Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Jobs 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 30 June 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 374 354
Rank change year-on-year -107 -20 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 115 462 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.59% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.62% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 104 381 311
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,212 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%

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 36,850 74,699 47,718
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.00% 94.92% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 19,469 52,078 28,910
10th Percentile £25,625 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +5.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -14 45 £57,000 +20.00% 56
North West -24 34 £58,750 +17.50% 37
Midlands +41 21 £48,750 +14.71% 9
East of England +24 14 £66,212 -5.41% 18
South East -26 14 £42,500 -29.17% 90
West Midlands +40 13 £50,000 +20.48% 5
South West +52 11 £47,500 -5.00% 23
Scotland +29 9 £46,250 -15.91% 22
East Midlands +28 8 £45,000 - 4
North East +55 7 £56,500 +50.67% 4
Yorkshire +29 4 £37,500 +7.14% 15
Wales +33 1 £75,000 +7.14% 18
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 30 June 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.

1 102 (88.70%) Front End Development
2 90 (78.26%) JavaScript
3 80 (69.57%) HTML
4 74 (64.35%) React
5 72 (62.61%) CSS
6 44 (38.26%) TypeScript
7 41 (35.65%) User Experience
8 35 (30.43%) Agile
9 34 (29.57%) Git
10 32 (27.83%) AWS
11 28 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (22.61%) AngularJS
13 23 (20.00%) HTML5
14 22 (19.13%) Finance
14 22 (19.13%) Code Quality
14 22 (19.13%) Social Skills
15 21 (18.26%) Node.js
15 21 (18.26%) Vue
16 20 (17.39%) E-Commerce
16 20 (17.39%) Software Engineering
17 18 (15.65%) UX Design
18 17 (14.78%) jQuery
18 17 (14.78%) Degree
19 16 (13.91%) Sass
19 16 (13.91%) Responsive Web Design
20 15 (13.04%) Web Development
20 15 (13.04%) C#
21 14 (12.17%) PHP
22 13 (11.30%) Games
22 13 (11.30%) Artificial Intelligence

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 11 (9.57%) CMS
2 8 (6.96%) WordPress
3 4 (3.48%) Drupal
3 4 (3.48%) Headless CMS
4 3 (2.61%) Confluence
4 3 (2.61%) Strapi
5 2 (1.74%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.87%) Joomla!
Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Chatbot
2 4 (3.48%) Photoshop
3 3 (2.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (2.61%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.61%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.74%) Elementor
5 1 (0.87%) Moqups
5 1 (0.87%) Sketch
5 1 (0.87%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Shopify
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 32 (27.83%) AWS
2 13 (11.30%) Azure
3 9 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (7.83%) Serverless
4 6 (5.22%) Figma
5 5 (4.35%) GCP
6 4 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.48%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (3.48%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (3.48%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.48%) CloudFront
6 4 (3.48%) npm
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (2.61%) SaaS
8 2 (1.74%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.74%) Contentful
8 2 (1.74%) GitHub
8 2 (1.74%) Stripe
8 2 (1.74%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) Broadband
1 1 (0.87%) Internet
1 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.87%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.96%) MySQL
2 5 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.35%) Redis
2 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.48%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (2.61%) Hazelcast
4 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.74%) Big Data
5 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.87%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.87%) Power BI
6 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (29.57%) Git
2 10 (8.70%) webpack
3 6 (5.22%) JIRA
4 5 (4.35%) Babel
4 5 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.35%) Mocha
5 4 (3.48%) Jasmine
5 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.48%) Karma Test Runner
5 4 (3.48%) Maven
5 4 (3.48%) Vite
6 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.61%) rollup.js
7 2 (1.74%) gulp
7 2 (1.74%) Selenium
7 2 (1.74%) Subversion
8 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.87%) PostCSS
8 1 (0.87%) Protractor
8 1 (0.87%) Sourcetree
General
1 22 (19.13%) Finance
1 22 (19.13%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.30%) Games
3 9 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.96%) Law
5 4 (3.48%) Banking
6 3 (2.61%) Advertising
6 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.61%) Retail
7 2 (1.74%) Legal
7 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.74%) Marketing
8 1 (0.87%) Automotive
8 1 (0.87%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (0.87%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.87%) iGaming
8 1 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (69.57%) HTML
2 74 (64.35%) React
3 72 (62.61%) CSS
4 26 (22.61%) AngularJS
5 23 (20.00%) HTML5
6 21 (18.26%) Node.js
6 21 (18.26%) Vue
7 17 (14.78%) jQuery
8 16 (13.91%) Sass
9 12 (10.43%) CSS3
9 12 (10.43%) REST
9 12 (10.43%) Tailwind CSS
10 11 (9.57%) .NET
10 11 (9.57%) Jest
11 10 (8.70%) Bootstrap
11 10 (8.70%) RESTful
12 9 (7.83%) React Native
12 9 (7.83%) WebSockets
13 8 (6.96%) LESS
14 7 (6.09%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (3.48%) Sports Betting
2 2 (1.74%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (1.74%) Animation
2 2 (1.74%) Client/Server
2 2 (1.74%) Cybercrime
2 2 (1.74%) Learning Management System
2 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.87%) Digital Signage
3 1 (0.87%) e-Learning
3 1 (0.87%) EPoS
3 1 (0.87%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.87%) IoT
3 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.87%) Mobile Games
3 1 (0.87%) NHS
3 1 (0.87%) Social Media
3 1 (0.87%) Tandem
3 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.87%) Android
1 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (88.70%) Front End Development
2 41 (35.65%) User Experience
3 35 (30.43%) Agile
4 28 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (19.13%) Code Quality
6 20 (17.39%) E-Commerce
6 20 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 18 (15.65%) UX Design
8 16 (13.91%) Responsive Web Design
9 15 (13.04%) Web Development
10 13 (11.30%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (10.43%) TDD
11 12 (10.43%) Test Automation
12 11 (9.57%) CI/CD
12 11 (9.57%) Computer Science
12 11 (9.57%) OOP
12 11 (9.57%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (9.57%) Scrum
13 10 (8.70%) Clean Code
14 9 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 90 (78.26%) JavaScript
2 44 (38.26%) TypeScript
3 15 (13.04%) C#
4 14 (12.17%) PHP
5 10 (8.70%) Python
5 10 (8.70%) SQL
6 6 (5.22%) C++
6 6 (5.22%) Java
7 2 (1.74%) Julia
7 2 (1.74%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (14.78%) Degree
2 10 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.87%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.61%) QA
3 2 (1.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (6.96%) Adobe
2 7 (6.09%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.22%) Oracle
3 6 (5.22%) PayPal
4 3 (2.61%) Twitter
5 2 (1.74%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.74%) Netlify
6 1 (0.87%) Apple
6 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.87%) Google
6 1 (0.87%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.87%) Spotify