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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 221 235
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 -129
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 559 934 870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.40% 1.31% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.56% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 251 767 552
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,085
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,625 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £81,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 37,041 59,787 56,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.90% 83.60% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,101 41,279 29,105
10th Percentile £26,875 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £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 18 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 18 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 -7 196 £57,500 +9.52% 178
North West -4 169 £57,500 - 105
Midlands +46 139 £46,250 +8.82% 60
East Midlands +53 80 £40,000 -3.03% 28
South East +9 77 £67,500 +12.50% 171
Scotland +55 76 £52,500 - 24
West Midlands +9 59 £62,500 +31.58% 30
East of England +26 40 £66,212 +0.90% 30
South West +22 31 £61,250 +22.50% 36
North East +28 16 £56,500 +7.62% 35
Yorkshire -5 11 £56,250 +25.00% 42
Wales +25 9 £65,000 -7.14% 7
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
1 163 (29.16%) Confluence
2 25 (4.47%) WordPress
3 19 (3.40%) CMS
4 7 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.89%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.72%) Strapi
7 2 (0.36%) Drupal
8 1 (0.18%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (2.15%) Adobe XD
2 10 (1.79%) Sketch
3 7 (1.25%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.36%) Notion
5 2 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.18%) InVision
6 1 (0.18%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 22 (3.94%) Shopify
2 10 (1.79%) Magento
3 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 319 (57.07%) Azure
2 316 (56.53%) AWS
3 164 (29.34%) GCP
4 29 (5.19%) Serverless
5 23 (4.11%) Figma
5 23 (4.11%) GitHub
6 18 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (3.04%) SaaS
8 11 (1.97%) Power Platform
8 11 (1.97%) Slack
8 11 (1.97%) Zapier
9 10 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.43%) Stripe
11 7 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.25%) npm
12 6 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.07%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.36%) Broadband
1 2 (0.36%) Internet
2 1 (0.18%) MQTT
2 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.18%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 28 (5.01%) MySQL
3 18 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.04%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.68%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.79%) DynamoDB
8 9 (1.61%) Power BI
9 6 (1.07%) Redis
9 6 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.36%) Big Data
11 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.36%) GIS
11 2 (0.36%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 265 (47.41%) JIRA
2 255 (45.62%) GitLab
3 252 (45.08%) Selenium
4 251 (44.90%) Bitbucket
5 250 (44.72%) SonarQube
6 249 (44.54%) Cucumber
6 249 (44.54%) Maven
7 246 (44.01%) Sonatype Nexus
8 85 (15.21%) Git
9 26 (4.65%) webpack
10 19 (3.40%) Babel
11 10 (1.79%) Mocha
12 9 (1.61%) Cypress.io
13 8 (1.43%) Jasmine
13 8 (1.43%) rollup.js
14 7 (1.25%) JUnit
14 7 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
15 6 (1.07%) Vite
16 5 (0.89%) Storybook
17 4 (0.72%) Jenkins
General
1 279 (49.91%) Finance
2 263 (47.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 251 (44.90%) Banking
4 107 (19.14%) Retail
5 90 (16.10%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (16.10%) Investment Banking
6 60 (10.73%) Social Skills
7 27 (4.83%) Law
8 15 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.79%) Games
11 9 (1.61%) Marketing
12 7 (1.25%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.89%) Advertising
13 5 (0.89%) Automotive
14 4 (0.72%) Legal
14 4 (0.72%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 267 (47.76%) Software Engineer
2 243 (43.47%) Developer
3 120 (21.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 82 (14.67%) Senior
5 64 (11.45%) Senior Developer
6 34 (6.08%) React Developer
7 31 (5.55%) Lead
8 27 (4.83%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 25 (4.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (4.11%) Web Developer
11 19 (3.40%) Java Developer
11 19 (3.40%) Lead Developer
12 16 (2.86%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
12 16 (2.86%) Software Developer
13 15 (2.68%) JavaScript Developer
13 15 (2.68%) PHP Developer
14 14 (2.50%) Designer
15 10 (1.79%) Senior Software Engineer
16 9 (1.61%) UI Designer
16 9 (1.61%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 428 (76.57%) React
2 402 (71.91%) CSS
2 402 (71.91%) HTML
3 274 (49.02%) Redux
4 254 (45.44%) Spring
4 254 (45.44%) Spring Boot
5 251 (44.90%) Kafka
6 249 (44.54%) JPA
7 159 (28.44%) Hibernate
8 132 (23.61%) RESTful
9 129 (23.08%) REST
10 127 (22.72%) Jest
11 126 (22.54%) HTML5
12 109 (19.50%) CSS3
13 104 (18.60%) Sass
14 54 (9.66%) .NET
15 49 (8.77%) AngularJS
16 38 (6.80%) Node.js
17 30 (5.37%) Vue
18 23 (4.11%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 252 (45.08%) Product Ownership
2 247 (44.19%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 11 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.43%) Learning Management System
8 8 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.25%) EPoS
10 5 (0.89%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.72%) Animation
11 4 (0.72%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.72%) Educational Technology
11 4 (0.72%) Sports Betting
12 3 (0.54%) e-Learning
12 3 (0.54%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.54%) Video Editing
13 2 (0.36%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.15%) Android
2 9 (1.61%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.61%) Linux
3 4 (0.72%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (64.94%) Agile
2 313 (55.99%) DevOps
3 307 (54.92%) Software Engineering
4 303 (54.20%) Full-Stack Development
5 301 (53.85%) CI/CD
6 292 (52.24%) Microservices
7 270 (48.30%) Containerisation
7 270 (48.30%) Test Automation
8 268 (47.94%) SDLC
9 265 (47.41%) Performance Optimisation
10 208 (37.21%) User Experience
11 180 (32.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 178 (31.84%) Clean Code
13 170 (30.41%) TDD
14 123 (22.00%) Mentoring
15 116 (20.75%) Responsive Web Design
16 95 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
17 93 (16.64%) Migration
18 90 (16.10%) Strategic Thinking
19 71 (12.70%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 441 (78.89%) JavaScript
2 290 (51.88%) Java
2 290 (51.88%) SQL
3 222 (39.71%) TypeScript
4 62 (11.09%) C#
5 52 (9.30%) PHP
6 45 (8.05%) Python
7 7 (1.25%) C++
8 6 (1.07%) Delphi
9 5 (0.89%) Bicep
9 5 (0.89%) Go
9 5 (0.89%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.54%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.36%) Julia
11 2 (0.36%) R
11 2 (0.36%) Rust
11 2 (0.36%) XAML
12 1 (0.18%) C
12 1 (0.18%) Elixir
12 1 (0.18%) PureScript
Qualifications
1 79 (14.13%) Degree
2 36 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 9 (1.61%) SC Cleared
5 5 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.72%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (47.76%) QA
2 117 (20.93%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.33%) WCAG
4 6 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.89%) GDPR
6 2 (0.36%) CDISC
7 1 (0.18%) COBIT
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 294 (52.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 286 (51.16%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.61%) Grafana
3 5 (0.89%) Terraform
4 4 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.36%) Marathon
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 246 (44.01%) Solace
2 29 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.58%) Adobe
4 13 (2.33%) WooCommerce
5 7 (1.25%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.07%) ANSYS
6 6 (1.07%) PayPal
7 3 (0.54%) Apple
7 3 (0.54%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.54%) Google
7 3 (0.54%) Oracle
7 3 (0.54%) Splunk
8 2 (0.36%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.18%) Databricks
9 1 (0.18%) Dell
9 1 (0.18%) Facebook
9 1 (0.18%) Mapbox
9 1 (0.18%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.18%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.18%) Spotify