Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs in the South East

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

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in the South East is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 392 371
Rank change year-on-year +91 -21 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 6 5 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.063% 0.029% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.031% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 22
10th Percentile £53,250 - £50,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £72,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £66,875 £78,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £79,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,226 16,296 12,776
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.07% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,393 11,638 8,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the South East

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the South East

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
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 Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 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
Middlesex - 3 - -
Thames Valley +64 2 £63,750 -15.00% 25
Oxfordshire - 2 £63,750 - 5
Hampshire - 1 £55,000 - 5
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 South East region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (83.33%) User Experience
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) React
3 4 (66.67%) Jest
3 4 (66.67%) Next.js
3 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (66.67%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Git
4 3 (50.00%) UX Design
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (50.00%) Law
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (50.00%) Enzyme
4 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (50.00%) webpack
4 3 (50.00%) Vite
4 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
5 2 (33.33%) LLM
5 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
5 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Figma
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Vite
1 3 (50.00%) webpack
2 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) Babel
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) MSTest
3 1 (16.67%) NUnit
3 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (50.00%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) React
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) Jest
2 4 (66.67%) Next.js
3 3 (50.00%) Enzyme
4 2 (33.33%) CSS3
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) Node.js
4 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
4 2 (33.33%) Parceljs
4 2 (33.33%) Svelte
4 2 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (33.33%) Vue
4 2 (33.33%) WebAssembly
5 1 (16.67%) Material-UI
5 1 (16.67%) MobX
5 1 (16.67%) Playwright
5 1 (16.67%) Reactive Extensions
5 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Credit Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Equities
2 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) User Experience
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (50.00%) UX Design
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Jamstack
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Micro Frontends
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes