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 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 420 422
Rank change year-on-year +50 +2 +146
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 14 23 42
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.11% 0.13% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 33
10th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £63,925
25th Percentile £72,500 £71,875 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £107,250
England median annual salary £72,642 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.27% +10.71% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,820 16,226 17,592
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 94.56% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,717 9,850 14,348
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £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 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £119,071 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025, 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 14 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 12 (85.71%) TypeScript
3 10 (71.43%) User Experience
4 9 (64.29%) Agile
4 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (57.14%) UX Design
6 7 (50.00%) Accessibility
6 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (50.00%) CSS
6 7 (50.00%) DevOps
6 7 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (50.00%) Node.js
6 7 (50.00%) Nuxt
6 7 (50.00%) QA
6 7 (50.00%) React
6 7 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 5 (35.71%) Analytics
7 5 (35.71%) API Integration
7 5 (35.71%) Azure
7 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (35.71%) Backlog Management
7 5 (35.71%) Customer-Centricity
7 5 (35.71%) Cypress.io
7 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
7 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (35.71%) GDPR
7 5 (35.71%) Git
7 5 (35.71%) GitHub
7 5 (35.71%) GraphQL
7 5 (35.71%) HTML

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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe XD
1 2 (14.29%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) Figma
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Cypress.io
1 5 (35.71%) Git
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
1 5 (35.71%) Visual Studio
1 5 (35.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
1 7 (50.00%) Retail
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (14.29%) Law
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) CSS
1 7 (50.00%) Node.js
1 7 (50.00%) Nuxt
1 7 (50.00%) React
2 5 (35.71%) GraphQL
2 5 (35.71%) HTML
2 5 (35.71%) Jest
2 5 (35.71%) RESTful
2 5 (35.71%) Tailwind CSS
2 5 (35.71%) Vitest
2 5 (35.71%) Vue
3 2 (14.29%) D3.js
3 2 (14.29%) Highcharts JS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 10 (71.43%) User Experience
3 9 (64.29%) Agile
4 8 (57.14%) UX Design
5 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (50.00%) DevOps
5 7 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
6 5 (35.71%) Analytics
6 5 (35.71%) API Integration
6 5 (35.71%) Backlog Management
6 5 (35.71%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
6 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (35.71%) Pair Programming
6 5 (35.71%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (35.71%) SEO
7 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) TypeScript
2 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 7 (50.00%) QA
2 5 (35.71%) GDPR
2 5 (35.71%) PERC
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe