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 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 368 351
Rank change year-on-year -72 -17 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 188 292 497
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.70% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.77% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 173 196 467
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.93% +10.35% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £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% -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 56,757 37,915 65,624
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.55% 91.02% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 36,688 20,803 52,147
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,843
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
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 2 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 2 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 -9 67 £55,000 - 21
London -43 50 £82,500 +6.45% 23
Yorkshire -19 28 £47,372 -4.78% 4
North West -6 27 £60,000 +9.09% 14
South East -21 27 £55,000 -29.03% 7
South West -16 25 £45,000 -18.18% 13
North East -9 12 £59,000 -1.67% 3
West Midlands +7 9 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Midlands -16 9 £55,000 +4.76% 5
East of England -12 2 £60,000 -9.38% 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 2 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.

1 169 (89.89%) Front End Development
2 88 (46.81%) JavaScript
3 84 (44.68%) React
4 61 (32.45%) User Experience
5 60 (31.91%) CSS
6 58 (30.85%) Agile
6 58 (30.85%) TypeScript
7 54 (28.72%) HTML
8 43 (22.87%) Git
9 38 (20.21%) Accessibility
10 37 (19.68%) UX Design
11 32 (17.02%) Vue
12 26 (13.83%) Azure
13 24 (12.77%) CI/CD
14 23 (12.23%) Jest
15 21 (11.17%) Node.js
16 20 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
16 20 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (9.57%) Mentoring
18 17 (9.04%) REST
19 16 (8.51%) AngularJS
19 16 (8.51%) Responsive Web Design
19 16 (8.51%) Wireframes
20 15 (7.98%) API Integration
20 15 (7.98%) GitHub
20 15 (7.98%) RESTful
20 15 (7.98%) SaaS
21 14 (7.45%) Cypress.io
21 14 (7.45%) GraphQL
21 14 (7.45%) Software Engineering

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 (2.13%) CMS
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.53%) nginx
2 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (13.83%) Azure
2 15 (7.98%) GitHub
2 15 (7.98%) SaaS
3 10 (5.32%) AWS
4 7 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.72%) Figma
4 7 (3.72%) npm
5 6 (3.19%) Miro
6 2 (1.06%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.06%) Yarn
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.53%) DigitalOcean
7 1 (0.53%) Sentry
7 1 (0.53%) Serverless
7 1 (0.53%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.53%) MySQL
3 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (22.87%) Git
2 14 (7.45%) Cypress.io
3 10 (5.32%) webpack
4 7 (3.72%) Visual Studio
5 6 (3.19%) Axure RP
5 6 (3.19%) JIRA
5 6 (3.19%) Vite
6 5 (2.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (2.13%) gulp
8 2 (1.06%) Storybook
9 1 (0.53%) Babel
9 1 (0.53%) GitLab
9 1 (0.53%) Protractor
General
1 30 (15.96%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.64%) Retail
3 10 (5.32%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.79%) Legal
5 8 (4.26%) Law
6 6 (3.19%) Finance
7 4 (2.13%) Front Office
7 4 (2.13%) Marketing
8 3 (1.60%) Banking
9 2 (1.06%) Publishing
10 1 (0.53%) Automotive
10 1 (0.53%) Games
10 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (44.68%) React
2 60 (31.91%) CSS
3 54 (28.72%) HTML
4 32 (17.02%) Vue
5 23 (12.23%) Jest
6 21 (11.17%) Node.js
7 17 (9.04%) REST
8 16 (8.51%) AngularJS
9 15 (7.98%) RESTful
10 14 (7.45%) GraphQL
11 13 (6.91%) Tailwind CSS
12 10 (5.32%) .NET
13 9 (4.79%) Next.js
13 9 (4.79%) Nuxt
13 9 (4.79%) Sass
14 8 (4.26%) HTML5
14 8 (4.26%) JSON
15 7 (3.72%) WebSockets
16 6 (3.19%) CSS3
16 6 (3.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.45%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.19%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.13%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.06%) Blog
8 2 (1.06%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.13%) Android
1 4 (2.13%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.60%) Linux
3 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (89.89%) Front End Development
2 61 (32.45%) User Experience
3 58 (30.85%) Agile
4 37 (19.68%) UX Design
5 24 (12.77%) CI/CD
6 20 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (9.57%) Mentoring
8 16 (8.51%) Responsive Web Design
8 16 (8.51%) Wireframes
9 15 (7.98%) API Integration
10 14 (7.45%) Software Engineering
11 13 (6.91%) DevOps
11 13 (6.91%) E-Commerce
11 13 (6.91%) Web Development
12 12 (6.38%) Clean Code
12 12 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (5.85%) Performance Optimisation
14 10 (5.32%) CRM
15 9 (4.79%) AI
Programming Languages
1 88 (46.81%) JavaScript
2 58 (30.85%) TypeScript
3 10 (5.32%) C#
4 6 (3.19%) Java
5 5 (2.66%) Python
6 4 (2.13%) PHP
6 4 (2.13%) SQL
7 2 (1.06%) Ruby
8 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.13%) DV Cleared
2 4 (2.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.06%) Degree
4 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (20.21%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.38%) QA
3 11 (5.85%) WCAG
4 5 (2.66%) GDPR
4 5 (2.66%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.53%) Grafana
1 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (1.06%) Adobe
2 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.53%) Concur
2 1 (0.53%) DevExpress
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.53%) SAP