Senior Front-End Developer Job Trends in London

Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer)
England > London

The median Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer) salary in London is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
7 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 397 420
Rank change year-on-year +35 +23 +128
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 11 26 34
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.079% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11 20 26
10th Percentile £72,500 - £64,875
25th Percentile £88,125 £62,500 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile - £83,875 £110,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,655 14,456 17,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.71% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8,401 8,366 13,731
10th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,531 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%

Senior Front-End Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Front-End Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Front-End Developer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Front-End Developer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Front-End Developer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Front-End Developer job vacancies in London

Senior Front-End Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer in London over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Front-End Developer in London

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 7 January 2026, Senior Front-End 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 London region featuring Senior Front-End Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 8 (72.73%) Nuxt
2 8 (72.73%) TypeScript
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (54.55%) GraphQL
3 6 (54.55%) QA
3 6 (54.55%) Tailwind CSS
3 6 (54.55%) User Experience
3 6 (54.55%) UX Design
4 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
4 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) API Integration
4 5 (45.45%) Azure
4 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Backlog Management
4 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) CSS
4 5 (45.45%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (45.45%) Cypress.io
4 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) E-Commerce
4 5 (45.45%) GDPR
4 5 (45.45%) Git
4 5 (45.45%) GitHub
4 5 (45.45%) HTML
4 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
4 5 (45.45%) Jest
4 5 (45.45%) JIRA
4 5 (45.45%) Mentoring

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (45.45%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Sentry
2 1 (9.09%) Vercel
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Cypress.io
1 5 (45.45%) Git
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
1 5 (45.45%) Visual Studio
1 5 (45.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (72.73%) Retail
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Nuxt
2 6 (54.55%) GraphQL
2 6 (54.55%) Tailwind CSS
3 5 (45.45%) CSS
3 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 5 (45.45%) Jest
3 5 (45.45%) Node.js
3 5 (45.45%) RESTful
3 5 (45.45%) Vitest
3 5 (45.45%) Vue
4 3 (27.27%) React
5 1 (9.09%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Client/Server
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (54.55%) User Experience
2 6 (54.55%) UX Design
3 5 (45.45%) Analytics
3 5 (45.45%) API Integration
3 5 (45.45%) Backlog Management
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Customer-Centricity
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) E-Commerce
3 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 5 (45.45%) Pair Programming
3 5 (45.45%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (45.45%) Responsive Web Design
3 5 (45.45%) SEO
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) TypeScript
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
2 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
2 5 (45.45%) GDPR
2 5 (45.45%) PERC
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