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 £59,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 380 329
Rank change year-on-year -101 -51 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 130 343 375
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.68% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.72% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 110 210 340
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,950 £39,900
25th Percentile £49,813 £52,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £73,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +18.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76,875 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +13.82% -5.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,850 47,323 41,068
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.49% 93.36% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,378 25,530 32,168
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
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 20 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 20 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 -2 36 £59,500 +3.48% 17
South East 0 31 £55,000 -29.03% 6
London -27 29 £90,000 +16.13% 13
North West +29 20 £60,000 +4.35% 8
South West -13 13 £45,000 -18.18% 5
West Midlands +27 11 £52,500 +43.84% 2
Midlands -2 11 £52,500 +2.44% 2
Yorkshire -7 11 £50,000 +3.09% 5
North East -2 5 £58,750 -14.55% 4
East of England +13 3 £40,000 -25.58% 3
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 20 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.

1 115 (88.46%) Front End Development
2 68 (52.31%) React
3 64 (49.23%) JavaScript
4 62 (47.69%) Agile
5 60 (46.15%) CSS
6 54 (41.54%) HTML
7 53 (40.77%) User Experience
8 42 (32.31%) TypeScript
9 39 (30.00%) Accessibility
9 39 (30.00%) Git
10 35 (26.92%) UX Design
11 29 (22.31%) Azure
11 29 (22.31%) CI/CD
12 26 (20.00%) Vue
13 24 (18.46%) Wireframes
14 20 (15.38%) Clean Code
14 20 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (15.38%) GitHub
14 20 (15.38%) Jest
14 20 (15.38%) Node.js
15 19 (14.62%) Mentoring
15 19 (14.62%) Responsive Web Design
16 18 (13.85%) Next.js
16 18 (13.85%) REST
17 17 (13.08%) API Integration
18 16 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
19 15 (11.54%) AngularJS
19 15 (11.54%) Software Engineering
20 14 (10.77%) .NET
20 14 (10.77%) 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 (6.15%) CMS
2 5 (3.85%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.54%) Drupal
3 2 (1.54%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.31%) Azure
2 20 (15.38%) GitHub
3 13 (10.00%) SaaS
4 12 (9.23%) AWS
5 9 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (6.92%) Figma
6 6 (4.62%) Miro
7 4 (3.08%) npm
8 2 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.77%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.77%) Firebase
9 1 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.54%) Metadata
3 2 (1.54%) Redis
4 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (30.00%) Git
2 11 (8.46%) Storybook
3 10 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 10 (7.69%) webpack
4 8 (6.15%) gulp
5 7 (5.38%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.62%) Axure RP
7 5 (3.85%) JIRA
7 5 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (2.31%) GitLab
9 2 (1.54%) Grunt
9 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.54%) Vite
10 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.77%) Babel
10 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.77%) Maven
10 1 (0.77%) Protractor
10 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.08%) Retail
3 15 (11.54%) Finance
4 5 (3.85%) Legal
5 4 (3.08%) Marketing
5 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.31%) Law
7 2 (1.54%) Publishing
8 1 (0.77%) Automotive
8 1 (0.77%) Games
8 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (52.31%) React
2 60 (46.15%) CSS
3 54 (41.54%) HTML
4 26 (20.00%) Vue
5 20 (15.38%) Jest
5 20 (15.38%) Node.js
6 18 (13.85%) Next.js
6 18 (13.85%) REST
7 15 (11.54%) AngularJS
8 14 (10.77%) .NET
8 14 (10.77%) GraphQL
9 13 (10.00%) RESTful
10 12 (9.23%) Tailwind CSS
11 9 (6.92%) Sass
12 8 (6.15%) JSON
12 8 (6.15%) Nuxt
13 7 (5.38%) Redux
13 7 (5.38%) Web Services
13 7 (5.38%) WebSockets
14 6 (4.62%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (5.38%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.31%) W3C
6 2 (1.54%) Blog
6 2 (1.54%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.54%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.77%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.62%) Android
1 6 (4.62%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.54%) Linux
2 2 (1.54%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (88.46%) Front End Development
2 62 (47.69%) Agile
3 53 (40.77%) User Experience
4 35 (26.92%) UX Design
5 29 (22.31%) CI/CD
6 24 (18.46%) Wireframes
7 20 (15.38%) Clean Code
7 20 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (14.62%) Mentoring
8 19 (14.62%) Responsive Web Design
9 17 (13.08%) API Integration
10 16 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (11.54%) Software Engineering
12 14 (10.77%) DevOps
13 12 (9.23%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (8.46%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
14 11 (8.46%) Mobile Development
15 10 (7.69%) E-Commerce
15 10 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
16 9 (6.92%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 64 (49.23%) JavaScript
2 42 (32.31%) TypeScript
3 11 (8.46%) C#
4 5 (3.85%) Python
5 3 (2.31%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.54%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.54%) Ruby
7 1 (0.77%) Java
7 1 (0.77%) PHP
7 1 (0.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (5.38%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.62%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.31%) Degree
4 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.23%) QA
3 8 (6.15%) GDPR
4 7 (5.38%) WCAG
5 5 (3.85%) PERC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.77%) Grafana
1 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.31%) DevExpress
3 2 (1.54%) Adobe
4 1 (0.77%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.77%) Concur