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 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 351 354
Rank change year-on-year -98 +3 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 176 321 487
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.73% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.80% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 157 201 459
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.35% -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 55,009 40,180 62,523
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 91.31% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 35,530 21,389 49,945
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -25 59 £53,750 -2.27% 37
London -60 46 £80,000 +3.23% 21
South East -4 29 £55,000 -29.03% 12
Yorkshire -15 23 £47,372 -29.30% 9
North West -15 23 £60,000 +9.09% 22
South West -12 22 £45,000 -18.18% 9
North East -10 13 £59,500 +2.15% 6
West Midlands +16 9 £55,000 -2.22% 3
Midlands -15 9 £55,000 -4.35% 3
East of England -5 3 £40,000 -39.59% 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 19 February 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.

1 157 (89.20%) Front End Development
2 85 (48.30%) JavaScript
3 84 (47.73%) React
4 62 (35.23%) User Experience
5 61 (34.66%) Agile
5 61 (34.66%) CSS
6 57 (32.39%) TypeScript
7 56 (31.82%) HTML
8 44 (25.00%) Git
9 39 (22.16%) Accessibility
10 38 (21.59%) UX Design
11 31 (17.61%) Vue
12 29 (16.48%) Azure
12 29 (16.48%) CI/CD
13 25 (14.20%) Jest
14 21 (11.93%) Node.js
14 21 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (10.80%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (10.80%) Mentoring
15 19 (10.80%) Wireframes
16 18 (10.23%) GitHub
16 18 (10.23%) REST
16 18 (10.23%) Software Engineering
17 17 (9.66%) Clean Code
18 16 (9.09%) AngularJS
18 16 (9.09%) API Integration
18 16 (9.09%) Responsive Web Design
19 15 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
19 15 (8.52%) GraphQL
19 15 (8.52%) RESTful

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 4 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (0.57%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.57%) nginx
2 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.48%) Azure
2 18 (10.23%) GitHub
3 14 (7.95%) SaaS
4 11 (6.25%) AWS
5 9 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.41%) Miro
6 6 (3.41%) npm
7 5 (2.84%) Figma
8 2 (1.14%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.14%) Yarn
9 1 (0.57%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.57%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.57%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.57%) Sentry
9 1 (0.57%) Serverless
9 1 (0.57%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.14%) MySQL
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (25.00%) Git
2 14 (7.95%) Cypress.io
3 10 (5.68%) webpack
4 7 (3.98%) Visual Studio
5 6 (3.41%) Axure RP
5 6 (3.41%) JIRA
5 6 (3.41%) Storybook
5 6 (3.41%) Vite
6 5 (2.84%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (2.27%) gulp
8 3 (1.70%) GitLab
9 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.57%) Babel
10 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.57%) Maven
10 1 (0.57%) Protractor
10 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.80%) Retail
3 12 (6.82%) Finance
4 10 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.98%) Law
5 7 (3.98%) Legal
6 4 (2.27%) Marketing
7 3 (1.70%) Front Office
8 2 (1.14%) Banking
8 2 (1.14%) Publishing
9 1 (0.57%) Automotive
9 1 (0.57%) Games
9 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (47.73%) React
2 61 (34.66%) CSS
3 56 (31.82%) HTML
4 31 (17.61%) Vue
5 25 (14.20%) Jest
6 21 (11.93%) Node.js
7 18 (10.23%) REST
8 16 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 15 (8.52%) GraphQL
9 15 (8.52%) RESTful
10 14 (7.95%) .NET
10 14 (7.95%) Next.js
11 12 (6.82%) Tailwind CSS
12 9 (5.11%) HTML5
12 9 (5.11%) Nuxt
12 9 (5.11%) Sass
13 8 (4.55%) JSON
14 7 (3.98%) CSS3
15 6 (3.41%) Web Services
15 6 (3.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.70%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.14%) Blog
7 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.57%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.41%) Android
1 6 (3.41%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.70%) Linux
3 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (89.20%) Front End Development
2 62 (35.23%) User Experience
3 61 (34.66%) Agile
4 38 (21.59%) UX Design
5 29 (16.48%) CI/CD
6 21 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (10.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (10.80%) Mentoring
7 19 (10.80%) Wireframes
8 18 (10.23%) Software Engineering
9 17 (9.66%) Clean Code
10 16 (9.09%) API Integration
10 16 (9.09%) Responsive Web Design
11 15 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (7.95%) DevOps
13 12 (6.82%) E-Commerce
13 12 (6.82%) Web Development
14 11 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
15 9 (5.11%) Code Quality
15 9 (5.11%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 85 (48.30%) JavaScript
2 57 (32.39%) TypeScript
3 11 (6.25%) C#
4 5 (2.84%) Java
4 5 (2.84%) Python
5 4 (2.27%) SQL
6 3 (1.70%) PHP
7 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.14%) Ruby
7 2 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.27%) Degree
2 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
2 4 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (22.16%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.39%) QA
3 11 (6.25%) WCAG
4 5 (2.84%) GDPR
4 5 (2.84%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.57%) Grafana
1 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.14%) Adobe
2 2 (1.14%) DevExpress
3 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.57%) Concur
3 1 (0.57%) SAP