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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 220 246
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 -143
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 526 953 853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 1.28% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.55% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 230 776 529
10th Percentile £36,000 £31,500 £37,031
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £43,000
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 £76,875 £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 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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 30 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 30 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 -10 187 £57,500 +15.00% 589
North West +1 166 £60,000 +9.09% 283
Midlands +60 138 £50,000 +17.65% 489
East Midlands +70 78 £40,000 -3.03% 202
South East -6 71 £57,500 -4.17% 727
Scotland +54 70 £62,500 +19.05% 95
West Midlands +13 60 £60,000 +26.32% 258
East of England +30 35 £66,212 +0.90% 378
South West +9 27 £60,000 +20.00% 300
North East +34 13 £56,500 +7.62% 79
Yorkshire -17 8 £47,500 +5.56% 230
Wales +31 5 £65,000 -7.14% 63
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
1 162 (30.80%) Confluence
2 23 (4.37%) WordPress
3 22 (4.18%) CMS
4 7 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.95%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.76%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.57%) Drupal
7 3 (0.57%) IIS
7 3 (0.57%) Strapi
8 1 (0.19%) Apache
8 1 (0.19%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 6 (1.14%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.95%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) InVision
4 1 (0.19%) Moqups
4 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (3.99%) Shopify
2 10 (1.90%) Magento
3 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 316 (60.08%) Azure
2 313 (59.51%) AWS
3 165 (31.37%) GCP
4 29 (5.51%) Serverless
5 22 (4.18%) GitHub
6 18 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (2.85%) Figma
8 15 (2.85%) SaaS
9 10 (1.90%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.71%) BigCommerce
10 9 (1.71%) Slack
10 9 (1.71%) Stripe
10 9 (1.71%) Zapier
11 7 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.33%) npm
12 6 (1.14%) Azure App Service
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
1 264 (50.19%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.89%) MySQL
3 18 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.66%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.71%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.71%) Power BI
6 9 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.52%) Redis
8 6 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.57%) Big Data
9 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 268 (50.95%) JIRA
2 254 (48.29%) GitLab
3 253 (48.10%) Bitbucket
4 251 (47.72%) Maven
5 250 (47.53%) Selenium
6 249 (47.34%) Cucumber
6 249 (47.34%) SonarQube
7 246 (46.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 81 (15.40%) Git
9 20 (3.80%) webpack
10 13 (2.47%) Babel
11 9 (1.71%) Vite
12 8 (1.52%) Mocha
13 7 (1.33%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.33%) Jasmine
13 7 (1.33%) rollup.js
14 6 (1.14%) JUnit
14 6 (1.14%) Karma Test Runner
14 6 (1.14%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.95%) Jenkins
General
1 282 (53.61%) Finance
2 258 (49.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 251 (47.72%) Banking
4 106 (20.15%) Retail
5 90 (17.11%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (17.11%) Investment Banking
6 58 (11.03%) Social Skills
7 27 (5.13%) Law
8 19 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.47%) Games
11 8 (1.52%) Advertising
12 6 (1.14%) Automotive
13 5 (0.95%) Marketing
13 5 (0.95%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.76%) Electronics
15 3 (0.57%) Back Office
15 3 (0.57%) Legal
15 3 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 266 (50.57%) Software Engineer
2 227 (43.16%) Developer
3 103 (19.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 72 (13.69%) Senior
5 60 (11.41%) Senior Developer
6 32 (6.08%) Lead
7 30 (5.70%) React Developer
8 29 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (4.37%) Java Developer
10 21 (3.99%) Lead Developer
10 21 (3.99%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 18 (3.42%) Software Developer
12 16 (3.04%) PHP Developer
12 16 (3.04%) Web Developer
13 15 (2.85%) JavaScript Developer
14 11 (2.09%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (2.09%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (1.71%) Backend Developer
15 9 (1.71%) Designer
15 9 (1.71%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (76.05%) React
2 388 (73.76%) HTML
3 381 (72.43%) CSS
4 268 (50.95%) Redux
5 257 (48.86%) Spring Boot
6 255 (48.48%) Spring
7 252 (47.91%) Kafka
8 249 (47.34%) JPA
9 159 (30.23%) Hibernate
10 127 (24.14%) RESTful
11 122 (23.19%) REST
12 121 (23.00%) HTML5
13 120 (22.81%) Jest
14 106 (20.15%) CSS3
15 105 (19.96%) Sass
16 53 (10.08%) .NET
17 41 (7.79%) AngularJS
18 37 (7.03%) Node.js
19 24 (4.56%) .NET Framework
20 22 (4.18%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 250 (47.53%) Product Ownership
2 247 (46.96%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (2.47%) Mobile App
4 10 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (1.71%) EPoS
6 8 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.33%) Learning Management System
8 5 (0.95%) e-Learning
8 5 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.76%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.76%) Animation
9 4 (0.76%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.57%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.57%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.57%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.57%) Video Editing
11 2 (0.38%) Cybercrime
11 2 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.09%) Android
2 9 (1.71%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.71%) Linux
3 4 (0.76%) Windows
4 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (68.25%) Agile
2 310 (58.94%) DevOps
3 306 (58.17%) Software Engineering
4 303 (57.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 301 (57.22%) CI/CD
6 285 (54.18%) Microservices
7 278 (52.85%) Test Automation
8 270 (51.33%) SDLC
9 267 (50.76%) Containerisation
10 263 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 196 (37.26%) User Experience
12 182 (34.60%) Clean Code
13 181 (34.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 174 (33.08%) TDD
15 122 (23.19%) Mentoring
16 115 (21.86%) Responsive Web Design
17 95 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
18 93 (17.68%) Migration
19 90 (17.11%) Strategic Thinking
20 60 (11.41%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 420 (79.85%) JavaScript
2 294 (55.89%) SQL
3 288 (54.75%) Java
4 192 (36.50%) TypeScript
5 64 (12.17%) C#
6 49 (9.32%) PHP
7 39 (7.41%) Python
8 8 (1.52%) C++
8 8 (1.52%) Delphi
9 5 (0.95%) Bicep
10 2 (0.38%) Go
10 2 (0.38%) Julia
10 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.38%) R
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
10 2 (0.38%) Rust
10 2 (0.38%) XAML
11 1 (0.19%) Elixir
11 1 (0.19%) Elm
Qualifications
1 70 (13.31%) Degree
2 37 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.28%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (49.43%) QA
2 115 (21.86%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.71%) WCAG
4 6 (1.14%) GDPR
4 6 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.38%) CDISC
6 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.19%) COBIT
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 294 (55.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 282 (53.61%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.71%) Terraform
3 8 (1.52%) Grafana
4 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 246 (46.77%) Solace
2 25 (4.75%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.47%) Adobe
4 9 (1.71%) WooCommerce
5 7 (1.33%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.33%) PayPal
6 5 (0.95%) Google
6 5 (0.95%) Oracle
7 3 (0.57%) Apple
7 3 (0.57%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.57%) Splunk
8 2 (0.38%) Databricks
8 2 (0.38%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.19%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.19%) Dell
9 1 (0.19%) Facebook
9 1 (0.19%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.19%) Spotify