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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 111 80
Rank change year-on-year -4 -31 +22
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 22 46 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.77% 1.71% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.83% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 38 61
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £49,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £64,875 £100,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

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 2,290 2,520 2,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.99% 93.51% 90.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,360 1,176 1,749
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

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 8 January 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 8 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
Stockport +3 1 - - 2
Altrincham -5 1 £45,000 -14.29%
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 2 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Kontent
2 1 (4.55%) npm
2 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.55%) SaaS
2 1 (4.55%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.55%) Protractor
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Games
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 21 (95.45%) Developer
2 15 (68.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (31.82%) Senior
4 6 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 4 (18.18%) React Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Angular Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Digital Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Games Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Principal Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Shopify Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (86.36%) React
2 16 (72.73%) CSS
3 15 (68.18%) HTML
4 6 (27.27%) Node.js
5 5 (22.73%) .NET
6 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
7 3 (13.64%) Jest
7 3 (13.64%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (13.64%) WebSockets
8 2 (9.09%) Kafka
8 2 (9.09%) REST
9 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
9 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
9 1 (4.55%) React Native
9 1 (4.55%) RESTful
9 1 (4.55%) Svelte
9 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Clean Code
3 5 (22.73%) AI
3 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
3 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
4 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (18.18%) User Experience
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.09%) API Integration
6 2 (9.09%) Chemistry
6 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.09%) Machine Learning
6 2 (9.09%) Personalization
6 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.09%) UX Design
6 2 (9.09%) Validation
7 1 (4.55%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) JavaScript
2 12 (54.55%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.64%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft