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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 219 208
Rank change year-on-year -25 -11 -126
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 627 1,358 1,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.21% 1.38% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.61% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 516 1,123 1,283
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,772 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 26 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 26 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 -27 563 £65,000 +8.33% 670
UK excluding London -44 338 £57,500 +9.52% 348
Work from Home -19 272 £65,000 +8.33% 422
London +46 248 £80,000 - 383
North of England -63 88 £55,000 +10.00% 109
Midlands +10 82 £50,000 +17.65% 64
South East +23 73 £67,500 +12.50% 68
North West -55 65 £55,000 +4.76% 65
East Midlands +55 46 £40,000 - 28
South West +36 40 £65,000 +30.00% 41
West Midlands +8 36 £65,000 +44.44% 35
Scotland +26 30 £52,500 - 28
East of England +35 26 £66,212 -6.41% 27
North East +39 13 £56,500 +7.62% 24
Wales +35 11 £65,000 +0.93% 3
Yorkshire +2 10 £57,500 +27.78% 23

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 39 (6.22%) CMS
2 33 (5.26%) WordPress
3 24 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.23%) Confluence
5 13 (2.07%) nginx
6 11 (1.75%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.59%) Drupal
8 5 (0.80%) Apache
8 5 (0.80%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.80%) Liferay
9 4 (0.64%) Strapi
10 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.16%) Joomla!
Applications
1 18 (2.87%) Adobe XD
2 17 (2.71%) Sketch
3 7 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (0.96%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.48%) Notion
5 3 (0.48%) Trello
6 2 (0.32%) InVision
6 2 (0.32%) Moqups
6 2 (0.32%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (4.47%) Shopify
2 9 (1.44%) Magento
3 4 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 162 (25.84%) AWS
2 152 (24.24%) Azure
3 60 (9.57%) Serverless
4 54 (8.61%) Figma
5 50 (7.97%) GCP
6 46 (7.34%) GitHub
7 40 (6.38%) SaaS
8 32 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (2.87%) Dagster
11 18 (2.87%) dbt
12 17 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (2.55%) Slack
14 15 (2.39%) npm
14 15 (2.39%) Power Platform
15 14 (2.23%) Zapier
16 13 (2.07%) Amazon S3
17 12 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.48%) Internet
2 2 (0.32%) Broadband
2 2 (0.32%) HTTP
3 1 (0.16%) MQTT
3 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.16%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (6.86%) MySQL
3 38 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.58%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.99%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.99%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (2.87%) Apache Iceberg
6 18 (2.87%) Dremio
7 15 (2.39%) Redis
8 12 (1.91%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.75%) Power BI
10 6 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.80%) Apache Ignite
11 5 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.48%) Big Data
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 142 (22.65%) Git
2 43 (6.86%) webpack
3 39 (6.22%) JIRA
4 27 (4.31%) Babel
5 26 (4.15%) Jasmine
6 20 (3.19%) Cypress.io
7 19 (3.03%) Karma Test Runner
8 18 (2.87%) Jenkins
9 17 (2.71%) Mocha
10 13 (2.07%) GitLab
11 12 (1.91%) JUnit
12 11 (1.75%) Maven
12 11 (1.75%) Vite
13 8 (1.28%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.28%) Gradle
13 8 (1.28%) Moq
13 8 (1.28%) Selenium
13 8 (1.28%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.28%) SpecFlow
14 7 (1.12%) rollup.js
General
1 161 (25.68%) Finance
2 131 (20.89%) Social Skills
3 62 (9.89%) Front Office
4 47 (7.50%) Banking
5 38 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (4.94%) Law
7 30 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.19%) Games
9 19 (3.03%) Retail
10 17 (2.71%) Marketing
11 14 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.59%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.28%) Legal
13 8 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.12%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.96%) Retail Banking
16 5 (0.80%) Back Office
16 5 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 458 (73.05%) Developer
2 258 (41.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 170 (27.11%) Senior
4 134 (21.37%) Senior Developer
5 77 (12.28%) React Developer
6 68 (10.85%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 62 (9.89%) Lead
8 51 (8.13%) Software Engineer
9 47 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 40 (6.38%) Lead Developer
11 32 (5.10%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 28 (4.47%) Analyst
12 28 (4.47%) JavaScript Developer
12 28 (4.47%) Web Developer
13 27 (4.31%) Business Analyst
13 27 (4.31%) Business Manager
13 27 (4.31%) Product Analyst
13 27 (4.31%) Product Business Analyst
13 27 (4.31%) Product Manager
14 26 (4.15%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (52.47%) React
2 281 (44.82%) CSS
3 271 (43.22%) HTML
4 114 (18.18%) AngularJS
5 107 (17.07%) .NET
6 97 (15.47%) RESTful
7 91 (14.51%) Node.js
8 82 (13.08%) HTML5
9 67 (10.69%) Vue
10 66 (10.53%) Redux
11 61 (9.73%) REST
12 58 (9.25%) Next.js
13 55 (8.77%) Jest
14 54 (8.61%) CSS3
15 45 (7.18%) GraphQL
16 42 (6.70%) Sass
17 34 (5.42%) .NET Framework
18 33 (5.26%) React Native
19 32 (5.10%) WebSockets
20 29 (4.63%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 62 (9.89%) Product Ownership
2 57 (9.09%) Fixed Income
3 45 (7.18%) Equities
4 35 (5.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 32 (5.10%) Hedge funds
6 28 (4.47%) Derivative
6 28 (4.47%) Mobile App
7 23 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (3.03%) Virtual Team
9 17 (2.71%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.55%) Data Structures
11 15 (2.39%) Cloud Native
11 15 (2.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 14 (2.23%) Algorithms
13 13 (2.07%) Educational Technology
14 10 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.28%) Learning Management System
15 8 (1.28%) Mobile Games
16 7 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.86%) Apple iOS
2 18 (2.87%) Android
3 10 (1.59%) Linux
4 4 (0.64%) Windows
5 2 (0.32%) Unix
6 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (45.77%) Agile
2 234 (37.32%) User Experience
3 169 (26.95%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (22.01%) UX Design
5 136 (21.69%) Software Engineering
6 127 (20.26%) DevOps
7 112 (17.86%) CI/CD
8 106 (16.91%) Full-Stack Development
9 90 (14.35%) Computer Science
10 85 (13.56%) Microservices
11 82 (13.08%) Artificial Intelligence
11 82 (13.08%) Web Development
12 80 (12.76%) Mentoring
13 76 (12.12%) E-Commerce
14 73 (11.64%) Code Quality
15 70 (11.16%) Asset Management
15 70 (11.16%) Test Automation
16 69 (11.00%) Responsive Web Design
17 65 (10.37%) Analytics
18 63 (10.05%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 353 (56.30%) JavaScript
2 241 (38.44%) TypeScript
3 114 (18.18%) C#
4 113 (18.02%) Python
5 96 (15.31%) Java
6 86 (13.72%) SQL
7 72 (11.48%) PHP
8 12 (1.91%) Go
9 8 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.96%) Bicep
10 6 (0.96%) C++
11 5 (0.80%) Delphi
11 5 (0.80%) Ruby
12 4 (0.64%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.48%) Groovy
13 3 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.48%) R
14 2 (0.32%) C
14 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 167 (26.63%) Degree
2 63 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.07%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.59%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.69%) Accessibility
2 62 (9.89%) QA
3 22 (3.51%) WCAG
4 6 (0.96%) CDISC
4 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.80%) GDPR
5 5 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.16%) COBIT
6 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 115 (18.34%) Docker
2 5 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 79 (12.60%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.91%) Prometheus
3 11 (1.75%) Grafana
4 5 (0.80%) Argo
4 5 (0.80%) Terraform
5 2 (0.32%) Marathon
6 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 58 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.26%) Adobe
3 16 (2.55%) WooCommerce
4 14 (2.23%) Google
5 8 (1.28%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.28%) Oracle
6 7 (1.12%) ANSYS
7 6 (0.96%) PayPal
8 5 (0.80%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.80%) New Relic
8 5 (0.80%) Splunk
9 4 (0.64%) Apple
9 4 (0.64%) SAP
10 3 (0.48%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.48%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.32%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.32%) Databricks
11 2 (0.32%) Mercator
11 2 (0.32%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.16%) Mapbox