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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 228 214
Rank change year-on-year -20 -14 -130
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 740 1,335 1,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 1.31% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.55% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 394 1,088 1,158
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,800 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% -9.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,938 £75,772 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
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 28 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 28 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 -19 643 £65,000 +8.33% 581
UK excluding London -5 505 £57,500 +9.52% 340
Work from Home +18 466 £65,000 +8.33% 528
London +33 195 £75,000 -3.23% 276
North of England -18 181 £58,750 +11.90% 133
North West -16 162 £60,000 +6.67% 81
Midlands +34 130 £45,000 +5.88% 60
East Midlands +65 75 £40,000 - 24
Scotland +56 68 £57,500 +9.52% 13
South East -7 67 £62,500 +4.17% 52
West Midlands +14 55 £60,000 +29.73% 35
East of England +25 34 £66,212 +0.90% 23
South West +21 26 £61,250 +22.50% 34
North East +35 12 £56,500 +7.62% 25
Yorkshire -17 7 £52,500 +16.67% 30
Wales +32 6 £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 (22.84%) Confluence
2 34 (4.59%) CMS
3 26 (3.51%) WordPress
4 15 (2.03%) nginx
5 11 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.22%) Drupal
7 5 (0.68%) Liferay
7 5 (0.68%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.54%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.41%) Strapi
10 2 (0.27%) IIS
10 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.14%) Apache
11 1 (0.14%) Joomla!
Applications
1 8 (1.08%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 7 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.95%) Sketch
3 2 (0.27%) InVision
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Moqups
4 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 21 (2.84%) Shopify
2 10 (1.35%) Magento
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 389 (52.57%) AWS
2 382 (51.62%) Azure
3 196 (26.49%) GCP
4 59 (7.97%) Serverless
5 39 (5.27%) Figma
6 37 (5.00%) GitHub
7 30 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (3.92%) SaaS
9 21 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (1.89%) Amazon S3
11 14 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (1.89%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.62%) npm
14 10 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (1.35%) Dagster
14 10 (1.35%) dbt
14 10 (1.35%) Slack
14 10 (1.35%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (36.22%) SQL Server
2 41 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (5.00%) MySQL
4 28 (3.78%) MongoDB
4 28 (3.78%) NoSQL
5 23 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.03%) Redis
7 12 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (1.62%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.49%) Power BI
9 10 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (1.35%) Dremio
10 6 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.68%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.54%) Big Data
13 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 282 (38.11%) JIRA
2 258 (34.86%) GitLab
2 258 (34.86%) Maven
3 256 (34.59%) Bitbucket
4 252 (34.05%) SonarQube
5 251 (33.92%) Selenium
6 250 (33.78%) Cucumber
7 247 (33.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 130 (17.57%) Git
9 36 (4.86%) webpack
10 19 (2.57%) Babel
11 18 (2.43%) Jasmine
12 16 (2.16%) Mocha
13 14 (1.89%) Cypress.io
13 14 (1.89%) Jenkins
13 14 (1.89%) Vite
14 12 (1.62%) JUnit
15 11 (1.49%) Karma Test Runner
16 8 (1.08%) Gradle
16 8 (1.08%) SpecFlow
General
1 363 (49.05%) Finance
2 280 (37.84%) Banking
3 274 (37.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 129 (17.43%) Social Skills
5 107 (14.46%) Retail
6 94 (12.70%) Investment Banking
7 90 (12.16%) Corporate Banking
8 37 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
9 28 (3.78%) Law
10 21 (2.84%) Games
11 17 (2.30%) Front Office
12 14 (1.89%) Marketing
13 13 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.22%) Legal
15 8 (1.08%) Back Office
15 8 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.95%) Advertising
16 7 (0.95%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 387 (52.30%) Developer
2 293 (39.59%) Software Engineer
