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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 210 81
Rank change year-on-year -7 -129 -11
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 1,358 1,877 6,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.38% 1.81% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.89% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 1,255 3,091
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,150 £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 £97,290
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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -16 1,098 £60,000 -7.69% 310
UK excluding London +8 961 £52,500 -7.49% 217
Work from Home -1 675 £60,000 -4.00% 179
London -64 320 £77,500 +10.71% 117
North of England +58 267 £50,000 - 75
South East -47 172 £60,000 +4.35% 25
North West +34 161 £53,847 -2.10% 45
Midlands +67 150 £42,500 -22.73% 40
Scotland -13 150 £52,500 -12.50% 20
South West +11 124 £50,000 -9.09% 23
West Midlands +72 101 £47,500 -18.80% 29
Yorkshire +50 80 £45,000 - 24
East of England -38 53 £70,750 +16.94% 26
East Midlands -2 48 £40,000 -27.27% 10
North East +11 26 £52,500 +10.53% 8
Northern Ireland +33 23 £55,000 - 3
Wales -32 22 £70,000 +33.33% 8

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 73 (5.38%) CMS
2 59 (4.34%) WordPress
3 37 (2.72%) Tuxedo
4 28 (2.06%) JBoss
4 28 (2.06%) Red Hat Fuse
5 18 (1.33%) Cloud Foundry
6 16 (1.18%) Apache
7 15 (1.10%) Headless CMS
8 14 (1.03%) 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 21 (1.55%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.25%) Photoshop
3 7 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.29%) Maya
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.29%) 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 (1.91%) Shopify
2 8 (0.59%) Magento
3 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.074%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 284 (20.91%) AWS
2 263 (19.37%) Azure
3 91 (6.70%) SaaS
4 61 (4.49%) GCP
5 49 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (3.53%) Figma
7 40 (2.95%) GitHub
8 27 (1.99%) npm
9 21 (1.55%) Serverless
10 18 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (1.25%) Google Analytics
12 15 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (0.66%) dbt
14 8 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (0.59%) Firebase
15 7 (0.52%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (0.44%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.10%) HTTP
2 10 (0.74%) Internet
3 9 (0.66%) MQTT
4 8 (0.59%) DNS
5 7 (0.52%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.15%) SSH
8 1 (0.074%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.93%) MySQL
3 63 (4.64%) Relational Database
4 48 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.43%) MongoDB
6 29 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 25 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (1.62%) Redis
10 11 (0.81%) MS Access
11 10 (0.74%) Apache Ignite
11 10 (0.74%) Big Data
12 9 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.44%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.29%) Power BI
14 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.22%) Event Store
15 3 (0.22%) GIS
15 3 (0.22%) Looker
Development Applications
1 255 (18.78%) Git
2 77 (5.67%) Cypress.io
3 54 (3.98%) Selenium
4 45 (3.31%) JIRA
5 39 (2.87%) IntelliJ
6 36 (2.65%) Jenkins
7 35 (2.58%) webpack
8 30 (2.21%) Cucumber
8 30 (2.21%) Jasmine
9 28 (2.06%) gulp
9 28 (2.06%) Visual Studio
10 26 (1.91%) Bitbucket
11 23 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
12 22 (1.62%) Karma Test Runner
13 20 (1.47%) Storybook
14 19 (1.40%) GitLab
15 15 (1.10%) Postman
16 9 (0.66%) Eclipse
16 9 (0.66%) Subversion
17 8 (0.59%) Maven
General
1 303 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 201 (14.80%) Finance
3 92 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.89%) Marketing
6 69 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (4.64%) Law
8 55 (4.05%) Retail
9 43 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 37 (2.72%) Banking
11 27 (1.99%) Games
12 22 (1.62%) Tech for Good
13 21 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.40%) Electronics
15 17 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.18%) Automotive
16 16 (1.18%) Private Banking
17 14 (1.03%) Front Office
17 14 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,043 (76.80%) Developer
2 560 (41.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 478 (35.20%) Senior
4 346 (25.48%) Senior Developer
5 197 (14.51%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 162 (11.93%) Lead
7 138 (10.16%) React Developer
8 133 (9.79%) Software Engineer
9 116 (8.54%) Full Stack Developer
10 98 (7.22%) Software Developer
11 77 (5.67%) Lead Developer
12 64 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
13 62 (4.57%) Senior React Developer
14 58 (4.27%) Web Developer
15 53 (3.90%) .NET Developer
16 51 (3.76%) PHP Developer
17 50 (3.68%) Angular Developer
17 50 (3.68%) Java Engineer
18 47 (3.46%) Senior Software Developer
19 45 (3.31%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 618 (45.51%) CSS
2 607 (44.70%) React
3 597 (43.96%) HTML
4 336 (24.74%) AngularJS
5 252 (18.56%) .NET
6 250 (18.41%) Node.js
7 177 (13.03%) Vue
8 176 (12.96%) RESTful
9 144 (10.60%) HTML5
10 125 (9.20%) Sass
11 124 (9.13%) REST
12 123 (9.06%) CSS3
13 109 (8.03%) .NET Core
14 105 (7.73%) jQuery
15 87 (6.41%) Jest
16 83 (6.11%) ASP.NET
17 73 (5.38%) Redux
18 72 (5.30%) Spring
18 72 (5.30%) Web Services
19 69 (5.08%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.44%) Greenfield Project
2 48 (3.53%) Onboarding
3 47 (3.46%) Mobile App
4 29 (2.14%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.14%) Product Ownership
5 24 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 22 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.47%) Client/Server
8 15 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.10%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.03%) Blockchain
10 11 (0.81%) Public Cloud
11 10 (0.74%) Fixed Income
11 10 (0.74%) Social Media
12 9 (0.66%) Animation
12 9 (0.66%) IoT
12 9 (0.66%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.59%) Raspberry Pi
13 8 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.39%) Linux
2 16 (1.18%) Android
3 11 (0.81%) Windows
4 10 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.52%) CentOS
6 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.074%) Unix
8 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (35.35%) Agile
2 379 (27.91%) User Experience
3 337 (24.82%) Problem-Solving
4 309 (22.75%) Software Engineering
5 289 (21.28%) Full Stack Development
6 222 (16.35%) UX Design
7 221 (16.27%) Computer Science
8 194 (14.29%) DevOps
9 192 (14.14%) Mentoring
10 174 (12.81%) Web Development
11 137 (10.09%) CI/CD
12 124 (9.13%) E-Commerce
13 113 (8.32%) Continuous Integration
14 105 (7.73%) Test Automation
15 99 (7.29%) TDD
16 94 (6.92%) Actionable Insight
17 91 (6.70%) Artificial Intelligence
18 89 (6.55%) Microservices
19 78 (5.74%) Roadmaps
20 75 (5.52%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 754 (55.52%) JavaScript
2 470 (34.61%) TypeScript
3 302 (22.24%) C#
4 220 (16.20%) SQL
5 219 (16.13%) Java
6 152 (11.19%) PHP
7 134 (9.87%) Python
8 48 (3.53%) T-SQL
9 42 (3.09%) COBOL
9 42 (3.09%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 37 (2.72%) Go
10 37 (2.72%) Ruby
11 15 (1.10%) VB.NET
12 11 (0.81%) C
13 8 (0.59%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.59%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.52%) C++
15 6 (0.44%) Rust
16 5 (0.37%) GLSL
17 4 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 265 (19.51%) Degree
2 127 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 113 (8.32%) SC Cleared
4 100 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 28 (2.06%) 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%) PhD
11 1 (0.074%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.074%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.32%) Accessibility
2 61 (4.49%) WCAG
3 51 (3.76%) QA
4 17 (1.25%) WAI
5 9 (0.66%) GDPR
6 4 (0.29%) 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
1 146 (10.75%) Docker
2 8 (0.59%) Firmware
3 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 86 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.96%) Terraform
3 7 (0.52%) Ansible
4 4 (0.29%) 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
1 110 (8.10%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.01%) Google
3 59 (4.34%) Adobe
4 49 (3.61%) Oracle
5 42 (3.09%) Micro Focus
6 19 (1.40%) SAP
7 11 (0.81%) WooCommerce
8 9 (0.66%) DevExpress
9 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.59%) Facebook
9 8 (0.59%) NVIDIA
10 7 (0.52%) IBM
11 5 (0.37%) Xamarin
12 4 (0.29%) Mercator
12 4 (0.29%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.29%) VMware
13 3 (0.22%) OutSystems
13 3 (0.22%) Sybase
14 2 (0.15%) Apple
14 2 (0.15%) F5