Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs in Manchester

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

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in Manchester is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 207 232
Rank change year-on-year +83 +25 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 20 15 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.93% 0.29% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.31% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 3
10th Percentile £50,750 £57,000 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +44.44%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,500 -
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +44.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,928 4,846 4,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.61% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 3,745 2,665
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in Manchester

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in Manchester.

Salary trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in Manchester

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in Manchester

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 19 (95.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (90.00%) TypeScript
3 17 (85.00%) React
4 11 (55.00%) CSS
4 11 (55.00%) AWS
5 10 (50.00%) HTML
5 10 (50.00%) Agile
6 8 (40.00%) User Experience
7 7 (35.00%) Accessibility
7 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (30.00%) Redux
9 5 (25.00%) Storybook
9 5 (25.00%) React Native
9 5 (25.00%) Front End Development
9 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
9 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 5 (25.00%) UX Design
9 5 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (25.00%) Node.js
9 5 (25.00%) SaaS
9 5 (25.00%) AngularJS
9 5 (25.00%) Scrum
10 4 (20.00%) Web Development
10 4 (20.00%) Degree
10 4 (20.00%) .NET
10 4 (20.00%) Law
10 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
10 4 (20.00%) RESTful
10 4 (20.00%) GraphQL

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
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 1 (5.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare Workers
4 1 (5.00%) Datadog
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (15.00%) Redis
3 2 (10.00%) Hazelcast
3 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Storybook
2 3 (15.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) MSTest
3 2 (10.00%) NUnit
3 2 (10.00%) SpecFlow
3 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.00%) Jasmine
4 1 (5.00%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 4 (20.00%) Law
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Front Office
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Tech for Good
4 1 (5.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (85.00%) React
2 11 (55.00%) CSS
3 10 (50.00%) HTML
4 6 (30.00%) Redux
5 5 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (25.00%) Node.js
5 5 (25.00%) React Native
6 4 (20.00%) .NET
6 4 (20.00%) GraphQL
6 4 (20.00%) Next.js
6 4 (20.00%) RESTful
7 3 (15.00%) NestJS
7 3 (15.00%) RxJS
8 2 (10.00%) Electron
8 2 (10.00%) Jest
8 2 (10.00%) JSON
8 2 (10.00%) LESS
8 2 (10.00%) NgRx
8 2 (10.00%) REST
8 2 (10.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Credit Derivative
2 2 (10.00%) Derivative
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Equities
2 2 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (10.00%) IoT
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Code
2 2 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) User Experience
3 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (25.00%) Scrum
4 5 (25.00%) UX Design
4 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 4 (20.00%) Web Development
6 3 (15.00%) Asynchronous Programming
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Micro Frontends
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (15.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (15.00%) TDD
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (90.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
1 2 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) logstash
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Optimizely