3 206 (27.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 134 (18.11%) Senior
5 110 (14.86%) Senior Developer
6 65 (8.78%) React Developer
7 55 (7.43%) Lead
8 53 (7.16%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 40 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (5.14%) Lead Developer
11 29 (3.92%) Java Developer
12 25 (3.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 25 (3.38%) JavaScript Developer
13 21 (2.84%) Software Developer
14 20 (2.70%) Web Developer
15 19 (2.57%) PHP Developer
15 19 (2.57%) Senior Software Engineer
16 16 (2.16%) HTML Developer
17 15 (2.03%) HTML CSS Developer
18 14 (1.89%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (68.78%) React
2 478 (64.59%) CSS
3 470 (63.51%) HTML
4 293 (39.59%) Redux
5 265 (35.81%) Spring
6 264 (35.68%) Kafka
7 262 (35.41%) Spring Boot
8 252 (34.05%) JPA
9 165 (22.30%) RESTful
10 163 (22.03%) Hibernate
11 149 (20.14%) HTML5
12 144 (19.46%) REST
13 137 (18.51%) Jest
14 128 (17.30%) CSS3
15 127 (17.16%) Sass
16 90 (12.16%) .NET
17 77 (10.41%) AngularJS
18 71 (9.59%) Node.js
19 50 (6.76%) Vue
20 39 (5.27%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 272 (36.76%) Product Ownership
2 248 (33.51%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (3.11%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.30%) Fixed Income
4 17 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.76%) Cloud Native
7 11 (1.49%) Educational Technology
8 10 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.35%) Equities
8 10 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 9 (1.22%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.08%) Mobile Games
10 8 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.95%) EPoS
11 7 (0.95%) Learning Management System
12 6 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.03%) Android
1 15 (2.03%) Apple iOS
2 13 (1.76%) Linux
3 4 (0.54%) Windows
4 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (62.97%) Agile
2 365 (49.32%) DevOps
3 359 (48.51%) Software Engineering
4 347 (46.89%) CI/CD
5 328 (44.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 326 (44.05%) Microservices
7 320 (43.24%) Test Automation
8 303 (40.95%) Containerisation
9 287 (38.78%) User Experience
10 281 (37.97%) Performance Optimisation
11 278 (37.57%) SDLC
12 205 (27.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 198 (26.76%) Clean Code
14 185 (25.00%) TDD
15 168 (22.70%) Mentoring
16 158 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
17 151 (20.41%) Responsive Web Design
18 111 (15.00%) UX Design
19 104 (14.05%) Migration
20 91 (12.30%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 534 (72.16%) JavaScript
2 328 (44.32%) SQL
3 319 (43.11%) Java
4 282 (38.11%) TypeScript
5 98 (13.24%) C#
6 87 (11.76%) Python
7 62 (8.38%) PHP
8 7 (0.95%) C++
8 7 (0.95%) Go
9 6 (0.81%) Bicep
9 6 (0.81%) Delphi
9 6 (0.81%) R
10 3 (0.41%) C
10 3 (0.41%) Groovy
10 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.41%) Ruby
11 2 (0.27%) Julia
11 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.27%) XAML
Qualifications
1 115 (15.54%) Degree
2 60 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (2.43%) Security Cleared
4 12 (1.62%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.54%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (41.22%) QA
2 148 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.16%) WCAG
4 6 (0.81%) CDISC
4 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.68%) GDPR
5 5 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.14%) COBIT
6 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 358 (48.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 317 (42.84%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.35%) Grafana
2 10 (1.35%) Terraform
3 9 (1.22%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.68%) Argo
5 2 (0.27%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 247 (33.38%) Solace
2 48 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.84%) Adobe
4 12 (1.62%) Google
5 10 (1.35%) WooCommerce
6 9 (1.22%) Oracle
7 8 (1.08%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.81%) New Relic
8 6 (0.81%) PayPal
9 5 (0.68%) Databricks
9 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
9 5 (0.68%) Splunk
10 4 (0.54%) Apple
11 3 (0.41%) ANSYS
11 3 (0.41%) SAP
12 2 (0.27%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.27%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.27%) Mercator
12 2 (0.27%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.27%) Salesforce