Front End Development Job Trends in Leicester

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Front End Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 36 45
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +11
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 1 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.49% 1.95% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 2.46% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile - - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary - £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +27.27% +37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 244 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 85.85% 79.22% 92.47%
Number of salaries quoted 100 129 208
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,700 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,188 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,125 £83,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +16.67%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in Leicester

Front End Development
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Front End Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Solace