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 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 391 422
Rank change year-on-year -60 +31 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 265 277 569
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.66% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.74% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 241 226 529
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,304 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%

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 82,554 37,391 90,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 88.97% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 52,923 23,445 66,615
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £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% -4.76%

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 26 April 2026.

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 -68 236 £55,000 -15.38% 46
UK excluding London -36 182 £52,500 -4.55% 40
North of England -19 87 £59,000 +7.27% 14
Work from Home -31 71 £62,500 +4.17% 29
London -69 63 £85,000 +13.33% 16
North West -17 40 £62,500 +13.64% 8
South West -25 40 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Yorkshire -27 34 £50,000 +53.85% 3
South East -29 28 £45,000 -41.94% 8
North East -40 13 £59,500 +5.31% 3
Scotland -24 8 £65,000 +36.84% 3
West Midlands -31 8 £55,000 +12.82% 4
Midlands -54 8 £55,000 +15.79% 5
East of England -44 6 £67,500 +1.95% 1
Wales -29 3 £53,171 +18.16% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £65,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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.

1 235 (88.68%) Front End Development
2 106 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 106 (40.00%) React
3 83 (31.32%) TypeScript
4 58 (21.89%) CSS
5 55 (20.75%) User Experience
6 46 (17.36%) HTML
7 40 (15.09%) Git
8 38 (14.34%) Accessibility
9 37 (13.96%) Agile
9 37 (13.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (12.45%) UX Design
11 30 (11.32%) Vue
12 24 (9.06%) DevOps
13 23 (8.68%) E-Commerce
13 23 (8.68%) Node.js
13 23 (8.68%) Web Development
14 21 (7.92%) Jest
14 21 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (7.17%) CI/CD
16 18 (6.79%) Mentoring
16 18 (6.79%) SaaS
17 17 (6.42%) Responsive Web Design
17 17 (6.42%) Security Cleared
18 16 (6.04%) Performance Optimisation
19 15 (5.66%) Azure
19 15 (5.66%) RESTful
20 14 (5.28%) Data Visualisation
20 14 (5.28%) HTML5
20 14 (5.28%) Python

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 (1.89%) CMS
2 2 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.38%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 18 (6.79%) SaaS
2 15 (5.66%) Azure
3 13 (4.91%) AWS
4 10 (3.77%) Figma
5 9 (3.40%) GitHub
6 8 (3.02%) npm
7 5 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.13%) Serverless
10 2 (0.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.75%) Vercel
10 2 (0.75%) Yarn
11 1 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Algolia
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.38%) GCP
11 1 (0.38%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.75%) Data Hub
2 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.38%) MySQL
3 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (15.09%) Git
2 12 (4.53%) Cypress.io
2 12 (4.53%) webpack
3 7 (2.64%) JIRA
3 7 (2.64%) Vite
4 5 (1.89%) Babel
4 5 (1.89%) Storybook
5 4 (1.51%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.75%) gulp
6 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.38%) GitLab
7 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (11.70%) Social Skills
2 14 (5.28%) Retail
3 10 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.02%) Legal
5 7 (2.64%) Law
6 6 (2.26%) Banking
6 6 (2.26%) Front Office
7 5 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.89%) Finance
7 5 (1.89%) Marketing
8 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Automotive
9 1 (0.38%) Games
9 1 (0.38%) iGaming
9 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (40.00%) React
2 58 (21.89%) CSS
3 46 (17.36%) HTML
4 30 (11.32%) Vue
5 23 (8.68%) Node.js
6 21 (7.92%) Jest
7 15 (5.66%) RESTful
8 14 (5.28%) HTML5
8 14 (5.28%) Sass
8 14 (5.28%) Tailwind CSS
9 13 (4.91%) AngularJS
9 13 (4.91%) REST
10 12 (4.53%) CSS3
11 9 (3.40%) .NET
11 9 (3.40%) GraphQL
11 9 (3.40%) Next.js
12 7 (2.64%) React Native
13 6 (2.26%) Flutter
13 6 (2.26%) Nuxt
13 6 (2.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.32%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (4.15%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.26%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.13%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.75%) IoT
8 2 (0.75%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.38%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.38%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.75%) Android
1 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (88.68%) Front End Development
2 55 (20.75%) User Experience
3 37 (13.96%) Agile
3 37 (13.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (12.45%) UX Design
5 24 (9.06%) DevOps
6 23 (8.68%) E-Commerce
6 23 (8.68%) Web Development
7 21 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (7.17%) CI/CD
9 18 (6.79%) Mentoring
10 17 (6.42%) Responsive Web Design
11 16 (6.04%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (5.28%) Data Visualisation
12 14 (5.28%) Software Engineering
12 14 (5.28%) Visualisation
13 13 (4.91%) AI
13 13 (4.91%) Clean Code
13 13 (4.91%) CRM
14 12 (4.53%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 106 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 83 (31.32%) TypeScript
3 14 (5.28%) Python
4 7 (2.64%) Java
5 6 (2.26%) C#
5 6 (2.26%) PHP
6 4 (1.51%) Dart
6 4 (1.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (6.42%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.40%) Degree
2 9 (3.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.34%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.15%) WCAG
3 6 (2.26%) QA
4 2 (0.75%) GDPR
4 2 (0.75%) PERC
5 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (1.13%) Adobe
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.38%) SAP