Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 503 518
Rank change year-on-year +33 +15 +157
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 36 48 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 29 39 33
10th Percentile £53,000 £50,000 £43,050
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,500 £91,547
UK median annual salary £78,750 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.61% +3.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 37,950 33,421 33,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 92.92% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 23,124 16,269 25,086
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the UK excluding London

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
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 Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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 +10 15 £70,000 +7.69% 11
Yorkshire -2 13 £70,000 +27.27% 4
East of England +23 6 £55,000 -24.14% 23
Scotland +7 6 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 6 £70,000 - 3
North West +26 2 £100,000 +40.35% 4
West Midlands +20 2 £85,000 +61.90% 5
Midlands +12 2 £85,000 +58.14% 7
South East +20 1 £57,500 -36.11% 31
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 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 Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 22 (61.11%) Software Engineering
2 19 (52.78%) React
3 15 (41.67%) TypeScript
4 13 (36.11%) Next.js
5 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
6 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 10 (27.78%) Storybook
7 9 (25.00%) Accessibility
7 9 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 8 (22.22%) Agile
8 8 (22.22%) AWS
8 8 (22.22%) Azure
8 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (22.22%) Front End Development
8 8 (22.22%) SEO
9 7 (19.44%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (19.44%) GraphQL
9 7 (19.44%) Kanban
9 7 (19.44%) Node.js
9 7 (19.44%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (19.44%) Scrum
10 6 (16.67%) Asset Management
10 6 (16.67%) Coaching
10 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (16.67%) JSON
10 6 (16.67%) JSON-LD
10 6 (16.67%) OO
10 6 (16.67%) REST
10 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
10 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) AWS
1 8 (22.22%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Serverless
3 5 (13.89%) Figma
4 3 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Storybook
2 2 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) gulp
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 7 (19.44%) Marketing
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Advertising
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (52.78%) React
2 13 (36.11%) Next.js
3 7 (19.44%) GraphQL
3 7 (19.44%) Node.js
4 6 (16.67%) JSON
4 6 (16.67%) JSON-LD
4 6 (16.67%) REST
5 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.11%) Svelte
6 3 (8.33%) CSS
6 3 (8.33%) HTML
7 2 (5.56%) .NET
7 2 (5.56%) Jest
7 2 (5.56%) Vue
8 1 (2.78%) Apache Cordova
8 1 (2.78%) Ionic Framework
8 1 (2.78%) jQuery
8 1 (2.78%) React Native
8 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.78%) Three.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.78%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Software Engineering
2 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 9 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (22.22%) Agile
4 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (22.22%) Front End Development
4 8 (22.22%) SEO
5 7 (19.44%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (19.44%) Kanban
5 7 (19.44%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (19.44%) Scrum
6 6 (16.67%) Asset Management
6 6 (16.67%) Coaching
6 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (16.67%) OO
6 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 6 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
7 4 (11.11%) Explainable AI
7 4 (11.11%) User Experience
7 4 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) TypeScript
2 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) C#
3 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Adobe
1 1 (2.78%) Google
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.78%) New Relic