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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 447 439
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 -102
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 261 208 486
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.50% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 229 175 442
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,875 £78,438
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 80,801 37,194 87,527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.27% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 56,895 22,002 64,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,869 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +15 102 £62,500 +8.70% 16
London -63 67 £82,500 +17.86% 17
North West +8 47 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Yorkshire -1 37 £70,000 +86.67% 3
South East -5 36 £45,000 +5.88% 9
South West -38 31 £45,000 -5.26% 2
North East -41 18 £60,000 +6.19% 6
East of England -17 11 £65,000 -1.83% 1
Midlands -48 11 £55,000 +12.82% 2
West Midlands -35 8 £82,500 +65.00%
East Midlands -30 3 £55,000 +22.22% 2
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 1 July 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.

1 232 (88.89%) Front End Development
2 111 (42.53%) JavaScript
3 92 (35.25%) TypeScript
4 88 (33.72%) React
5 47 (18.01%) User Experience
6 42 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (14.94%) CSS
8 35 (13.41%) HTML
9 31 (11.88%) Agile
10 30 (11.49%) Vue
11 29 (11.11%) Accessibility
11 29 (11.11%) DevOps
11 29 (11.11%) Web Development
12 28 (10.73%) E-Commerce
13 27 (10.34%) AI
13 27 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (10.34%) UX Design
14 25 (9.58%) Git
15 23 (8.81%) Performance Optimisation
16 22 (8.43%) Mentoring
17 21 (8.05%) Python
18 20 (7.66%) CI/CD
19 19 (7.28%) AngularJS
19 19 (7.28%) Node.js
20 17 (6.51%) Azure
21 15 (5.75%) .NET
21 15 (5.75%) AWS
22 14 (5.36%) Data Visualisation
22 14 (5.36%) Security Cleared
22 14 (5.36%) Visualisation

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 (1.92%) CMS
2 4 (1.53%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.51%) Azure
2 15 (5.75%) AWS
3 12 (4.60%) Figma
4 9 (3.45%) SaaS
5 7 (2.68%) npm
6 4 (1.53%) GitHub
7 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.15%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 3 (1.15%) Vercel
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.77%) Contentful
8 2 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.77%) Serverless
8 2 (0.77%) Yarn
9 1 (0.38%) Algolia
9 1 (0.38%) DigitalOcean
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.30%) MongoDB
1 6 (2.30%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.77%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.38%) MySQL
3 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (9.58%) Git
2 7 (2.68%) Cypress.io
2 7 (2.68%) Vite
2 7 (2.68%) webpack
3 3 (1.15%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.77%) Gradle
4 2 (0.77%) gulp
4 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.77%) Xcode
5 1 (0.38%) Babel
5 1 (0.38%) JIRA
5 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (8.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (4.98%) Finance
2 13 (4.98%) Retail
3 11 (4.21%) Public Sector
4 7 (2.68%) Law
4 7 (2.68%) Marketing
5 6 (2.30%) Banking
5 6 (2.30%) Front Office
5 6 (2.30%) Legal
6 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.77%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.38%) Automotive
8 1 (0.38%) Games
8 1 (0.38%) iGaming
8 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (33.72%) React
2 39 (14.94%) CSS
3 35 (13.41%) HTML
4 30 (11.49%) Vue
5 19 (7.28%) AngularJS
5 19 (7.28%) Node.js
6 15 (5.75%) .NET
7 13 (4.98%) Jest
8 12 (4.60%) REST
9 10 (3.83%) React Native
9 10 (3.83%) Sass
9 10 (3.83%) Tailwind CSS
10 9 (3.45%) HTML5
10 9 (3.45%) WebSockets
11 8 (3.07%) CSS3
12 7 (2.68%) Playwright
13 5 (1.92%) Next.js
13 5 (1.92%) RESTful
14 3 (1.15%) Electron
14 3 (1.15%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.43%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.07%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.30%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.30%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.15%) PropTech
8 2 (0.77%) Animation
8 2 (0.77%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.77%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.77%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.38%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (88.89%) Front End Development
2 47 (18.01%) User Experience
3 42 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (11.88%) Agile
5 29 (11.11%) DevOps
5 29 (11.11%) Web Development
6 28 (10.73%) E-Commerce
7 27 (10.34%) AI
7 27 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (10.34%) UX Design
8 23 (8.81%) Performance Optimisation
9 22 (8.43%) Mentoring
10 20 (7.66%) CI/CD
11 14 (5.36%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (5.36%) Visualisation
12 12 (4.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (4.60%) Software Engineering
13 11 (4.21%) Code Quality
14 10 (3.83%) Roadmaps
15 9 (3.45%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 111 (42.53%) JavaScript
2 92 (35.25%) TypeScript
3 21 (8.05%) Python
4 8 (3.07%) C#
5 7 (2.68%) Java
5 7 (2.68%) PHP
6 4 (1.53%) SQL
7 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (5.36%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.68%) Degree
4 4 (1.53%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.07%) QA
2 8 (3.07%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.15%) SAP
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe