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 10 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 190 113
Rank change year-on-year -58 -77 -43
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 893 1,138 4,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.87% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.98% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 539 872 2,302
10th Percentile £38,700 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,125 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £83,125 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +20.00%

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 65,494 57,337 139,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.47% 94.46% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 32,352 40,989 77,356
10th Percentile £32,888 £32,500 £33,950
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,600 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,760 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% +5.00%

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 10 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Top 18 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 10 October 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 -53 802 £65,000 - 254
UK excluding London -37 610 £60,000 +9.09% 178
Work from Home -41 419 £67,500 +3.85% 154
London -75 244 £80,000 +14.29% 107
South East -26 180 £70,000 +16.67% 29
North of England -59 128 £57,500 +4.55% 56
Midlands +9 122 £55,000 - 27
South West +18 93 £50,000 -3.85% 19
North West -62 62 £60,000 - 30
East Midlands -2 61 £39,000 -33.62% 12
West Midlands -4 61 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Yorkshire -13 50 £42,500 -15.00% 16
Scotland -26 40 £65,000 +8.33% 18
East of England -45 31 £72,500 +11.54% 17
Wales +15 21 £65,000 +44.44% 3
North East -20 16 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Northern Ireland +7 8 £30,000 -25.93% 14
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 55 (6.16%) CMS
2 46 (5.15%) WordPress
3 45 (5.04%) Apache
4 42 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.24%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.34%) Confluence
7 6 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.67%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.45%) IIS
9 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Strapi
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (2.35%) Adobe XD
2 16 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.46%) Sketch
4 8 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (0.78%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) InDesign
7 1 (0.11%) InVision
7 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (2.24%) Shopify
2 5 (0.56%) Magento
3 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 269 (30.12%) AWS
2 168 (18.81%) Azure
3 97 (10.86%) GCP
4 65 (7.28%) SaaS
5 59 (6.61%) GitHub
6 41 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (3.81%) Figma
8 23 (2.58%) npm
9 21 (2.35%) Serverless
10 17 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (1.90%) Slack
10 17 (1.90%) Zapier
11 14 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (1.23%) Azure AKS
12 11 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (1.12%) Power Platform
14 9 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (0.78%) Entra ID
15 7 (0.78%) Snowflake
16 6 (0.67%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.34%) Internet
1 3 (0.34%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 2 (0.22%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.11%) Broadband
3 1 (0.11%) DNS
3 1 (0.11%) FTP
3 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 65 (7.28%) MySQL
3 44 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (4.70%) Apache Ignite
5 40 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.58%) NoSQL
7 20 (2.24%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.13%) Big Data
9 16 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
9 16 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (1.46%) GIS
10 13 (1.46%) Redis
11 9 (1.01%) Power BI
12 8 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.90%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.90%) Tableau
13 6 (0.67%) KDB
14 3 (0.34%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.22%) Flink
Development Applications
1 218 (24.41%) Git
2 61 (6.83%) Cypress.io
3 48 (5.38%) webpack
4 38 (4.26%) Selenium
5 32 (3.58%) Jenkins
6 26 (2.91%) JIRA
6 26 (2.91%) Visual Studio
7 19 (2.13%) Babel
8 16 (1.79%) SoapUI
8 16 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 15 (1.68%) Vite
10 14 (1.57%) Jasmine
10 14 (1.57%) Mocha
11 12 (1.34%) rollup.js
12 11 (1.23%) GitLab
12 11 (1.23%) gulp
13 8 (0.90%) Storybook
14 7 (0.78%) ESLint
14 7 (0.78%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 164 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 156 (17.47%) Finance
