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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 215 241
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 -137
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 533 953 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 1.25% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.53% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 237 775 521
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,500 £77,500 £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 36,805 62,205 53,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.51% 81.88% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,600 42,597 28,533
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -16 189 £57,500 +15.00% 968
North West +9 168 £60,000 +9.09% 447
Midlands +44 142 £50,000 +17.65% 818
East Midlands +63 78 £40,000 -3.03% 333
South East -2 72 £57,500 -4.17% 1,045
Scotland +49 70 £62,500 +19.05% 168
West Midlands +18 64 £60,000 +26.32% 435
East of England +25 35 £66,212 +0.90% 639
South West +25 27 £60,000 +20.00% 507
North East +34 13 £56,500 +7.62% 130
Yorkshire -23 8 £47,500 +5.56% 397
Wales +27 5 £65,000 -7.14% 107
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 (30.58%) Confluence
2 23 (4.32%) CMS
2 23 (4.32%) WordPress
3 7 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.94%) Headless CMS
4 5 (0.94%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.75%) Strapi
6 3 (0.56%) Drupal
6 3 (0.56%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (1.50%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 6 (1.13%) Adobe XD
3 5 (0.94%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) InVision
4 1 (0.19%) Moqups
4 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (3.94%) Shopify
2 10 (1.88%) 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
1 317 (59.47%) Azure
2 314 (58.91%) AWS
3 165 (30.96%) GCP
4 29 (5.44%) Serverless
5 22 (4.13%) GitHub
6 18 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.00%) Figma
9 15 (2.81%) SaaS
10 10 (1.88%) Power Platform
11 9 (1.69%) BigCommerce
11 9 (1.69%) Slack
11 9 (1.69%) Stripe
11 9 (1.69%) Zapier
12 7 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.31%) npm
13 6 (1.13%) 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
1 264 (49.53%) SQL Server
2 31 (5.82%) MySQL
3 18 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.81%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.44%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.69%) Power BI
6 9 (1.69%) Redis
6 9 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.56%) Big Data
8 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.19%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 268 (50.28%) JIRA
2 254 (47.65%) Bitbucket
2 254 (47.65%) GitLab
3 251 (47.09%) Maven
4 250 (46.90%) Selenium
5 249 (46.72%) Cucumber
5 249 (46.72%) SonarQube
6 246 (46.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 81 (15.20%) Git
8 20 (3.75%) webpack
9 13 (2.44%) Babel
10 9 (1.69%) Vite
11 8 (1.50%) Mocha
12 7 (1.31%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.31%) Jasmine
12 7 (1.31%) rollup.js
13 6 (1.13%) JUnit
13 6 (1.13%) Karma Test Runner
13 6 (1.13%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.94%) Jenkins
General
1 286 (53.66%) Finance
2 262 (49.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 251 (47.09%) Banking
4 106 (19.89%) Retail
5 90 (16.89%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (16.89%) Investment Banking
6 59 (11.07%) Social Skills
7 27 (5.07%) Law
8 19 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.44%) Games
11 8 (1.50%) Advertising
12 6 (1.13%) Automotive
13 5 (0.94%) Marketing
13 5 (0.94%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.75%) Electronics
15 3 (0.56%) Back Office
15 3 (0.56%) Legal
15 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 266 (49.91%) Software Engineer
2 234 (43.90%) Developer
3 108 (20.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 74 (13.88%) Senior
5 62 (11.63%) Senior Developer
6 32 (6.00%) Lead
6 32 (6.00%) React Developer
7 29 (5.44%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (4.32%) Java Developer
8 23 (4.32%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 21 (3.94%) Lead Developer
10 18 (3.38%) Software Developer
11 17 (3.19%) Web Developer
12 16 (3.00%) JavaScript Developer
12 16 (3.00%) PHP Developer
13 11 (2.06%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (2.06%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (1.88%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
14 10 (1.88%) Senior React Developer
15 9 (1.69%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (76.36%) React
2 395 (74.11%) HTML
3 387 (72.61%) CSS
4 268 (50.28%) Redux
5 257 (48.22%) Spring Boot
6 255 (47.84%) Spring
7 252 (47.28%) Kafka
8 249 (46.72%) JPA
9 159 (29.83%) Hibernate
10 127 (23.83%) RESTful
11 123 (23.08%) REST
12 122 (22.89%) HTML5
13 120 (22.51%) Jest
14 107 (20.08%) CSS3
14 107 (20.08%) Sass
15 53 (9.94%) .NET
16 41 (7.69%) AngularJS
17 38 (7.13%) Node.js
18 24 (4.50%) .NET Framework
19 22 (4.13%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 250 (46.90%) Product Ownership
2 247 (46.34%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 10 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (1.69%) EPoS
6 8 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.31%) Learning Management System
8 5 (0.94%) Animation
8 5 (0.94%) e-Learning
8 5 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.75%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.56%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.56%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.56%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.56%) Video Editing
11 2 (0.38%) 3D Graphics
11 2 (0.38%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.06%) Android
2 9 (1.69%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.69%) Linux
3 4 (0.75%) Windows
4 2 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (68.29%) Agile
2 314 (58.91%) DevOps
3 306 (57.41%) Software Engineering
4 304 (57.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 301 (56.47%) CI/CD
6 285 (53.47%) Microservices
7 278 (52.16%) Test Automation
8 270 (50.66%) SDLC
9 267 (50.09%) Containerisation
10 264 (49.53%) Performance Optimisation
11 200 (37.52%) User Experience
12 185 (34.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 183 (34.33%) Clean Code
14 174 (32.65%) TDD
15 126 (23.64%) Mentoring
16 115 (21.58%) Responsive Web Design
17 99 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
18 93 (17.45%) Migration
19 90 (16.89%) Strategic Thinking
20 64 (12.01%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 427 (80.11%) JavaScript
2 294 (55.16%) SQL
3 288 (54.03%) Java
4 194 (36.40%) TypeScript
5 64 (12.01%) C#
6 49 (9.19%) PHP
7 39 (7.32%) Python
8 8 (1.50%) C++
8 8 (1.50%) Delphi
9 5 (0.94%) 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%) PureScript
Qualifications
1 70 (13.13%) Degree
2 37 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.25%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.31%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (48.78%) QA
2 115 (21.58%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.69%) WCAG
4 6 (1.13%) GDPR
4 6 (1.13%) 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
1 295 (55.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 282 (52.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.69%) Terraform
3 8 (1.50%) Grafana
4 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 246 (46.15%) Solace
2 25 (4.69%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.63%) Adobe
4 9 (1.69%) WooCommerce
5 7 (1.31%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.31%) PayPal
6 5 (0.94%) Google
6 5 (0.94%) Oracle
7 4 (0.75%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.56%) Apple
8 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.56%) Splunk
9 2 (0.38%) Databricks
9 2 (0.38%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.19%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.19%) Dell
10 1 (0.19%) Facebook
10 1 (0.19%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.19%) Spotify