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 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 367 286
Rank change year-on-year -80 -81 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 89 294 349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.53% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.56% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 70 185 292
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,563 £73,886 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 30,681 52,633 32,550
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.33% 95.20% 93.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17,452 30,845 24,346
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,290
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,572 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +8 31 £60,000 +4.35% 21
North West +14 24 £60,000 -2.04% 12
South East -19 22 £42,500 -37.04% 19
Midlands +21 12 £42,500 -32.00% 6
West Midlands +36 8 £40,000 +9.59% 4
South West +34 7 £47,500 -5.00% 4
East of England -9 7 £47,500 +5.56% 6
Wales +8 6 £75,000 - 2
Yorkshire -3 5 £37,500 +7.14% 6
Scotland +45 4 - - 3
East Midlands +14 4 £43,750 -37.50% 2
North East +10 2 £83,750 - 4
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 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 78 (87.64%) Front End Development
2 54 (60.67%) JavaScript
3 51 (57.30%) React
4 47 (52.81%) HTML
5 45 (50.56%) CSS
6 40 (44.94%) Agile
7 34 (38.20%) TypeScript
8 33 (37.08%) User Experience
9 20 (22.47%) Finance
9 20 (22.47%) Git
9 20 (22.47%) AWS
10 19 (21.35%) Node.js
10 19 (21.35%) Software Engineering
11 18 (20.22%) UX Design
11 18 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (20.22%) Social Skills
11 18 (20.22%) Clean Code
12 17 (19.10%) HTML5
13 15 (16.85%) Azure
13 15 (16.85%) Accessibility
13 15 (16.85%) Next.js
14 14 (15.73%) AngularJS
14 14 (15.73%) Sass
14 14 (15.73%) Scrum
15 13 (14.61%) CMS
15 13 (14.61%) Responsive Web Design
16 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 11 (12.36%) CI/CD
17 11 (12.36%) TDD
17 11 (12.36%) CSS3

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 13 (14.61%) CMS
2 7 (7.87%) Drupal
2 7 (7.87%) Umbraco
3 5 (5.62%) WordPress
4 3 (3.37%) Confluence
5 2 (2.25%) EPiServer
5 2 (2.25%) Headless CMS
5 2 (2.25%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Photoshop
2 3 (3.37%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.25%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.25%) Elementor
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Magento
1 1 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.47%) AWS
2 15 (16.85%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) Figma
4 7 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (7.87%) Serverless
5 6 (6.74%) GitHub
6 4 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.49%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (4.49%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.49%) npm
7 3 (3.37%) SaaS
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (2.25%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.25%) CloudFront
8 2 (2.25%) Vercel
9 1 (1.12%) Contentful
9 1 (1.12%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) Broadband
1 1 (1.12%) Internet
1 1 (1.12%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) Redis
1 5 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.49%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (3.37%) Hazelcast
3 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.25%) Metadata
4 2 (2.25%) MySQL
5 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (22.47%) Git
2 9 (10.11%) Storybook
3 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.62%) Maven
4 4 (4.49%) JIRA
5 3 (3.37%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.37%) gulp
6 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.25%) Grunt
6 2 (2.25%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.25%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.25%) Selenium
6 2 (2.25%) webpack
7 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.12%) GitLab
7 1 (1.12%) PostCSS
7 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.12%) Sourcetree
7 1 (1.12%) Subversion
General
1 20 (22.47%) Finance
2 18 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (6.74%) Law
4 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.49%) Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Games
7 2 (2.25%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.12%) iGaming
8 1 (1.12%) Legal
8 1 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.12%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (57.30%) React
2 47 (52.81%) HTML
3 45 (50.56%) CSS
4 19 (21.35%) Node.js
5 17 (19.10%) HTML5
6 15 (16.85%) Next.js
7 14 (15.73%) AngularJS
7 14 (15.73%) Sass
8 11 (12.36%) CSS3
9 10 (11.24%) .NET
9 10 (11.24%) Vue
10 9 (10.11%) jQuery
11 8 (8.99%) Bootstrap
11 8 (8.99%) REST
11 8 (8.99%) Tailwind CSS
12 7 (7.87%) Jest
12 7 (7.87%) RESTful
12 7 (7.87%) WebSockets
13 6 (6.74%) React Native
14 5 (5.62%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (5.62%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.37%) W3C
4 2 (2.25%) Animation
4 2 (2.25%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.25%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.12%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.12%) IoT
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.12%) Mobile Games
5 1 (1.12%) NHS
5 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.12%) Social Media
5 1 (1.12%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.62%) Android
1 5 (5.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (87.64%) Front End Development
2 40 (44.94%) Agile
3 33 (37.08%) User Experience
4 19 (21.35%) Software Engineering
5 18 (20.22%) Clean Code
5 18 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (20.22%) UX Design
6 14 (15.73%) Scrum
7 13 (14.61%) Responsive Web Design
8 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.36%) CI/CD
9 11 (12.36%) Mobile Development
9 11 (12.36%) TDD
10 10 (11.24%) Wireframes
11 9 (10.11%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (10.11%) Web Development
12 8 (8.99%) Artificial Intelligence
12 8 (8.99%) Computer Science
12 8 (8.99%) DevOps
12 8 (8.99%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (60.67%) JavaScript
2 34 (38.20%) TypeScript
3 8 (8.99%) C#
4 6 (6.74%) Java
5 5 (5.62%) Python
6 3 (3.37%) PHP
6 3 (3.37%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.25%) Julia
7 2 (2.25%) R
7 2 (2.25%) SQL
8 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (8.99%) Degree
2 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.85%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.37%) GDPR
2 3 (3.37%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.62%) Adobe
3 4 (4.49%) Oracle
4 3 (3.37%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.25%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.25%) Netlify
6 1 (1.12%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce