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 £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 377 402
Rank change year-on-year -76 +25 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 214 244 488
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.67% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.74% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 197 207 461
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 66,961 32,899 74,672
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 89.80% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,022 21,259 58,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.72%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -30 77 £55,000 - 20
London -48 59 £85,000 +13.33% 23
South West -30 37 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Yorkshire -24 33 £47,372 -4.78% 3
North West -27 31 £58,750 +6.82% 11
South East -33 25 £55,000 -29.03% 7
North East -23 13 £59,000 +4.42% 6
West Midlands -11 9 £55,000 +12.82%
Midlands -43 9 £55,000 +15.79% 1
East of England -43 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 6 April 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.

1 187 (87.38%) Front End Development
2 97 (45.33%) JavaScript
3 86 (40.19%) React
4 67 (31.31%) TypeScript
5 55 (25.70%) CSS
6 54 (25.23%) User Experience
7 47 (21.96%) HTML
8 44 (20.56%) Agile
9 37 (17.29%) Git
10 35 (16.36%) Accessibility
11 34 (15.89%) UX Design
12 29 (13.55%) Vue
13 28 (13.08%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (11.21%) Node.js
15 22 (10.28%) Jest
16 20 (9.35%) Web Development
17 19 (8.88%) SaaS
18 18 (8.41%) Azure
18 18 (8.41%) CI/CD
19 17 (7.94%) DevOps
19 17 (7.94%) E-Commerce
19 17 (7.94%) Mentoring
20 16 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
21 15 (7.01%) RESTful
22 14 (6.54%) API Integration
22 14 (6.54%) Performance Optimisation
22 14 (6.54%) REST
22 14 (6.54%) Software Engineering
22 14 (6.54%) Tailwind CSS
23 13 (6.07%) 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 (2.34%) CMS
2 1 (0.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.47%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.88%) SaaS
2 18 (8.41%) Azure
3 9 (4.21%) AWS
3 9 (4.21%) Figma
3 9 (4.21%) GitHub
4 8 (3.74%) npm
5 6 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.40%) Serverless
7 2 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (0.93%) Miro
7 2 (0.93%) Vercel
7 2 (0.93%) Yarn
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Algolia
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.47%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.47%) MySQL
3 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (17.29%) Git
2 12 (5.61%) Cypress.io
3 8 (3.74%) Vite
4 7 (3.27%) webpack
5 6 (2.80%) JIRA
5 6 (2.80%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.93%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.47%) Babel
8 1 (0.47%) GitLab
8 1 (0.47%) gulp
8 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.47%) Protractor
8 1 (0.47%) Storybook
8 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (11.68%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.41%) Retail
3 10 (4.67%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.21%) Legal
5 8 (3.74%) Law
6 5 (2.34%) Banking
6 5 (2.34%) Front Office
7 4 (1.87%) Finance
7 4 (1.87%) Marketing
8 2 (0.93%) Automotive
8 2 (0.93%) Publishing
9 1 (0.47%) Games
9 1 (0.47%) iGaming
9 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (40.19%) React
2 55 (25.70%) CSS
3 47 (21.96%) HTML
4 29 (13.55%) Vue
5 24 (11.21%) Node.js
6 22 (10.28%) Jest
7 15 (7.01%) RESTful
8 14 (6.54%) REST
8 14 (6.54%) Tailwind CSS
9 10 (4.67%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.67%) GraphQL
10 9 (4.21%) HTML5
10 9 (4.21%) Sass
11 8 (3.74%) Nuxt
12 7 (3.27%) .NET
12 7 (3.27%) CSS3
13 6 (2.80%) Next.js
14 5 (2.34%) Redux
14 5 (2.34%) Web Services
14 5 (2.34%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.15%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.27%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.34%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.40%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.93%) Blog
8 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.40%) Linux
2 2 (0.93%) Android
2 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (87.38%) Front End Development
2 54 (25.23%) User Experience
3 44 (20.56%) Agile
4 34 (15.89%) UX Design
5 28 (13.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (9.35%) Web Development
7 18 (8.41%) CI/CD
8 17 (7.94%) DevOps
8 17 (7.94%) E-Commerce
8 17 (7.94%) Mentoring
9 16 (7.48%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (6.54%) API Integration
10 14 (6.54%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (6.54%) Software Engineering
11 13 (6.07%) CRM
11 13 (6.07%) Responsive Web Design
12 12 (5.61%) Clean Code
12 12 (5.61%) Data Visualisation
12 12 (5.61%) Visualisation
13 11 (5.14%) AI
Programming Languages
1 97 (45.33%) JavaScript
2 67 (31.31%) TypeScript
3 13 (6.07%) Python
4 7 (3.27%) C#
4 7 (3.27%) Java
5 6 (2.80%) PHP
6 5 (2.34%) SQL
7 2 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (2.34%) Security Cleared
2 4 (1.87%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.93%) Degree
4 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.36%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.21%) WCAG
3 7 (3.27%) QA
4 4 (1.87%) GDPR
4 4 (1.87%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Grafana
1 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (1.40%) Adobe
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.47%) SAP