Front End Development Jobs in the South East

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 233 195
Rank change year-on-year -7 -38 -81
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 67 167 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.71% 0.96% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.15% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 45 150 177
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,375 £39,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the South East

Front End Development
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the South East.

Salary trend for Front End Development in the South East

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the South East

Front End Development
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Thames Valley +2 21 £65,000 +8.33% 260
Surrey +44 14 £61,645 +7.21% 69
Oxfordshire +30 13 £63,750 +10.87% 41
Hampshire +42 12 £55,000 -8.33% 95
East Sussex +30 7 £82,500 +1.54% 40
Middlesex - 7 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +31 4 - - 61
Kent +25 4 £37,500 -42.31% 72
Berkshire -6 4 £77,500 +10.71% 159
Sussex - 2 £77,500 - 2
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (13.43%) Confluence
2 5 (7.46%) CMS
2 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.97%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.99%) Drupal
4 2 (2.99%) IIS
4 2 (2.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.49%) InVision
2 1 (1.49%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.78%) Azure
2 13 (19.40%) AWS
3 11 (16.42%) GCP
4 8 (11.94%) Figma
4 8 (11.94%) Serverless
5 7 (10.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.46%) Azure App Service
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Functions
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (7.46%) PaaS
8 4 (5.97%) GitHub
9 3 (4.48%) npm
10 2 (2.99%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.99%) Firebase
10 2 (2.99%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.49%) Cloudflare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.42%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.96%) Power BI
2 6 (8.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.99%) Big Data
4 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (26.87%) Git
2 11 (16.42%) Bitbucket
2 11 (16.42%) JIRA
3 10 (14.93%) Selenium
4 8 (11.94%) Cucumber
4 8 (11.94%) GitLab
4 8 (11.94%) Maven
4 8 (11.94%) SonarQube
4 8 (11.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (10.45%) rollup.js
6 5 (7.46%) Vite
7 4 (5.97%) Babel
7 4 (5.97%) webpack
8 3 (4.48%) Mocha
8 3 (4.48%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.99%) git-flow
9 2 (2.99%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (2.99%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (23.88%) Finance
2 10 (14.93%) Banking
3 8 (11.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.45%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.99%) Advertising
6 2 (2.99%) Back Office
6 2 (2.99%) Law
6 2 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.49%) Automotive
7 1 (1.49%) Front Office
7 1 (1.49%) Games
7 1 (1.49%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.49%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (64.18%) Developer
2 23 (34.33%) Senior
3 21 (31.34%) Senior Developer
4 15 (22.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 13 (19.40%) Software Engineer
6 12 (17.91%) Lead
7 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (10.45%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (8.96%) Lead Developer
9 6 (8.96%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (7.46%) React Developer
10 5 (7.46%) Senior React Developer
11 3 (4.48%) CMS Developer
11 3 (4.48%) Designer
11 3 (4.48%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 3 (4.48%) Java Developer
11 3 (4.48%) Senior Java Developer
12 2 (2.99%) .NET Developer
12 2 (2.99%) C# Software Engineer
12 2 (2.99%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (65.67%) React
2 40 (59.70%) CSS
2 40 (59.70%) HTML
3 18 (26.87%) Redux
4 17 (25.37%) .NET
5 13 (19.40%) Jest
6 11 (16.42%) .NET Framework
6 11 (16.42%) Kafka
6 11 (16.42%) Spring Boot
7 8 (11.94%) Hibernate
7 8 (11.94%) HTML5
7 8 (11.94%) JPA
7 8 (11.94%) React Native
7 8 (11.94%) REST
7 8 (11.94%) Spring
8 7 (10.45%) CSS3
9 6 (8.96%) .NET Core
9 6 (8.96%) Node.js
9 6 (8.96%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (7.46%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.94%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Cybercrime
5 1 (1.49%) Animation
5 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Android
1 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.99%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) DevOps
2 26 (38.81%) User Experience
3 25 (37.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (32.84%) Software Engineering
5 21 (31.34%) Agile
6 20 (29.85%) UX Design
7 18 (26.87%) Microservices
7 18 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (25.37%) CI/CD
9 15 (22.39%) Test Automation
10 14 (20.90%) Artificial Intelligence
10 14 (20.90%) Computer Science
10 14 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (17.91%) Clean Code
12 11 (16.42%) Containerisation
13 9 (13.43%) E-Commerce
13 9 (13.43%) Mentoring
14 8 (11.94%) Data Protection
14 8 (11.94%) SDLC
14 8 (11.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (68.66%) JavaScript
2 31 (46.27%) TypeScript
3 23 (34.33%) SQL
4 21 (31.34%) C#
5 13 (19.40%) Java
6 7 (10.45%) Python
7 5 (7.46%) Bicep
8 3 (4.48%) PHP
9 2 (2.99%) Go
9 2 (2.99%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (35.82%) Degree
2 12 (17.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) QA
2 8 (11.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) WCAG
4 1 (1.49%) CDISC
System Software
1 15 (22.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (22.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) Solace
2 3 (4.48%) Adobe
2 3 (4.48%) Apple
3 1 (1.49%) Databricks
3 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.49%) Rollbar
3 1 (1.49%) Spotify