Front End Development Jobs in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 190 78
Rank change year-on-year +17 -112 -8
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 124 81 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.34% 1.19% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.26% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 108 65 245
10th Percentile £31,750 £34,900 £37,171
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £79,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,748 6,435 7,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.55% 94.47% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 3,571 4,992
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,225 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +12 47 £50,000 -4.76% 8
Dorset +1 30 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Gloucestershire -8 24 £48,750 -25.00% 1
Somerset +17 15 £42,500 -22.73% 3
Devon -9 7 £30,000 -40.00% 3
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 17 (13.71%) WordPress
2 4 (3.23%) CMS
3 3 (2.42%) SAS
4 2 (1.61%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) JBoss
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.81%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (5.65%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Shopify
2 2 (1.61%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.77%) AWS
2 14 (11.29%) Azure
3 10 (8.06%) Figma
3 10 (8.06%) npm
3 10 (8.06%) SaaS
4 5 (4.03%) Google Analytics
5 3 (2.42%) GCP
5 3 (2.42%) GitHub
6 2 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.61%) BigCommerce
6 2 (1.61%) dbt
7 1 (0.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (4.03%) Internet
3 2 (1.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.68%) MySQL
2 10 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.23%) Redis
4 3 (2.42%) MariaDB
4 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.61%) Metabase
6 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (23.39%) Git
2 9 (7.26%) Storybook
3 6 (4.84%) Bitbucket
3 6 (4.84%) Postman
3 6 (4.84%) Subversion
3 6 (4.84%) webpack
4 4 (3.23%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.61%) Grunt
5 2 (1.61%) JIRA
6 1 (0.81%) Ant
6 1 (0.81%) Babel
6 1 (0.81%) ESLint
6 1 (0.81%) gulp
6 1 (0.81%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.81%) Selenium
6 1 (0.81%) Vite
General
1 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.48%) Finance
3 5 (4.03%) Tech for Good
4 4 (3.23%) Financial Institution
4 4 (3.23%) Games
5 3 (2.42%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Law
7 1 (0.81%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (84.68%) Developer
2 68 (54.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 49 (39.52%) Senior
4 40 (32.26%) Senior Developer
5 35 (28.23%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 19 (15.32%) React Developer
7 12 (9.68%) Software Developer
8 10 (8.06%) Full Stack Developer
8 10 (8.06%) PHP Developer
8 10 (8.06%) Senior React Developer
9 7 (5.65%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Backend Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Lead
10 6 (4.84%) Lead Developer
10 6 (4.84%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 5 (4.03%) C# Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Node.js Developer
13 3 (2.42%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (64.52%) React
2 60 (48.39%) CSS
3 55 (44.35%) HTML
4 35 (28.23%) AngularJS
5 30 (24.19%) Node.js
6 21 (16.94%) Vue
7 18 (14.52%) Sass
8 17 (13.71%) jQuery
8 17 (13.71%) Laravel
9 16 (12.90%) .NET
10 9 (7.26%) .NET Framework
10 9 (7.26%) Entity Framework
10 9 (7.26%) Express.js
10 9 (7.26%) Redux
10 9 (7.26%) REST
11 8 (6.45%) .NET Core
11 8 (6.45%) CSS3
11 8 (6.45%) GraphQL
11 8 (6.45%) HTML5
11 8 (6.45%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.68%) Mobile App
2 9 (7.26%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.84%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.23%) Animation
4 4 (3.23%) Life Science
5 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.61%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) Social Media
6 2 (1.61%) Social Network
7 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.84%) Linux
2 2 (1.61%) Android
2 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.97%) Agile
1 26 (20.97%) Full Stack Development
1 26 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (17.74%) Software Engineering
3 21 (16.94%) Computer Science
4 16 (12.90%) E-Commerce
4 16 (12.90%) User Experience
5 13 (10.48%) Mentoring
6 12 (9.68%) CI/CD
6 12 (9.68%) Visualisation
7 11 (8.87%) MVC
8 10 (8.06%) Scrum
9 9 (7.26%) Analytics
9 9 (7.26%) DevOps
10 8 (6.45%) Unit Testing
10 8 (6.45%) UX Design
11 7 (5.65%) Actionable Insight
11 7 (5.65%) Clean Code
11 7 (5.65%) Mobile Application Development
11 7 (5.65%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 80 (64.52%) JavaScript
2 43 (34.68%) TypeScript
3 29 (23.39%) PHP
4 24 (19.35%) C#
5 17 (13.71%) SQL
6 16 (12.90%) Java
7 10 (8.06%) Python
8 6 (4.84%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.42%) Rust
10 2 (1.61%) Lisp
11 1 (0.81%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (20.16%) Degree
2 11 (8.87%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.26%) Master's Degree
4 8 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.42%) WCAG
3 2 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 9 (7.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.26%) Adobe
3 5 (4.03%) Google
4 3 (2.42%) Oracle
5 2 (1.61%) Apple