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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 371 340
Rank change year-on-year -94 -31 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 141 344 384
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.69% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.74% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 121 208 345
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,925 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £73,750 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +21.90% -6.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £89,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -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 47,490 46,476 43,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 93.22% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,835 24,852 34,063
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,173 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 -5 41 £60,000 +4.35% 96
London -25 32 £85,000 +9.68% 61
South East -5 31 £55,000 -29.03% 73
North West +11 20 £60,000 +4.35% 55
South West -9 14 £45,000 -18.18% 32
Yorkshire -13 14 £48,686 +0.38% 29
West Midlands +30 11 £52,500 +43.84% 28
Midlands +3 11 £52,500 -8.70% 51
North East +6 7 £59,500 -0.83% 12
East of England +15 4 £40,000 -25.58% 50
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 28 December 2025, 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.

1 124 (87.94%) Front End Development
2 74 (52.48%) React
3 65 (46.10%) Agile
3 65 (46.10%) JavaScript
4 62 (43.97%) CSS
5 57 (40.43%) User Experience
6 55 (39.01%) HTML
7 45 (31.91%) TypeScript
8 42 (29.79%) Git
9 40 (28.37%) Accessibility
10 37 (26.24%) UX Design
11 30 (21.28%) Azure
11 30 (21.28%) CI/CD
12 28 (19.86%) Vue
13 26 (18.44%) Wireframes
14 22 (15.60%) Clean Code
15 21 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (14.89%) GitHub
15 21 (14.89%) Jest
16 20 (14.18%) Responsive Web Design
17 19 (13.48%) Mentoring
17 19 (13.48%) Next.js
17 19 (13.48%) Node.js
17 19 (13.48%) REST
18 17 (12.06%) API Integration
18 17 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
19 16 (11.35%) AngularJS
19 16 (11.35%) GraphQL
19 16 (11.35%) Software Engineering
20 15 (10.64%) DevOps

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 8 (5.67%) CMS
2 5 (3.55%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.42%) Drupal
3 2 (1.42%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.42%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.28%) Azure
2 21 (14.89%) GitHub
3 14 (9.93%) SaaS
4 13 (9.22%) AWS
5 10 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.38%) Figma
7 6 (4.26%) Miro
8 4 (2.84%) npm
9 2 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.71%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.71%) Firebase
10 1 (0.71%) Sentry
10 1 (0.71%) Serverless
10 1 (0.71%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.96%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.84%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.42%) Metadata
4 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.71%) MySQL
4 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (29.79%) Git
2 11 (7.80%) Cypress.io
2 11 (7.80%) Storybook
2 11 (7.80%) webpack
3 9 (6.38%) gulp
4 7 (4.96%) Visual Studio
5 6 (4.26%) Axure RP
5 6 (4.26%) JIRA
6 5 (3.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (2.13%) GitLab
8 2 (1.42%) Grunt
8 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.42%) Vite
9 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.71%) Babel
9 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.71%) Maven
9 1 (0.71%) Protractor
9 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (21.99%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.06%) Retail
3 15 (10.64%) Finance
4 5 (3.55%) Legal
4 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.84%) Marketing
6 3 (2.13%) Law
7 2 (1.42%) Publishing
8 1 (0.71%) Automotive
8 1 (0.71%) Games
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (52.48%) React
2 62 (43.97%) CSS
3 55 (39.01%) HTML
4 28 (19.86%) Vue
5 21 (14.89%) Jest
6 19 (13.48%) Next.js
6 19 (13.48%) Node.js
6 19 (13.48%) REST
7 16 (11.35%) AngularJS
7 16 (11.35%) GraphQL
8 14 (9.93%) .NET
9 13 (9.22%) RESTful
9 13 (9.22%) Tailwind CSS
10 9 (6.38%) Sass
11 8 (5.67%) JSON
11 8 (5.67%) Nuxt
11 8 (5.67%) Redux
12 7 (4.96%) Web Services
13 6 (4.26%) HTML5
13 6 (4.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.38%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.96%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.13%) W3C
7 2 (1.42%) Blog
7 2 (1.42%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.42%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.42%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.96%) Android
1 7 (4.96%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.42%) Linux
2 2 (1.42%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (87.94%) Front End Development
2 65 (46.10%) Agile
3 57 (40.43%) User Experience
4 37 (26.24%) UX Design
5 30 (21.28%) CI/CD
6 26 (18.44%) Wireframes
7 22 (15.60%) Clean Code
8 21 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (14.18%) Responsive Web Design
10 19 (13.48%) Mentoring
11 17 (12.06%) API Integration
11 17 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (11.35%) Software Engineering
13 15 (10.64%) DevOps
14 12 (8.51%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
14 12 (8.51%) Full-Stack Development
15 11 (7.80%) Mobile Development
16 10 (7.09%) E-Commerce
16 10 (7.09%) Web Development
17 9 (6.38%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.10%) JavaScript
2 45 (31.91%) TypeScript
3 11 (7.80%) C#
4 5 (3.55%) Python
5 3 (2.13%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.42%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.42%) Ruby
7 1 (0.71%) Java
7 1 (0.71%) PHP
7 1 (0.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (5.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.96%) DV Cleared
3 4 (2.84%) Degree
4 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (28.37%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.22%) QA
3 8 (5.67%) GDPR
4 7 (4.96%) WCAG
5 5 (3.55%) PERC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.71%) Grafana
1 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (3.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.13%) DevExpress
3 2 (1.42%) Adobe
4 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.71%) Concur