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 17 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 445 384 332
Rank change year-on-year -61 -52 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 130 442 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.62% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.65% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 109 381 353
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £68,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £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 36,103 67,726 52,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 94.86% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,704 47,866 30,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 17 May 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 May 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 -20 45 £55,000 +10.00% 64
North West -49 30 £55,000 - 37
Midlands +20 20 £46,250 +10.12% 19
South West +60 18 £55,000 +10.00% 13
South East +9 17 £57,500 -4.17% 16
East of England +42 16 £66,212 -7.40% 9
Scotland +56 11 £50,000 -9.09% 4
North East +50 10 £58,250 +55.33% 14
West Midlands +22 10 £48,750 +11.43% 10
East Midlands +13 10 £45,000 +20.00% 7
Yorkshire +37 5 £35,000 -6.67% 14
Wales +33 3 £45,000 -43.75% 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 17 May 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.

1 120 (92.31%) Front End Development
2 97 (74.62%) JavaScript
3 87 (66.92%) React
4 84 (64.62%) CSS
5 83 (63.85%) HTML
6 60 (46.15%) TypeScript
7 48 (36.92%) User Experience
8 38 (29.23%) Git
9 31 (23.85%) Agile
10 28 (21.54%) AWS
10 28 (21.54%) Vue
11 27 (20.77%) AngularJS
11 27 (20.77%) HTML5
12 26 (20.00%) E-Commerce
12 26 (20.00%) Code Quality
13 25 (19.23%) PHP
14 24 (18.46%) Web Development
14 24 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (17.69%) Degree
15 23 (17.69%) UX Design
16 22 (16.92%) Social Skills
17 19 (14.62%) C#
18 18 (13.85%) Azure
18 18 (13.85%) OOP
19 17 (13.08%) Software Engineering
20 16 (12.31%) Artificial Intelligence
20 16 (12.31%) Computer Science
20 16 (12.31%) Node.js
20 16 (12.31%) Jest
21 15 (11.54%) webpack

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 (8.46%) WordPress
2 6 (4.62%) CMS
3 4 (3.08%) Headless CMS
4 3 (2.31%) Strapi
5 1 (0.77%) Drupal
5 1 (0.77%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.77%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Chatbot
2 4 (3.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (3.08%) Adobe XD
3 3 (2.31%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.54%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.77%) Moqups
5 1 (0.77%) Sketch
5 1 (0.77%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Shopify
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.77%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.54%) AWS
2 18 (13.85%) Azure
3 7 (5.38%) Stripe
4 6 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (4.62%) GCP
5 5 (3.85%) Figma
6 4 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.08%) npm
6 4 (3.08%) SaaS
6 4 (3.08%) Serverless
7 3 (2.31%) CloudFront
7 3 (2.31%) Contentful
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.77%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.77%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.77%) GitHub
9 1 (0.77%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.77%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Broadband
1 1 (0.77%) Internet
1 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.77%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.15%) MySQL
2 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.54%) Big Data
3 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.54%) Redis
4 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.77%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.77%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (29.23%) Git
2 15 (11.54%) webpack
3 10 (7.69%) Babel
4 8 (6.15%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.62%) Selenium
5 6 (4.62%) Vite
6 5 (3.85%) Mocha
7 4 (3.08%) Jasmine
7 4 (3.08%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (2.31%) gulp
8 3 (2.31%) JIRA
8 3 (2.31%) rollup.js
9 2 (1.54%) Subversion
10 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.77%) ESLint
10 1 (0.77%) PostCSS
10 1 (0.77%) Protractor
General
1 22 (16.92%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.54%) Finance
3 13 (10.00%) Games
4 11 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (6.92%) Marketing
6 8 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.62%) Retail
8 4 (3.08%) Advertising
9 3 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Law
9 3 (2.31%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.54%) Legal
10 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.77%) Automotive
11 1 (0.77%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.77%) Electronics
11 1 (0.77%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (66.92%) React
2 84 (64.62%) CSS
3 83 (63.85%) HTML
4 28 (21.54%) Vue
5 27 (20.77%) AngularJS
5 27 (20.77%) HTML5
6 16 (12.31%) Jest
6 16 (12.31%) Node.js
7 15 (11.54%) CSS3
7 15 (11.54%) REST
8 13 (10.00%) .NET
8 13 (10.00%) RESTful
8 13 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
9 12 (9.23%) jQuery
10 11 (8.46%) Sass
11 9 (6.92%) Redux
12 8 (6.15%) WebSockets
13 7 (5.38%) Bootstrap
13 7 (5.38%) LAMP
13 7 (5.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 8 (6.15%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.38%) Learning Management System
3 7 (5.38%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.08%) Sports Betting
5 3 (2.31%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.54%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (1.54%) Cybercrime
6 2 (1.54%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.54%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.54%) IoT
7 1 (0.77%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.77%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.77%) Social Media
7 1 (0.77%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.77%) Android
1 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (92.31%) Front End Development
2 48 (36.92%) User Experience
3 31 (23.85%) Agile
4 26 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 26 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 24 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (18.46%) Web Development
6 23 (17.69%) UX Design
7 18 (13.85%) OOP
8 17 (13.08%) Software Engineering
9 16 (12.31%) Artificial Intelligence
9 16 (12.31%) Computer Science
10 15 (11.54%) Microservices
11 12 (9.23%) CI/CD
12 11 (8.46%) Design Patterns
12 11 (8.46%) OO
12 11 (8.46%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (8.46%) Responsive Web Design
13 10 (7.69%) B2B
14 9 (6.92%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (74.62%) JavaScript
2 60 (46.15%) TypeScript
3 25 (19.23%) PHP
4 19 (14.62%) C#
5 10 (7.69%) Python
5 10 (7.69%) SQL
6 6 (4.62%) C++
7 2 (1.54%) Java
7 2 (1.54%) Julia
7 2 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (17.69%) Degree
2 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.77%) Accessibility
2 13 (10.00%) WCAG
3 10 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 11 (8.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.15%) Adobe
3 6 (4.62%) ANSYS
3 6 (4.62%) PayPal
4 3 (2.31%) Twitter
5 2 (1.54%) Oracle
6 1 (0.77%) Apple
6 1 (0.77%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.77%) Google
6 1 (0.77%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.77%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.77%) Spotify