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 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 386 405
Rank change year-on-year -87 +19 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 251 277 570
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.66% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.74% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 230 228 528
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,426 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
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 80,529 37,301 89,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 89.33% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 51,589 23,381 66,338
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
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 19 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 19 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 -76 223 £57,500 -11.54% 51
UK excluding London -35 168 £52,500 -4.55% 36
North of England -23 82 £56,250 +2.27% 16
Work from Home -45 70 £62,500 +4.17% 24
London -57 62 £85,000 +13.33% 22
South West -36 38 £45,000 -18.18% 2
North West -17 35 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Yorkshire -20 34 £48,686 +49.80% 3
South East -49 23 £47,500 -33.33% 8
North East -28 13 £59,000 +4.42% 5
West Midlands -26 8 £55,000 +12.82% 2
Scotland -32 8 £65,000 +36.84% 2
Midlands -51 8 £55,000 +15.79% 3
East of England -45 5 £75,000 +13.27% 2
Wales -26 3 £53,171 +18.16% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 221 (88.05%) Front End Development
2 107 (42.63%) JavaScript
3 101 (40.24%) React
4 79 (31.47%) TypeScript
5 62 (24.70%) CSS
6 58 (23.11%) User Experience
7 50 (19.92%) HTML
8 41 (16.33%) Agile
8 41 (16.33%) Git
9 39 (15.54%) Accessibility
10 34 (13.55%) UX Design
11 30 (11.95%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (11.95%) Vue
12 25 (9.96%) Node.js
13 24 (9.56%) Web Development
14 23 (9.16%) Jest
15 22 (8.76%) DevOps
16 20 (7.97%) CI/CD
16 20 (7.97%) Mentoring
16 20 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (7.17%) Responsive Web Design
17 18 (7.17%) SaaS
18 17 (6.77%) E-Commerce
18 17 (6.77%) Performance Optimisation
18 17 (6.77%) Security Cleared
19 16 (6.37%) Azure
19 16 (6.37%) RESTful
20 15 (5.98%) Tailwind CSS
21 14 (5.58%) AI
21 14 (5.58%) Data Visualisation

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 (1.99%) CMS
2 2 (0.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.17%) SaaS
2 16 (6.37%) Azure
3 13 (5.18%) AWS
4 10 (3.98%) Figma
4 10 (3.98%) GitHub
5 7 (2.79%) npm
6 6 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.20%) Serverless
9 2 (0.80%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (0.80%) Vercel
9 2 (0.80%) Yarn
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Algolia
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.40%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.80%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.40%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.40%) MySQL
3 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (16.33%) Git
2 13 (5.18%) Cypress.io
3 12 (4.78%) webpack
4 8 (3.19%) JIRA
5 7 (2.79%) Vite
6 5 (1.99%) Babel
6 5 (1.99%) Storybook
6 5 (1.99%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.80%) gulp
9 1 (0.40%) GitLab
9 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (11.95%) Social Skills
2 15 (5.98%) Retail
3 11 (4.38%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.19%) Legal
5 7 (2.79%) Law
6 6 (2.39%) Banking
6 6 (2.39%) Front Office
7 5 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.99%) Finance
7 5 (1.99%) Marketing
8 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.80%) Publishing
9 1 (0.40%) Automotive
9 1 (0.40%) Games
9 1 (0.40%) iGaming
9 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (40.24%) React
2 62 (24.70%) CSS
3 50 (19.92%) HTML
4 30 (11.95%) Vue
5 25 (9.96%) Node.js
6 23 (9.16%) Jest
7 16 (6.37%) RESTful
8 15 (5.98%) Tailwind CSS
9 14 (5.58%) HTML5
9 14 (5.58%) Sass
10 12 (4.78%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.78%) CSS3
10 12 (4.78%) REST
11 10 (3.98%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.19%) Next.js
13 7 (2.79%) Nuxt
13 7 (2.79%) React Native
13 7 (2.79%) Web Services
14 6 (2.39%) Flutter
14 6 (2.39%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.95%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (4.38%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.39%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.39%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.39%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.39%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.99%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.20%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.80%) Blog
8 2 (0.80%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.40%) IoT
9 1 (0.40%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.20%) Linux
2 2 (0.80%) Android
2 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (88.05%) Front End Development
2 58 (23.11%) User Experience
3 41 (16.33%) Agile
4 34 (13.55%) UX Design
5 30 (11.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (9.56%) Web Development
7 22 (8.76%) DevOps
8 20 (7.97%) CI/CD
8 20 (7.97%) Mentoring
8 20 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (7.17%) Responsive Web Design
10 17 (6.77%) E-Commerce
10 17 (6.77%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (5.58%) AI
11 14 (5.58%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (5.58%) Software Engineering
11 14 (5.58%) Visualisation
12 13 (5.18%) API Integration
12 13 (5.18%) Clean Code
12 13 (5.18%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 107 (42.63%) JavaScript
2 79 (31.47%) TypeScript
3 14 (5.58%) Python
4 7 (2.79%) Java
5 6 (2.39%) C#
5 6 (2.39%) PHP
6 4 (1.59%) Dart
6 4 (1.59%) SQL
7 2 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (6.77%) Security Cleared
2 9 (3.59%) Degree
2 9 (3.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.54%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.98%) WCAG
3 5 (1.99%) QA
4 3 (1.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) PERC
5 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (1.20%) Adobe
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.40%) SAP