Front End Development Jobs

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 199 209
Rank change year-on-year -34 +10 -127
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 635 1,420 2,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.26% 1.53% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.77% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 528 1,154 1,368
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development.

Salary trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the UK over the 6 months to 2 April 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
England -25 571 £65,000 +8.33% 634
UK excluding London -74 351 £60,000 +14.29% 319
Work from Home -11 282 £65,000 +4.00% 329
London +3 245 £80,000 - 364
North of England -49 97 £57,500 +15.00% 90
Midlands -4 79 £50,000 +11.11% 59
South East +19 76 £67,500 +12.50% 87
North West -55 69 £56,250 +4.46% 55
South West +35 48 £65,000 +36.84% 33
East Midlands +41 44 £39,750 -6.47% 28
West Midlands -31 35 £65,000 +36.84% 29
Scotland +3 30 £52,500 - 20
East of England +23 25 £66,212 -2.36% 27
Wales +36 14 £65,000 +30.00% 3
North East +30 14 £56,500 +7.62% 12
Yorkshire +2 14 £60,000 +33.33% 25

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 40 (6.30%) CMS
2 35 (5.51%) WordPress
3 27 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.68%) Confluence
5 12 (1.89%) nginx
6 11 (1.73%) Drupal
6 11 (1.73%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.26%) Apache
8 5 (0.79%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.63%) Strapi
10 3 (0.47%) Liferay
11 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.16%) Joomla!
Applications
1 14 (2.20%) Adobe XD
1 14 (2.20%) Sketch
2 6 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 6 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.47%) Notion
3 3 (0.47%) Trello
4 2 (0.31%) InVision
4 2 (0.31%) Moqups
4 2 (0.31%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 31 (4.88%) Shopify
2 7 (1.10%) Magento
3 4 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 154 (24.25%) AWS
2 139 (21.89%) Azure
3 52 (8.19%) Figma
3 52 (8.19%) GitHub
4 51 (8.03%) Serverless
5 47 (7.40%) GCP
6 43 (6.77%) SaaS
7 35 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (2.99%) Slack
11 18 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (2.83%) Dagster
11 18 (2.83%) dbt
11 18 (2.83%) npm
12 17 (2.68%) Zapier
13 15 (2.36%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.73%) Amazon S3
14 11 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.79%) Internet
2 4 (0.63%) Broadband
3 3 (0.47%) HTTP
4 1 (0.16%) MQTT
4 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.16%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.61%) MySQL
1 42 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.83%) NoSQL
3 30 (4.72%) MongoDB
4 24 (3.78%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.62%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (2.83%) Apache Iceberg
6 18 (2.83%) Dremio
7 16 (2.52%) Redis
8 12 (1.89%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.57%) Power BI
10 9 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.26%) Apache Ignite
12 6 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.47%) Big Data
13 3 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 140 (22.05%) Git
2 47 (7.40%) webpack
3 43 (6.77%) JIRA
4 29 (4.57%) Babel
5 25 (3.94%) Cypress.io
6 24 (3.78%) Jasmine
7 18 (2.83%) Jenkins
8 17 (2.68%) Karma Test Runner
8 17 (2.68%) Mocha
9 11 (1.73%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.57%) GitLab
10 10 (1.57%) JUnit
10 10 (1.57%) Selenium
10 10 (1.57%) Vite
11 8 (1.26%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.26%) git-flow
11 8 (1.26%) Maven
12 7 (1.10%) Moq
12 7 (1.10%) rollup.js
12 7 (1.10%) SpecFlow
General
1 161 (25.35%) Finance
2 133 (20.94%) Social Skills
3 65 (10.24%) Front Office
4 47 (7.40%) Banking
5 43 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (4.72%) Law
7 24 (3.78%) Games
8 18 (2.83%) Marketing
8 18 (2.83%) Retail
9 13 (2.05%) Public Sector
10 12 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.42%) Legal
12 8 (1.26%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.94%) Agriculture
14 6 (0.94%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.79%) Advertising
15 5 (0.79%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 459 (72.28%) Developer
2 263 (41.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 177 (27.87%) Senior
4 138 (21.73%) Senior Developer
5 81 (12.76%) React Developer
