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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 369 341
Rank change year-on-year -91 -28 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 140 342 371
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.69% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.74% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 121 205 339
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,850 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +23.97% -6.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -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 47,162 46,092 43,112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 92.95% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,558 24,542 33,827
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,205 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -1 41 £59,500 +3.48% 101
South East -9 31 £55,000 -29.03% 93
London -61 31 £90,000 +16.13% 56
North West +14 19 £60,000 +4.35% 57
Yorkshire -10 14 £48,686 +0.38% 35
South West -10 14 £45,000 -18.18% 37
West Midlands +15 11 £52,500 +43.84% 35
Midlands +1 11 £52,500 -8.70% 62
North East +1 8 £59,000 -1.67% 9
East of England +12 4 £40,000 -25.58% 60
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 1 January 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.

1 123 (87.86%) Front End Development
2 75 (53.57%) React
3 66 (47.14%) JavaScript
4 65 (46.43%) Agile
5 62 (44.29%) CSS
6 57 (40.71%) User Experience
7 56 (40.00%) HTML
8 45 (32.14%) TypeScript
9 42 (30.00%) Git
10 38 (27.14%) Accessibility
11 37 (26.43%) UX Design
12 30 (21.43%) Azure
12 30 (21.43%) CI/CD
13 27 (19.29%) Vue
14 26 (18.57%) Wireframes
15 22 (15.71%) Jest
16 21 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (14.29%) Clean Code
17 20 (14.29%) GitHub
17 20 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
18 19 (13.57%) Mentoring
18 19 (13.57%) Next.js
18 19 (13.57%) Node.js
18 19 (13.57%) REST
19 17 (12.14%) API Integration
19 17 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
20 16 (11.43%) AngularJS
20 16 (11.43%) Software Engineering
21 15 (10.71%) DevOps
21 15 (10.71%) 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 8 (5.71%) CMS
2 5 (3.57%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.43%) Drupal
3 2 (1.43%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.43%) Azure
2 20 (14.29%) GitHub
3 14 (10.00%) SaaS
4 13 (9.29%) AWS
5 10 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.43%) Figma
7 6 (4.29%) Miro
8 4 (2.86%) npm
9 2 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.71%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.71%) Firebase
10 1 (0.71%) Sentry
10 1 (0.71%) Serverless
10 1 (0.71%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.43%) Metadata
4 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.71%) MySQL
4 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (30.00%) Git
2 11 (7.86%) Cypress.io
2 11 (7.86%) Storybook
2 11 (7.86%) webpack
3 9 (6.43%) gulp
4 7 (5.00%) Visual Studio
5 6 (4.29%) Axure RP
5 6 (4.29%) JIRA
6 5 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (2.14%) GitLab
8 2 (1.43%) Grunt
8 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.43%) Vite
9 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.71%) Babel
9 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.71%) Maven
9 1 (0.71%) Protractor
9 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (22.14%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.14%) Retail
3 15 (10.71%) Finance
4 5 (3.57%) Legal
4 5 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.86%) Marketing
6 3 (2.14%) Law
7 2 (1.43%) Publishing
8 1 (0.71%) Automotive
8 1 (0.71%) Games
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (53.57%) React
2 62 (44.29%) CSS
3 56 (40.00%) HTML
4 27 (19.29%) Vue
5 22 (15.71%) Jest
6 19 (13.57%) Next.js
6 19 (13.57%) Node.js
6 19 (13.57%) REST
7 16 (11.43%) AngularJS
8 15 (10.71%) GraphQL
9 14 (10.00%) .NET
10 13 (9.29%) RESTful
11 12 (8.57%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (5.71%) JSON
12 8 (5.71%) Nuxt
12 8 (5.71%) Redux
12 8 (5.71%) Sass
13 7 (5.00%) Web Services
14 6 (4.29%) HTML5
14 6 (4.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.43%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.14%) W3C
7 2 (1.43%) Blog
7 2 (1.43%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.43%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.00%) Android
1 7 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.43%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (87.86%) Front End Development
2 65 (46.43%) Agile
3 57 (40.71%) User Experience
4 37 (26.43%) UX Design
5 30 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 26 (18.57%) Wireframes
7 21 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (14.29%) Clean Code
8 20 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
9 19 (13.57%) Mentoring
10 17 (12.14%) API Integration
10 17 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (11.43%) Software Engineering
12 15 (10.71%) DevOps
13 12 (8.57%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
13 12 (8.57%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (7.86%) Mobile Development
15 10 (7.14%) E-Commerce
15 10 (7.14%) Web Development
16 9 (6.43%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.14%) JavaScript
2 45 (32.14%) TypeScript
3 11 (7.86%) C#
4 5 (3.57%) Python
5 3 (2.14%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.43%) Ruby
7 1 (0.71%) Java
7 1 (0.71%) PHP
7 1 (0.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (27.14%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.29%) QA
3 8 (5.71%) GDPR
4 7 (5.00%) WCAG
5 5 (3.57%) PERC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.71%) Grafana
1 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.14%) DevExpress
3 2 (1.43%) Adobe
4 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.71%) Concur