Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 335 305
Rank change year-on-year -95 -30 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 102 283 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.59% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.62% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 79 156 242
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 31,634 45,645 29,280
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.94% 95.01% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 19,581 24,819 22,088
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,119 £40,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £64,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 November 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 -19 36 £59,250 -1.25% 53
South East -34 30 £55,000 -21.43% 113
North West +16 26 £60,000 - 40
Midlands +17 10 £42,500 -34.62% 6
South West +15 9 £45,000 -14.29% 8
West Midlands +35 8 £40,000 +9.59% 2
Wales +9 7 £75,000 +50.00% 5
Yorkshire -1 7 £47,372 -5.26% 9
East of England +30 6 £43,750 - 1
Scotland -13 4 - - 9
North East 0 3 £58,500 - 4
East Midlands +4 2 £47,500 -32.14% 4
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 88 (86.27%) Front End Development
2 62 (60.78%) JavaScript
3 56 (54.90%) React
4 55 (53.92%) HTML
5 54 (52.94%) Agile
6 52 (50.98%) CSS
7 37 (36.27%) User Experience
8 35 (34.31%) TypeScript
9 30 (29.41%) Git
10 29 (28.43%) Accessibility
11 21 (20.59%) Azure
11 21 (20.59%) Node.js
12 20 (19.61%) Clean Code
12 20 (19.61%) Software Engineering
13 19 (18.63%) AWS
13 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (17.65%) AngularJS
15 16 (15.69%) Next.js
16 15 (14.71%) CI/CD
16 15 (14.71%) HTML5
16 15 (14.71%) REST
16 15 (14.71%) TDD
16 15 (14.71%) UX Design
17 14 (13.73%) GitHub
17 14 (13.73%) Scrum
17 14 (13.73%) Wireframes
18 13 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
18 13 (12.75%) Web Development
19 12 (11.76%) Mentoring
19 12 (11.76%) Mobile Development

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (10.78%) CMS
2 6 (5.88%) Drupal
2 6 (5.88%) Umbraco
3 4 (3.92%) WordPress
4 3 (2.94%) Confluence
5 2 (1.96%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.98%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.98%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.92%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.96%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.96%) Elementor
4 1 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.59%) Azure
2 19 (18.63%) AWS
3 14 (13.73%) GitHub
4 8 (7.84%) Figma
5 6 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (5.88%) Miro
5 6 (5.88%) Serverless
6 5 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.90%) npm
7 4 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (3.92%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (3.92%) SaaS
8 2 (1.96%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.96%) Vercel
9 1 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.98%) CloudFront
9 1 (0.98%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) Broadband
1 1 (0.98%) HTTP
1 1 (0.98%) Internet
1 1 (0.98%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (4.90%) Redis
2 4 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (3.92%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.94%) Hazelcast
3 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.96%) Metadata
4 2 (1.96%) MySQL
5 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (29.41%) Git
2 10 (9.80%) Storybook
3 6 (5.88%) Axure RP
4 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.90%) Maven
5 4 (3.92%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.94%) gulp
6 3 (2.94%) JIRA
6 3 (2.94%) webpack
7 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.96%) Grunt
7 2 (1.96%) Vite
8 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.98%) GitLab
8 1 (0.98%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.98%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.98%) PostCSS
8 1 (0.98%) rollup.js
8 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.98%) Sourcetree
General
1 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.55%) Finance
3 6 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (5.88%) Retail
4 5 (4.90%) Law
4 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.92%) Banking
5 4 (3.92%) Games
6 1 (0.98%) Automotive
6 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.98%) iGaming
6 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.98%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (54.90%) React
2 55 (53.92%) HTML
3 52 (50.98%) CSS
4 21 (20.59%) Node.js
5 18 (17.65%) AngularJS
6 16 (15.69%) Next.js
7 15 (14.71%) HTML5
7 15 (14.71%) REST
8 12 (11.76%) Sass
9 11 (10.78%) .NET
9 11 (10.78%) Jest
10 10 (9.80%) CSS3
10 10 (9.80%) Vue
11 7 (6.86%) Bootstrap
11 7 (6.86%) jQuery
11 7 (6.86%) JSON
11 7 (6.86%) Web Services
11 7 (6.86%) WebSockets
12 6 (5.88%) RESTful
12 6 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.86%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.94%) W3C
5 2 (1.96%) Animation
5 2 (1.96%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.98%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.98%) Mobile Games
6 1 (0.98%) NHS
6 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.90%) Android
1 5 (4.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (86.27%) Front End Development
2 54 (52.94%) Agile
3 37 (36.27%) User Experience
4 20 (19.61%) Clean Code
4 20 (19.61%) Software Engineering
5 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (14.71%) CI/CD
6 15 (14.71%) TDD
6 15 (14.71%) UX Design
7 14 (13.73%) Scrum
7 14 (13.73%) Wireframes
8 13 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (12.75%) Web Development
9 12 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 12 (11.76%) Mobile Development
10 10 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (9.80%) Responsive Web Design
11 9 (8.82%) DevOps
11 9 (8.82%) Wealth Management
12 8 (7.84%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 62 (60.78%) JavaScript
2 35 (34.31%) TypeScript
3 6 (5.88%) Java
4 5 (4.90%) C#
5 4 (3.92%) PHP
5 4 (3.92%) Python
6 3 (2.94%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (7.84%) Degree
2 2 (1.96%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (28.43%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.92%) QA
3 3 (2.94%) GDPR
4 2 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.98%) Grafana
1 1 (0.98%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.92%) Oracle
3 3 (2.94%) DevExpress
4 2 (1.96%) Adobe
4 2 (1.96%) Guidewire
4 2 (1.96%) Netlify
5 1 (0.98%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.98%) Salesforce