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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 447 435
Rank change year-on-year -27 -12 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 294 240 577
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.52% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.57% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 255 196 515
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,250 £76,563 £75,625
90th Percentile £93,250 £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 90,787 41,821 99,953
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 89.76% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 62,361 24,209 72,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -5.87%

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 1 July 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 1 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 -5 261 £60,000 - 28
UK excluding London +13 206 £55,000 - 25
North of England +15 102 £62,500 +8.70% 10
Work from Home -28 74 £65,000 +18.18% 10
London -63 67 £82,500 +17.86% 8
North West +8 47 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Yorkshire -1 37 £70,000 +86.67% 1
South East -5 36 £45,000 +5.88% 9
South West -38 31 £45,000 -5.26% 1
North East -41 18 £60,000 +6.19% 4
East of England -17 11 £65,000 -1.83%
Midlands -48 11 £55,000 +12.82% 2
Northern Ireland - 10 £65,000 -
West Midlands -35 8 £82,500 +65.00%
East Midlands -30 3 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Wales -46 3 £53,171 -29.11% 2
Scotland +11 2 £65,000 +40.54% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 265 (90.14%) Front End Development
2 116 (39.46%) JavaScript
3 104 (35.37%) React
4 100 (34.01%) TypeScript
5 52 (17.69%) User Experience
6 48 (16.33%) CSS
7 42 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (13.61%) HTML
9 34 (11.56%) Agile
10 32 (10.88%) Accessibility
11 31 (10.54%) DevOps
11 31 (10.54%) Vue
12 30 (10.20%) AI
13 29 (9.86%) Git
13 29 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (9.86%) Web Development
14 28 (9.52%) E-Commerce
15 27 (9.18%) UX Design
16 25 (8.50%) CI/CD
16 25 (8.50%) Mentoring
16 25 (8.50%) Performance Optimisation
17 21 (7.14%) Node.js
17 21 (7.14%) Python
17 21 (7.14%) Security Cleared
18 20 (6.80%) AngularJS
18 20 (6.80%) AWS
18 20 (6.80%) Azure
19 17 (5.78%) Jest
20 15 (5.10%) .NET
21 14 (4.76%) 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 (1.70%) CMS
2 4 (1.36%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.34%) Confluence
3 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Blender
1 3 (1.02%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 20 (6.80%) AWS
1 20 (6.80%) Azure
2 12 (4.08%) Figma
3 9 (3.06%) SaaS
4 8 (2.72%) GitHub
5 7 (2.38%) npm
6 6 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.36%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 3 (1.02%) Vercel
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.68%) Contentful
9 2 (0.68%) Serverless
9 2 (0.68%) Yarn
10 1 (0.34%) Algolia
10 1 (0.34%) DigitalOcean
10 1 (0.34%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.04%) MongoDB
1 6 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.68%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.34%) MySQL
4 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (9.86%) Git
2 11 (3.74%) Cypress.io
3 9 (3.06%) webpack
4 7 (2.38%) Vite
5 4 (1.36%) JIRA
5 4 (1.36%) Storybook
6 3 (1.02%) Babel
6 3 (1.02%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.68%) Gradle
7 2 (0.68%) gulp
7 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.68%) Xcode
8 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (8.50%) Social Skills
2 14 (4.76%) Finance
2 14 (4.76%) Retail
3 11 (3.74%) Public Sector
4 7 (2.38%) Law
4 7 (2.38%) Marketing
5 6 (2.04%) Banking
5 6 (2.04%) Front Office
5 6 (2.04%) Legal
6 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.68%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.34%) Automotive
8 1 (0.34%) Games
8 1 (0.34%) iGaming
8 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (35.37%) React
2 48 (16.33%) CSS
3 40 (13.61%) HTML
4 31 (10.54%) Vue
5 21 (7.14%) Node.js
6 20 (6.80%) AngularJS
7 17 (5.78%) Jest
8 15 (5.10%) .NET
9 14 (4.76%) React Native
9 14 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
10 12 (4.08%) HTML5
10 12 (4.08%) REST
10 12 (4.08%) Sass
11 11 (3.74%) CSS3
12 9 (3.06%) WebSockets
13 8 (2.72%) RESTful
14 7 (2.38%) Next.js
14 7 (2.38%) Playwright
15 6 (2.04%) Zustand
16 5 (1.70%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.16%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 10 (3.40%) IoT
5 6 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.04%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.36%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.02%) PropTech
9 2 (0.68%) Animation
9 2 (0.68%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.68%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.68%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.68%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.34%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (90.14%) Front End Development
2 52 (17.69%) User Experience
3 42 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (11.56%) Agile
5 31 (10.54%) DevOps
6 30 (10.20%) AI
7 29 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (9.86%) Web Development
8 28 (9.52%) E-Commerce
9 27 (9.18%) UX Design
10 25 (8.50%) CI/CD
10 25 (8.50%) Mentoring
10 25 (8.50%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (4.76%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (4.76%) Visualisation
12 13 (4.42%) Code Quality
12 13 (4.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (4.08%) Analytics
13 12 (4.08%) Software Engineering
14 11 (3.74%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 116 (39.46%) JavaScript
2 100 (34.01%) TypeScript
3 21 (7.14%) Python
4 8 (2.72%) C#
5 7 (2.38%) Java
5 7 (2.38%) PHP
6 4 (1.36%) Dart
6 4 (1.36%) SQL
7 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (3.74%) Degree
2 11 (3.74%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.72%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.88%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.06%) WCAG
3 8 (2.72%) QA
4 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft
1 4 (1.36%) SAP
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe