Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Job Trends

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 406 423
Rank change year-on-year -50 +17 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 274 268 559
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.61% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.68% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 244 217 520
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,688 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £90,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 84,295 39,140 91,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 89.50% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,489 23,203 67,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,670 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +9.74% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job vacancy trend in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job vacancies in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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 -44 242 £58,250 -10.38% 60
UK excluding London +11 190 £55,000 - 46
North of England +11 91 £60,000 +9.09% 17
Work from Home -20 68 £65,000 +13.04% 31
London -61 62 £80,000 +6.67% 19
North West +3 39 £62,500 +13.64% 6
South West -27 37 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Yorkshire -23 35 £50,000 +42.86% 5
South East +1 26 £45,000 -21.74% 7
North East -29 17 £60,000 +3.00% 6
Midlands -38 14 £55,000 +15.79% 4
West Midlands -22 13 £55,000 +12.82% 1
Scotland -4 8 £65,000 +36.84% 1
East of England -24 7 £65,000 -1.83% 7
Northern Ireland - 4 £65,000 - 1
Wales -26 3 £53,171 +18.16% 1
East Midlands -41 1 £55,000 +22.22% 3

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2026, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 245 (89.42%) Front End Development
2 108 (39.42%) React
3 101 (36.86%) JavaScript
4 87 (31.75%) TypeScript
5 55 (20.07%) User Experience
6 49 (17.88%) CSS
7 37 (13.50%) HTML
8 34 (12.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (12.04%) Git
10 32 (11.68%) UX Design
11 31 (11.31%) Accessibility
11 31 (11.31%) Agile
12 28 (10.22%) Vue
13 27 (9.85%) DevOps
14 23 (8.39%) E-Commerce
14 23 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (7.66%) Security Cleared
15 21 (7.66%) Web Development
16 20 (7.30%) CI/CD
17 19 (6.93%) Jest
18 18 (6.57%) Node.js
19 17 (6.20%) AI
19 17 (6.20%) Mentoring
19 17 (6.20%) SaaS
20 16 (5.84%) Azure
21 15 (5.47%) AngularJS
21 15 (5.47%) Performance Optimisation
21 15 (5.47%) Responsive Web Design
21 15 (5.47%) REST
22 14 (5.11%) Data Visualisation

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.82%) CMS
2 2 (0.73%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 17 (6.20%) SaaS
2 16 (5.84%) Azure
3 13 (4.74%) AWS
4 11 (4.01%) Figma
5 8 (2.92%) npm
6 7 (2.55%) GitHub
7 4 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.73%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (0.73%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) Serverless
9 2 (0.73%) Vercel
9 2 (0.73%) Yarn
10 1 (0.36%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) DigitalOcean
10 1 (0.36%) GCP
10 1 (0.36%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.73%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.36%) MySQL
3 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (12.04%) Git
2 12 (4.38%) webpack
3 10 (3.65%) Cypress.io
4 7 (2.55%) Vite
5 5 (1.82%) JIRA
5 5 (1.82%) Storybook
6 4 (1.46%) Babel
7 3 (1.09%) gulp
8 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.36%) GitLab
9 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (8.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (4.38%) Finance
3 11 (4.01%) Retail
4 10 (3.65%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.92%) Legal
6 7 (2.55%) Law
7 6 (2.19%) Banking
7 6 (2.19%) Front Office
8 5 (1.82%) Marketing
9 4 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) iGaming
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (39.42%) React
2 49 (17.88%) CSS
3 37 (13.50%) HTML
4 28 (10.22%) Vue
5 19 (6.93%) Jest
6 18 (6.57%) Node.js
7 15 (5.47%) AngularJS
7 15 (5.47%) REST
8 13 (4.74%) HTML5
8 13 (4.74%) RESTful
9 12 (4.38%) Sass
9 12 (4.38%) Tailwind CSS
10 11 (4.01%) .NET
10 11 (4.01%) CSS3
11 10 (3.65%) React Native
12 9 (3.28%) Next.js
13 8 (2.92%) WebSockets
14 7 (2.55%) GraphQL
15 6 (2.19%) Flutter
16 5 (1.82%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.22%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (4.38%) Mobile App
3 8 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.19%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.46%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.46%) IoT
8 3 (1.09%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.73%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.73%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.36%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.73%) Android
1 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (89.42%) Front End Development
2 55 (20.07%) User Experience
3 34 (12.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 32 (11.68%) UX Design
5 31 (11.31%) Agile
6 27 (9.85%) DevOps
7 23 (8.39%) E-Commerce
7 23 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (7.66%) Web Development
9 20 (7.30%) CI/CD
10 17 (6.20%) AI
10 17 (6.20%) Mentoring
11 15 (5.47%) Performance Optimisation
11 15 (5.47%) Responsive Web Design
12 14 (5.11%) Data Visualisation
12 14 (5.11%) Visualisation
13 13 (4.74%) CRM
14 12 (4.38%) Software Engineering
15 11 (4.01%) Clean Code
16 10 (3.65%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.86%) JavaScript
2 87 (31.75%) TypeScript
3 14 (5.11%) Python
4 7 (2.55%) Java
5 6 (2.19%) C#
5 6 (2.19%) PHP
6 4 (1.46%) Dart
6 4 (1.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (7.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (3.65%) Degree
2 10 (3.65%) DV Cleared
2 10 (3.65%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.31%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.65%) WCAG
3 6 (2.19%) QA
4 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.36%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (1.09%) Adobe
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.73%) SAP