Front End Development Jobs in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 172 192
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 -114
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 31 124 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.86% 1.34% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.61% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 22 108 61
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £69,375 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,345 7,717 6,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.28% 83.38% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,918 5,560 3,511
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,213
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the South West

Front End Development
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Front End Development in the South West

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the South West

Front End Development
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bristol +28 18 £50,000 - 5
Gloucestershire +48 7 £65,000 +36.84% 4
Wiltshire - 4 £62,500 - 2
Devon +16 1 £62,500 +108.33% 8
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 8 (25.81%) WordPress
2 6 (19.35%) Confluence
3 1 (3.23%) Drupal
3 1 (3.23%) Joomla!
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.23%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) AWS
3 7 (22.58%) Stripe
4 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.23%) Figma
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (12.90%) Redis
2 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (61.29%) Git
2 6 (19.35%) JIRA
3 4 (12.90%) SonarQube
4 3 (9.68%) GitLab
5 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.45%) JUnit
6 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 7 (22.58%) Organisational Skills
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Tech for Good
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (90.32%) Developer
2 17 (54.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 11 (35.48%) Senior
4 10 (32.26%) Senior Developer
4 10 (32.26%) Web Developer
5 8 (25.81%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 8 (25.81%) Website Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Backend Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) PHP Developer
8 2 (6.45%) PHP Web Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Designer
9 1 (3.23%) Drupal Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Lead Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Web Designer
9 1 (3.23%) Website Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (58.06%) HTML
2 16 (51.61%) CSS
2 16 (51.61%) React
3 6 (19.35%) RESTful
4 5 (16.13%) .NET
4 5 (16.13%) GraphQL
5 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
5 4 (12.90%) Django
5 4 (12.90%) FastAPI
5 4 (12.90%) Flask
5 4 (12.90%) Keycloak
5 4 (12.90%) OAuth
5 4 (12.90%) pytest
5 4 (12.90%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (12.90%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (12.90%) WebSockets
6 3 (9.68%) .NET Framework
7 2 (6.45%) Entity Framework
7 2 (6.45%) LAMP
7 2 (6.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Learning Management System
2 4 (12.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.45%) Educational Technology
3 2 (6.45%) N-Tier
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Digital Signage
4 1 (3.23%) EPoS
4 1 (3.23%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) User Experience
2 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
2 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (32.26%) E-Commerce
3 10 (32.26%) Web Development
4 8 (25.81%) Agile
4 8 (25.81%) Containerisation
5 7 (22.58%) Change Management
5 7 (22.58%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 7 (22.58%) DevOps
5 7 (22.58%) Line Management
5 7 (22.58%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (22.58%) Project Management
5 7 (22.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 6 (19.35%) Scrum
7 5 (16.13%) UX Design
8 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Unit Testing
9 3 (9.68%) MVC
9 3 (9.68%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) JavaScript
2 11 (35.48%) PHP
3 9 (29.03%) Python
4 8 (25.81%) C#
4 8 (25.81%) SQL
4 8 (25.81%) TypeScript
5 4 (12.90%) Java
6 2 (6.45%) Julia
6 2 (6.45%) R
6 2 (6.45%) XAML
7 1 (3.23%) Go
7 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) Accessibility
2 8 (25.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) Grafana
2 4 (12.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.23%) Adobe