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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 517 426
Rank change year-on-year +6 -91 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 233 132 358
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.34% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 198 105 241
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £74,996 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 93,639 39,093 65,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 90.39% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 66,191 23,439 40,359
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
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 14 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 14 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 +13 102 £70,000 +16.67% 18
North West +15 55 £69,305 +15.51% 11
South East -20 40 £60,000 +41.18% 17
Midlands -29 30 £45,242 +6.45% 8
Yorkshire -8 27 £70,000 +86.67% 2
London -75 26 £82,500 +10.00% 63
North East -43 20 £65,000 -22.39% 5
South West -63 20 £50,000 +5.26% 6
East Midlands -18 17 £45,000 +2.86% 1
West Midlands -31 13 £69,305 +73.26% 7
East of England -22 11 £65,000 +36.84% 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 14 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 (89.70%) Front End Development
2 96 (41.20%) TypeScript
3 92 (39.48%) JavaScript
4 78 (33.48%) React
5 47 (20.17%) Agile
6 42 (18.03%) CSS
7 40 (17.17%) HTML
7 40 (17.17%) Mentoring
8 39 (16.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 38 (16.31%) Accessibility
10 37 (15.88%) E-Commerce
10 37 (15.88%) User Experience
11 33 (14.16%) AI
12 32 (13.73%) CI/CD
13 26 (11.16%) DevOps
13 26 (11.16%) Performance Optimisation
13 26 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (10.30%) AWS
16 23 (9.87%) Azure
16 23 (9.87%) Security Cleared
16 23 (9.87%) UX Design
16 23 (9.87%) Web Development
17 20 (8.58%) Node.js
17 20 (8.58%) Vue
18 19 (8.15%) Python
19 18 (7.73%) Git
20 17 (7.30%) SC Cleared
21 16 (6.87%) AngularJS
21 16 (6.87%) Code Quality

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 (3.00%) CMS
1 7 (3.00%) Headless CMS
2 2 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.43%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.58%) Magento
2 2 (0.86%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.30%) AWS
2 23 (9.87%) Azure
3 8 (3.43%) Figma
4 6 (2.58%) SaaS
5 4 (1.72%) GitHub
5 4 (1.72%) Vercel
6 3 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.86%) Contentful
7 2 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (0.86%) Supabase
8 1 (0.43%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.43%) GCP
8 1 (0.43%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.15%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.86%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.86%) GIS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.73%) Git
2 6 (2.58%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.29%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.29%) JIRA
4 2 (0.86%) Gradle
4 2 (0.86%) gulp
4 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.86%) webpack
4 2 (0.86%) Xcode
5 1 (0.43%) Babel
5 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.43%) Storybook
General
1 31 (13.30%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.87%) Finance
3 17 (7.30%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.29%) Marketing
5 9 (3.86%) Retail
6 7 (3.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.29%) Banking
7 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.86%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.43%) Automotive
9 1 (0.43%) Front Office
9 1 (0.43%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (33.48%) React
2 42 (18.03%) CSS
3 40 (17.17%) HTML
4 20 (8.58%) Node.js
4 20 (8.58%) Vue
5 16 (6.87%) AngularJS
5 16 (6.87%) Playwright
6 13 (5.58%) React Native
6 13 (5.58%) REST
7 12 (5.15%) .NET
8 11 (4.72%) GraphQL
9 10 (4.29%) Next.js
10 7 (3.00%) Tailwind CSS
11 6 (2.58%) HTML5
11 6 (2.58%) Jest
11 6 (2.58%) Sass
11 6 (2.58%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.15%) CSS3
12 5 (2.15%) Material-UI
13 4 (1.72%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.15%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
3 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.29%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.29%) PropTech
5 2 (0.86%) Animation
5 2 (0.86%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.86%) Hedge funds
5 2 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.43%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.43%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (89.70%) Front End Development
2 47 (20.17%) Agile
3 40 (17.17%) Mentoring
4 39 (16.74%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (15.88%) E-Commerce
5 37 (15.88%) User Experience
6 33 (14.16%) AI
7 32 (13.73%) CI/CD
8 26 (11.16%) DevOps
8 26 (11.16%) Performance Optimisation
8 26 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (9.87%) UX Design
10 23 (9.87%) Web Development
11 16 (6.87%) Code Quality
11 16 (6.87%) Roadmaps
11 16 (6.87%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (6.01%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (6.01%) TDD
13 13 (5.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 96 (41.20%) TypeScript
2 92 (39.48%) JavaScript
3 19 (8.15%) Python
4 7 (3.00%) C#
5 5 (2.15%) SQL
6 4 (1.72%) PHP
7 1 (0.43%) Java
7 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.30%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.58%) Degree
4 4 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.31%) Accessibility
2 15 (6.44%) QA
3 13 (5.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.86%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (2.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.86%) Adobe
2 2 (0.86%) SAP
3 1 (0.43%) OpenAI