Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs in the North West

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

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in the North West is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 268 298
Rank change year-on-year +6 +30 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 18 17 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.23% 0.17% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.18% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 15 17 3
10th Percentile £50,500 £48,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +44.44%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,500 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 7,072 9,270 7,060
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 94.66% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,060 7,118 4,113
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,385 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the North West

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the North West

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the North West over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the North West

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
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 Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 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 +59 18 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 North West region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 17 (94.44%) JavaScript
1 17 (94.44%) TypeScript
2 15 (83.33%) React
3 11 (61.11%) CSS
4 10 (55.56%) HTML
5 9 (50.00%) Agile
5 9 (50.00%) AWS
6 8 (44.44%) User Experience
7 7 (38.89%) Accessibility
8 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
9 5 (27.78%) UX Design
9 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
9 5 (27.78%) React Native
9 5 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
10 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
10 4 (22.22%) Storybook
10 4 (22.22%) Redux
10 4 (22.22%) Next.js
10 4 (22.22%) SaaS
10 4 (22.22%) RESTful
10 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
10 4 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (22.22%) Node.js
10 4 (22.22%) Web Development
10 4 (22.22%) Degree
10 4 (22.22%) .NET
10 4 (22.22%) Scrum
11 3 (16.67%) Finance
11 3 (16.67%) Law

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
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 1 (5.56%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) SaaS
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
4 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare Workers
4 1 (5.56%) Datadog
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 3 (16.67%) Redis
2 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.11%) Hazelcast
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Storybook
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.11%) MSTest
3 2 (11.11%) NUnit
3 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
3 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.56%) Jasmine
4 1 (5.56%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
1 3 (16.67%) Law
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Front Office
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Tech for Good
3 1 (5.56%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) React
2 11 (61.11%) CSS
3 10 (55.56%) HTML
4 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
4 5 (27.78%) React Native
5 4 (22.22%) .NET
5 4 (22.22%) Next.js
5 4 (22.22%) Node.js
5 4 (22.22%) Redux
5 4 (22.22%) RESTful
6 3 (16.67%) GraphQL
6 3 (16.67%) RxJS
7 2 (11.11%) CSS3
7 2 (11.11%) Highcharts JS
7 2 (11.11%) HTML5
7 2 (11.11%) JSON
7 2 (11.11%) LESS
7 2 (11.11%) Reactive Extensions
7 2 (11.11%) REST
7 2 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Credit Derivative
2 2 (11.11%) Derivative
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.11%) Equities
2 2 (11.11%) Fixed Income
2 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (11.11%) IoT
2 2 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.56%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) User Experience
3 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (27.78%) UX Design
5 4 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
5 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 4 (22.22%) Scrum
5 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 4 (22.22%) Web Development
6 3 (16.67%) Asynchronous Programming
6 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (16.67%) Micro Frontends
6 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) JavaScript
1 17 (94.44%) TypeScript
2 3 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Grafana
1 2 (11.11%) Kibana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) logstash
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Optimizely