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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 517 416
Rank change year-on-year -40 -101 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 263 157 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.35% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 213 119 254
10th Percentile £44,043 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

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 109,655 44,258 71,074
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 89.76% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,828 25,506 41,262
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -24 230 £65,000 +8.33% 91
UK excluding London -9 216 £65,000 +18.18% 55
North of England +5 101 £69,305 +15.51% 20
Work from Home -45 83 £69,305 +15.51% 45
North West +1 54 £60,000 - 14
South East -40 38 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Midlands -38 30 £45,242 +6.45% 5
London -85 29 £85,000 +13.33% 47
Yorkshire -16 25 £70,000 +86.67% 2
North East -45 22 £65,000 -22.39% 4
South West -62 19 £52,500 +10.53% 6
East Midlands -24 17 £45,000 -5.26% 2
Northern Ireland - 14 £65,000 - 7
West Midlands -41 13 £69,305 +73.26% 3
East of England -32 9 £65,000 +36.84% 2
Wales -76 5 £48,961 -34.72% 3

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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.

1 241 (91.63%) Front End Development
2 99 (37.64%) TypeScript
3 91 (34.60%) JavaScript
3 91 (34.60%) React
4 53 (20.15%) Agile
5 46 (17.49%) CSS
5 46 (17.49%) HTML
6 44 (16.73%) Mentoring
7 40 (15.21%) Accessibility
8 39 (14.83%) AI
8 39 (14.83%) User Experience
9 35 (13.31%) E-Commerce
9 35 (13.31%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (12.55%) CI/CD
11 32 (12.17%) Performance Optimisation
12 31 (11.79%) Security Cleared
13 30 (11.41%) AWS
14 28 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (9.89%) Azure
15 26 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (9.89%) DevOps
16 23 (8.75%) Node.js
17 22 (8.37%) Design Patterns
18 21 (7.98%) Git
18 21 (7.98%) Roadmaps
18 21 (7.98%) SC Cleared
18 21 (7.98%) UX Design
18 21 (7.98%) Web Development
19 20 (7.60%) Collaborative Working
20 18 (6.84%) Scrum

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 7 (2.66%) CMS
1 7 (2.66%) Headless CMS
2 2 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Blender
1 3 (1.14%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 6 (2.28%) Magento
2 2 (0.76%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.41%) AWS
2 26 (9.89%) Azure
3 7 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (2.66%) Figma
4 6 (2.28%) SaaS
5 4 (1.52%) GitHub
5 4 (1.52%) Snowflake
5 4 (1.52%) Vercel
6 3 (1.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (0.76%) Contentful
7 2 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.76%) Supabase
8 1 (0.38%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.38%) GCP
8 1 (0.38%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.14%) Wireless
2 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.90%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.76%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.76%) GIS
Development Applications
1 21 (7.98%) Git
2 5 (1.90%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.14%) Babel
3 3 (1.14%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.14%) JIRA
4 2 (0.76%) Gradle
4 2 (0.76%) gulp
4 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.76%) webpack
4 2 (0.76%) Xcode
5 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 33 (12.55%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.75%) Finance
3 19 (7.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (3.80%) Marketing
4 10 (3.80%) Retail
5 7 (2.66%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.76%) Banking
8 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.38%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (34.60%) React
2 46 (17.49%) CSS
2 46 (17.49%) HTML
3 23 (8.75%) Node.js
4 17 (6.46%) AngularJS
4 17 (6.46%) Next.js
4 17 (6.46%) Vue
5 16 (6.08%) Playwright
6 14 (5.32%) React Native
7 13 (4.94%) .NET
7 13 (4.94%) REST
8 11 (4.18%) GraphQL
9 7 (2.66%) HTML5
9 7 (2.66%) RESTful
10 6 (2.28%) CSS3
10 6 (2.28%) Sass
10 6 (2.28%) Web Services
10 6 (2.28%) WebSockets
11 5 (1.90%) Material-UI
11 5 (1.90%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.46%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (3.80%) IoT
3 6 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.14%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.14%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.14%) PropTech
6 2 (0.76%) Animation
6 2 (0.76%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.76%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.38%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.38%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (91.63%) Front End Development
2 53 (20.15%) Agile
3 44 (16.73%) Mentoring
4 39 (14.83%) AI
4 39 (14.83%) User Experience
5 35 (13.31%) E-Commerce
5 35 (13.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 33 (12.55%) CI/CD
7 32 (12.17%) Performance Optimisation
8 28 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (9.89%) DevOps
10 22 (8.37%) Design Patterns
11 21 (7.98%) Roadmaps
11 21 (7.98%) UX Design
11 21 (7.98%) Web Development
12 20 (7.60%) Collaborative Working
13 18 (6.84%) Scrum
13 18 (6.84%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (6.08%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 99 (37.64%) TypeScript
2 91 (34.60%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.08%) Python
4 8 (3.04%) C#
5 5 (1.90%) SQL
6 3 (1.14%) PHP
7 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (11.79%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.98%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.04%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.28%) Degree
5 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.21%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.70%) QA
3 13 (4.94%) WCAG
4 5 (1.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 11 (4.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.52%) Oracle
2 4 (1.52%) OutSystems
2 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.14%) SAP
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe
4 1 (0.38%) OpenAI