Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 209 83
Rank change year-on-year -8 -126 -9
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 1,351 1,920 6,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.38% 1.83% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.92% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,116 1,271 3,098
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £75,772 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Top 17 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 27 April 2024. 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 -15 1,094 £60,000 -7.69% 321
UK excluding London +6 955 £52,500 -7.49% 206
Work from Home -1 678 £60,000 -4.00% 185
London -73 322 £80,000 +14.29% 130
North of England +64 267 £50,000 - 84
South East -34 171 £60,000 - 25
North West +43 161 £53,847 -2.10% 61
Scotland -9 150 £52,500 -12.50% 16
Midlands +58 148 £42,500 -22.73% 25
South West +23 122 £50,000 -9.09% 22
West Midlands +82 99 £45,000 -24.05% 19
Yorkshire +61 80 £45,000 - 17
East of England -41 54 £70,750 +15.98% 26
East Midlands -15 48 £40,000 -27.27% 6
North East +13 26 £52,500 +10.53% 8
Northern Ireland +35 23 £55,000 - 2
Wales -30 20 £64,400 +22.67% 10

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 72 (5.33%) CMS
2 57 (4.22%) WordPress
3 37 (2.74%) Tuxedo
4 28 (2.07%) JBoss
4 28 (2.07%) Red Hat Fuse
5 17 (1.26%) Cloud Foundry
6 16 (1.18%) Apache
7 15 (1.11%) Headless CMS
8 14 (1.04%) nginx
9 11 (0.81%) Confluence
10 10 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
11 8 (0.59%) IIS
12 6 (0.44%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.37%) Kentico
13 5 (0.37%) SharePoint
13 5 (0.37%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.22%) SAS
15 2 (0.15%) Drupal
15 2 (0.15%) Moodle
16 1 (0.074%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 22 (1.63%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.26%) Photoshop
3 7 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.30%) Maya
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.22%) Sketch
7 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) Notion
8 1 (0.074%) InVision
Business Applications
1 26 (1.92%) Shopify
2 7 (0.52%) Magento
3 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.074%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 287 (21.24%) AWS
2 264 (19.54%) Azure
3 88 (6.51%) SaaS
4 61 (4.52%) GCP
5 50 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (3.55%) Figma
7 39 (2.89%) GitHub
8 27 (2.00%) npm
9 21 (1.55%) Serverless
10 18 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (1.26%) Google Analytics
12 15 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (0.67%) dbt
15 8 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (0.59%) Firebase
16 7 (0.52%) Amazon S3
17 6 (0.44%) Google Tag Manager
17 6 (0.44%) IaaS
17 6 (0.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.11%) HTTP
2 9 (0.67%) Internet
2 9 (0.67%) MQTT
3 8 (0.59%) DNS
4 7 (0.52%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.15%) SSH
7 1 (0.074%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (7.33%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.96%) MySQL
3 64 (4.74%) Relational Database
4 47 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (2.37%) MongoDB
5 32 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 24 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 23 (1.70%) Redis
8 11 (0.81%) MS Access
9 10 (0.74%) Apache Ignite
9 10 (0.74%) Big Data
10 9 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.44%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.30%) Power BI
12 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.22%) Event Store
13 3 (0.22%) Looker
Development Applications
1 253 (18.73%) Git
2 75 (5.55%) Cypress.io
3 52 (3.85%) Selenium
4 45 (3.33%) JIRA
5 39 (2.89%) IntelliJ
6 35 (2.59%) Jenkins
7 33 (2.44%) webpack
8 32 (2.37%) Jasmine
9 30 (2.22%) Cucumber
9 30 (2.22%) gulp
10 27 (2.00%) Visual Studio
11 26 (1.92%) Bitbucket
12 22 (1.63%) Karma Test Runner
12 22 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
13 19 (1.41%) GitLab
13 19 (1.41%) Storybook
14 15 (1.11%) Postman
15 9 (0.67%) Eclipse
15 9 (0.67%) Mockito
15 9 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 301 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 200 (14.80%) Finance
3 92 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (6.44%) Public Sector
5 79 (5.85%) Marketing
6 69 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (4.29%) Law
8 56 (4.15%) Retail
9 43 (3.18%) Manufacturing
10 34 (2.52%) Banking
11 29 (2.15%) Games
12 22 (1.63%) Tech for Good
13 21 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.41%) Electronics
15 16 (1.18%) Automotive
15 16 (1.18%) Investment Banking
16 15 (1.11%) Private Banking
17 14 (1.04%) Front Office
17 14 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.96%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,043 (77.20%) Developer
2 561 (41.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 476 (35.23%) Senior
4 345 (25.54%) Senior Developer
5 196 (14.51%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 159 (11.77%) Lead
7 137 (10.14%) React Developer
8 131 (9.70%) Software Engineer
9 115 (8.51%) Full Stack Developer
10 98 (7.25%) Software Developer
11 76 (5.63%) Lead Developer
12 64 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
13 61 (4.52%) Senior React Developer
14 58 (4.29%) Web Developer
15 54 (4.00%) Angular Developer
16 53 (3.92%) .NET Developer
17 49 (3.63%) PHP Developer
18 48 (3.55%) Java Engineer
19 46 (3.40%) Senior Software Developer
20 43 (3.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 612 (45.30%) CSS
2 603 (44.63%) React
3 591 (43.75%) HTML
4 338 (25.02%) AngularJS
5 250 (18.50%) .NET
6 248 (18.36%) Node.js
7 177 (13.10%) Vue
8 173 (12.81%) RESTful
9 145 (10.73%) HTML5
10 127 (9.40%) Sass
11 124 (9.18%) REST
12 122 (9.03%) CSS3
13 110 (8.14%) .NET Core
14 102 (7.55%) jQuery
15 83 (6.14%) Jest
16 82 (6.07%) ASP.NET
17 73 (5.40%) Web Services
18 71 (5.26%) Redux
18 71 (5.26%) Spring
19 69 (5.11%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
2 49 (3.63%) Onboarding
3 47 (3.48%) Mobile App
4 32 (2.37%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.15%) Cloud Native
6 25 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 21 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.48%) Client/Server
9 15 (1.11%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.04%) Blockchain
10 14 (1.04%) Private Cloud
11 11 (0.81%) Animation
12 10 (0.74%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.74%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.74%) Social Media
13 9 (0.67%) IoT
13 9 (0.67%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.59%) Raspberry Pi
14 8 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.40%) Linux
2 16 (1.18%) Android
3 10 (0.74%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.74%) Windows
4 7 (0.52%) CentOS
5 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.074%) Unix
7 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (35.09%) Agile
2 384 (28.42%) User Experience
3 330 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
4 310 (22.95%) Software Engineering
5 290 (21.47%) Full Stack Development
6 225 (16.65%) UX Design
7 221 (16.36%) Computer Science
8 196 (14.51%) DevOps
9 191 (14.14%) Mentoring
10 169 (12.51%) Web Development
11 134 (9.92%) CI/CD
12 124 (9.18%) E-Commerce
13 114 (8.44%) Continuous Integration
14 104 (7.70%) Test Automation
15 98 (7.25%) TDD
16 94 (6.96%) Actionable Insight
17 92 (6.81%) Microservices
18 88 (6.51%) Artificial Intelligence
19 77 (5.70%) Roadmaps
20 75 (5.55%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 745 (55.14%) JavaScript
2 464 (34.34%) TypeScript
3 301 (22.28%) C#
4 220 (16.28%) Java
5 217 (16.06%) SQL
6 148 (10.95%) PHP
7 130 (9.62%) Python
8 47 (3.48%) T-SQL
9 42 (3.11%) COBOL
9 42 (3.11%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 38 (2.81%) Ruby
11 37 (2.74%) Go
12 14 (1.04%) VB.NET
13 11 (0.81%) C
14 8 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.59%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.52%) C++
16 6 (0.44%) Rust
17 5 (0.37%) GLSL
18 4 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 267 (19.76%) Degree
2 126 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 113 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 101 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 28 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.44%) HND
8 5 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.15%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.074%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.074%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.36%) Accessibility
2 60 (4.44%) WCAG
3 52 (3.85%) QA
4 17 (1.26%) WAI
5 9 (0.67%) GDPR
6 4 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.074%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.074%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 147 (10.88%) Docker
2 8 (0.59%) Firmware
3 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 87 (6.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.96%) Terraform
3 7 (0.52%) Ansible
4 4 (0.30%) Rancher
5 1 (0.074%) cPanel
5 1 (0.074%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.074%) Grafana
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.074%) Packer
5 1 (0.074%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.03%) Google
3 61 (4.52%) Adobe
4 49 (3.63%) Oracle
5 42 (3.11%) Micro Focus
6 19 (1.41%) SAP
7 11 (0.81%) WooCommerce
8 9 (0.67%) DevExpress
8 9 (0.67%) IBM
9 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.59%) Facebook
9 8 (0.59%) NVIDIA
10 5 (0.37%) Xamarin
11 4 (0.30%) Mercator
11 4 (0.30%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.30%) VMware
12 3 (0.22%) OutSystems
12 3 (0.22%) Sybase
13 2 (0.15%) Apple
13 2 (0.15%) F5