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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 502 423
Rank change year-on-year -21 -79 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 236 133 359
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.31% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.34% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 201 106 245
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,188 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 93,551 39,204 65,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.37% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 66,181 23,579 40,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +18 103 £70,000 +16.67% 9
North West +12 55 £69,305 +15.51% 5
South East -16 40 £60,000 +41.18% 8
Midlands -20 30 £45,242 +6.45% 8
Yorkshire -26 28 £70,000 +86.67% 1
London -65 27 £85,000 +13.33% 33
South West -65 21 £50,000 +5.26% 5
North East -44 20 £65,000 -22.39% 3
East Midlands -22 17 £45,000 +2.86%
West Midlands -35 13 £69,305 +73.26% 8
East of England -23 11 £65,000 +36.84%
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 12 September 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.

1 211 (89.41%) Front End Development
2 98 (41.53%) TypeScript
3 94 (39.83%) JavaScript
4 79 (33.47%) React
5 47 (19.92%) Agile
6 43 (18.22%) CSS
7 40 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 40 (16.95%) HTML
7 40 (16.95%) Mentoring
8 38 (16.10%) Accessibility
9 37 (15.68%) E-Commerce
9 37 (15.68%) User Experience
10 33 (13.98%) AI
10 33 (13.98%) CI/CD
11 26 (11.02%) DevOps
11 26 (11.02%) Performance Optimisation
11 26 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (10.59%) AWS
12 25 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.17%) Web Development
14 23 (9.75%) Azure
14 23 (9.75%) Security Cleared
14 23 (9.75%) UX Design
15 21 (8.90%) Node.js
15 21 (8.90%) Vue
16 20 (8.47%) Python
17 18 (7.63%) Git
18 17 (7.20%) Roadmaps
18 17 (7.20%) SC Cleared
19 16 (6.78%) AngularJS

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 7 (2.97%) CMS
1 7 (2.97%) Headless CMS
2 2 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.42%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Magento
2 2 (0.85%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.59%) AWS
2 23 (9.75%) Azure
3 8 (3.39%) Figma
4 6 (2.54%) SaaS
5 5 (2.12%) Vercel
6 4 (1.69%) GitHub
7 3 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.85%) Contentful
8 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Supabase
9 1 (0.42%) Algolia
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.42%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.42%) GCP
9 1 (0.42%) npm
9 1 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.12%) MongoDB
1 5 (2.12%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.85%) Data Hub
2 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 18 (7.63%) Git
2 6 (2.54%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.27%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.27%) JIRA
4 2 (0.85%) Gradle
4 2 (0.85%) gulp
4 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.85%) webpack
4 2 (0.85%) Xcode
5 1 (0.42%) Babel
5 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.42%) Storybook
5 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (13.14%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.75%) Finance
3 17 (7.20%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.24%) Marketing
5 9 (3.81%) Retail
6 7 (2.97%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.27%) Banking
7 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.42%) Automotive
9 1 (0.42%) Front Office
9 1 (0.42%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (33.47%) React
2 43 (18.22%) CSS
3 40 (16.95%) HTML
4 21 (8.90%) Node.js
4 21 (8.90%) Vue
5 16 (6.78%) AngularJS
5 16 (6.78%) Playwright
6 13 (5.51%) React Native
6 13 (5.51%) REST
7 12 (5.08%) .NET
8 11 (4.66%) GraphQL
8 11 (4.66%) Next.js
9 8 (3.39%) Tailwind CSS
10 7 (2.97%) Jest
10 7 (2.97%) Sass
11 6 (2.54%) HTML5
11 6 (2.54%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.12%) CSS3
12 5 (2.12%) Material-UI
13 4 (1.69%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.05%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (2.12%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.27%) PropTech
6 2 (0.85%) Animation
6 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.85%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.42%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.42%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (89.41%) Front End Development
2 47 (19.92%) Agile
3 40 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
3 40 (16.95%) Mentoring
4 37 (15.68%) E-Commerce
4 37 (15.68%) User Experience
5 33 (13.98%) AI
5 33 (13.98%) CI/CD
6 26 (11.02%) DevOps
6 26 (11.02%) Performance Optimisation
6 26 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (10.17%) Web Development
9 23 (9.75%) UX Design
10 17 (7.20%) Roadmaps
11 16 (6.78%) Code Quality
11 16 (6.78%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (5.93%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (5.93%) TDD
13 13 (5.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 98 (41.53%) TypeScript
2 94 (39.83%) JavaScript
3 20 (8.47%) Python
4 7 (2.97%) C#
5 5 (2.12%) PHP
5 5 (2.12%) SQL
6 1 (0.42%) Java
6 1 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (9.75%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.20%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.54%) Degree
4 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.10%) Accessibility
2 15 (6.36%) QA
3 13 (5.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.85%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (2.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.85%) Adobe
2 2 (0.85%) SAP
3 1 (0.42%) OpenAI