Front End Development Jobs in Manchester

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 132 139
Rank change year-on-year +41 +7 -39
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 80 92 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.24% 1.57% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 1.88% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 51 76 62
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £42,375 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,150 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -3.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,625 £69,375 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £73,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.07% -14.58% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,297 4,888 4,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 93.00% 83.56% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,324 3,477 2,516
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £33,375
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,159 £57,905
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% -8.20% +5.28%
75th Percentile £73,563 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,550 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Manchester

Front End Development
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Manchester.

Salary trend for Front End Development in Manchester

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in Manchester

Front End Development
Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Altrincham +6 12 £65,000 +36.84% 5
Stockport - 5 £55,000 - 4
Salford +19 3 - -
Bolton -6 3 - - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 2
Wigan - 3 - - 3
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Bury +6 2 £52,500 -19.23% 4
Front End Development
North West

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 10 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) CMS
3 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 51 (63.75%) AWS
2 32 (40.00%) Azure
3 15 (18.75%) Serverless
4 14 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (11.25%) GCP
6 5 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
6 5 (6.25%) CloudFront
7 2 (2.50%) GitHub
8 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare Workers
8 1 (1.25%) Datadog
8 1 (1.25%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (38.75%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 5 (6.25%) MySQL
4 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.00%) Redis
4 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.75%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (35.00%) JIRA
2 27 (33.75%) Bitbucket
2 27 (33.75%) Cucumber
2 27 (33.75%) GitLab
2 27 (33.75%) Maven
2 27 (33.75%) Selenium
2 27 (33.75%) SonarQube
2 27 (33.75%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (8.75%) Jasmine
4 6 (7.50%) Git
4 6 (7.50%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (2.50%) Babel
5 2 (2.50%) webpack
6 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
General
1 38 (47.50%) Finance
2 27 (33.75%) Banking
2 27 (33.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (22.50%) Corporate Banking
3 18 (22.50%) Investment Banking
3 18 (22.50%) Retail
3 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
4 13 (16.25%) Games
5 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (1.25%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.25%) Law
6 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (53.75%) Developer
2 30 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 24 (30.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 15 (18.75%) Senior
5 12 (15.00%) Senior Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Java Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (8.75%) Lead
8 5 (6.25%) Principal Developer
9 4 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (5.00%) React Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.75%) HTML CSS Developer
10 3 (3.75%) HTML Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 2 (2.50%) PHP Developer
11 2 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (2.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (72.50%) React
2 54 (67.50%) CSS
3 52 (65.00%) HTML
4 34 (42.50%) Redux
5 27 (33.75%) JPA
5 27 (33.75%) Kafka
5 27 (33.75%) Spring
5 27 (33.75%) Spring Boot
6 25 (31.25%) HTML5
6 25 (31.25%) Sass
7 24 (30.00%) RESTful
8 23 (28.75%) REST
9 20 (25.00%) Jest
10 18 (22.50%) CSS3
11 10 (12.50%) Node.js
12 9 (11.25%) Amazon Corretto
12 9 (11.25%) AngularJS
12 9 (11.25%) Hibernate
13 8 (10.00%) React Native
14 5 (6.25%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (35.00%) Product Ownership
2 27 (33.75%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (11.25%) e-Learning
4 5 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 4 (5.00%) Sports Betting
6 2 (2.50%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
7 1 (1.25%) Life Science
7 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.25%) Tandem
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Android
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (66.25%) Agile
2 41 (51.25%) DevOps
3 39 (48.75%) Software Engineering
3 39 (48.75%) Test Automation
4 38 (47.50%) Microservices
4 38 (47.50%) User Experience
5 36 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (42.50%) Performance Optimisation
7 32 (40.00%) CI/CD
8 29 (36.25%) SDLC
9 27 (33.75%) Containerisation
10 26 (32.50%) TDD
11 23 (28.75%) Clean Code
12 20 (25.00%) Mentoring
12 20 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
13 19 (23.75%) Migration
14 18 (22.50%) Strategic Thinking
15 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (18.75%) UX Design
17 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 56 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 51 (63.75%) TypeScript
3 37 (46.25%) Java
4 29 (36.25%) SQL
5 6 (7.50%) PHP
6 4 (5.00%) Python
7 1 (1.25%) C#
7 1 (1.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (36.25%) QA
2 22 (27.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (47.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (33.75%) Solace
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe
3 1 (1.25%) Google