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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 127 157
Rank change year-on-year +30 +30 -68
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 73 96 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.22% 1.84% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 2.13% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 45 85 61
10th Percentile £42,350 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,772 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,500 £82,000 £73,750
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% +2.27%

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 2,160 4,498 4,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.32% 86.33% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 3,431 2,489
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,000 £32,773
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,500 £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 16 May 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 16 May 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
Stockport - 8 £55,000 -
Altrincham +4 7 £65,000 +36.84% 7
Bolton -12 4 £42,500 +4.94% 5
Salford +15 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Wigan - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 5
Rochdale - 1 £57,500 -
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 9 (12.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Strapi
3 1 (1.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 46 (63.01%) AWS
2 34 (46.58%) Azure
3 9 (12.33%) GCP
3 9 (12.33%) Serverless
4 7 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (5.48%) CloudFront
6 2 (2.74%) SaaS
7 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.37%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.37%) Cloudflare Workers
7 1 (1.37%) Datadog
7 1 (1.37%) Figma
7 1 (1.37%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (38.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.48%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.37%) MySQL
4 1 (1.37%) Power BI
4 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (39.73%) Cucumber
2 27 (36.99%) Bitbucket
2 27 (36.99%) GitLab
2 27 (36.99%) JIRA
2 27 (36.99%) Maven
2 27 (36.99%) Selenium
2 27 (36.99%) SonarQube
2 27 (36.99%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (8.22%) Jasmine
4 5 (6.85%) Babel
4 5 (6.85%) Git
4 5 (6.85%) Karma Test Runner
4 5 (6.85%) webpack
5 3 (4.11%) Storybook
General
1 32 (43.84%) Finance
2 27 (36.99%) Banking
2 27 (36.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (24.66%) Corporate Banking
3 18 (24.66%) Investment Banking
3 18 (24.66%) Retail
4 9 (12.33%) Social Skills
5 7 (9.59%) Games
6 2 (2.74%) Law
6 2 (2.74%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.37%) Marketing
7 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Developer
2 32 (43.84%) Software Engineer
3 21 (28.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 13 (17.81%) Senior
5 8 (10.96%) React Developer
5 8 (10.96%) Senior Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Lead
7 6 (8.22%) HTML CSS Developer
7 6 (8.22%) HTML Developer
7 6 (8.22%) JavaScript Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (4.11%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 1 (1.37%) Senior UI/UX Designer
11 1 (1.37%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (78.08%) React
2 54 (73.97%) CSS
3 52 (71.23%) HTML
4 36 (49.32%) Redux
5 29 (39.73%) REST
6 27 (36.99%) HTML5
6 27 (36.99%) JPA
6 27 (36.99%) Kafka
6 27 (36.99%) Spring
6 27 (36.99%) Spring Boot
7 26 (35.62%) RESTful
8 24 (32.88%) Sass
9 23 (31.51%) Jest
10 18 (24.66%) CSS3
11 9 (12.33%) AngularJS
11 9 (12.33%) Hibernate
12 8 (10.96%) .NET
13 6 (8.22%) GraphQL
13 6 (8.22%) Node.js
14 4 (5.48%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (38.36%) Product Ownership
2 27 (36.99%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.48%) Sports Betting
4 3 (4.11%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.74%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.37%) IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.37%) Life Science
6 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.37%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Android
1 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (68.49%) Agile
2 41 (56.16%) Software Engineering
3 35 (47.95%) DevOps
3 35 (47.95%) Microservices
4 33 (45.21%) Test Automation
5 32 (43.84%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (43.84%) User Experience
6 31 (42.47%) CI/CD
6 31 (42.47%) Performance Optimisation
7 29 (39.73%) SDLC
8 28 (38.36%) Containerisation
9 22 (30.14%) TDD
10 21 (28.77%) Mentoring
11 20 (27.40%) Responsive Web Design
12 19 (26.03%) Migration
13 18 (24.66%) Strategic Thinking
14 16 (21.92%) Clean Code
15 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (15.07%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 58 (79.45%) JavaScript
2 44 (60.27%) TypeScript
3 30 (41.10%) Java
4 28 (38.36%) SQL
5 4 (5.48%) Python
6 3 (4.11%) PHP
7 2 (2.74%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (38.36%) QA
2 21 (28.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (45.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (43.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) Terraform
3 1 (1.37%) Grafana
3 1 (1.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (36.99%) Solace
2 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.74%) Adobe
4 1 (1.37%) Google