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 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 602 727 732
Rank change year-on-year +125 +5 -161
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 88 102 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.13% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 77 77 120
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,000 £52,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £107,250 £150,000
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 45,023 81,588 81,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 94.56% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,443 60,779 51,494
10th Percentile £29,913 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 17 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 17 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 +103 35 £90,000 - 77
North of England +45 21 £67,500 -3.57% 21
North West +1 18 £65,000 -7.14% 19
Midlands +64 9 £52,500 -12.50% 4
South West +100 8 £85,253 +17.59% 3
South East +87 8 £62,500 -16.67% 28
West Midlands +59 8 £52,500 -12.50% 3
East of England +43 6 £66,295 +10.49% 4
Yorkshire +63 3 £72,500 +123.08% 2
East Midlands +20 1 £72,500 +31.82% 1
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 17 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 66 (75.00%) React
2 62 (70.45%) TypeScript
3 61 (69.32%) JavaScript
4 51 (57.95%) Software Engineering
5 41 (46.59%) User Experience
6 40 (45.45%) Agile
7 37 (42.05%) HTML
8 35 (39.77%) CSS
9 29 (32.95%) AWS
10 27 (30.68%) Finance
11 26 (29.55%) Front End Development
12 23 (26.14%) DevOps
12 23 (26.14%) Git
13 22 (25.00%) C#
13 22 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
14 21 (23.86%) AngularJS
15 20 (22.73%) Node.js
15 20 (22.73%) Next.js
15 20 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
16 18 (20.45%) CI/CD
16 18 (20.45%) Accessibility
17 17 (19.32%) Jest
18 16 (18.18%) UX Design
18 16 (18.18%) Degree
19 15 (17.05%) .NET
19 15 (17.05%) GCP
19 15 (17.05%) Fintech
19 15 (17.05%) Code Quality
20 14 (15.91%) React Native
20 14 (15.91%) Microservices

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 2 (2.27%) Apache
1 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.27%) CMS
1 2 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.27%) Adobe XD
2 2 (2.27%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.95%) AWS
2 15 (17.05%) GCP
3 12 (13.64%) Azure
4 11 (12.50%) SaaS
5 10 (11.36%) Figma
6 7 (7.95%) npm
7 3 (3.41%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (2.27%) Datadog
8 2 (2.27%) GitHub
8 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.27%) Yarn
9 1 (1.14%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.14%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.14%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.14%) Cloudflare Workers
9 1 (1.14%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.41%) Redis
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (2.27%) Hazelcast
3 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 23 (26.14%) Git
2 13 (14.77%) webpack
3 10 (11.36%) Cypress.io
4 6 (6.82%) Cucumber
4 6 (6.82%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (5.68%) Storybook
5 5 (5.68%) TeamCity
5 5 (5.68%) Vite
6 3 (3.41%) MSTest
6 3 (3.41%) NUnit
6 3 (3.41%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.27%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.27%) Babel
7 2 (2.27%) Jasmine
7 2 (2.27%) JIRA
8 1 (1.14%) GitLab
8 1 (1.14%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.14%) Selenium
General
1 27 (30.68%) Finance
2 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Banking
4 10 (11.36%) Front Office
4 10 (11.36%) Law
5 6 (6.82%) Games
6 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Tech for Good
8 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Advertising
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (75.00%) React
2 37 (42.05%) HTML
3 35 (39.77%) CSS
4 21 (23.86%) AngularJS
5 20 (22.73%) Next.js
5 20 (22.73%) Node.js
6 17 (19.32%) Jest
7 15 (17.05%) .NET
8 14 (15.91%) React Native
8 14 (15.91%) Redux
8 14 (15.91%) RESTful
9 10 (11.36%) RxJS
10 9 (10.23%) GraphQL
10 9 (10.23%) NgRx
11 8 (9.09%) .NET Core
11 8 (9.09%) Svelte
12 7 (7.95%) HTML5
13 6 (6.82%) CSS3
13 6 (6.82%) Entity Framework
13 6 (6.82%) Kendo UI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Fixed Income
1 10 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.68%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.41%) Credit Derivative
5 3 (3.41%) Derivative
5 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.41%) Equities
5 3 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.27%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.27%) IoT
6 2 (2.27%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Android
2 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (57.95%) Software Engineering
2 41 (46.59%) User Experience
3 40 (45.45%) Agile
4 26 (29.55%) Front End Development
5 23 (26.14%) DevOps
6 22 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 20 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (20.45%) CI/CD
9 16 (18.18%) UX Design
10 15 (17.05%) Code Quality
10 15 (17.05%) Fintech
11 14 (15.91%) Microservices
12 13 (14.77%) Micro Frontends
13 10 (11.36%) Containerisation
13 10 (11.36%) Event-Driven
13 10 (11.36%) Mentoring
13 10 (11.36%) Test Automation
14 9 (10.23%) Conversational UI
15 8 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 8 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 62 (70.45%) TypeScript
2 61 (69.32%) JavaScript
3 22 (25.00%) C#
4 14 (15.91%) Python
5 13 (14.77%) SQL
6 6 (6.82%) C++
7 5 (5.68%) Go
8 3 (3.41%) PHP
9 2 (2.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (18.18%) Degree
2 7 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.45%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.41%) QA
System Software
1 11 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) Grafana
2 2 (2.27%) Kibana
3 1 (1.14%) logstash
3 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (6.82%) PayPal
1 6 (6.82%) Telerik
2 3 (3.41%) Adobe
3 2 (2.27%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.14%) Google
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.14%) New Relic
4 1 (1.14%) OpenAI