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 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 347 315
Rank change year-on-year -48 -32 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 111 238 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.66% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.71% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 95 117 263
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,600 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,080 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £64,375 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,250 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.26% +12.50% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,179 33,328 33,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,318 16,178 25,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -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 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 2026. 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 +6 47 £60,000 +4.35% 38
South East -11 27 £55,000 -21.43% 51
North West +16 20 £61,250 +8.89% 14
Yorkshire -13 14 £48,686 +0.38% 16
North East 0 13 £59,500 -0.83% 8
South West -10 13 £45,000 -18.18% 22
West Midlands +22 11 £52,500 +8.81% 9
Midlands +6 11 £52,500 -8.70% 22
Scotland -8 7 £65,000 +30.00% 10
East of England +12 4 £40,000 -25.58% 31
Wales -1 2 £52,500 +16.67% 12
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 13 January 2026, 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 99 (89.19%) Front End Development
2 53 (47.75%) React
3 45 (40.54%) JavaScript
4 42 (37.84%) Agile
4 42 (37.84%) CSS
5 36 (32.43%) HTML
6 31 (27.93%) User Experience
7 28 (25.23%) Accessibility
8 27 (24.32%) TypeScript
9 24 (21.62%) Git
10 18 (16.22%) Azure
11 17 (15.32%) CI/CD
11 17 (15.32%) Clean Code
11 17 (15.32%) UX Design
12 15 (13.51%) Wireframes
13 14 (12.61%) GitHub
13 14 (12.61%) Next.js
14 13 (11.71%) REST
14 13 (11.71%) SaaS
15 12 (10.81%) Jest
16 11 (9.91%) AWS
16 11 (9.91%) Mentoring
16 11 (9.91%) Node.js
16 11 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (9.01%) .NET
17 10 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (9.01%) Mobile Development
17 10 (9.01%) Software Engineering
18 9 (8.11%) Vue
19 8 (7.21%) API Integration

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 8 (7.21%) CMS
2 5 (4.50%) Umbraco
3 3 (2.70%) Drupal
4 2 (1.80%) EPiServer
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.80%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.22%) Azure
2 14 (12.61%) GitHub
3 13 (11.71%) SaaS
4 11 (9.91%) AWS
5 7 (6.31%) Figma
6 6 (5.41%) Miro
7 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.70%) npm
9 2 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.80%) Metadata
3 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (21.62%) Git
2 8 (7.21%) Storybook
3 6 (5.41%) Axure RP
4 3 (2.70%) webpack
5 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.80%) Grunt
5 2 (1.80%) gulp
5 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.90%) Babel
6 1 (0.90%) GitLab
6 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.90%) Maven
6 1 (0.90%) Protractor
6 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.90%) Vite
General
1 25 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.11%) Finance
2 9 (8.11%) Retail
3 4 (3.60%) Marketing
4 3 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.90%) Automotive
5 1 (0.90%) Games
5 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (47.75%) React
2 42 (37.84%) CSS
3 36 (32.43%) HTML
4 14 (12.61%) Next.js
5 13 (11.71%) REST
6 12 (10.81%) Jest
7 11 (9.91%) Node.js
8 10 (9.01%) .NET
9 9 (8.11%) Vue
10 8 (7.21%) RESTful
11 7 (6.31%) Web Services
12 6 (5.41%) AngularJS
12 6 (5.41%) JSON
12 6 (5.41%) XML
13 4 (3.60%) CSS3
13 4 (3.60%) HTML5
13 4 (3.60%) Sass
13 4 (3.60%) Svelte
13 4 (3.60%) Tailwind CSS
13 4 (3.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.41%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.70%) W3C
7 2 (1.80%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.80%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Android
1 5 (4.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (89.19%) Front End Development
2 42 (37.84%) Agile
3 31 (27.93%) User Experience
4 17 (15.32%) CI/CD
4 17 (15.32%) Clean Code
4 17 (15.32%) UX Design
5 15 (13.51%) Wireframes
6 11 (9.91%) Mentoring
6 11 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (9.01%) Mobile Development
7 10 (9.01%) Software Engineering
8 8 (7.21%) API Integration
8 8 (7.21%) Wealth Management
8 8 (7.21%) Web Development
9 7 (6.31%) CRM
10 6 (5.41%) MVC
10 6 (5.41%) Prototyping
10 6 (5.41%) Responsive Web Design
10 6 (5.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 45 (40.54%) JavaScript
2 27 (24.32%) TypeScript
3 7 (6.31%) C#
4 3 (2.70%) Python
4 3 (2.70%) VB.NET
5 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.90%) Java
6 1 (0.90%) PHP
6 1 (0.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (0.90%) SC Cleared
1 1 (0.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (25.23%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.60%) WCAG
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
4 2 (1.80%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.90%) Grafana
1 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (3.60%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.70%) DevExpress