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

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

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in the South West is £85,253 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 280 256
Rank change year-on-year +109 -24 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 7 19 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 8
10th Percentile £71,000 £46,000 -
25th Percentile £75,864 £52,313 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.59% - +27.19%
75th Percentile £93,778 £74,688 £77,188
90th Percentile - £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,342 8,889 6,189
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 96.21% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,039 6,488 3,847
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,850
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 South 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 South West.

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

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

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

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

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

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
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 Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 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 +60 6 £85,253 +13.67% 1
Devon - 1 £65,000 -
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 West

For the 6 months to 7 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 West region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Cucumber
2 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Jest
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
3 5 (71.43%) Web Services
3 5 (71.43%) Micro Frontends
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
3 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (71.43%) Change Management
3 5 (71.43%) Git
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 5 (71.43%) RESTful
3 5 (71.43%) Cypress.io
3 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) AngularJS
3 5 (71.43%) Node.js
3 5 (71.43%) webpack
3 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
3 5 (71.43%) API Design

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

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 5 (71.43%) npm
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Cucumber
2 5 (71.43%) Cypress.io
2 5 (71.43%) Git
2 5 (71.43%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (71.43%) webpack
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 6 (85.71%) Jest
3 5 (71.43%) AngularJS
3 5 (71.43%) Node.js
3 5 (71.43%) RESTful
3 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
3 5 (71.43%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) CSS3
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) HTML5
5 1 (14.29%) Next.js
5 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) API Design
3 5 (71.43%) Change Management
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (71.43%) Micro Frontends
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Release Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes