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 20 February 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 370 360
Rank change year-on-year -80 -10 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 182 321 492
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.73% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.80% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 163 201 464
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,455 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.35% -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 55,232 40,206 62,874
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 91.33% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 35,738 21,398 50,239
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,000 £28,829
25th Percentile £37,973 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -5 61 £55,000 - 37
London -56 48 £82,500 +6.45% 22
South East -21 30 £55,000 -29.03% 12
North West -9 25 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Yorkshire -17 23 £47,372 -29.30% 9
South West -21 23 £45,000 -18.18% 8
North East -13 13 £59,500 +2.15% 6
West Midlands +14 9 £55,000 -2.22% 3
Midlands -14 9 £55,000 -4.35% 3
East of England -5 3 £40,000 -39.59% 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 20 February 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.

1 162 (89.01%) Front End Development
2 89 (48.90%) JavaScript
3 88 (48.35%) React
4 63 (34.62%) User Experience
5 62 (34.07%) Agile
5 62 (34.07%) CSS
6 61 (33.52%) TypeScript
7 56 (30.77%) HTML
8 44 (24.18%) Git
9 39 (21.43%) Accessibility
9 39 (21.43%) UX Design
10 32 (17.58%) Vue
11 30 (16.48%) Azure
12 29 (15.93%) CI/CD
13 26 (14.29%) Jest
14 22 (12.09%) Node.js
15 21 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (10.99%) Full-Stack Development
17 19 (10.44%) Mentoring
17 19 (10.44%) Wireframes
18 18 (9.89%) GitHub
18 18 (9.89%) REST
18 18 (9.89%) Software Engineering
19 17 (9.34%) Clean Code
20 16 (8.79%) AngularJS
20 16 (8.79%) API Integration
20 16 (8.79%) Responsive Web Design
21 15 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
21 15 (8.24%) DevOps
21 15 (8.24%) GraphQL

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 (2.20%) CMS
2 1 (0.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.55%) nginx
2 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.48%) Azure
2 18 (9.89%) GitHub
3 15 (8.24%) SaaS
4 11 (6.04%) AWS
5 9 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.30%) Figma
6 6 (3.30%) Miro
6 6 (3.30%) npm
7 2 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.10%) Yarn
8 1 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.55%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.55%) Sentry
8 1 (0.55%) Serverless
8 1 (0.55%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.10%) MySQL
4 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (24.18%) Git
2 14 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 10 (5.49%) webpack
4 7 (3.85%) Visual Studio
5 6 (3.30%) Axure RP
5 6 (3.30%) JIRA
5 6 (3.30%) Storybook
5 6 (3.30%) Vite
6 5 (2.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (2.20%) gulp
8 3 (1.65%) GitLab
9 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.55%) Babel
10 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.55%) Maven
10 1 (0.55%) Protractor
10 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.44%) Retail
3 11 (6.04%) Finance
4 10 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.40%) Legal
6 7 (3.85%) Law
7 4 (2.20%) Front Office
7 4 (2.20%) Marketing
8 3 (1.65%) Banking
9 2 (1.10%) Publishing
10 1 (0.55%) Automotive
10 1 (0.55%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (48.35%) React
2 62 (34.07%) CSS
3 56 (30.77%) HTML
4 32 (17.58%) Vue
5 26 (14.29%) Jest
6 22 (12.09%) Node.js
7 18 (9.89%) REST
8 16 (8.79%) AngularJS
9 15 (8.24%) GraphQL
9 15 (8.24%) RESTful
10 14 (7.69%) .NET
10 14 (7.69%) Next.js
11 13 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
12 10 (5.49%) Sass
13 9 (4.95%) HTML5
13 9 (4.95%) Nuxt
14 8 (4.40%) JSON
15 7 (3.85%) CSS3
15 7 (3.85%) WebSockets
16 6 (3.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.95%) Mobile App
2 9 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.20%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.65%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.10%) Blog
7 2 (1.10%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.55%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.30%) Android
1 6 (3.30%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.65%) Linux
3 2 (1.10%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (89.01%) Front End Development
2 63 (34.62%) User Experience
3 62 (34.07%) Agile
4 39 (21.43%) UX Design
5 29 (15.93%) CI/CD
6 21 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (10.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (10.44%) Mentoring
8 19 (10.44%) Wireframes
9 18 (9.89%) Software Engineering
10 17 (9.34%) Clean Code
11 16 (8.79%) API Integration
11 16 (8.79%) Responsive Web Design
12 15 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (8.24%) DevOps
13 13 (7.14%) Web Development
14 12 (6.59%) E-Commerce
14 12 (6.59%) Performance Optimisation
15 10 (5.49%) CRM
16 9 (4.95%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 89 (48.90%) JavaScript
2 61 (33.52%) TypeScript
3 11 (6.04%) C#
4 7 (3.85%) Java
5 5 (2.75%) Python
6 4 (2.20%) PHP
6 4 (2.20%) SQL
7 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.10%) Ruby
7 2 (1.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (4.40%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.20%) DV Cleared
2 4 (2.20%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.65%) Degree
4 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.14%) QA
3 11 (6.04%) WCAG
4 5 (2.75%) GDPR
4 5 (2.75%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) Grafana
1 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.10%) Adobe
2 2 (1.10%) DevExpress
3 1 (0.55%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.55%) Concur
3 1 (0.55%) SAP