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 7 March 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 360 377
Rank change year-on-year -112 +17 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 219 348 574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.75% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.82% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 201 236 528
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £33,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -8.33%

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 66,296 42,207 76,699
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 91.15% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 41,997 23,429 59,277
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.04%

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 7 March 2026.

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Top 15 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 7 March 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 -83 198 £55,000 -15.38% 70
UK excluding London -56 143 £52,500 -7.08% 50
North of England -11 69 £55,000 - 27
Work from Home -32 68 £62,500 +4.17% 37
London -40 57 £85,000 +9.68% 24
Yorkshire -18 29 £47,372 -4.78% 8
South East -6 28 £55,000 -29.03% 6
North West -15 28 £57,500 +4.55% 16
South West -10 26 £45,000 -18.18% 10
North East -16 12 £59,000 +4.42% 3
West Midlands +7 9 £55,000 +12.82% 5
Midlands -14 9 £55,000 +12.82% 6
Scotland -22 8 £65,000 +44.44%
Wales -12 2 £47,120 +4.71% 2
East of England -4 1 £80,000 +20.82%

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

For the 6 months to 7 March 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.

1 200 (91.32%) Front End Development
2 98 (44.75%) React
3 97 (44.29%) JavaScript
4 73 (33.33%) User Experience
5 70 (31.96%) TypeScript
6 68 (31.05%) CSS
7 62 (28.31%) HTML
8 59 (26.94%) Agile
9 50 (22.83%) Git
10 47 (21.46%) Accessibility
11 40 (18.26%) UX Design
12 33 (15.07%) Vue
13 27 (12.33%) Azure
13 27 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (10.96%) CI/CD
14 24 (10.96%) Node.js
14 24 (10.96%) Responsive Web Design
15 23 (10.50%) Jest
16 22 (10.05%) Mentoring
17 21 (9.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 20 (9.13%) REST
19 18 (8.22%) Security Cleared
20 17 (7.76%) AngularJS
20 17 (7.76%) API Integration
20 17 (7.76%) RESTful
21 16 (7.31%) GitHub
21 16 (7.31%) SaaS
21 16 (7.31%) Software Engineering
21 16 (7.31%) webpack
21 16 (7.31%) Wireframes

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 4 (1.83%) CMS
2 2 (0.91%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.46%) nginx
3 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (12.33%) Azure
2 16 (7.31%) GitHub
2 16 (7.31%) SaaS
3 11 (5.02%) AWS
4 8 (3.65%) Figma
4 8 (3.65%) npm
5 7 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.74%) Miro
7 2 (0.91%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (0.91%) Yarn
8 1 (0.46%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.46%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.46%) GCP
8 1 (0.46%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Sentry
8 1 (0.46%) Serverless
8 1 (0.46%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.91%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.83%) Relational Database
1 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.46%) MySQL
2 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (22.83%) Git
2 16 (7.31%) webpack
3 14 (6.39%) Cypress.io
4 8 (3.65%) Vite
5 7 (3.20%) Babel
5 7 (3.20%) JIRA
5 7 (3.20%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.74%) Axure RP
7 5 (2.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (1.83%) gulp
9 2 (0.91%) Storybook
10 1 (0.46%) GitLab
10 1 (0.46%) Protractor
General
1 38 (17.35%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.05%) Retail
3 10 (4.57%) Legal
3 10 (4.57%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.65%) Finance
4 8 (3.65%) Law
5 6 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.83%) Front Office
6 4 (1.83%) Marketing
7 3 (1.37%) Banking
8 2 (0.91%) Publishing
9 1 (0.46%) Automotive
9 1 (0.46%) Games
9 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (44.75%) React
2 68 (31.05%) CSS
3 62 (28.31%) HTML
4 33 (15.07%) Vue
5 24 (10.96%) Node.js
6 23 (10.50%) Jest
7 20 (9.13%) REST
8 17 (7.76%) AngularJS
8 17 (7.76%) RESTful
9 15 (6.85%) GraphQL
9 15 (6.85%) HTML5
9 15 (6.85%) Sass
10 13 (5.94%) CSS3
10 13 (5.94%) Tailwind CSS
11 10 (4.57%) Next.js
12 9 (4.11%) .NET
12 9 (4.11%) Nuxt
13 8 (3.65%) JSON
14 7 (3.20%) WebSockets
15 6 (2.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.31%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.74%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.28%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.83%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.91%) Blog
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.46%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.83%) Android
1 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.37%) Linux
3 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (91.32%) Front End Development
2 73 (33.33%) User Experience
3 59 (26.94%) Agile
4 40 (18.26%) UX Design
5 27 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (10.96%) CI/CD
6 24 (10.96%) Responsive Web Design
7 22 (10.05%) Mentoring
8 21 (9.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (7.76%) API Integration
10 16 (7.31%) Software Engineering
10 16 (7.31%) Wireframes
11 15 (6.85%) E-Commerce
12 14 (6.39%) DevOps
12 14 (6.39%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (5.94%) Web Development
14 12 (5.48%) Clean Code
14 12 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (5.02%) AI
15 11 (5.02%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
Programming Languages
1 97 (44.29%) JavaScript
2 70 (31.96%) TypeScript
3 9 (4.11%) C#
4 6 (2.74%) Java
5 5 (2.28%) PHP
5 5 (2.28%) Python
6 4 (1.83%) SQL
7 2 (0.91%) Ruby
8 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.65%) Degree
4 7 (3.20%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (21.46%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.48%) QA
2 12 (5.48%) WCAG
3 5 (2.28%) GDPR
3 5 (2.28%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Grafana
1 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (0.91%) Adobe
2 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.46%) Concur
2 1 (0.46%) SAP