Front End Development Jobs in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 153 173
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -51
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 169 154 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.10% 1.55% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.88% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 55 131 91
10th Percentile £42,250 £30,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,000 £76,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,729 8,213 7,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.82% 82.46% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,007 6,229 3,873
10th Percentile £26,092 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the North West

Front End Development
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the North West.

Salary trend for Front End Development in the North West

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the North West over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the North West

Front End Development
Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Manchester +25 73 £57,500 -4.17% 76
Cheshire +46 61 £63,750 +41.67% 18
Lancashire -80 20 £40,750 +16.43% 25
Merseyside +32 15 £56,250 -2.17% 8
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 39 (23.08%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Strapi
3 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Magento
1 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 132 (78.11%) AWS
2 121 (71.60%) Azure
3 39 (23.08%) GCP
4 9 (5.33%) Serverless
5 7 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.37%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (2.37%) CloudFront
7 3 (1.78%) SaaS
8 2 (1.18%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.18%) Figma
8 2 (1.18%) npm
9 1 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.59%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.59%) Datadog
9 1 (0.59%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.59%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.59%) Stripe
9 1 (0.59%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (65.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.37%) DynamoDB
2 4 (2.37%) MySQL
3 3 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.59%) Power BI
5 1 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 112 (66.27%) GitLab
2 111 (65.68%) Cucumber
3 110 (65.09%) Bitbucket
3 110 (65.09%) JIRA
4 109 (64.50%) Maven
4 109 (64.50%) Selenium
4 109 (64.50%) SonarQube
4 109 (64.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (6.51%) webpack
6 10 (5.92%) Babel
7 9 (5.33%) Git
8 6 (3.55%) Jasmine
9 5 (2.96%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (2.37%) Storybook
11 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.59%) ESLint
General
1 115 (68.05%) Finance
2 109 (64.50%) Banking
2 109 (64.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 70 (41.42%) Corporate Banking
3 70 (41.42%) Investment Banking
3 70 (41.42%) Retail
4 10 (5.92%) Social Skills
5 8 (4.73%) Games
6 6 (3.55%) Law
7 2 (1.18%) Legal
8 1 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.59%) Automotive
8 1 (0.59%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.59%) Marketing
8 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (67.46%) Software Engineer
2 45 (26.63%) Developer
3 24 (14.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 16 (9.47%) Senior
5 14 (8.28%) React Developer
6 11 (6.51%) JavaScript Developer
7 10 (5.92%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.73%) Lead
9 7 (4.14%) HTML CSS Developer
9 7 (4.14%) HTML Developer
10 6 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (2.37%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 4 (2.37%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 3 (1.78%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 3 (1.78%) Java Developer
12 3 (1.78%) Lead Developer
12 3 (1.78%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (1.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 2 (1.18%) PHP Developer
13 2 (1.18%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (86.98%) React
2 145 (85.80%) CSS
3 143 (84.62%) HTML
4 120 (71.01%) Redux
5 109 (64.50%) JPA
5 109 (64.50%) Kafka
5 109 (64.50%) Spring
5 109 (64.50%) Spring Boot
6 86 (50.89%) REST
7 83 (49.11%) HTML5
8 82 (48.52%) RESTful
9 76 (44.97%) Jest
9 76 (44.97%) Sass
10 70 (41.42%) CSS3
11 39 (23.08%) Hibernate
12 14 (8.28%) .NET
13 10 (5.92%) Node.js
14 9 (5.33%) AngularJS
15 6 (3.55%) GraphQL
15 6 (3.55%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 111 (65.68%) Product Ownership
2 109 (64.50%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.37%) Sports Betting
4 3 (1.78%) e-Learning
4 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.18%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.59%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.59%) IoT
6 1 (0.59%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.59%) Life Science
6 1 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.59%) Tandem
6 1 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.18%) Android
1 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (84.02%) Agile
2 123 (72.78%) Software Engineering
3 118 (69.82%) DevOps
3 118 (69.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 118 (69.82%) Microservices
4 117 (69.23%) CI/CD
5 115 (68.05%) Test Automation
6 114 (67.46%) Performance Optimisation
7 111 (65.68%) SDLC
8 110 (65.09%) Containerisation
9 94 (55.62%) User Experience
10 73 (43.20%) Mentoring
10 73 (43.20%) Responsive Web Design
11 71 (42.01%) Migration
12 70 (41.42%) Strategic Thinking
13 52 (30.77%) TDD
14 48 (28.40%) Clean Code
15 45 (26.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
17 12 (7.10%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 153 (90.53%) JavaScript
2 112 (66.27%) Java
3 110 (65.09%) SQL
4 102 (60.36%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.96%) PHP
6 4 (2.37%) Python
7 3 (1.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (4.14%) Degree
2 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (65.68%) QA
2 73 (43.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 119 (70.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 114 (67.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.37%) Terraform
3 2 (1.18%) Grafana
4 1 (0.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 109 (64.50%) Solace
2 11 (6.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.78%) Adobe
4 2 (1.18%) Google