Front End Development Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 218 242
Rank change year-on-year -3 +24 -138
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 517 947 858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.33% 1.28% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.55% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 221 772 535
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £37,223
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £58,800 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.54% -9.54% +4.00%

All Process and 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 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

Front End Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Front End Development in the UK excluding London

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
North of England -9 184 £60,000 +20.00% 606
North West -1 164 £60,000 +9.09% 297
Midlands +41 135 £46,250 +8.82% 490
East Midlands +62 78 £40,000 - 201
South East +2 70 £60,000 - 724
Scotland +59 69 £57,500 +9.52% 99
West Midlands +8 57 £60,000 +29.73% 261
East of England +24 35 £66,212 +0.90% 368
South West +20 26 £61,250 +22.50% 303
North East +32 12 £56,500 +7.62% 83
Yorkshire -18 8 £47,500 +5.56% 231
Wales +30 5 £65,000 -7.14% 64
Front End Development
UK

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 161 (31.14%) Confluence
2 23 (4.45%) WordPress
3 21 (4.06%) CMS
4 7 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.77%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.77%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.58%) Drupal
6 3 (0.58%) Strapi
7 2 (0.39%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Joomla!
Applications
1 8 (1.55%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 6 (1.16%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.97%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) InVision
4 1 (0.19%) Moqups
4 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (4.06%) Shopify
2 10 (1.93%) Magento
3 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 313 (60.54%) Azure
2 309 (59.77%) AWS
3 165 (31.91%) GCP
4 28 (5.42%) Serverless
5 20 (3.87%) GitHub
6 17 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (3.09%) Figma
8 15 (2.90%) SaaS
9 10 (1.93%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.74%) BigCommerce
10 9 (1.74%) Slack
10 9 (1.74%) Zapier
11 8 (1.55%) Stripe
12 7 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.16%) npm
14 5 (0.97%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) Broadband
1 1 (0.19%) Internet
1 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.19%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (50.29%) SQL Server
2 27 (5.22%) MySQL
3 17 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.51%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.74%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.74%) Power BI
7 8 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.97%) Redis
10 3 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.58%) Big Data
10 3 (0.58%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.19%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 265 (51.26%) JIRA
2 254 (49.13%) GitLab
3 252 (48.74%) Bitbucket
4 251 (48.55%) Maven
5 250 (48.36%) Selenium
6 249 (48.16%) Cucumber
6 249 (48.16%) SonarQube
7 246 (47.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 77 (14.89%) Git
9 19 (3.68%) webpack
10 13 (2.51%) Babel
11 8 (1.55%) Mocha
11 8 (1.55%) Vite
12 7 (1.35%) Jasmine
12 7 (1.35%) rollup.js
13 6 (1.16%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.16%) JUnit
13 6 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
14 5 (0.97%) Jenkins
14 5 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 282 (54.55%) Finance
2 258 (49.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 250 (48.36%) Banking
4 106 (20.50%) Retail
5 90 (17.41%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (17.41%) Investment Banking
6 57 (11.03%) Social Skills
7 26 (5.03%) Law
8 18 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.32%) Games
11 7 (1.35%) Advertising
12 6 (1.16%) Automotive
13 5 (0.97%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.77%) Marketing
15 3 (0.58%) Electronics
15 3 (0.58%) Legal
15 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 265 (51.26%) Software Engineer
2 219 (42.36%) Developer
3 102 (19.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 68 (13.15%) Senior
5 57 (11.03%) Senior Developer
6 32 (6.19%) Lead
7 31 (6.00%) React Developer
8 27 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (4.45%) Java Developer
10 21 (4.06%) Lead Developer
10 21 (4.06%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 18 (3.48%) Software Developer
12 16 (3.09%) PHP Developer
13 15 (2.90%) JavaScript Developer
13 15 (2.90%) Web Developer
14 11 (2.13%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (2.13%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (1.74%) Designer
15 9 (1.74%) PHP Symfony Developer
15 9 (1.74%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (76.79%) React
2 385 (74.47%) HTML
3 378 (73.11%) CSS
4 268 (51.84%) Redux
5 257 (49.71%) Spring Boot
6 255 (49.32%) Spring
7 252 (48.74%) Kafka
8 249 (48.16%) JPA
9 159 (30.75%) Hibernate
10 123 (23.79%) REST
11 122 (23.60%) RESTful
12 120 (23.21%) Jest
13 118 (22.82%) HTML5
14 104 (20.12%) CSS3
14 104 (20.12%) Sass
15 48 (9.28%) .NET
16 38 (7.35%) AngularJS
17 36 (6.96%) Node.js
18 23 (4.45%) Tailwind CSS
19 21 (4.06%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 250 (48.36%) Product Ownership
2 247 (47.78%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 9 (1.74%) EPoS
4 9 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.55%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.35%) Learning Management System
7 5 (0.97%) e-Learning
7 5 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.77%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.77%) Animation
8 4 (0.77%) Sports Betting
9 3 (0.58%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.58%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.58%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.58%) Video Editing
10 2 (0.39%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.39%) IoT
10 2 (0.39%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.13%) Android
2 9 (1.74%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.35%) Linux
4 4 (0.77%) Windows
5 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (68.28%) Agile
2 306 (59.19%) DevOps
3 302 (58.41%) Software Engineering
4 298 (57.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 296 (57.25%) CI/CD
6 283 (54.74%) Microservices
7 276 (53.38%) Test Automation
8 268 (51.84%) SDLC
9 266 (51.45%) Containerisation
10 262 (50.68%) Performance Optimisation
11 195 (37.72%) User Experience
12 180 (34.82%) Clean Code
12 180 (34.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 174 (33.66%) TDD
14 119 (23.02%) Mentoring
15 114 (22.05%) Responsive Web Design
16 93 (17.99%) Migration
17 92 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
18 90 (17.41%) Strategic Thinking
19 60 (11.61%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 415 (80.27%) JavaScript
2 289 (55.90%) SQL
3 287 (55.51%) Java
4 190 (36.75%) TypeScript
5 58 (11.22%) C#
6 47 (9.09%) PHP
7 38 (7.35%) Python
8 8 (1.55%) Delphi
9 7 (1.35%) C++
10 5 (0.97%) Bicep
11 2 (0.39%) Go
11 2 (0.39%) Julia
11 2 (0.39%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.39%) R
11 2 (0.39%) Ruby
11 2 (0.39%) XAML
12 1 (0.19%) Elm
12 1 (0.19%) Erlang
12 1 (0.19%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 66 (12.77%) Degree
2 33 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.13%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.35%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (50.10%) QA
2 114 (22.05%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.74%) WCAG
4 6 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.97%) GDPR
6 2 (0.39%) CDISC
7 1 (0.19%) COBIT
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 290 (56.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 279 (53.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.55%) Grafana
2 8 (1.55%) Terraform
3 3 (0.58%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 246 (47.58%) Solace
2 24 (4.64%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.51%) Adobe
4 9 (1.74%) WooCommerce
5 7 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.16%) PayPal
7 5 (0.97%) Oracle
8 4 (0.77%) Google
9 3 (0.58%) Apple
9 3 (0.58%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.58%) Splunk
10 2 (0.39%) Databricks
11 1 (0.19%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.19%) Dell
11 1 (0.19%) Facebook
11 1 (0.19%) Rollbar
11 1 (0.19%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.19%) Spotify