Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs in England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK > England

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 573 740 741
Rank change year-on-year +167 +1 -168
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 97 97 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 84 72 122
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,000 £53,650
25th Percentile £55,938 £67,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,778 £92,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £128,625
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

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 43,436 80,761 84,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.49% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,713 60,391 53,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,995 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England.

Salary trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in England

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
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 Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
London +98 40 £88,805 +1.49% 71
North of England +66 24 £70,000 - 13
North West +14 20 £70,000 - 10
Midlands +61 11 £52,500 -12.50% 6
South East +99 8 £60,000 -20.00% 20
West Midlands +46 8 £52,500 -12.50% 6
South West +109 7 £85,253 +17.59% 4
East of England +38 6 £66,295 -14.46% 2
Yorkshire +72 4 £64,250 +97.69% 3
East Midlands +50 3 £72,500 +31.82%
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 73 (75.26%) React
2 69 (71.13%) JavaScript
3 67 (69.07%) TypeScript
4 59 (60.82%) Software Engineering
5 47 (48.45%) Agile
6 46 (47.42%) User Experience
7 37 (38.14%) HTML
7 37 (38.14%) AWS
8 35 (36.08%) CSS
9 30 (30.93%) Finance
9 30 (30.93%) Front End Development
10 28 (28.87%) Node.js
11 26 (26.80%) Artificial Intelligence
12 25 (25.77%) Git
13 23 (23.71%) AngularJS
13 23 (23.71%) DevOps
13 23 (23.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 22 (22.68%) C#
15 21 (21.65%) Next.js
16 20 (20.62%) GCP
17 19 (19.59%) Redux
17 19 (19.59%) CI/CD
17 19 (19.59%) Accessibility
18 18 (18.56%) Jest
19 17 (17.53%) Microservices
19 17 (17.53%) .NET
19 17 (17.53%) Python
20 16 (16.49%) UX Design
20 16 (16.49%) Code Quality
21 15 (15.46%) Degree

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.12%) Apache
1 4 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.06%) CMS
2 2 (2.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.09%) Adobe XD
2 3 (3.09%) Sketch
3 1 (1.03%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.14%) AWS
2 20 (20.62%) GCP
3 14 (14.43%) SaaS
4 13 (13.40%) Azure
5 11 (11.34%) Figma
6 7 (7.22%) npm
7 4 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.09%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.06%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.06%) Datadog
9 2 (2.06%) GitHub
9 2 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.06%) Yarn
10 1 (1.03%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.03%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.03%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.03%) Cloudflare Workers
10 1 (1.03%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.12%) Apache Ignite
3 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.09%) Redis
5 2 (2.06%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.06%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.03%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (25.77%) Git
2 14 (14.43%) webpack
3 12 (12.37%) Cypress.io
4 7 (7.22%) Storybook
5 6 (6.19%) Cucumber
5 6 (6.19%) Jenkins
5 6 (6.19%) Vite
6 5 (5.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (5.15%) TeamCity
7 3 (3.09%) MSTest
7 3 (3.09%) NUnit
7 3 (3.09%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.06%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.06%) Babel
8 2 (2.06%) Jasmine
8 2 (2.06%) JIRA
9 1 (1.03%) GitLab
9 1 (1.03%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 30 (30.93%) Finance
2 15 (15.46%) Banking
3 14 (14.43%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Law
5 12 (12.37%) Front Office
6 8 (8.25%) Games
7 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Tech for Good
9 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.03%) Advertising
10 1 (1.03%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (75.26%) React
2 37 (38.14%) HTML
3 35 (36.08%) CSS
4 28 (28.87%) Node.js
5 23 (23.71%) AngularJS
6 21 (21.65%) Next.js
7 19 (19.59%) Redux
8 18 (18.56%) Jest
9 17 (17.53%) .NET
10 14 (14.43%) RESTful
11 12 (12.37%) GraphQL
11 12 (12.37%) React Native
12 11 (11.34%) RxJS
13 10 (10.31%) NgRx
14 9 (9.28%) .NET Core
14 9 (9.28%) Svelte
15 7 (7.22%) Entity Framework
15 7 (7.22%) Enzyme
15 7 (7.22%) HTML5
15 7 (7.22%) Kendo UI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Fixed Income
2 10 (10.31%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.25%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (6.19%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.15%) Legacy Code
6 4 (4.12%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.09%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (3.09%) Derivative
7 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.09%) Equities
7 3 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (3.09%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.06%) Hedge funds
8 2 (2.06%) IoT
8 2 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.03%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Android
1 3 (3.09%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (60.82%) Software Engineering
2 47 (48.45%) Agile
3 46 (47.42%) User Experience
4 30 (30.93%) Front End Development
5 26 (26.80%) Artificial Intelligence
6 23 (23.71%) DevOps
6 23 (23.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (19.59%) CI/CD
8 17 (17.53%) Microservices
9 16 (16.49%) Code Quality
9 16 (16.49%) UX Design
10 15 (15.46%) Fintech
11 14 (14.43%) Mentoring
11 14 (14.43%) Micro Frontends
12 11 (11.34%) Containerisation
13 10 (10.31%) Scrum
13 10 (10.31%) Test Automation
14 9 (9.28%) Conversational UI
14 9 (9.28%) Investment Management
14 9 (9.28%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 69 (71.13%) JavaScript
2 67 (69.07%) TypeScript
3 22 (22.68%) C#
4 17 (17.53%) Python
5 14 (14.43%) SQL
6 6 (6.19%) C++
7 5 (5.15%) Go
8 2 (2.06%) Java
8 2 (2.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (15.46%) Degree
2 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.59%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.06%) QA
System Software
1 12 (12.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Grafana
2 2 (2.06%) Kibana
2 2 (2.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (7.22%) Telerik
2 6 (6.19%) PayPal
3 4 (4.12%) Adobe
4 2 (2.06%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.03%) Google
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.03%) New Relic
5 1 (1.03%) OpenAI