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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 228 217
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 -133
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 812 1,316 1,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 1.32% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.55% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 460 1,091 1,167
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 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -6.25% +2.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,772 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £103,500
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 52,745 85,153 95,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.88% 85.20% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 59,851 56,203
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,079 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 20 May 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 20 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
England -8 701 £65,000 +8.33% 924
UK excluding London +4 554 £57,500 +9.52% 626
Work from Home +29 498 £65,000 +8.33% 666
London +40 214 £77,500 - 473
North of England +2 196 £57,500 +9.52% 203
North West -9 169 £57,500 - 113
Midlands +40 137 £45,000 +5.88% 72
East Midlands +56 80 £40,000 - 34
Scotland +62 75 £52,500 - 31
South East +4 75 £67,500 +12.50% 195
West Midlands +17 57 £60,000 +26.32% 35
East of England +24 40 £66,212 +0.90% 43
South West +18 31 £61,250 +22.50% 46
North East +33 16 £56,500 +7.62% 43
Yorkshire 0 11 £56,250 +25.00% 50
Wales +30 9 £65,000 -7.14% 11

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
1 169 (20.81%) Confluence
2 34 (4.19%) CMS
3 30 (3.69%) WordPress
4 15 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.85%) nginx
5 11 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.99%) Drupal
7 5 (0.62%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.62%) Liferay
8 4 (0.49%) Strapi
9 2 (0.25%) Apache
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.12%) Joomla!
Applications
1 16 (1.97%) Adobe XD
2 14 (1.72%) Sketch
3 7 (0.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.25%) InVision
4 2 (0.25%) Notion
4 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.25%) Trello
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 24 (2.96%) Shopify
2 11 (1.35%) Magento
3 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 398 (49.01%) AWS
2 393 (48.40%) Azure
3 200 (24.63%) GCP
4 60 (7.39%) Serverless
5 48 (5.91%) Figma
6 41 (5.05%) GitHub
7 36 (4.43%) SaaS
8 29 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (1.85%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.48%) Amazon S3
13 12 (1.48%) Dagster
13 12 (1.48%) dbt
13 12 (1.48%) Slack
14 11 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (1.35%) npm
14 11 (1.35%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) Broadband
1 2 (0.25%) HTTP
1 2 (0.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.12%) MQTT
2 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.12%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (33.00%) SQL Server
2 46 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (4.80%) MySQL
4 32 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 31 (3.82%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.20%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.85%) Redis
8 13 (1.60%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.48%) Apache Iceberg
9 12 (1.48%) Dremio
10 11 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.35%) Power BI
11 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.37%) Metadata
14 3 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 283 (34.85%) JIRA
2 258 (31.77%) GitLab
3 257 (31.65%) Maven
4 255 (31.40%) Bitbucket
5 254 (31.28%) Selenium
6 253 (31.16%) SonarQube
7 250 (30.79%) Cucumber
8 247 (30.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 138 (17.00%) Git
10 40 (4.93%) webpack
11 22 (2.71%) Babel
12 21 (2.59%) Jasmine
13 17 (2.09%) Cypress.io
14 16 (1.97%) Mocha
15 14 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
16 13 (1.60%) Jenkins
17 12 (1.48%) JUnit
18 11 (1.35%) Vite
19 8 (0.99%) Gradle
19 8 (0.99%) rollup.js
General
1 375 (46.18%) Finance
2 281 (34.61%) Banking
3 274 (33.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 130 (16.01%) Social Skills
5 110 (13.55%) Retail
6 94 (11.58%) Investment Banking
7 90 (11.08%) Corporate Banking
8 34 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
9 30 (3.69%) Front Office
10 27 (3.33%) Law
11 20 (2.46%) Games
12 14 (1.72%) Marketing
12 14 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.99%) Legal
13 8 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.99%) Public Sector
14 7 (0.86%) Back Office
