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 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 372 388
Rank change year-on-year -80 +16 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 215 244 488
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.67% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.74% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 198 207 461
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £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% -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 67,939 32,820 74,862
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 89.78% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,702 21,220 58,170
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 8 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 8 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 -22 78 £55,000 - 20
London -63 58 £82,500 +10.00% 23
South West -26 37 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Yorkshire -25 33 £47,372 -4.78% 3
North West -34 32 £62,500 +13.64% 11
South East -34 25 £55,000 -29.03% 7
North East -22 13 £59,000 +4.42% 6
West Midlands -4 9 £55,000 +12.82%
Midlands -53 9 £55,000 +15.79% 1
East of England -49 4 £75,000 +13.27%
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 8 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.

1 188 (87.44%) Front End Development
2 97 (45.12%) JavaScript
3 86 (40.00%) React
4 67 (31.16%) TypeScript
5 54 (25.12%) CSS
6 53 (24.65%) User Experience
7 46 (21.40%) HTML
8 43 (20.00%) Agile
9 36 (16.74%) Git
10 34 (15.81%) Accessibility
11 33 (15.35%) UX Design
12 28 (13.02%) Vue
13 27 (12.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (10.70%) Node.js
15 21 (9.77%) Jest
16 20 (9.30%) Web Development
17 19 (8.84%) SaaS
18 17 (7.91%) Azure
18 17 (7.91%) CI/CD
18 17 (7.91%) DevOps
19 16 (7.44%) E-Commerce
19 16 (7.44%) Mentoring
19 16 (7.44%) Problem-Solving
20 14 (6.51%) REST
20 14 (6.51%) RESTful
20 14 (6.51%) Software Engineering
21 13 (6.05%) API Integration
21 13 (6.05%) CRM
21 13 (6.05%) Performance Optimisation
21 13 (6.05%) Python

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 (2.33%) CMS
2 1 (0.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.47%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.84%) SaaS
2 17 (7.91%) Azure
3 9 (4.19%) AWS
3 9 (4.19%) Figma
4 8 (3.72%) GitHub
4 8 (3.72%) npm
5 5 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.40%) Serverless
7 2 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (0.93%) Miro
7 2 (0.93%) Vercel
7 2 (0.93%) Yarn
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Algolia
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.47%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.47%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.47%) MySQL
3 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (16.74%) Git
2 11 (5.12%) Cypress.io
3 8 (3.72%) Vite
4 7 (3.26%) webpack
5 5 (2.33%) JIRA
5 5 (2.33%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.93%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.47%) Babel
8 1 (0.47%) GitLab
8 1 (0.47%) gulp
8 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.47%) Protractor
8 1 (0.47%) Storybook
8 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 17 (7.91%) Retail
3 10 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.19%) Legal
5 8 (3.72%) Law
6 5 (2.33%) Banking
6 5 (2.33%) Front Office
7 4 (1.86%) Finance
7 4 (1.86%) Marketing
8 2 (0.93%) Automotive
8 2 (0.93%) Publishing
9 1 (0.47%) Games
9 1 (0.47%) iGaming
9 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (40.00%) React
2 54 (25.12%) CSS
3 46 (21.40%) HTML
4 28 (13.02%) Vue
5 23 (10.70%) Node.js
6 21 (9.77%) Jest
7 14 (6.51%) REST
7 14 (6.51%) RESTful
8 13 (6.05%) Tailwind CSS
9 10 (4.65%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.19%) GraphQL
10 9 (4.19%) HTML5
10 9 (4.19%) Sass
11 7 (3.26%) .NET
11 7 (3.26%) CSS3
11 7 (3.26%) Nuxt
12 6 (2.79%) Next.js
13 5 (2.33%) JSON
13 5 (2.33%) Redux
13 5 (2.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.09%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.26%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.33%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.40%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.93%) Blog
8 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.40%) Linux
2 2 (0.93%) Android
2 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (87.44%) Front End Development
2 53 (24.65%) User Experience
3 43 (20.00%) Agile
4 33 (15.35%) UX Design
5 27 (12.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (9.30%) Web Development
7 17 (7.91%) CI/CD
7 17 (7.91%) DevOps
8 16 (7.44%) E-Commerce
8 16 (7.44%) Mentoring
8 16 (7.44%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (6.51%) Software Engineering
10 13 (6.05%) API Integration
10 13 (6.05%) CRM
10 13 (6.05%) Performance Optimisation
11 12 (5.58%) Clean Code
11 12 (5.58%) Data Visualisation
11 12 (5.58%) Responsive Web Design
11 12 (5.58%) Visualisation
12 11 (5.12%) AI
Programming Languages
1 97 (45.12%) JavaScript
2 67 (31.16%) TypeScript
3 13 (6.05%) Python
4 7 (3.26%) C#
4 7 (3.26%) Java
5 6 (2.79%) PHP
6 5 (2.33%) SQL
7 2 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (2.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (1.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.93%) Degree
4 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.81%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.19%) WCAG
3 6 (2.79%) QA
4 3 (1.40%) GDPR
4 3 (1.40%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Grafana
1 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (1.40%) Adobe
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.47%) SAP