Front End Development Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 232 100
Rank change year-on-year +17 -132 -28
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 941 909 2,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.33% 1.51% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.58% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 776 572 1,625
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,039 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +3.20% +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +59 257 £52,500 +5.00% 74
South East -52 167 £60,000 - 24
North West +35 155 £55,000 - 42
Midlands +55 149 £42,500 -22.73% 32
Scotland -8 149 £52,500 -12.50% 20
South West +17 124 £50,000 -9.09% 19
West Midlands +71 102 £47,500 -13.64% 23
Yorkshire +63 78 £45,000 - 26
East of England -24 54 £71,500 +15.79% 20
East Midlands -9 46 £41,250 -25.00% 9
North East +9 24 £52,500 +10.53% 8
Northern Ireland +28 21 £55,000 - 3
Wales -28 20 £70,000 +36.59% 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 68 (7.23%) CMS
2 51 (5.42%) WordPress
3 37 (3.93%) Tuxedo
4 15 (1.59%) Cloud Foundry
5 14 (1.49%) Headless CMS
6 11 (1.17%) Confluence
7 10 (1.06%) JBoss
7 10 (1.06%) Red Hat Fuse
8 8 (0.85%) IIS
9 5 (0.53%) Kentico
9 5 (0.53%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.32%) SAS
11 2 (0.21%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Apache
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 19 (2.02%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.70%) Photoshop
3 7 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.43%) Maya
5 3 (0.32%) Sketch
6 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.11%) InVision
Business Applications
1 26 (2.76%) Shopify
2 4 (0.43%) Magento
3 3 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 181 (19.23%) AWS
2 179 (19.02%) Azure
3 47 (4.99%) SaaS
4 33 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (2.66%) Figma
6 23 (2.44%) GitHub
7 22 (2.34%) npm
8 19 (2.02%) GCP
9 16 (1.70%) Google Analytics
10 15 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (1.17%) Serverless
12 9 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (0.85%) dbt
13 8 (0.85%) Firebase
14 5 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 5 (0.53%) Amazon S3
14 5 (0.53%) Google Tag Manager
14 5 (0.53%) PaaS
14 5 (0.53%) Power Platform
15 4 (0.43%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.28%) HTTP
2 10 (1.06%) Internet
3 8 (0.85%) MQTT
4 7 (0.74%) DNS
5 6 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.21%) SSH
7 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (9.78%) SQL Server
2 59 (6.27%) MySQL
3 31 (3.29%) Relational Database
4 24 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (2.23%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.81%) Redis
8 11 (1.17%) MS Access
9 6 (0.64%) Big Data
9 6 (0.64%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.43%) Power BI
12 3 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.32%) Looker
13 2 (0.21%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.21%) GIS
13 2 (0.21%) Metabase
13 2 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 205 (21.79%) Git
2 63 (6.70%) Cypress.io
3 42 (4.46%) Selenium
4 35 (3.72%) JIRA
5 29 (3.08%) Cucumber
6 27 (2.87%) Jenkins
6 27 (2.87%) Visual Studio
7 25 (2.66%) gulp
7 25 (2.66%) webpack
8 23 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 22 (2.34%) Bitbucket
10 18 (1.91%) Jasmine
11 17 (1.81%) Karma Test Runner
12 16 (1.70%) IntelliJ
13 11 (1.17%) Postman
14 10 (1.06%) Storybook
15 9 (0.96%) Subversion
16 8 (0.85%) GitLab
17 6 (0.64%) ESLint
18 5 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 206 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 111 (11.80%) Finance
3 84 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 60 (6.38%) Law
4 60 (6.38%) Marketing
5 45 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 40 (4.25%) Manufacturing
8 37 (3.93%) Retail
9 34 (3.61%) Banking
10 17 (1.81%) Electronics
10 17 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.70%) Private Banking
12 15 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.59%) Tech for Good
13 14 (1.49%) Automotive
13 14 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.06%) Games
