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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 214 244
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 -139
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 505 957 862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.30% 1.30% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.57% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 208 773 539
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £37,039
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,750
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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £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 £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 28 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 28 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 -18 181 £58,750 +11.90% 667
North West -16 162 £60,000 +6.67% 328
Midlands +34 130 £45,000 +5.88% 522
East Midlands +65 75 £40,000 - 215
Scotland +56 68 £57,500 +9.52% 108
South East -7 67 £62,500 +4.17% 761
West Midlands +14 55 £60,000 +29.73% 277
East of England +25 34 £66,212 +0.90% 391
South West +21 26 £61,250 +22.50% 315
North East +35 12 £56,500 +7.62% 93
Yorkshire -17 7 £52,500 +16.67% 251
Wales +32 6 £65,000 -7.14% 71
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 (31.88%) Confluence
2 23 (4.55%) WordPress
3 20 (3.96%) CMS
4 7 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.79%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.79%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.59%) Drupal
6 3 (0.59%) Strapi
7 2 (0.40%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Joomla!
Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 6 (1.19%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.99%) Sketch
4 1 (0.20%) InVision
4 1 (0.20%) Moqups
4 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (3.76%) Shopify
2 8 (1.58%) Magento
3 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 310 (61.39%) Azure
2 305 (60.40%) AWS
3 163 (32.28%) GCP
4 25 (4.95%) Serverless
5 21 (4.16%) GitHub
6 16 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.17%) Figma
7 15 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (2.38%) SaaS
9 10 (1.98%) Power Platform
9 10 (1.98%) Slack
9 10 (1.98%) Zapier
10 8 (1.58%) Stripe
11 7 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.19%) BigCommerce
12 6 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.99%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (51.09%) SQL Server
2 27 (5.35%) MySQL
3 17 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.57%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.18%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.78%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.78%) Power BI
7 8 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.99%) Redis
10 3 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.59%) Big Data
10 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 264 (52.28%) JIRA
2 254 (50.30%) GitLab
3 252 (49.90%) Bitbucket
4 250 (49.50%) Maven
5 249 (49.31%) Cucumber
5 249 (49.31%) Selenium
5 249 (49.31%) SonarQube
6 246 (48.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 74 (14.65%) Git
8 19 (3.76%) webpack
9 13 (2.57%) Babel
10 8 (1.58%) Mocha
10 8 (1.58%) Vite
11 7 (1.39%) Jasmine
11 7 (1.39%) rollup.js
12 6 (1.19%) JUnit
12 6 (1.19%) Karma Test Runner
13 5 (0.99%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.99%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 278 (55.05%) Finance
2 260 (51.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 249 (49.31%) Banking
4 104 (20.59%) Retail
5 90 (17.82%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (17.82%) Investment Banking
6 55 (10.89%) Social Skills
7 23 (4.55%) Law
8 16 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.18%) Games
11 7 (1.39%) Advertising
11 7 (1.39%) Marketing
12 5 (0.99%) Automotive
12 5 (0.99%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.79%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.59%) Legal
14 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 264 (52.28%) Software Engineer
2 207 (40.99%) Developer
3 95 (18.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 65 (12.87%) Senior
5 54 (10.69%) Senior Developer
6 30 (5.94%) Lead
7 29 (5.74%) React Developer
8 24 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (4.16%) Java Developer
10 20 (3.96%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 19 (3.76%) Lead Developer
12 18 (3.56%) Web Developer
13 16 (3.17%) PHP Developer
14 15 (2.97%) Software Developer
15 13 (2.57%) JavaScript Developer
16 12 (2.38%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
17 10 (1.98%) Senior Java Developer
18 9 (1.78%) Designer
18 9 (1.78%) PHP Symfony Developer
18 9 (1.78%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (77.62%) React
2 376 (74.46%) HTML
3 372 (73.66%) CSS
4 268 (53.07%) Redux
5 255 (50.50%) Spring Boot
6 254 (50.30%) Spring
7 251 (49.70%) Kafka
8 249 (49.31%) JPA
9 159 (31.49%) Hibernate
10 120 (23.76%) RESTful
11 119 (23.56%) Jest
11 119 (23.56%) REST
12 115 (22.77%) HTML5
13 103 (20.40%) Sass
14 102 (20.20%) CSS3
15 47 (9.31%) .NET
16 36 (7.13%) AngularJS
17 33 (6.53%) Node.js
18 22 (4.36%) Tailwind CSS
19 21 (4.16%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 250 (49.50%) Product Ownership
2 247 (48.91%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (1.98%) Mobile App
4 9 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.39%) EPoS
6 7 (1.39%) Learning Management System
7 5 (0.99%) e-Learning
7 5 (0.99%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.79%) Animation
8 4 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.79%) Sports Betting
9 3 (0.59%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.59%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.59%) Video Editing
10 2 (0.40%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.18%) Android
2 9 (1.78%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.39%) Linux
4 4 (0.79%) Windows
5 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (68.71%) Agile
2 303 (60.00%) DevOps
3 296 (58.61%) CI/CD
3 296 (58.61%) Full-Stack Development
3 296 (58.61%) Software Engineering
4 284 (56.24%) Microservices
5 273 (54.06%) Test Automation
6 266 (52.67%) Containerisation
7 265 (52.48%) SDLC
8 261 (51.68%) Performance Optimisation
9 191 (37.82%) User Experience
10 180 (35.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 176 (34.85%) Clean Code
12 171 (33.86%) TDD
13 119 (23.56%) Mentoring
14 113 (22.38%) Responsive Web Design
15 93 (18.42%) Migration
16 90 (17.82%) Strategic Thinking
17 89 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
18 60 (11.88%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 405 (80.20%) JavaScript
2 287 (56.83%) SQL
3 285 (56.44%) Java
4 188 (37.23%) TypeScript
5 55 (10.89%) C#
6 47 (9.31%) PHP
7 39 (7.72%) Python
8 7 (1.39%) C++
9 6 (1.19%) Delphi
10 5 (0.99%) Bicep
11 2 (0.40%) Go
11 2 (0.40%) Julia
11 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.40%) R
11 2 (0.40%) XAML
12 1 (0.20%) Erlang
12 1 (0.20%) Haskell
12 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 65 (12.87%) Degree
2 32 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.18%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.39%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (51.68%) QA
2 113 (22.38%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.78%) WCAG
4 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.99%) GDPR
6 2 (0.40%) CDISC
7 1 (0.20%) COBIT
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 289 (57.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 278 (55.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.58%) Grafana
2 8 (1.58%) Terraform
3 3 (0.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.20%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 246 (48.71%) Solace
2 23 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.57%) Adobe
4 10 (1.98%) WooCommerce
5 7 (1.39%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.19%) PayPal
7 3 (0.59%) ANSYS
7 3 (0.59%) Apple
7 3 (0.59%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.59%) Google
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle
7 3 (0.59%) Splunk
8 2 (0.40%) Databricks
9 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.20%) Dell
9 1 (0.20%) Facebook
9 1 (0.20%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.20%) Spotify