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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 390 409
Rank change year-on-year -64 +19 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 234 244 481
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.65% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.73% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 213 206 457
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 72,973 33,444 78,399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 88.88% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47,795 21,436 59,944
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -6 86 £59,000 +7.27% 13
London -65 63 £85,000 +13.33% 16
South West -37 40 £45,000 -18.18% 5
North West -28 39 £62,500 +13.64% 7
Yorkshire -29 34 £50,000 +53.85% 3
South East -31 27 £45,000 -41.94% 8
North East -39 13 £59,500 +5.31% 3
West Midlands -28 8 £55,000 +12.82% 4
Midlands -57 8 £55,000 +15.79% 5
East of England -43 6 £67,500 +1.95% 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 25 April 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.

1 204 (87.18%) Front End Development
2 98 (41.88%) JavaScript
3 90 (38.46%) React
4 72 (30.77%) TypeScript
5 47 (20.09%) CSS
5 47 (20.09%) User Experience
6 39 (16.67%) HTML
7 35 (14.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 34 (14.53%) Agile
9 33 (14.10%) Git
9 33 (14.10%) UX Design
10 32 (13.68%) Accessibility
11 29 (12.39%) Vue
12 23 (9.83%) Web Development
13 22 (9.40%) DevOps
13 22 (9.40%) E-Commerce
14 21 (8.97%) Node.js
15 18 (7.69%) SaaS
16 17 (7.26%) Jest
17 16 (6.84%) Problem-Solving
18 15 (6.41%) Mentoring
19 14 (5.98%) CI/CD
19 14 (5.98%) Data Visualisation
19 14 (5.98%) Performance Optimisation
19 14 (5.98%) Python
19 14 (5.98%) Software Engineering
19 14 (5.98%) Visualisation
20 13 (5.56%) Clean Code
20 13 (5.56%) CRM
20 13 (5.56%) REST

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 (2.14%) CMS
2 1 (0.43%) Confluence
2 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.43%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.69%) SaaS
2 12 (5.13%) Azure
3 10 (4.27%) Figma
4 8 (3.42%) AWS
4 8 (3.42%) npm
5 5 (2.14%) GitHub
6 4 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.28%) Serverless
8 2 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.85%) Vercel
8 2 (0.85%) Yarn
9 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Algolia
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.43%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.85%) Data Hub
1 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.43%) MySQL
2 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (14.10%) Git
2 8 (3.42%) Cypress.io
3 7 (2.99%) Vite
3 7 (2.99%) webpack
4 4 (1.71%) JIRA
4 4 (1.71%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.85%) gulp
5 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.43%) GitLab
6 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.43%) Storybook
6 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (10.68%) Social Skills
2 14 (5.98%) Retail
3 10 (4.27%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.42%) Legal
5 7 (2.99%) Law
6 6 (2.56%) Banking
6 6 (2.56%) Front Office
7 5 (2.14%) Marketing
8 4 (1.71%) Finance
9 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Games
10 1 (0.43%) iGaming
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (38.46%) React
2 47 (20.09%) CSS
3 39 (16.67%) HTML
4 29 (12.39%) Vue
5 21 (8.97%) Node.js
6 17 (7.26%) Jest
7 13 (5.56%) REST
8 12 (5.13%) AngularJS
8 12 (5.13%) RESTful
9 10 (4.27%) Tailwind CSS
10 9 (3.85%) Sass
11 8 (3.42%) .NET
11 8 (3.42%) GraphQL
11 8 (3.42%) HTML5
12 7 (2.99%) Next.js
13 6 (2.56%) CSS3
13 6 (2.56%) Nuxt
13 6 (2.56%) WebSockets
14 5 (2.14%) Redux
15 4 (1.71%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.97%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.99%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.56%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.28%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.85%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.43%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.43%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.85%) Android
1 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (87.18%) Front End Development
2 47 (20.09%) User Experience
3 35 (14.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (14.53%) Agile
5 33 (14.10%) UX Design
6 23 (9.83%) Web Development
7 22 (9.40%) DevOps
7 22 (9.40%) E-Commerce
8 16 (6.84%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (6.41%) Mentoring
10 14 (5.98%) CI/CD
10 14 (5.98%) Data Visualisation
10 14 (5.98%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (5.98%) Software Engineering
10 14 (5.98%) Visualisation
11 13 (5.56%) Clean Code
11 13 (5.56%) CRM
12 12 (5.13%) API Integration
12 12 (5.13%) Responsive Web Design
13 10 (4.27%) AI
Programming Languages
1 98 (41.88%) JavaScript
2 72 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 14 (5.98%) Python
4 7 (2.99%) Java
5 6 (2.56%) C#
5 6 (2.56%) PHP
6 4 (1.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (3.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
2 4 (1.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.85%) Degree
4 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.68%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.27%) WCAG
3 6 (2.56%) QA
4 2 (0.85%) GDPR
4 2 (0.85%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (1.28%) Adobe
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.43%) SAP