Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs 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 £66,295 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 694 670
Rank change year-on-year +174 -24 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 55 69 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.096% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.10% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48 52 47
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,663 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,875 £54,688 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,295 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +12.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £93,778 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £78,625 £77,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

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 36,142 67,932 52,599
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.86% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18,697 47,996 30,020
10th Percentile £26,987 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.50% -

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

Job postings that featured Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

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

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

Salary trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 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 19 May 2025.

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 19 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 +47 21 £67,500 -3.57% 25
North West -4 18 £65,000 -7.14% 23
Midlands +73 9 £52,500 -12.50% 4
South West +94 8 £85,253 +17.59% 2
West Midlands +46 8 £52,500 -12.50% 4
South East +97 7 £62,500 -16.67% 27
East of England +35 6 £66,295 +10.49% 4
Scotland +113 4 £85,253 +26.30% 6
Yorkshire +64 3 £72,500 +123.08% 2
East Midlands +25 1 £72,500 +31.82%
Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 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 Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 45 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 37 (67.27%) Software Engineering
2 37 (67.27%) React
3 30 (54.55%) TypeScript
4 25 (45.45%) Agile
5 23 (41.82%) HTML
6 19 (34.55%) C#
6 19 (34.55%) AngularJS
6 19 (34.55%) Git
7 18 (32.73%) CSS
7 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
8 17 (30.91%) Jest
9 16 (29.09%) User Experience
10 14 (25.45%) DevOps
10 14 (25.45%) Test Automation
10 14 (25.45%) Node.js
10 14 (25.45%) .NET
10 14 (25.45%) Finance
10 14 (25.45%) Degree
10 14 (25.45%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (23.64%) Accessibility
11 13 (23.64%) webpack
11 13 (23.64%) Microservices
11 13 (23.64%) SQL
12 12 (21.82%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (21.82%) AWS
12 12 (21.82%) Kubernetes
12 12 (21.82%) Micro Frontends
13 11 (20.00%) GCP
13 11 (20.00%) Next.js

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 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 1 (1.82%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) AWS
2 11 (20.00%) GCP
3 9 (16.36%) Azure
4 6 (10.91%) SaaS
5 5 (9.09%) Adobe Analytics
5 5 (9.09%) npm
6 4 (7.27%) Google Analytics
7 3 (5.45%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.82%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.82%) Cloudflare Workers
9 1 (1.82%) Datadog
9 1 (1.82%) Figma
9 1 (1.82%) GitHub
9 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.45%) Redis
3 2 (3.64%) Hazelcast
3 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (34.55%) Git
2 13 (23.64%) webpack
3 9 (16.36%) Cypress.io
4 8 (14.55%) Jenkins
5 6 (10.91%) Cucumber
6 5 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (9.09%) Storybook
7 4 (7.27%) Vite
8 3 (5.45%) MSTest
8 3 (5.45%) NUnit
8 3 (5.45%) SpecFlow
8 3 (5.45%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.82%) Babel
9 1 (1.82%) GitLab
9 1 (1.82%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.82%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (1.82%) Selenium
General
1 14 (25.45%) Finance
2 10 (18.18%) Banking
3 9 (16.36%) Law
4 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Games
6 3 (5.45%) Front Office
6 3 (5.45%) Tech for Good
7 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.82%) Advertising
8 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (67.27%) React
2 23 (41.82%) HTML
3 19 (34.55%) AngularJS
4 18 (32.73%) CSS
5 17 (30.91%) Jest
6 14 (25.45%) .NET
6 14 (25.45%) Node.js
7 11 (20.00%) Next.js
7 11 (20.00%) Redux
7 11 (20.00%) RESTful
8 10 (18.18%) RxJS
9 9 (16.36%) NgRx
10 8 (14.55%) Enzyme
11 7 (12.73%) .NET Core
11 7 (12.73%) React Native
12 6 (10.91%) .NET Framework
12 6 (10.91%) Entity Framework
12 6 (10.91%) HTML5
12 6 (10.91%) Kendo UI
13 5 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.27%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.27%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.45%) Credit Derivative
3 3 (5.45%) Derivative
3 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.45%) Equities
3 3 (5.45%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.45%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.64%) IoT
4 2 (3.64%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.64%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.82%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Social Media
5 1 (1.82%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (67.27%) Software Engineering
2 25 (45.45%) Agile
3 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
4 16 (29.09%) User Experience
5 14 (25.45%) DevOps
5 14 (25.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (25.45%) Test Automation
6 13 (23.64%) Microservices
7 12 (21.82%) Artificial Intelligence
7 12 (21.82%) Micro Frontends
8 10 (18.18%) Code Quality
8 10 (18.18%) Event-Driven
9 9 (16.36%) Containerisation
9 9 (16.36%) UX Design
10 8 (14.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (14.55%) Front End Development
10 8 (14.55%) Mentoring
10 8 (14.55%) TDD
11 7 (12.73%) API Development
11 7 (12.73%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 45 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 30 (54.55%) TypeScript
3 19 (34.55%) C#
4 13 (23.64%) SQL
5 9 (16.36%) Python
6 6 (10.91%) C++
7 4 (7.27%) Go
8 1 (1.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Degree
2 5 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Grafana
2 2 (3.64%) Kibana
3 1 (1.82%) logstash
3 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) PayPal
1 6 (10.91%) Telerik
2 5 (9.09%) Adobe
2 5 (9.09%) Google
3 4 (7.27%) Tealium
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.82%) New Relic
4 1 (1.82%) Optimizely