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 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 183 151 76
Rank change year-on-year -32 -75 +2
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 1,031 2,989 5,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.93% 2.41% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.51% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 805 1,981 3,182
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +5.26%

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 50,261 118,879 121,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.08% 95.74% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36,398 72,456 81,203
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

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 5 December 2023.

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 5 December 2023. 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 -27 869 £65,000 - 444
UK excluding London -24 626 £55,000 -8.33% 306
Work from Home -38 506 £65,000 -3.70% 299
London -33 364 £77,500 +3.33% 223
North of England +14 192 £55,000 -8.33% 97
South East -21 136 £60,000 -7.69% 93
North West +38 110 £55,000 -8.33% 69
Midlands +53 80 £55,000 - 38
Scotland -6 79 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Yorkshire +35 76 £50,000 -19.03% 22
South West -19 59 £52,500 -19.23% 27
West Midlands +81 40 £55,000 -15.38% 27
East Midlands +6 40 £56,250 +7.14% 11
Wales -16 31 £45,000 -12.20% 2
East of England +49 29 £77,500 +47.62% 14
Northern Ireland +40 20 £40,500 -46.00% 7
North East +20 6 £58,750 -21.67% 7

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 86 (8.34%) JBoss
1 86 (8.34%) Red Hat Fuse
2 28 (2.72%) CMS
3 16 (1.55%) Confluence
4 14 (1.36%) WordPress
5 11 (1.07%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.58%) Apache
6 6 (0.58%) IIS
7 4 (0.39%) Kentico
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.29%) DNN
8 3 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.29%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.19%) Jetty
9 2 (0.19%) Moodle
9 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.097%) Drupal
Applications
1 21 (2.04%) Adobe XD
2 20 (1.94%) Sketch
3 11 (1.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.29%) FileZilla
4 3 (0.29%) InVision
5 2 (0.19%) InDesign
5 2 (0.19%) Marvel
5 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.19%) OmniGraffle
6 1 (0.097%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.097%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (1.45%) Shopify
2 3 (0.29%) Magento
3 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.097%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 291 (28.23%) Azure
2 196 (19.01%) AWS
3 72 (6.98%) SaaS
4 62 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (5.24%) Figma
6 49 (4.75%) GCP
7 32 (3.10%) GitHub
8 23 (2.23%) Serverless
9 19 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (1.26%) npm
12 11 (1.07%) Amazon S3
13 10 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (0.87%) PaaS
15 8 (0.78%) Google Analytics
16 7 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (0.68%) BigCommerce
17 6 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
17 6 (0.58%) Azure API Management
17 6 (0.58%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) HTTP
2 3 (0.29%) FTP
2 3 (0.29%) MQTT
3 2 (0.19%) Internet
3 2 (0.19%) Intranet
4 1 (0.097%) DNS
4 1 (0.097%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.097%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.097%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.097%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.63%) NoSQL
2 52 (5.04%) MySQL
3 50 (4.85%) Relational Database
4 42 (4.07%) SQL Server
5 33 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (3.10%) MongoDB
7 21 (2.04%) Redis
8 15 (1.45%) Big Data
9 13 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
11 10 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.58%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.58%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.39%) Power BI
14 3 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.29%) Looker
14 3 (0.29%) Tableau
15 2 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
15 2 (0.19%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 173 (16.78%) Git
2 105 (10.18%) IntelliJ
3 42 (4.07%) Cypress.io
4 38 (3.69%) Jasmine
4 38 (3.69%) JIRA
5 32 (3.10%) Selenium
6 29 (2.81%) webpack
7 28 (2.72%) Jenkins
8 22 (2.13%) Mockito
9 17 (1.65%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.65%) gulp
10 15 (1.45%) GitLab
11 13 (1.26%) Maven
12 12 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
13 11 (1.07%) Storybook
14 10 (0.97%) Subversion
15 9 (0.87%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.78%) Mocha
17 7 (0.68%) Bitbucket
17 7 (0.68%) Grunt
General
1 195 (18.91%) Social Skills
2 121 (11.74%) Public Sector
3 113 (10.96%) Finance
4 61 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.72%) Marketing
7 20 (1.94%) Retail
8 19 (1.84%) Games
9 15 (1.45%) Law
10 13 (1.26%) Health Technology
11 12 (1.16%) Banking
12 10 (0.97%) Legal
12 10 (0.97%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.68%) Aviation
14 7 (0.68%) Electronics
14 7 (0.68%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.68%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 794 (77.01%) Developer
2 430 (41.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 328 (31.81%) Senior
4 215 (20.85%) Senior Developer
5 147 (14.26%) Angular Developer
6 118 (11.45%) Software Engineer
7 109 (10.57%) React Developer
8 108 (10.48%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 86 (8.34%) Full Stack Developer
10 85 (8.24%) Senior Software Engineer
11 82 (7.95%) Lead
12 64 (6.21%) Java Engineer
12 64 (6.21%) Java Software Engineer
12 64 (6.21%) Senior Java Engineer
12 64 (6.21%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 60 (5.82%) Lead Developer
14 46 (4.46%) Java Developer
15 45 (4.36%) .NET Developer
16 38 (3.69%) JavaScript Developer
16 38 (3.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (46.65%) React
2 411 (39.86%) CSS
3 395 (38.31%) HTML
4 381 (36.95%) AngularJS
5 183 (17.75%) REST
6 178 (17.26%) .NET
7 160 (15.52%) Node.js
8 141 (13.68%) HTML5
9 138 (13.39%) RESTful
10 121 (11.74%) JSON
10 121 (11.74%) Spring
11 115 (11.15%) Web Services
12 108 (10.48%) CSS3
13 107 (10.38%) Vue
14 101 (9.80%) XML
15 97 (9.41%) Hibernate
16 94 (9.12%) SOAP
17 88 (8.54%) JPA
18 86 (8.34%) XSD
19 75 (7.27%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 77 (7.47%) Greenfield Project
2 37 (3.59%) Cloud Native
3 27 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 24 (2.33%) Robotics
5 18 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (0.97%) Algorithms
9 10 (0.97%) Data Structures
10 7 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.68%) Hedge funds
10 7 (0.68%) Replication
11 6 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.48%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.48%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.13%) Linux
2 10 (0.97%) Windows
3 6 (0.58%) Android
4 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.097%) CentOS
5 1 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (42.87%) Agile
2 336 (32.59%) User Experience
3 250 (24.25%) Problem-Solving
4 245 (23.76%) Software Engineering
5 241 (23.38%) UX Design
6 200 (19.40%) DevOps
7 183 (17.75%) Mentoring
8 177 (17.17%) Full Stack Development
9 150 (14.55%) Actionable Insight
10 133 (12.90%) Web Development
11 115 (11.15%) Computer Science
12 109 (10.57%) Microservices
13 98 (9.51%) CI/CD
14 96 (9.31%) Collaborative Working
15 90 (8.73%) Scrum
16 86 (8.34%) Data Design
17 74 (7.18%) Artificial Intelligence
17 74 (7.18%) E-Commerce
17 74 (7.18%) Fintech
18 73 (7.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 539 (52.28%) JavaScript
2 326 (31.62%) TypeScript
3 208 (20.17%) C#
4 204 (19.79%) Java
5 125 (12.12%) SQL
6 76 (7.37%) Python
7 75 (7.27%) PHP
8 19 (1.84%) Ruby
9 16 (1.55%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.16%) C++
11 10 (0.97%) Bicep
12 6 (0.58%) Go
13 5 (0.48%) C
14 4 (0.39%) Ada
14 4 (0.39%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.29%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.29%) Scala
15 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 222 (21.53%) Degree
2 103 (9.99%) SC Cleared
2 103 (9.99%) Security Cleared
3 46 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (0.87%) Master's Degree
5 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.19%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.097%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.097%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.097%) MCSA
8 1 (0.097%) MCSE
8 1 (0.097%) VCP5
8 1 (0.097%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.24%) Accessibility
2 42 (4.07%) WCAG
3 41 (3.98%) QA
4 9 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.19%) WAI
6 1 (0.097%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.097%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.097%) NIST
6 1 (0.097%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.097%) SOC 2
System Software
1 139 (13.48%) Docker
2 3 (0.29%) Firmware
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.097%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.36%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Ansible
4 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.097%) cPanel
5 1 (0.097%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.097%) Kibana
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.097%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.097%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.097%) SCCM
5 1 (0.097%) WSUS
Vendors
1 68 (6.60%) Microsoft
2 49 (4.75%) Adobe
3 46 (4.46%) Google
4 22 (2.13%) IBM
5 12 (1.16%) ESRI
6 7 (0.68%) Oracle
6 7 (0.68%) SAP
6 7 (0.68%) VMware
7 6 (0.58%) Rollbar
8 5 (0.48%) Adyen
9 4 (0.39%) Mercator
9 4 (0.39%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.29%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.29%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.19%) New Relic
11 2 (0.19%) Quadient
11 2 (0.19%) Sybase
11 2 (0.19%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.19%) Xamarin