3 47 (5.26%) Front Office
4 39 (4.37%) Marketing
5 36 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.36%) Law
7 26 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (2.69%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.46%) Banking
10 18 (2.02%) Retail
11 14 (1.57%) Games
12 13 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.01%) Legal
14 6 (0.67%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.67%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.56%) Automotive
15 5 (0.56%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.45%) French Language
16 4 (0.45%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 731 (81.86%) Developer
2 415 (46.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 237 (26.54%) Senior
4 205 (22.96%) Senior Developer
5 118 (13.21%) React Developer
6 113 (12.65%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 79 (8.85%) Lead
8 78 (8.73%) Software Engineer
9 68 (7.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 60 (6.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 52 (5.82%) Lead Developer
11 52 (5.82%) UI Developer
12 46 (5.15%) UI Engineer
13 42 (4.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 33 (3.70%) .NET Developer
15 32 (3.58%) Java Developer
15 32 (3.58%) Web Developer
16 25 (2.80%) JavaScript Developer
16 25 (2.80%) PHP Developer
17 24 (2.69%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (59.57%) React
2 438 (49.05%) CSS
3 387 (43.34%) HTML
4 203 (22.73%) AngularJS
5 155 (17.36%) .NET
6 134 (15.01%) Node.js
7 115 (12.88%) Vue
8 113 (12.65%) RESTful
9 104 (11.65%) HTML5
10 97 (10.86%) Redux
11 84 (9.41%) CSS3
12 82 (9.18%) Jest
13 71 (7.95%) Tailwind CSS
14 60 (6.72%) REST
15 59 (6.61%) .NET Framework
15 59 (6.61%) ASP.NET
16 56 (6.27%) Web Services
17 50 (5.60%) JSON
18 49 (5.49%) Sass
19 48 (5.38%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.61%) Greenfield Project
2 43 (4.82%) Fixed Income
3 42 (4.70%) Mobile App
4 33 (3.70%) Algorithms
5 29 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.90%) PropTech
8 17 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
10 12 (1.34%) Operational Technology
11 11 (1.23%) Hedge funds
12 9 (1.01%) Life Science
13 8 (0.90%) Graphic Design
13 8 (0.90%) IoT
14 7 (0.78%) Cybercrime
15 6 (0.67%) Animation
16 5 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 5 (0.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.57%) Android
1 14 (1.57%) Linux
2 11 (1.23%) Windows
3 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (31.58%) Agile
2 277 (31.02%) User Experience
3 251 (28.11%) Problem-Solving
4 203 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 181 (20.27%) Software Engineering
6 152 (17.02%) Web Development
7 134 (15.01%) CI/CD
8 128 (14.33%) Computer Science
9 127 (14.22%) UX Design
10 103 (11.53%) Artificial Intelligence
11 100 (11.20%) DevOps
12 87 (9.74%) Fintech
13 81 (9.07%) Responsive Web Design
14 80 (8.96%) Scrum
15 69 (7.73%) Mentoring
16 67 (7.50%) Code Quality
17 65 (7.28%) E-Commerce
18 63 (7.05%) TDD
18 63 (7.05%) Test Automation
19 54 (6.05%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 624 (69.88%) JavaScript
2 357 (39.98%) TypeScript
3 187 (20.94%) Python
4 166 (18.59%) C#
5 157 (17.58%) SQL
6 115 (12.88%) Java
7 107 (11.98%) PHP
8 26 (2.91%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.68%) C++
9 15 (1.68%) Kotlin
10 14 (1.57%) Ruby
11 13 (1.46%) Go
12 8 (0.90%) C
13 6 (0.67%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.56%) JSX
14 5 (0.56%) Rust
15 4 (0.45%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.34%) Bicep
16 3 (0.34%) F#
17 2 (0.22%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 152 (17.02%) Degree
2 75 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 72 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 15 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.22%) PhD
9 1 (0.11%) CEH
9 1 (0.11%) CIPD
9 1 (0.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.83%) Accessibility
2 50 (5.60%) QA
3 31 (3.47%) WCAG
4 2 (0.22%) WAI
5 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 104 (11.65%) Docker
2 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 101 (11.31%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.02%) Terraform
3 7 (0.78%) Grafana
3 7 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.34%) Ansible
4 3 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 63 (7.05%) Microsoft
2 40 (4.48%) Google
3 30 (3.36%) Adobe
4 21 (2.35%) WooCommerce
5 19 (2.13%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.13%) Oracle
6 12 (1.34%) F5
7 7 (0.78%) Sage
7 7 (0.78%) SAP
8 5 (0.56%) Rollbar
8 5 (0.56%) Sybase
9 4 (0.45%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.34%) Algorithmics
10 3 (0.34%) Arqiva
11 2 (0.22%) Capita
11 2 (0.22%) Databricks
11 2 (0.22%) Facebook
11 2 (0.22%) Foundry
11 2 (0.22%) Netlify
11 2 (0.22%) Zoho