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 £61,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 373 392
Rank change year-on-year -102 +19 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 236 289 574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.70% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.78% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 218 233 530
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,736 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -6.52%

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 72,188 37,006 84,379
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 90.01% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46,349 23,310 63,655
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
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 £79,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 29 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 29 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 -74 211 £59,000 -9.23% 57
UK excluding London -50 153 £52,500 -4.55% 39
North of England -25 73 £55,000 - 20
Work from Home -45 71 £63,750 +8.51% 37
London -60 62 £82,500 +8.20% 23
South West -30 32 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Yorkshire -28 31 £47,372 -4.78% 3
North West -26 30 £62,500 +13.64% 11
South East -25 26 £55,000 -29.03% 7
North East -20 12 £59,000 +4.42% 6
West Midlands -13 9 £55,000 +12.82%
Midlands -39 9 £55,000 +18.92% 1
Scotland -36 8 £65,000 +44.44%
East of England -38 3 £75,000 +13.27%
Wales -22 2 £48,370 +7.49% 5

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 211 (89.41%) Front End Development
2 103 (43.64%) JavaScript
3 101 (42.80%) React
4 77 (32.63%) TypeScript
5 70 (29.66%) CSS
6 67 (28.39%) User Experience
7 58 (24.58%) HTML
8 53 (22.46%) Agile
9 49 (20.76%) Git
10 44 (18.64%) Accessibility
11 37 (15.68%) UX Design
12 35 (14.83%) Vue
13 27 (11.44%) CI/CD
13 27 (11.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 27 (11.44%) Jest
14 26 (11.02%) Node.js
15 24 (10.17%) Azure
16 23 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (9.32%) Responsive Web Design
18 21 (8.90%) Mentoring
19 19 (8.05%) SaaS
20 18 (7.63%) E-Commerce
20 18 (7.63%) RESTful
20 18 (7.63%) Tailwind CSS
21 17 (7.20%) Cypress.io
21 17 (7.20%) DevOps
21 17 (7.20%) Security Cleared
21 17 (7.20%) Web Development
22 16 (6.78%) HTML5
22 16 (6.78%) Performance Optimisation

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 (2.12%) CMS
2 2 (0.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.42%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.42%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.17%) Azure
2 19 (8.05%) SaaS
3 15 (6.36%) GitHub
4 13 (5.51%) AWS
5 9 (3.81%) Figma
6 8 (3.39%) npm
7 7 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.27%) Miro
9 3 (1.27%) Serverless
10 2 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.85%) Vercel
10 2 (0.85%) Yarn
11 1 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.42%) Algolia
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.42%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (2.12%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.42%) MySQL
3 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (20.76%) Git
2 17 (7.20%) Cypress.io
3 15 (6.36%) webpack
4 10 (4.24%) JIRA
5 8 (3.39%) Vite
6 7 (2.97%) Babel
6 7 (2.97%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.12%) Storybook
7 5 (2.12%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.27%) Axure RP
8 3 (1.27%) gulp
9 1 (0.42%) GitLab
9 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.42%) Protractor
9 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (14.41%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.47%) Retail
3 11 (4.66%) Legal
4 10 (4.24%) Law
4 10 (4.24%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.12%) Finance
6 5 (2.12%) Front Office
7 4 (1.69%) Banking
7 4 (1.69%) Marketing
8 2 (0.85%) Automotive
8 2 (0.85%) Publishing
9 1 (0.42%) Games
9 1 (0.42%) iGaming
9 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (42.80%) React
2 70 (29.66%) CSS
3 58 (24.58%) HTML
4 35 (14.83%) Vue
5 27 (11.44%) Jest
6 26 (11.02%) Node.js
7 18 (7.63%) RESTful
7 18 (7.63%) Tailwind CSS
8 16 (6.78%) HTML5
9 15 (6.36%) REST
9 15 (6.36%) Sass
10 14 (5.93%) AngularJS
10 14 (5.93%) CSS3
11 12 (5.08%) GraphQL
12 9 (3.81%) Nuxt
13 8 (3.39%) .NET
13 8 (3.39%) Next.js
14 7 (2.97%) Flutter
14 7 (2.97%) React Native
15 6 (2.54%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.59%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (4.66%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.54%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.54%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.12%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.85%) Blog
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.85%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.42%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.27%) Linux
2 2 (0.85%) Android
2 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (89.41%) Front End Development
2 67 (28.39%) User Experience
3 53 (22.46%) Agile
4 37 (15.68%) UX Design
5 27 (11.44%) CI/CD
5 27 (11.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (9.32%) Responsive Web Design
8 21 (8.90%) Mentoring
9 18 (7.63%) E-Commerce
10 17 (7.20%) DevOps
10 17 (7.20%) Web Development
11 16 (6.78%) Performance Optimisation
12 15 (6.36%) API Integration
13 13 (5.51%) AI
13 13 (5.51%) CRM
13 13 (5.51%) Software Engineering
14 12 (5.08%) Clean Code
15 11 (4.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (4.66%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 103 (43.64%) JavaScript
2 77 (32.63%) TypeScript
3 10 (4.24%) Python
4 9 (3.81%) C#
5 7 (2.97%) Java
6 6 (2.54%) PHP
7 4 (1.69%) Dart
7 4 (1.69%) SQL
8 2 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (7.20%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.24%) Degree
2 10 (4.24%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.64%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.24%) QA
2 10 (4.24%) WCAG
3 5 (2.12%) GDPR
3 5 (2.12%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.42%) Grafana
1 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (1.27%) Adobe
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.42%) SAP