Front End Development Job Trends in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Front End Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 95 147
Rank change year-on-year -49 +52 -64
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 58 61 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.76% 2.57% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 2.88% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 53 31 22
10th Percentile £45,250 £46,250 £28,375
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £79,063
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £100,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.13%

All Process & 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 5,829 2,119 3,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.18% 89.18% 84.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,378 1,190 1,657
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,835
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Front End Development job vacancy trend in Manchester

Front End Development
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

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 4 October 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
Cheadle - 5 £72,500 -
Wigan +2 1 - - 3
Altrincham -4 1 - -
Front End Development
North West

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (6.90%) CMS
2 3 (5.17%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Kentico
3 1 (1.72%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) AWS
2 9 (15.52%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) GitHub
4 6 (10.34%) Serverless
5 5 (8.62%) Vercel
6 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.45%) LangSmith
8 2 (3.45%) Supabase
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.72%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (1.72%) Contentful
9 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.45%) Chroma
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.72%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Git
1 8 (13.79%) GitLab
2 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.90%) Vite
4 2 (3.45%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.72%) Gradle
5 1 (1.72%) gulp
5 1 (1.72%) NUnit
5 1 (1.72%) webpack
5 1 (1.72%) Xcode
General
1 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Marketing
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (60.34%) Developer
2 23 (39.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 18 (31.03%) Senior
4 13 (22.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 12 (20.69%) Senior Developer
6 9 (15.52%) Java Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Software Engineer
7 8 (13.79%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 7 (12.07%) React Developer
9 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (8.62%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (8.62%) Senior Java Engineer
10 5 (8.62%) Senior React Developer
11 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (6.90%) AWS Software Engineer
12 3 (5.17%) Lead
12 3 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (5.17%) Software Developer
13 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
13 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (43.10%) React
2 8 (13.79%) .NET
2 8 (13.79%) Terraform
3 7 (12.07%) FastAPI
3 7 (12.07%) RESTful
3 7 (12.07%) Vue
4 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
4 6 (10.34%) React Native
4 6 (10.34%) REST
5 5 (8.62%) .NET Core
5 5 (8.62%) Next.js
6 4 (6.90%) CrewAI
6 4 (6.90%) CSS
6 4 (6.90%) HTML
6 4 (6.90%) LangChain
6 4 (6.90%) LangGraph
6 4 (6.90%) Node.js
6 4 (6.90%) Spring
7 3 (5.17%) .NET Framework
7 3 (5.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Animation
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.72%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 20 (34.48%) Microservices
3 19 (32.76%) DevOps
4 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
4 15 (25.86%) Software Engineering
5 13 (22.41%) AI
6 11 (18.97%) Agile
6 11 (18.97%) Collaborative Culture
7 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (15.52%) Observability
9 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.07%) API Integration
10 7 (12.07%) Clean Code
10 7 (12.07%) Containerisation
10 7 (12.07%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (12.07%) Fintech
10 7 (12.07%) TDD
11 6 (10.34%) Event-Driven
11 6 (10.34%) LLM
11 6 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) TypeScript
2 14 (24.14%) Python
3 13 (22.41%) Java
4 9 (15.52%) SQL
5 8 (13.79%) C#
5 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.90%) Go
7 2 (3.45%) PHP
7 2 (3.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) OpenAI
2 4 (6.90%) Mistral
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft