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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 143 83
Rank change year-on-year +51 -60 +7
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 64 38 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.73% 0.99% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 1.16% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 32 25 72
10th Percentile £46,375 £31,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £67,813 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,625 £100,000 £73,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 2,082 3,265 2,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 88.94% 84.67% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,192 1,546 1,997
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £36,045
25th Percentile £34,688 £40,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% +4.76%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 - 1
Stockport - 4 - - 1
Salford +15 3 - -
Bolton +9 3 - - 2
Wigan - 3 - - 3
Sale - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - -
Bury - 2 £52,500 -
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 10 (15.63%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (68.75%) AWS
2 28 (43.75%) Azure
3 11 (17.19%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (17.19%) Serverless
4 9 (14.06%) GCP
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (4.69%) CloudFront
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.56%) npm
7 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (46.88%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.81%) Redis
4 4 (6.25%) MySQL
4 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.69%) Hazelcast
5 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (43.75%) JIRA
2 27 (42.19%) Bitbucket
2 27 (42.19%) Cucumber
2 27 (42.19%) GitLab
2 27 (42.19%) Maven
2 27 (42.19%) Selenium
2 27 (42.19%) SonarQube
2 27 (42.19%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (4.69%) Git
3 3 (4.69%) Jasmine
3 3 (4.69%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.56%) Protractor
General
1 35 (54.69%) Finance
2 27 (42.19%) Banking
2 27 (42.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (28.13%) Corporate Banking
3 18 (28.13%) Investment Banking
3 18 (28.13%) Retail
4 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
5 9 (14.06%) Games
6 2 (3.13%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Automotive
7 1 (1.56%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (51.56%) Developer
2 28 (43.75%) Software Engineer
3 17 (26.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 11 (17.19%) Senior
5 9 (14.06%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 8 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Principal Developer
8 5 (7.81%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Lead
9 3 (4.69%) React Developer
10 1 (1.56%) Flutter Developer
10 1 (1.56%) JavaScript Developer
10 1 (1.56%) Lead Developer
10 1 (1.56%) PHP Developer
10 1 (1.56%) Power Platform Developer
10 1 (1.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 1 (1.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 1 (1.56%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (79.69%) React
2 45 (70.31%) CSS
3 43 (67.19%) HTML
4 29 (45.31%) Kafka
5 27 (42.19%) JPA
5 27 (42.19%) Redux
5 27 (42.19%) Spring
5 27 (42.19%) Spring Boot
6 21 (32.81%) HTML5
6 21 (32.81%) Jest
6 21 (32.81%) REST
6 21 (32.81%) RESTful
6 21 (32.81%) Sass
7 18 (28.13%) CSS3
8 9 (14.06%) Hibernate
8 9 (14.06%) Node.js
9 8 (12.50%) Amazon Corretto
10 7 (10.94%) React Native
10 7 (10.94%) WebSockets
11 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (45.31%) Product Ownership
2 27 (42.19%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (12.50%) e-Learning
4 3 (4.69%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Android
2 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (76.56%) Agile
2 37 (57.81%) DevOps
2 37 (57.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 37 (57.81%) Test Automation
3 35 (54.69%) Microservices
3 35 (54.69%) Software Engineering
4 32 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 32 (50.00%) User Experience
5 31 (48.44%) CI/CD
6 29 (45.31%) SDLC
7 28 (43.75%) Containerisation
8 24 (37.50%) Clean Code
9 22 (34.38%) Mentoring
9 22 (34.38%) TDD
10 18 (28.13%) Migration
10 18 (28.13%) Responsive Web Design
10 18 (28.13%) Strategic Thinking
11 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (15.63%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 44 (68.75%) JavaScript
1 44 (68.75%) TypeScript
2 36 (56.25%) Java
3 30 (46.88%) SQL
4 3 (4.69%) Go
4 3 (4.69%) PHP
4 3 (4.69%) Python
5 2 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (1.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (45.31%) QA
2 20 (31.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (59.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.06%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (42.19%) Solace
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft