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 £62,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 410 414
Rank change year-on-year -55 +4 -80
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 295 262 563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.59% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.66% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 258 210 524
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 85,926 39,497 91,995
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 89.64% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,850 22,880 67,465
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 19 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 19 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 -35 261 £60,000 -7.69% 62
UK excluding London +6 205 £55,000 - 48
North of England +30 101 £61,250 +11.36% 16
Work from Home -3 73 £65,000 +15.04% 32
London -66 65 £80,000 +10.34% 19
North West +20 44 £62,500 +13.64% 6
Yorkshire -15 39 £65,000 +85.71% 5
South West -38 35 £45,000 -18.18% 10
South East -9 29 £45,000 -21.74% 7
North East -30 18 £60,000 +3.00% 5
Midlands -31 17 £55,000 +18.92% 5
West Midlands -12 15 £55,000 +12.82% 2
East of England -24 9 £65,000 -1.83% 8
Northern Ireland - 6 £65,000 - 1
Scotland -8 5 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Wales -33 3 £53,171 +18.16%
East Midlands -34 2 £55,000 +22.22% 3

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 264 (89.49%) Front End Development
2 114 (38.64%) React
3 109 (36.95%) JavaScript
4 94 (31.86%) TypeScript
5 60 (20.34%) User Experience
6 53 (17.97%) CSS
7 42 (14.24%) HTML
8 36 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (11.86%) Git
9 35 (11.86%) UX Design
10 33 (11.19%) Accessibility
10 33 (11.19%) Agile
11 31 (10.51%) DevOps
12 30 (10.17%) Vue
13 26 (8.81%) E-Commerce
14 25 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (8.47%) Web Development
15 24 (8.14%) CI/CD
16 23 (7.80%) Security Cleared
17 21 (7.12%) AI
17 21 (7.12%) Mentoring
18 20 (6.78%) Azure
18 20 (6.78%) Jest
19 19 (6.44%) Node.js
20 18 (6.10%) AngularJS
21 16 (5.42%) Performance Optimisation
21 16 (5.42%) REST
21 16 (5.42%) SaaS
22 15 (5.08%) Responsive Web Design
23 14 (4.75%) AWS

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 (1.69%) CMS
2 2 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.34%) Blender
1 1 (0.34%) CINEMA 4D
1 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 20 (6.78%) Azure
2 16 (5.42%) SaaS
3 14 (4.75%) AWS
4 13 (4.41%) Figma
5 8 (2.71%) GitHub
5 8 (2.71%) npm
6 4 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (1.36%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (0.68%) Serverless
7 2 (0.68%) Vercel
7 2 (0.68%) Yarn
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Algolia
8 1 (0.34%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.34%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.68%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.34%) MySQL
4 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (11.86%) Git
2 12 (4.07%) webpack
3 11 (3.73%) Cypress.io
4 7 (2.37%) Vite
5 5 (1.69%) JIRA
5 5 (1.69%) Storybook
6 4 (1.36%) Babel
7 3 (1.02%) gulp
8 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.34%) GitLab
9 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (8.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (4.75%) Finance
3 13 (4.41%) Retail
4 10 (3.39%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.71%) Legal
6 7 (2.37%) Law
7 6 (2.03%) Banking
7 6 (2.03%) Front Office
7 6 (2.03%) Marketing
8 4 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Automotive
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) iGaming
10 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (38.64%) React
2 53 (17.97%) CSS
3 42 (14.24%) HTML
4 30 (10.17%) Vue
5 20 (6.78%) Jest
6 19 (6.44%) Node.js
7 18 (6.10%) AngularJS
8 16 (5.42%) REST
9 13 (4.41%) .NET
9 13 (4.41%) HTML5
9 13 (4.41%) Sass
10 12 (4.07%) React Native
10 12 (4.07%) Tailwind CSS
11 11 (3.73%) CSS3
11 11 (3.73%) RESTful
12 9 (3.05%) Next.js
13 8 (2.71%) WebSockets
14 7 (2.37%) GraphQL
15 6 (2.03%) Flutter
15 6 (2.03%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.49%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (4.41%) Mobile App
3 8 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.37%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.03%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.03%) IoT
5 6 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.36%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.02%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.68%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.68%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.34%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) Android
1 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (89.49%) Front End Development
2 60 (20.34%) User Experience
3 36 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (11.86%) UX Design
5 33 (11.19%) Agile
6 31 (10.51%) DevOps
7 26 (8.81%) E-Commerce
8 25 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (8.47%) Web Development
9 24 (8.14%) CI/CD
10 21 (7.12%) AI
10 21 (7.12%) Mentoring
11 16 (5.42%) Performance Optimisation
12 15 (5.08%) Responsive Web Design
13 14 (4.75%) Data Visualisation
13 14 (4.75%) Visualisation
14 13 (4.41%) CRM
14 13 (4.41%) Software Engineering
15 12 (4.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (4.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 109 (36.95%) JavaScript
2 94 (31.86%) TypeScript
3 14 (4.75%) Python
4 8 (2.71%) C#
5 7 (2.37%) Java
6 6 (2.03%) PHP
7 4 (1.36%) Dart
7 4 (1.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (7.80%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.07%) Degree
3 11 (3.73%) DV Cleared
3 11 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.19%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.73%) WCAG
3 7 (2.37%) QA
4 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.34%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (1.36%) SAP
2 3 (1.02%) Adobe
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft