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 £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 367 386
Rank change year-on-year -83 +19 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 205 282 503
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.72% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.79% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 186 215 474
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,375 £88,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.14%

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 60,440 35,628 70,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 90.54% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 39,507 21,195 55,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
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 15 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 15 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 -34 68 £55,000 - 29
London -49 63 £85,000 +9.68% 31
Yorkshire -21 30 £46,186 -7.16% 6
South West -18 29 £45,000 -18.18% 10
South East -8 28 £55,000 -29.03% 7
North West -16 26 £58,750 +6.82% 17
North East -13 12 £59,000 +4.42% 6
West Midlands +4 9 £55,000 +12.82% 4
Midlands -29 9 £55,000 +12.82% 6
East of England -14 1 £80,000 +20.82% 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 15 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.

1 183 (89.27%) Front End Development
2 93 (45.37%) JavaScript
3 90 (43.90%) React
4 65 (31.71%) User Experience
5 64 (31.22%) TypeScript
6 61 (29.76%) CSS
7 56 (27.32%) Agile
8 54 (26.34%) HTML
9 44 (21.46%) Git
10 41 (20.00%) Accessibility
11 40 (19.51%) UX Design
12 33 (16.10%) Vue
13 25 (12.20%) Azure
14 23 (11.22%) CI/CD
14 23 (11.22%) Jest
14 23 (11.22%) Node.js
15 21 (10.24%) Full-Stack Development
16 20 (9.76%) Mentoring
16 20 (9.76%) REST
17 19 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (8.29%) Responsive Web Design
18 17 (8.29%) SaaS
19 16 (7.80%) AngularJS
19 16 (7.80%) API Integration
19 16 (7.80%) E-Commerce
20 15 (7.32%) GitHub
20 15 (7.32%) Performance Optimisation
20 15 (7.32%) RESTful
20 15 (7.32%) Software Engineering
20 15 (7.32%) Web Development

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 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (0.49%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.93%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.20%) Azure
2 17 (8.29%) SaaS
3 15 (7.32%) GitHub
4 9 (4.39%) AWS
5 8 (3.90%) Figma
5 8 (3.90%) npm
6 7 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.93%) Miro
8 3 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.46%) Serverless
9 2 (0.98%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (0.98%) Vercel
9 2 (0.98%) Yarn
10 1 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.49%) Algolia
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.49%) DigitalOcean
10 1 (0.49%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.98%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.44%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.95%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.49%) MySQL
3 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (21.46%) Git
2 13 (6.34%) Cypress.io
3 10 (4.88%) webpack
4 8 (3.90%) Vite
5 7 (3.41%) JIRA
5 7 (3.41%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.93%) Axure RP
7 5 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (1.95%) gulp
9 2 (0.98%) Storybook
10 1 (0.49%) Babel
10 1 (0.49%) GitLab
10 1 (0.49%) Protractor
10 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (14.15%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.22%) Retail
3 11 (5.37%) Legal
4 10 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.39%) Law
6 6 (2.93%) Finance
7 5 (2.44%) Front Office
8 4 (1.95%) Marketing
9 3 (1.46%) Banking
10 2 (0.98%) Games
10 2 (0.98%) Publishing
11 1 (0.49%) Automotive
11 1 (0.49%) iGaming
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (43.90%) React
2 61 (29.76%) CSS
3 54 (26.34%) HTML
4 33 (16.10%) Vue
5 23 (11.22%) Jest
5 23 (11.22%) Node.js
6 20 (9.76%) REST
7 16 (7.80%) AngularJS
8 15 (7.32%) RESTful
9 13 (6.34%) GraphQL
9 13 (6.34%) Tailwind CSS
10 9 (4.39%) .NET
10 9 (4.39%) Next.js
10 9 (4.39%) Nuxt
11 8 (3.90%) HTML5
11 8 (3.90%) JSON
11 8 (3.90%) Sass
12 7 (3.41%) WebSockets
13 6 (2.93%) CSS3
13 6 (2.93%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.78%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.41%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.93%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.44%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.98%) Blog
8 2 (0.98%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.49%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.49%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.46%) Android
1 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
1 3 (1.46%) Linux
2 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (89.27%) Front End Development
2 65 (31.71%) User Experience
3 56 (27.32%) Agile
4 40 (19.51%) UX Design
5 23 (11.22%) CI/CD
6 21 (10.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (9.76%) Mentoring
8 19 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (8.29%) Responsive Web Design
10 16 (7.80%) API Integration
10 16 (7.80%) E-Commerce
11 15 (7.32%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (7.32%) Software Engineering
11 15 (7.32%) Web Development
11 15 (7.32%) Wireframes
12 13 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.34%) DevOps
13 12 (5.85%) Clean Code
14 11 (5.37%) Data Visualisation
14 11 (5.37%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 93 (45.37%) JavaScript
2 64 (31.22%) TypeScript
3 9 (4.39%) C#
4 6 (2.93%) Java
4 6 (2.93%) Python
5 4 (1.95%) PHP
5 4 (1.95%) SQL
6 2 (0.98%) Ruby
7 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (3.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (1.95%) DV Cleared
2 4 (1.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.98%) Degree
4 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.37%) QA
3 10 (4.88%) WCAG
4 5 (2.44%) GDPR
4 5 (2.44%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.49%) Grafana
1 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (0.98%) Adobe
2 1 (0.49%) SAP