7.92%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 179 (74.58%) JavaScript
2 102 (42.50%) TypeScript
3 35 (14.58%) C#
4 29 (12.08%) PHP
5 28 (11.67%) Python
6 15 (6.25%) SQL
7 6 (2.50%) C++
8 3 (1.25%) R
9 2 (0.83%) Java
9 2 (0.83%) Julia
10 1 (0.42%) C
10 1 (0.42%) Go
10 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 34 (14.17%) Degree
2 8 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.83%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (17.08%) Accessibility
2 28 (11.67%) QA
3 15 (6.25%) WCAG
4 5 (2.08%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (17.92%) Docker
2 5 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.92%) Adobe
3 6 (2.50%) PayPal
4 5 (2.08%) ANSYS
5 4 (1.67%) Oracle
6 3 (1.25%) Twitter
7 2 (0.83%) Apple
7 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.42%) Google
8 1 (0.42%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.42%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.42%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) Spotify