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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 471 466
Rank change year-on-year -25 -5 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 299 213 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.43% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.48% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 258 174 357
10th Percentile £40,875 £36,475 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £95,000
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 95,972 44,419 82,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.03% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 65,619 26,374 56,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -4 266 £62,500 +4.17% 30
UK excluding London +20 218 £55,000 - 28
North of England +28 102 £63,750 +6.25% 10
Work from Home -44 83 £55,000 - 11
London -41 60 £85,000 +13.33% 3
North West +11 55 £55,000 -8.33% 7
South East -8 45 £45,000 +5.88% 7
Yorkshire -2 32 £70,000 +86.67% 1
South West -40 28 £45,000 -5.26% 5
Midlands -40 16 £49,375 +3.95% 5
North East -40 15 £62,500 +2.88% 2
East of England -24 11 £65,000 -1.83% 1
West Midlands -32 11 £82,500 +65.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 10 £65,000 -
Wales -55 6 £48,961 -34.72%
East Midlands -28 5 £43,750 -2.78% 3

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 267 (89.30%) Front End Development
2 115 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 113 (37.79%) React
4 108 (36.12%) TypeScript
5 50 (16.72%) User Experience
6 46 (15.38%) CSS
7 44 (14.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (13.38%) Agile
9 38 (12.71%) HTML
10 37 (12.37%) AI
11 36 (12.04%) Accessibility
12 34 (11.37%) DevOps
13 33 (11.04%) Performance Optimisation
14 32 (10.70%) Mentoring
14 32 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (10.37%) Git
16 29 (9.70%) CI/CD
16 29 (9.70%) E-Commerce
16 29 (9.70%) Web Development
17 28 (9.36%) UX Design
17 28 (9.36%) Vue
18 24 (8.03%) Azure
19 23 (7.69%) Security Cleared
20 22 (7.36%) AWS
21 20 (6.69%) Python
22 19 (6.35%) AngularJS
22 19 (6.35%) Node.js
23 17 (5.69%) React Native
23 17 (5.69%) Scrum
24 16 (5.35%) Code Quality

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 6 (2.01%) CMS
2 5 (1.67%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Blender
1 3 (1.00%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Magento
2 2 (0.67%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 24 (8.03%) Azure
2 22 (7.36%) AWS
3 12 (4.01%) Figma
4 9 (3.01%) SaaS
5 8 (2.68%) GitHub
6 7 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.34%) npm
7 6 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.34%) Vercel
9 3 (1.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.67%) Contentful
10 2 (0.67%) Serverless
10 2 (0.67%) Yarn
11 1 (0.33%) Algolia
11 1 (0.33%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.01%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.67%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 31 (10.37%) Git
2 12 (4.01%) Cypress.io
3 9 (3.01%) webpack
4 7 (2.34%) Vite
5 4 (1.34%) Storybook
6 3 (1.00%) Babel
6 3 (1.00%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.00%) JIRA
7 2 (0.67%) Gradle
7 2 (0.67%) gulp
7 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.67%) Xcode
8 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (10.03%) Social Skills
2 20 (6.69%) Finance
3 13 (4.35%) Retail
4 9 (3.01%) Marketing
4 9 (3.01%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.34%) Law
6 6 (2.01%) Legal
7 5 (1.67%) Banking
7 5 (1.67%) Front Office
8 3 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.67%) Legal Technology
9 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.33%) Automotive
10 1 (0.33%) Games
10 1 (0.33%) iGaming
10 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (37.79%) React
2 46 (15.38%) CSS
3 38 (12.71%) HTML
4 28 (9.36%) Vue
5 19 (6.35%) AngularJS
5 19 (6.35%) Node.js
6 17 (5.69%) React Native
7 16 (5.35%) Jest
7 16 (5.35%) REST
8 15 (5.02%) .NET
9 14 (4.68%) Tailwind CSS
10 12 (4.01%) HTML5
11 11 (3.68%) CSS3
11 11 (3.68%) Playwright
11 11 (3.68%) Sass
12 10 (3.34%) Next.js
12 10 (3.34%) RESTful
12 10 (3.34%) WebSockets
13 7 (2.34%) Zustand
14 6 (2.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.35%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.34%) IoT
3 10 (3.34%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.01%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.67%) Fixed Income
5 5 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.34%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.00%) PropTech
8 2 (0.67%) Animation
8 2 (0.67%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.67%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.67%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.33%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.33%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (89.30%) Front End Development
2 50 (16.72%) User Experience
3 44 (14.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 40 (13.38%) Agile
5 37 (12.37%) AI
6 34 (11.37%) DevOps
7 33 (11.04%) Performance Optimisation
8 32 (10.70%) Mentoring
8 32 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (9.70%) CI/CD
9 29 (9.70%) E-Commerce
9 29 (9.70%) Web Development
10 28 (9.36%) UX Design
11 17 (5.69%) Scrum
12 16 (5.35%) Code Quality
13 14 (4.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (4.35%) Roadmaps
15 12 (4.01%) Data Visualisation
15 12 (4.01%) End-to-End Testing
15 12 (4.01%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 108 (36.12%) TypeScript
3 20 (6.69%) Python
4 7 (2.34%) C#
5 6 (2.01%) Java
6 5 (1.67%) PHP
7 4 (1.34%) Dart
7 4 (1.34%) SQL
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (4.68%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.68%) Degree
4 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.04%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.01%) QA
3 7 (2.34%) WCAG
4 4 (1.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (1.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.00%) SAP
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe