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 24 October 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 335 309
Rank change year-on-year -115 -26 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 91 288 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.59% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.62% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 70 161 255
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £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 £69,688 £75,000 £71,250
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 30,883 46,325 30,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 95.32% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,809 25,292 23,048
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% -5.83% -

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 -30 30 £60,000 - 34
South East -34 28 £55,000 -21.43% 60
North West +4 22 £60,000 -4.00% 22
Midlands +9 10 £42,500 -34.62% 6
West Midlands +33 8 £40,000 +9.59% 3
Wales +11 7 £75,000 +50.00% 1
South West +25 6 £53,750 +7.50% 5
East of England +14 6 £43,750 -41.67% 2
Yorkshire -3 5 £37,500 -25.00% 7
Scotland -4 4 - - 8
North East +5 3 £67,500 - 5
East Midlands -8 2 £47,500 -32.14% 3
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 24 October 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 80 (87.91%) Front End Development
2 55 (60.44%) JavaScript
3 54 (59.34%) React
4 48 (52.75%) Agile
4 48 (52.75%) HTML
5 46 (50.55%) CSS
6 38 (41.76%) User Experience
7 34 (37.36%) TypeScript
8 24 (26.37%) Git
9 22 (24.18%) Accessibility
9 22 (24.18%) Azure
10 20 (21.98%) Clean Code
10 20 (21.98%) Software Engineering
11 19 (20.88%) Node.js
12 17 (18.68%) AngularJS
12 17 (18.68%) AWS
12 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (17.58%) HTML5
13 16 (17.58%) Next.js
13 16 (17.58%) UX Design
14 15 (16.48%) Wireframes
15 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
15 14 (15.38%) GitHub
15 14 (15.38%) REST
15 14 (15.38%) Scrum
16 12 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (13.19%) Mobile Development
17 11 (12.09%) .NET
17 11 (12.09%) CMS
17 11 (12.09%) CSS3

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 (12.09%) CMS
2 6 (6.59%) Drupal
2 6 (6.59%) Umbraco
3 4 (4.40%) WordPress
4 3 (3.30%) Confluence
5 2 (2.20%) EPiServer
6 1 (1.10%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.10%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) MS Visio
2 4 (4.40%) Photoshop
3 2 (2.20%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (2.20%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.20%) Elementor
4 1 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.18%) Azure
2 17 (18.68%) AWS
3 14 (15.38%) GitHub
4 8 (8.79%) Figma
5 6 (6.59%) Miro
6 5 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.49%) npm
6 5 (5.49%) Serverless
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (4.40%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.30%) SaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Cloudflare
9 2 (2.20%) Vercel
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.10%) CloudFront
10 1 (1.10%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Broadband
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
1 1 (1.10%) Internet
1 1 (1.10%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Redis
1 5 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.40%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (3.30%) Hazelcast
3 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.20%) Metadata
4 2 (2.20%) MySQL
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (26.37%) Git
2 10 (10.99%) Storybook
3 6 (6.59%) Axure RP
4 5 (5.49%) Cypress.io
4 5 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.49%) Maven
5 3 (3.30%) gulp
5 3 (3.30%) JIRA
5 3 (3.30%) webpack
6 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.20%) Grunt
6 2 (2.20%) Selenium
6 2 (2.20%) Vite
7 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.10%) GitLab
7 1 (1.10%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.10%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.10%) rollup.js
7 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.10%) Sourcetree
General
1 23 (25.27%) Finance
2 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (6.59%) Law
3 6 (6.59%) Retail
4 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.40%) Banking
5 4 (4.40%) Games
6 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.10%) Automotive
7 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.10%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (59.34%) React
2 48 (52.75%) HTML
3 46 (50.55%) CSS
4 19 (20.88%) Node.js
5 17 (18.68%) AngularJS
6 16 (17.58%) HTML5
6 16 (17.58%) Next.js
7 14 (15.38%) REST
8 11 (12.09%) .NET
8 11 (12.09%) CSS3
8 11 (12.09%) Jest
8 11 (12.09%) Sass
9 9 (9.89%) Vue
10 8 (8.79%) RESTful
11 7 (7.69%) Bootstrap
11 7 (7.69%) jQuery
11 7 (7.69%) JSON
11 7 (7.69%) WebSockets
12 6 (6.59%) React Native
12 6 (6.59%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.30%) W3C
4 2 (2.20%) Animation
4 2 (2.20%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.20%) Graphic Design
4 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.10%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.10%) IoT
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile Games
5 1 (1.10%) NHS
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Android
1 5 (5.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (87.91%) Front End Development
2 48 (52.75%) Agile
3 38 (41.76%) User Experience
4 20 (21.98%) Clean Code
4 20 (21.98%) Software Engineering
5 17 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (17.58%) UX Design
7 15 (16.48%) Wireframes
8 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 14 (15.38%) Scrum
9 12 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (13.19%) Mobile Development
10 11 (12.09%) Responsive Web Design
10 11 (12.09%) TDD
11 9 (9.89%) AI
11 9 (9.89%) DevOps
11 9 (9.89%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (9.89%) Wealth Management
11 9 (9.89%) Web Development
12 8 (8.79%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 55 (60.44%) JavaScript
2 34 (37.36%) TypeScript
3 6 (6.59%) Java
4 5 (5.49%) C#
5 4 (4.40%) PHP
5 4 (4.40%) Python
6 3 (3.30%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (8.79%) Degree
2 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (24.18%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.40%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) Grafana
1 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) Oracle
3 3 (3.30%) DevExpress
4 2 (2.20%) Adobe
4 2 (2.20%) Guidewire
4 2 (2.20%) Netlify
5 1 (1.10%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.10%) Salesforce