Front End Development Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Front End Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 214 217
Rank change year-on-year -75 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 301 343 899
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 1.30% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.42% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 280 278 787
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,546 24,116 56,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 72.54% 91.27% 84.29%
Number of salaries quoted 27,793 13,748 40,894
10th Percentile £28,640 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Front End Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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
North of England -21 127 £55,000 - 57
North West -30 57 £53,750 -2.27% 25
Yorkshire -23 53 £60,000 +4.35% 18
South East -62 50 £50,000 -25.93% 47
South West -54 37 £45,000 -30.77% 17
Midlands -84 34 £55,000 +15.79% 28
West Midlands -28 30 £55,000 -15.38% 17
East of England -41 18 £50,000 -24.48% 14
North East -28 17 £59,000 +4.42% 14
Wales -24 14 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Northern Ireland - 12 £62,500 - 3
Scotland -47 8 £65,000 +23.81% 7
East Midlands -92 4 £40,000 - 11
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
Front End Development
UK

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.65%) CMS
2 3 (1.00%) nginx
3 2 (0.66%) ColdFusion
3 2 (0.66%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) CICS
4 1 (0.33%) Drupal
4 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.33%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.66%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.66%) Sketch
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.33%) InDesign
2 1 (0.33%) InVision
2 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (2.99%) Shopify
2 4 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (14.62%) AWS
1 44 (14.62%) GitHub
2 36 (11.96%) SaaS
3 35 (11.63%) Azure
4 24 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (7.97%) Serverless
5 20 (6.64%) Figma
6 13 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.32%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.32%) GitHub Copilot
8 8 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.33%) npm
11 3 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.00%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.66%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (0.66%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (0.66%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (0.66%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) HTTP
1 2 (0.66%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.98%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.65%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.32%) MySQL
5 8 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.66%) Redis
8 4 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.66%) PostHog
11 1 (0.33%) DB2
11 1 (0.33%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 41 (13.62%) Git
2 8 (2.66%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.99%) JIRA
4 5 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.66%) Storybook
5 3 (1.00%) GitLab
6 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.66%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.33%) Gradle
7 1 (0.33%) gulp
7 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.33%) JUnit
7 1 (0.33%) Maven
7 1 (0.33%) MSTest
7 1 (0.33%) NUnit
7 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.33%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) Subversion
7 1 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 32 (10.63%) Social Skills
2 20 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (5.32%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.65%) Finance
4 11 (3.65%) Marketing
5 6 (1.99%) Retail
6 3 (1.00%) Banking
6 3 (1.00%) Games
6 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.33%) Advertising
8 1 (0.33%) Automotive
8 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.33%) Police
8 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 258 (85.71%) Developer
2 151 (50.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 59 (19.60%) Senior
4 56 (18.60%) Senior Developer
5 44 (14.62%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 29 (9.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 20 (6.64%) React Developer
8 19 (6.31%) Web Developer
9 17 (5.65%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.32%) Designer
10 13 (4.32%) Python Developer
11 12 (3.99%) UX Developer
12 11 (3.65%) Applications Developer
13 10 (3.32%) Lead
13 10 (3.32%) Software Developer
14 9 (2.99%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.99%) UX Designer
15 8 (2.66%) .NET Developer
15 8 (2.66%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
15 8 (2.66%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (40.53%) React
2 80 (26.58%) CSS
3 74 (24.58%) HTML
4 44 (14.62%) .NET
5 33 (10.96%) Vue
6 24 (7.97%) RESTful
7 23 (7.64%) Node.js
8 22 (7.31%) React Native
9 18 (5.98%) Next.js
10 17 (5.65%) Bootstrap
11 16 (5.32%) AngularJS
12 13 (4.32%) REST
13 12 (3.99%) Flask
14 11 (3.65%) Blazor
15 10 (3.32%) Django
15 10 (3.32%) Spring
15 10 (3.32%) Spring Boot
16 9 (2.99%) Jest
17 8 (2.66%) Material Design
17 8 (2.66%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.64%) Mobile App
2 19 (6.31%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.32%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.32%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.33%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.33%) Social Media
10 3 (1.00%) PKI
11 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.66%) NHS
11 2 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.33%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.33%) IoT
12 1 (0.33%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (25.91%) Agile
2 57 (18.94%) CI/CD
3 56 (18.60%) User Experience
4 48 (15.95%) DevOps
5 47 (15.61%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (13.29%) Web Development
7 37 (12.29%) Clean Code
8 33 (10.96%) AI
9 32 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (9.97%) UX Design
11 28 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (9.30%) Mentoring
11 28 (9.30%) Wireframes
12 26 (8.64%) Software Engineering
13 25 (8.31%) API Integration
13 25 (8.31%) Design Patterns
14 23 (7.64%) CRM
14 23 (7.64%) Unit Testing
15 20 (6.64%) B2B
15 20 (6.64%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 108 (35.88%) JavaScript
2 58 (19.27%) TypeScript
3 49 (16.28%) SQL
4 32 (10.63%) Python
5 31 (10.30%) C#
6 23 (7.64%) Java
7 13 (4.32%) PHP
8 4 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.33%) Dart
9 1 (0.33%) Go
9 1 (0.33%) R
9 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (4.32%) Security Cleared
2 10 (3.32%) Degree
2 10 (3.32%) SC Cleared
3 6 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.33%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.96%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.32%) WCAG
3 3 (1.00%) QA
4 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (10.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.32%) Terraform
3 2 (0.66%) Grafana
4 1 (0.33%) Plesk
Vendors
1 5 (1.66%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.33%) Oracle
3 3 (1.00%) Adobe
3 3 (1.00%) Guidewire
4 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
4 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.33%) Google
5 1 (0.33%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.33%) Pega
5 1 (0.33%) Zend