Front End Development Job Trends in London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Front End Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 186 171
Rank change year-on-year -61 -15 -29
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 131 277 340
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 1.79% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.90% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 112 205 302
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £106,563 £108,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,125 £125,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,179 14,601 16,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.59% 94.58% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,774 8,034 13,619
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,263 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,875 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Front End Development job vacancy trend in London

Front End Development
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in London

Front End Development
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +3 19 £80,000 +28.00% 19
West London - 5 £47,000 - 6
North London - 2 £62,500 - 1
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 18 (13.74%) Confluence
2 5 (3.82%) CMS
3 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (6.87%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.05%) Adobe XD
3 3 (2.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Shopify
2 3 (2.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.90%) GitHub
2 28 (21.37%) Azure
3 27 (20.61%) AWS
4 20 (15.27%) Serverless
5 16 (12.21%) Figma
6 11 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.34%) Azure Functions
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (4.58%) Firebase
9 5 (3.82%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.82%) Azure App Service
9 5 (3.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.82%) ChatGPT
9 5 (3.82%) CloudFront
9 5 (3.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (3.82%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.08%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (16.03%) SQL Server
3 13 (9.92%) DB2
4 12 (9.16%) MongoDB
5 11 (8.40%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.58%) Flink
6 6 (4.58%) Redis
6 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.05%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.53%) MySQL
9 2 (1.53%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.53%) Power BI
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (25.19%) Git
2 29 (22.14%) Jenkins
3 28 (21.37%) JIRA
4 17 (12.98%) Bitbucket
5 16 (12.21%) Selenium
6 13 (9.92%) Cucumber
6 13 (9.92%) Cypress.io
6 13 (9.92%) TeamCity
7 11 (8.40%) webpack
8 10 (7.63%) GitLab
9 9 (6.87%) Vite
10 8 (6.11%) Visual Studio
10 8 (6.11%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (4.58%) gulp
12 4 (3.05%) CircleCI
13 3 (2.29%) JMeter
13 3 (2.29%) Postman
13 3 (2.29%) Storybook
14 1 (0.76%) Bower
14 1 (0.76%) JUnit
General
1 42 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.90%) Finance
3 20 (15.27%) Banking
4 15 (11.45%) Retail
5 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.34%) Front Office
6 5 (3.82%) Legal
7 4 (3.05%) Back Office
7 4 (3.05%) Billing
7 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.53%) Advertising
8 2 (1.53%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 84 (64.12%) Developer
2 52 (39.69%) Senior
3 35 (26.72%) Senior Developer
4 28 (21.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 17 (12.98%) Java Developer
6 14 (10.69%) Lead
7 13 (9.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (9.16%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 10 (7.63%) Designer
10 9 (6.87%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 9 (6.87%) React Developer
11 8 (6.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (5.34%) Agile Developer
12 7 (5.34%) Agile Java Developer
12 7 (5.34%) Python Engineer
13 6 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (4.58%) UI Designer
13 6 (4.58%) UI/UX Designer
13 6 (4.58%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (55.73%) React
2 54 (41.22%) CSS
2 54 (41.22%) HTML
3 42 (32.06%) Node.js
4 28 (21.37%) RESTful
5 20 (15.27%) GraphQL
6 19 (14.50%) Next.js
7 17 (12.98%) REST
7 17 (12.98%) Vue
8 16 (12.21%) AngularJS
8 16 (12.21%) Spring
8 16 (12.21%) Spring Boot
9 14 (10.69%) Jest
10 13 (9.92%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (9.92%) HTML5
11 11 (8.40%) .NET
11 11 (8.40%) CSS3
11 11 (8.40%) Gherkin
11 11 (8.40%) Nuxt
12 10 (7.63%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.21%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.92%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.58%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.82%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.82%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.05%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.05%) W3C
8 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.53%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.76%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.53%) Android
1 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (57.25%) Agile
2 70 (53.44%) User Experience
3 52 (39.69%) CI/CD
4 44 (33.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (28.24%) UX Design
6 34 (25.95%) Microservices
7 33 (25.19%) DevOps
8 30 (22.90%) Mentoring
9 29 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (22.14%) Scrum
10 28 (21.37%) Software Engineering
11 24 (18.32%) Design Patterns
12 22 (16.79%) Test Automation
13 21 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (15.27%) AI
14 20 (15.27%) Code Quality
15 19 (14.50%) Kanban
16 18 (13.74%) SDLC
16 18 (13.74%) Sprint Planning
17 17 (12.98%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 76 (58.02%) JavaScript
2 64 (48.85%) TypeScript
3 37 (28.24%) Java
4 25 (19.08%) Python
5 24 (18.32%) SQL
6 10 (7.63%) C#
7 4 (3.05%) Ruby
8 3 (2.29%) RPG
9 2 (1.53%) Bicep
9 2 (1.53%) PHP
9 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (12.21%) Degree
2 14 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.40%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.82%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.66%) Accessibility
2 20 (15.27%) QA
3 9 (6.87%) GDPR
4 8 (6.11%) WCAG
5 5 (3.82%) PERC
System Software
1 25 (19.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (20.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.58%) Argo
3 3 (2.29%) Terraform
4 2 (1.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (11.45%) Atlassian
2 11 (8.40%) Oracle
3 8 (6.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.82%) Adobe
4 5 (3.82%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.29%) IBM
5 3 (2.29%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.53%) Google
6 2 (1.53%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.76%) Concur
7 1 (0.76%) Databricks
7 1 (0.76%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.76%) Pega
7 1 (0.76%) SAP