14 7 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 436 (53.69%) Developer
2 293 (36.08%) Software Engineer
3 243 (29.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 149 (18.35%) Senior
5 122 (15.02%) Senior Developer
6 73 (8.99%) React Developer
7 62 (7.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 57 (7.02%) Lead
9 43 (5.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 39 (4.80%) Lead Developer
11 28 (3.45%) JavaScript Developer
12 26 (3.20%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 26 (3.20%) Java Developer
13 25 (3.08%) Web Developer
14 20 (2.46%) Software Developer
15 19 (2.34%) PHP Developer
16 17 (2.09%) Designer
16 17 (2.09%) Senior Software Engineer
17 16 (1.97%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
17 16 (1.97%) HTML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 549 (67.61%) React
2 509 (62.68%) CSS
3 499 (61.45%) HTML
4 299 (36.82%) Redux
5 264 (32.51%) Kafka
5 264 (32.51%) Spring
6 261 (32.14%) Spring Boot
7 252 (31.03%) JPA
8 177 (21.80%) RESTful
9 162 (19.95%) Hibernate
10 161 (19.83%) HTML5
11 153 (18.84%) REST
12 142 (17.49%) Jest
13 136 (16.75%) CSS3
14 129 (15.89%) Sass
15 98 (12.07%) .NET
16 96 (11.82%) AngularJS
17 83 (10.22%) Node.js
18 64 (7.88%) Vue
19 49 (6.03%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 283 (34.85%) Product Ownership
2 248 (30.54%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (3.69%) Fixed Income
4 27 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 21 (2.59%) Equities
6 20 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.85%) Hedge funds
8 15 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.60%) Educational Technology
10 12 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.48%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 10 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.11%) Derivative
13 8 (0.99%) Learning Management System
13 8 (0.99%) Mobile Games
14 7 (0.86%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.08%) Apple iOS
2 17 (2.09%) Android
3 14 (1.72%) Linux
4 4 (0.49%) Windows
5 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.25%) Unix
7 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (61.21%) Agile
2 375 (46.18%) DevOps
3 372 (45.81%) Software Engineering
4 356 (43.84%) CI/CD
5 340 (41.87%) Full-Stack Development
6 330 (40.64%) Microservices
7 319 (39.29%) Test Automation
8 307 (37.81%) Containerisation
9 306 (37.68%) User Experience
10 287 (35.34%) Performance Optimisation
11 280 (34.48%) SDLC
12 205 (25.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 200 (24.63%) Clean Code
14 184 (22.66%) TDD
15 170 (20.94%) Mentoring
16 160 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
17 155 (19.09%) Responsive Web Design
18 125 (15.39%) UX Design
19 104 (12.81%) Migration
20 91 (11.21%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 573 (70.57%) JavaScript
2 330 (40.64%) SQL
3 325 (40.02%) Java
4 314 (38.67%) TypeScript
5 107 (13.18%) C#
6 98 (12.07%) Python
7 68 (8.37%) PHP
8 9 (1.11%) Go
9 7 (0.86%) C++
10 6 (0.74%) Bicep
10 6 (0.74%) Delphi
11 5 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.62%) R
12 4 (0.49%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.37%) C
13 3 (0.37%) Groovy
13 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.37%) Ruby
14 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 137 (16.87%) Degree
2 61 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (2.22%) Security Cleared
4 12 (1.48%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.11%) Master's Degree
6 7 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (38.05%) QA
2 149 (18.35%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.34%) WCAG
4 6 (0.74%) CDISC
4 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.62%) GDPR
5 5 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.12%) COBIT
6 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 363 (44.70%) Docker
2 5 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 325 (40.02%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.23%) Grafana
2 10 (1.23%) Prometheus
3 7 (0.86%) Terraform
4 5 (0.62%) Argo
5 2 (0.25%) Marathon
6 1 (0.12%) Ansible
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 247 (30.42%) Solace
2 53 (6.53%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.69%) Adobe
4 13 (1.60%) WooCommerce
5 12 (1.48%) Google
6 8 (0.99%) OpenAI
6 8 (0.99%) Oracle
7 6 (0.74%) ANSYS
7 6 (0.74%) PayPal
8 5 (0.62%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.62%) New Relic
8 5 (0.62%) Splunk
9 4 (0.49%) Apple
9 4 (0.49%) Databricks
10 3 (0.37%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.37%) SAP
11 2 (0.25%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.25%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.25%) Mercator
11 2 (0.25%) Optimizely