6 71 (11.18%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 60 (9.45%) Lead
8 51 (8.03%) Software Engineer
9 42 (6.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (5.98%) Lead Developer
11 33 (5.20%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 30 (4.72%) Web Developer
13 28 (4.41%) Analyst
14 27 (4.25%) Business Analyst
14 27 (4.25%) Business Manager
14 27 (4.25%) Product Analyst
14 27 (4.25%) Product Business Analyst
14 27 (4.25%) Product Manager
15 25 (3.94%) JavaScript Developer
16 21 (3.31%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (54.17%) React
2 289 (45.51%) CSS
3 271 (42.68%) HTML
4 115 (18.11%) AngularJS
5 108 (17.01%) .NET
6 94 (14.80%) RESTful
7 90 (14.17%) Node.js
8 87 (13.70%) HTML5
9 73 (11.50%) Redux
10 67 (10.55%) Vue
11 64 (10.08%) Next.js
12 58 (9.13%) Jest
12 58 (9.13%) REST
13 55 (8.66%) CSS3
14 47 (7.40%) GraphQL
15 41 (6.46%) Sass
16 32 (5.04%) WebSockets
17 31 (4.88%) .NET Framework
17 31 (4.88%) React Native
18 30 (4.72%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.24%) Product Ownership
2 60 (9.45%) Fixed Income
3 46 (7.24%) Equities
4 35 (5.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 33 (5.20%) Hedge funds
6 28 (4.41%) Derivative
7 25 (3.94%) Mobile App
8 24 (3.78%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (3.46%) Virtual Team
10 18 (2.83%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.68%) Data Structures
12 15 (2.36%) Algorithms
13 14 (2.20%) Cloud Native
13 14 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 13 (2.05%) Educational Technology
15 10 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (1.26%) Learning Management System
16 8 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (1.26%) Mobile Games
17 6 (0.94%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.77%) Apple iOS
2 18 (2.83%) Android
3 8 (1.26%) Linux
4 5 (0.79%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (44.88%) Agile
2 236 (37.17%) User Experience
3 178 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
4 141 (22.20%) UX Design
5 134 (21.10%) Software Engineering
6 122 (19.21%) DevOps
7 113 (17.80%) CI/CD
8 101 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
9 94 (14.80%) Computer Science
10 91 (14.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 86 (13.54%) Web Development
12 79 (12.44%) E-Commerce
12 79 (12.44%) Mentoring
13 76 (11.97%) Code Quality
13 76 (11.97%) Responsive Web Design
14 74 (11.65%) Asset Management
15 72 (11.34%) Microservices
16 68 (10.71%) Analytics
17 67 (10.55%) Test Automation
18 65 (10.24%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 350 (55.12%) JavaScript
2 248 (39.06%) TypeScript
3 123 (19.37%) Python
4 109 (17.17%) C#
5 95 (14.96%) Java
6 90 (14.17%) SQL
7 77 (12.13%) PHP
8 12 (1.89%) Go
9 8 (1.26%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.10%) Bicep
11 6 (0.94%) C++
11 6 (0.94%) Ruby
12 4 (0.63%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.47%) Delphi
13 3 (0.47%) Groovy
13 3 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.31%) VB
14 2 (0.31%) XAML
Qualifications
1 170 (26.77%) Degree
2 65 (10.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (3.78%) Security Cleared
4 12 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 11 (1.73%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (11.18%) Accessibility
2 59 (9.29%) QA
3 23 (3.62%) WCAG
4 6 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.79%) CDISC
5 5 (0.79%) GDPR
6 3 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.16%) COBIT
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 105 (16.54%) Docker
2 4 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (11.81%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.36%) Prometheus
3 14 (2.20%) Grafana
4 5 (0.79%) Argo
4 5 (0.79%) Terraform
5 2 (0.31%) Marathon
6 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 61 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.57%) Adobe
3 19 (2.99%) WooCommerce
4 16 (2.52%) Google
5 8 (1.26%) Oracle
6 7 (1.10%) ANSYS
6 7 (1.10%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.94%) PayPal
8 5 (0.79%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.79%) New Relic
8 5 (0.79%) Splunk
9 4 (0.63%) Apple
9 4 (0.63%) SAP
10 3 (0.47%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.47%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.31%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.31%) Databricks
11 2 (0.31%) Mercator
11 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.16%) Dell