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 to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 318 238
Rank change year-on-year -68 -80 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 441 585 1,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.97% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.09% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 381 364 788
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,306 53,672 68,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.22% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,632 30,597 42,434
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 -3 106 £50,000 - 38
South East -56 95 £60,000 +9.09% 15
North West +23 79 £52,500 -8.70% 22
Scotland -33 74 £55,000 -11.29% 6
South West +5 68 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Midlands +2 61 £42,500 -22.73% 13
West Midlands +41 44 £46,250 -11.90% 7
Yorkshire +9 26 £37,500 -10.71% 13
East of England -22 22 £71,500 -4.67% 6
East Midlands -21 17 £37,500 -37.50% 6
Wales -11 11 £80,000 +52.38% 5
Northern Ireland +21 4 - - 1
North East -14 1 £37,500 -21.05% 3
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 12 May 2024, 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.

1 410 (92.97%) Front End Development
2 268 (60.77%) JavaScript
3 264 (59.86%) React
4 243 (55.10%) CSS
5 229 (51.93%) HTML
6 180 (40.82%) TypeScript
7 148 (33.56%) Agile
8 129 (29.25%) AngularJS
9 126 (28.57%) User Experience
10 111 (25.17%) Degree
11 110 (24.94%) Problem-Solving
12 103 (23.36%) Git
13 101 (22.90%) Social Skills
14 100 (22.68%) Node.js
15 88 (19.95%) HTML5
16 71 (16.10%) Azure
17 67 (15.19%) UX Design
18 65 (14.74%) PHP
19 64 (14.51%) CSS3
20 63 (14.29%) Vue
21 60 (13.61%) Computer Science
22 59 (13.38%) Web Development
22 59 (13.38%) AWS
23 58 (13.15%) Sass
24 56 (12.70%) C#
25 53 (12.02%) Jest
26 50 (11.34%) Docker
27 49 (11.11%) DevOps
28 47 (10.66%) Finance
29 45 (10.20%) E-Commerce

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 38 (8.62%) WordPress
2 31 (7.03%) CMS
3 3 (0.68%) Confluence
4 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Moodle
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (3.85%) Adobe XD
2 8 (1.81%) Photoshop
3 6 (1.36%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.91%) Maya
5 3 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (4.54%) Shopify
2 3 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 71 (16.10%) Azure
2 59 (13.38%) AWS
3 24 (5.44%) SaaS
4 21 (4.76%) Figma
5 17 (3.85%) GitHub
6 15 (3.40%) npm
7 12 (2.72%) Google Analytics
8 8 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.13%) GCP
11 3 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 3 (0.68%) BigCommerce
11 3 (0.68%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.68%) Google Play
11 3 (0.68%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.45%) dbt
12 2 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.45%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (0.45%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.04%) Internet
2 7 (1.59%) HTTP
3 5 (1.13%) DNS
4 4 (0.91%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.49%) MySQL
2 10 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.59%) Redis
4 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.45%) Metabase
4 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.45%) Power BI
4 2 (0.45%) Power Query
4 2 (0.45%) Tableau
5 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.23%) GIS
5 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 103 (23.36%) Git
2 40 (9.07%) Cypress.io
3 39 (8.84%) Selenium
4 25 (5.67%) webpack
5 14 (3.17%) Cucumber
6 13 (2.95%) gulp
6 13 (2.95%) JIRA
6 13 (2.95%) Visual Studio
7 10 (2.27%) Storybook
8 7 (1.59%) Jenkins
9 6 (1.36%) ESLint
10 4 (0.91%) Babel
10 4 (0.91%) Grunt
10 4 (0.91%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.91%) Vite
11 3 (0.68%) GitLab
11 3 (0.68%) Maven
11 3 (0.68%) PostCSS
11 3 (0.68%) rollup.js
12 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 47 (10.66%) Finance
3 24 (5.44%) Marketing
4 22 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (4.54%) Retail
6 11 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.27%) Tech for Good
8 9 (2.04%) Games
8 9 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.59%) Electronics
9 7 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.36%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.68%) Aviation
13 3 (0.68%) Banking
13 3 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.45%) Automotive
14 2 (0.45%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (59.86%) React
2 243 (55.10%) CSS
3 229 (51.93%) HTML
4 129 (29.25%) AngularJS
5 100 (22.68%) Node.js
6 88 (19.95%) HTML5
7 64 (14.51%) CSS3
8 63 (14.29%) Vue
9 58 (13.15%) Sass
10 53 (12.02%) Jest
11 44 (9.98%) jQuery
12 43 (9.75%) Express.js
13 40 (9.07%) Redux
14 32 (7.26%) GraphQL
15 30 (6.80%) Next.js
16 25 (5.67%) .NET
17 23 (5.22%) REST
18 21 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
19 20 (4.54%) React Native
20 17 (3.85%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.94%) Greenfield Project
2 23 (5.22%) Mobile App
3 20 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.59%) Animation
5 7 (1.59%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.36%) Client/Server
6 6 (1.36%) Social Media
7 5 (1.13%) Hackathon
7 5 (1.13%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.91%) Arduino
8 4 (0.91%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.91%) IoT
8 4 (0.91%) iPhone
8 4 (0.91%) Life Science
8 4 (0.91%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (0.68%) Graphic Design
9 3 (0.68%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.27%) Android
2 7 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.45%) Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (92.97%) Front End Development
2 148 (33.56%) Agile
3 126 (28.57%) User Experience
4 110 (24.94%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (15.19%) UX Design
6 60 (13.61%) Computer Science
7 59 (13.38%) Web Development
8 49 (11.11%) DevOps
9 45 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence
9 45 (10.20%) E-Commerce
10 43 (9.75%) Software Engineering
11 39 (8.84%) Actionable Insight
12 38 (8.62%) CI/CD
13 36 (8.16%) Propensity Modelling
14 32 (7.26%) Full Stack Development
15 31 (7.03%) Mentoring
16 28 (6.35%) Unit Testing
17 26 (5.90%) Open Source
18 23 (5.22%) Clean Code
19 22 (4.99%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 268 (60.77%) JavaScript
2 180 (40.82%) TypeScript
3 65 (14.74%) PHP
4 56 (12.70%) C#
5 26 (5.90%) SQL
6 18 (4.08%) Java
7 16 (3.63%) Python
8 6 (1.36%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.13%) GLSL
10 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.45%) JSX
10 2 (0.45%) Lisp
11 1 (0.23%) Bash
11 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 111 (25.17%) Degree
2 41 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 38 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.94%) WCAG
2 23 (5.22%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.17%) QA
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (11.34%) Docker
2 4 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) Plesk
Vendors
1 33 (7.48%) Google
2 28 (6.35%) Adobe
3 22 (4.99%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.81%) DevExpress
5 7 (1.59%) SAP
5 7 (1.59%) WooCommerce
6 5 (1.13%) Xamarin
7 4 (0.91%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.68%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.45%) Apple
9 2 (0.45%) F5
9 2 (0.45%) Facebook
10 1 (0.23%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.23%) BT
10 1 (0.23%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.23%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.23%) Mitel