14 10 (1.06%) Music Industry
15 9 (0.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 737 (78.32%) Developer
2 411 (43.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 311 (33.05%) Senior
4 235 (24.97%) Senior Developer
5 146 (15.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 114 (12.11%) Lead
7 93 (9.88%) Software Developer
8 90 (9.56%) React Developer
9 70 (7.44%) Software Engineer
10 62 (6.59%) Full Stack Developer
11 52 (5.53%) Senior React Developer
12 50 (5.31%) PHP Developer
13 44 (4.68%) Senior Software Developer
14 43 (4.57%) Lead Developer
15 39 (4.14%) Technical Leader
16 37 (3.93%) Web Developer
17 32 (3.40%) JavaScript Developer
18 29 (3.08%) Full Stack Engineer
18 29 (3.08%) UI Developer
19 28 (2.98%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (48.78%) CSS
2 449 (47.72%) HTML
3 431 (45.80%) React
4 225 (23.91%) AngularJS
5 162 (17.22%) Node.js
6 161 (17.11%) .NET
7 124 (13.18%) Vue
8 116 (12.33%) RESTful
9 113 (12.01%) HTML5
10 105 (11.16%) Sass
11 96 (10.20%) jQuery
12 94 (9.99%) CSS3
13 70 (7.44%) Jest
13 70 (7.44%) REST
14 66 (7.01%) ASP.NET
15 58 (6.16%) .NET Core
16 55 (5.84%) .NET Framework
17 51 (5.42%) Laravel
18 47 (4.99%) ASP.NET Web API
19 46 (4.89%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (8.71%) Greenfield Project
2 42 (4.46%) Mobile App
3 28 (2.98%) Cloud Native
4 25 (2.66%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.59%) Private Cloud
7 11 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.17%) Public Cloud
8 9 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 9 (0.96%) IoT
8 9 (0.96%) Low-Code
9 8 (0.85%) Digital Media
10 7 (0.74%) Animation
10 7 (0.74%) Arduino
10 7 (0.74%) Raspberry Pi
10 7 (0.74%) Social Media
11 6 (0.64%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.64%) Hackathon
12 5 (0.53%) Graphic Design
12 5 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.93%) Linux
2 12 (1.28%) Android
3 11 (1.17%) Windows
4 9 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (35.81%) Agile
2 262 (27.84%) User Experience
3 236 (25.08%) Problem-Solving
4 176 (18.70%) Full Stack Development
5 174 (18.49%) Software Engineering
6 160 (17.00%) Computer Science
7 157 (16.68%) UX Design
8 136 (14.45%) Web Development
9 123 (13.07%) DevOps
10 119 (12.65%) Mentoring
11 95 (10.10%) CI/CD
12 90 (9.56%) E-Commerce
13 75 (7.97%) Continuous Integration
14 70 (7.44%) Test Automation
15 65 (6.91%) Actionable Insight
15 65 (6.91%) Artificial Intelligence
16 62 (6.59%) MVC
17 57 (6.06%) Clean Code
18 55 (5.84%) Roadmaps
19 45 (4.78%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 548 (58.24%) JavaScript
2 312 (33.16%) TypeScript
3 209 (22.21%) C#
4 160 (17.00%) SQL
5 133 (14.13%) PHP
6 117 (12.43%) Java
7 60 (6.38%) Python
8 42 (4.46%) COBOL
8 42 (4.46%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 42 (4.46%) T-SQL
9 31 (3.29%) Ruby
10 16 (1.70%) VB.NET
11 14 (1.49%) Go
12 5 (0.53%) C
12 5 (0.53%) C++
12 5 (0.53%) GLSL
12 5 (0.53%) Rust
13 3 (0.32%) XPath
14 2 (0.21%) Lisp
14 2 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 191 (20.30%) Degree
2 76 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 66 (7.01%) SC Cleared
4 60 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.64%) HND
7 5 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.11%) PhD
9 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (7.97%) Accessibility
2 45 (4.78%) WCAG
3 42 (4.46%) QA
4 15 (1.59%) WAI
5 9 (0.96%) GDPR
6 3 (0.32%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 91 (9.67%) Docker
2 7 (0.74%) Firmware
3 4 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.64%) Ansible
3 4 (0.43%) Rancher
4 2 (0.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.21%) Google
3 43 (4.57%) Adobe
4 42 (4.46%) Micro Focus
4 42 (4.46%) Oracle
5 17 (1.81%) SAP
6 11 (1.17%) WooCommerce
7 8 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 8 (0.85%) DevExpress
8 7 (0.74%) NVIDIA
9 5 (0.53%) Xamarin
10 4 (0.43%) Facebook
10 4 (0.43%) VMware
11 3 (0.32%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.21%) Apple
12 2 (0.21%) F5
12 2 (0.21%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.21%) Sybase
13 1 (0.11%) BT
13 1 (0.11%) Conga