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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 343 312
Rank change year-on-year -67 -31 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 94 271 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.63% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.68% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 76 141 237
10th Percentile £43,125 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,188 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £69,063 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 35,626 40,138 27,761
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.70% 93.79% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 21,807 21,180 21,084
10th Percentile £27,625 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 December 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 December 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
South East -3 31 £55,000 -21.43% 10
North of England -7 31 £59,250 +3.04% 12
North West +33 22 £60,000 +4.35% 6
South West +3 10 £45,000 -18.18% 5
West Midlands +26 7 £45,000 +23.29% 4
Midlands +5 7 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Wales +4 7 £75,000 +57.89%
Yorkshire -21 6 £48,686 +0.38% 3
East of England +14 4 £40,000 -25.58% 1
Scotland -10 4 £65,000 +36.84% 2
North East -3 3 £58,500 -14.91% 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 7 December 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 83 (88.30%) Front End Development
2 48 (51.06%) React
3 44 (46.81%) Agile
4 43 (45.74%) JavaScript
5 36 (38.30%) CSS
6 34 (36.17%) HTML
7 28 (29.79%) Accessibility
7 28 (29.79%) User Experience
8 27 (28.72%) TypeScript
9 23 (24.47%) Git
10 19 (20.21%) Azure
11 16 (17.02%) Clean Code
12 15 (15.96%) GitHub
12 15 (15.96%) Node.js
12 15 (15.96%) Wireframes
13 14 (14.89%) Next.js
13 14 (14.89%) UX Design
14 13 (13.83%) AWS
14 13 (13.83%) CI/CD
15 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (12.77%) Software Engineering
16 11 (11.70%) .NET
16 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (11.70%) Mobile Development
16 11 (11.70%) REST
17 10 (10.64%) Jest
17 10 (10.64%) Mentoring
17 10 (10.64%) Storybook
18 9 (9.57%) Vue
18 9 (9.57%) Wealth Management

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 5 (5.32%) CMS
1 5 (5.32%) Umbraco
2 3 (3.19%) Drupal
3 2 (2.13%) EPiServer
Applications
1 6 (6.38%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.13%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.21%) Azure
2 15 (15.96%) GitHub
3 13 (13.83%) AWS
4 8 (8.51%) SaaS
5 6 (6.38%) Figma
5 6 (6.38%) Miro
6 5 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.26%) npm
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.13%) Serverless
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.06%) Firebase
9 1 (1.06%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.19%) Redis
1 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.13%) Metadata
3 1 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.06%) Hazelcast
3 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (24.47%) Git
2 10 (10.64%) Storybook
3 6 (6.38%) Axure RP
4 3 (3.19%) webpack
5 2 (2.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.13%) Grunt
5 2 (2.13%) gulp
5 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.13%) Maven
6 1 (1.06%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.06%) Babel
6 1 (1.06%) GitLab
6 1 (1.06%) JIRA
6 1 (1.06%) Protractor
6 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.06%) Vite
General
1 22 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.83%) Finance
3 6 (6.38%) Retail
4 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.06%) Automotive
5 1 (1.06%) Banking
5 1 (1.06%) Games
5 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.06%) Law
5 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (51.06%) React
2 36 (38.30%) CSS
3 34 (36.17%) HTML
4 15 (15.96%) Node.js
5 14 (14.89%) Next.js
6 11 (11.70%) .NET
6 11 (11.70%) REST
7 10 (10.64%) Jest
8 9 (9.57%) Vue
9 7 (7.45%) AngularJS
9 7 (7.45%) Web Services
10 6 (6.38%) JSON
10 6 (6.38%) XML
11 5 (5.32%) RESTful
11 5 (5.32%) WebSockets
11 5 (5.32%) YAML
12 4 (4.26%) CSS3
12 4 (4.26%) HTML5
12 4 (4.26%) Ionic Framework
12 4 (4.26%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (6.38%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.19%) W3C
3 2 (2.13%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Android
1 5 (5.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (88.30%) Front End Development
2 44 (46.81%) Agile
3 28 (29.79%) User Experience
4 16 (17.02%) Clean Code
5 15 (15.96%) Wireframes
6 14 (14.89%) UX Design
7 13 (13.83%) CI/CD
8 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.77%) Software Engineering
9 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (11.70%) Mobile Development
10 10 (10.64%) Mentoring
11 9 (9.57%) Wealth Management
11 9 (9.57%) Web Development
12 8 (8.51%) TDD
13 7 (7.45%) DevOps
13 7 (7.45%) MVC
13 7 (7.45%) Scrum
14 6 (6.38%) API Integration
14 6 (6.38%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 43 (45.74%) JavaScript
2 27 (28.72%) TypeScript
3 5 (5.32%) C#
4 3 (3.19%) Python
4 3 (3.19%) VB.NET
5 2 (2.13%) Java
5 2 (2.13%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.13%) PHP
6 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.06%) Degree
1 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (29.79%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.19%) GDPR
2 3 (3.19%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) Grafana
1 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.19%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle