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 £59,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 364 389
Rank change year-on-year -80 +25 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 210 257 495
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.71% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.79% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 193 214 467
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -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 63,292 32,676 73,151
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 89.99% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 41,400 20,880 57,222
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -26 72 £55,000 - 20
London -55 63 £85,000 +13.33% 23
South West -29 32 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Yorkshire -33 31 £47,372 -4.78% 3
North West -25 29 £62,500 +13.64% 11
South East -35 25 £55,000 -29.03% 7
North East -26 12 £59,000 +4.42% 6
West Midlands -8 9 £55,000 +12.82%
Midlands -43 9 £55,000 +18.92% 1
East of England -34 3 £75,000 +13.27%
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 27 March 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.

1 185 (88.10%) Front End Development
2 95 (45.24%) JavaScript
3 87 (41.43%) React
4 64 (30.48%) TypeScript
5 60 (28.57%) User Experience
6 59 (28.10%) CSS
7 52 (24.76%) Agile
8 51 (24.29%) HTML
9 43 (20.48%) Git
10 38 (18.10%) UX Design
11 37 (17.62%) Accessibility
12 35 (16.67%) Vue
13 26 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (11.90%) Node.js
15 23 (10.95%) Jest
16 22 (10.48%) Azure
16 22 (10.48%) CI/CD
17 18 (8.57%) E-Commerce
17 18 (8.57%) Mentoring
17 18 (8.57%) SaaS
18 17 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (8.10%) Responsive Web Design
18 17 (8.10%) Web Development
19 16 (7.62%) DevOps
19 16 (7.62%) RESTful
20 15 (7.14%) API Integration
20 15 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
20 15 (7.14%) REST
21 14 (6.67%) AngularJS
21 14 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS

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 (2.38%) CMS
2 1 (0.48%) Confluence
2 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.48%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.48%) Azure
2 18 (8.57%) SaaS
3 11 (5.24%) GitHub
4 9 (4.29%) Figma
5 8 (3.81%) AWS
5 8 (3.81%) npm
6 7 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.43%) Miro
7 3 (1.43%) Serverless
8 2 (0.95%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.95%) Vercel
8 2 (0.95%) Yarn
9 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Algolia
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.48%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.48%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.48%) MySQL
3 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (20.48%) Git
2 13 (6.19%) Cypress.io
3 10 (4.76%) webpack
4 8 (3.81%) Vite
5 7 (3.33%) JIRA
5 7 (3.33%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (1.90%) gulp
8 3 (1.43%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.48%) Babel
9 1 (0.48%) GitLab
9 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.48%) Protractor
9 1 (0.48%) Storybook
9 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (12.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.52%) Retail
3 11 (5.24%) Legal
4 10 (4.76%) Law
4 10 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.38%) Front Office
6 4 (1.90%) Banking
6 4 (1.90%) Finance
6 4 (1.90%) Marketing
7 2 (0.95%) Automotive
7 2 (0.95%) Publishing
8 1 (0.48%) Games
8 1 (0.48%) iGaming
8 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (41.43%) React
2 59 (28.10%) CSS
3 51 (24.29%) HTML
4 35 (16.67%) Vue
5 25 (11.90%) Node.js
6 23 (10.95%) Jest
7 16 (7.62%) RESTful
8 15 (7.14%) REST
9 14 (6.67%) AngularJS
9 14 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
10 11 (5.24%) GraphQL
11 9 (4.29%) HTML5
11 9 (4.29%) Nuxt
11 9 (4.29%) Sass
12 8 (3.81%) .NET
13 7 (3.33%) CSS3
13 7 (3.33%) Next.js
14 6 (2.86%) JSON
14 6 (2.86%) Vitest
15 5 (2.38%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.95%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.38%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.95%) Blog
7 2 (0.95%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.95%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.48%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.43%) Linux
2 2 (0.95%) Android
2 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (88.10%) Front End Development
2 60 (28.57%) User Experience
3 52 (24.76%) Agile
4 38 (18.10%) UX Design
5 26 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (10.48%) CI/CD
7 18 (8.57%) E-Commerce
7 18 (8.57%) Mentoring
8 17 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (8.10%) Responsive Web Design
8 17 (8.10%) Web Development
9 16 (7.62%) DevOps
10 15 (7.14%) API Integration
10 15 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
11 13 (6.19%) CRM
11 13 (6.19%) Software Engineering
12 12 (5.71%) Clean Code
12 12 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (5.24%) Visualisation
13 11 (5.24%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 95 (45.24%) JavaScript
2 64 (30.48%) TypeScript
3 10 (4.76%) Python
4 9 (4.29%) C#
5 7 (3.33%) Java
6 6 (2.86%) PHP
7 4 (1.90%) SQL
8 2 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (3.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
2 4 (1.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.95%) Degree
4 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.62%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.76%) QA
3 9 (4.29%) WCAG
4 5 (2.38%) GDPR
4 5 (2.38%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.48%) Grafana
1 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (1.43%) Adobe
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.48%) SAP