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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 434 413
Rank change year-on-year -16 -21 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 307 248 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.62% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 268 203 538
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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 87,667 39,868 102,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.44% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,134 22,590 73,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,501 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -37 268 £60,000 - 131
UK excluding London +39 214 £55,000 - 161
North of England +28 107 £62,500 +10.62% 36
Work from Home -22 76 £65,000 +18.18% 157
London -63 68 £80,000 +14.29% 8
North West +16 45 £62,500 +8.70% 15
Yorkshire +1 42 £70,000 +86.67% 10
South East +2 34 £45,000 +5.88% 33
South West -34 33 £45,000 -5.26% 11
North East -32 20 £59,500 +2.15% 11
East of England -18 12 £65,000 -1.83% 24
Midlands -24 10 £55,000 +15.79% 23
Northern Ireland - 10 £65,000 - 10
West Midlands -26 8 £82,500 +65.00% 10
Scotland -2 5 £65,000 +23.81% 15
Wales - 3 £53,171 - 12
East Midlands -29 2 £55,000 +22.22% 13

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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.

1 276 (89.90%) Front End Development
2 113 (36.81%) JavaScript
3 110 (35.83%) React
4 98 (31.92%) TypeScript
5 55 (17.92%) User Experience
6 49 (15.96%) CSS
7 39 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (12.70%) HTML
8 35 (11.40%) Agile
9 32 (10.42%) DevOps
10 31 (10.10%) Git
10 31 (10.10%) Vue
11 30 (9.77%) Accessibility
12 29 (9.45%) Web Development
13 28 (9.12%) AI
13 28 (9.12%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (9.12%) UX Design
14 27 (8.79%) E-Commerce
15 26 (8.47%) CI/CD
16 23 (7.49%) Mentoring
17 22 (7.17%) Security Cleared
18 21 (6.84%) AngularJS
18 21 (6.84%) Azure
18 21 (6.84%) Node.js
19 20 (6.51%) AWS
19 20 (6.51%) Jest
19 20 (6.51%) Performance Optimisation
20 19 (6.19%) Python
21 15 (4.89%) .NET
21 15 (4.89%) Tailwind CSS

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 (1.63%) CMS
2 3 (0.98%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Blender
1 3 (0.98%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 21 (6.84%) Azure
2 20 (6.51%) AWS
3 11 (3.58%) Figma
4 10 (3.26%) SaaS
5 9 (2.93%) GitHub
6 7 (2.28%) npm
7 6 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.30%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.30%) Vercel
10 2 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.65%) Contentful
10 2 (0.65%) Serverless
10 2 (0.65%) Yarn
11 1 (0.33%) Algolia
11 1 (0.33%) DigitalOcean
11 1 (0.33%) GCP
11 1 (0.33%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.65%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.33%) MySQL
5 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (10.10%) Git
2 12 (3.91%) Cypress.io
3 10 (3.26%) webpack
4 7 (2.28%) Vite
5 5 (1.63%) JIRA
6 4 (1.30%) Storybook
7 3 (0.98%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.98%) gulp
8 2 (0.65%) Babel
8 2 (0.65%) Gradle
8 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.65%) Xcode
9 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (7.49%) Social Skills
2 14 (4.56%) Finance
2 14 (4.56%) Retail
3 10 (3.26%) Public Sector
4 7 (2.28%) Law
4 7 (2.28%) Marketing
5 6 (1.95%) Banking
5 6 (1.95%) Front Office
5 6 (1.95%) Legal
6 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.65%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.33%) Automotive
8 1 (0.33%) Games
8 1 (0.33%) iGaming
8 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (35.83%) React
2 49 (15.96%) CSS
3 39 (12.70%) HTML
4 31 (10.10%) Vue
5 21 (6.84%) AngularJS
5 21 (6.84%) Node.js
6 20 (6.51%) Jest
7 15 (4.89%) .NET
7 15 (4.89%) Tailwind CSS
8 14 (4.56%) React Native
8 14 (4.56%) REST
9 11 (3.58%) HTML5
9 11 (3.58%) Sass
10 10 (3.26%) CSS3
10 10 (3.26%) RESTful
11 9 (2.93%) Next.js
11 9 (2.93%) WebSockets
12 7 (2.28%) Playwright
13 6 (1.95%) Zustand
14 5 (1.63%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.14%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (3.91%) Mobile App
3 10 (3.26%) IoT
3 10 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.95%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.95%) Fixed Income
5 6 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (0.98%) PropTech
8 2 (0.65%) Animation
8 2 (0.65%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.65%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.65%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.65%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.65%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.33%) Android
1 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (89.90%) Front End Development
2 55 (17.92%) User Experience
3 39 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (11.40%) Agile
5 32 (10.42%) DevOps
6 29 (9.45%) Web Development
7 28 (9.12%) AI
7 28 (9.12%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (9.12%) UX Design
8 27 (8.79%) E-Commerce
9 26 (8.47%) CI/CD
10 23 (7.49%) Mentoring
11 20 (6.51%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (4.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (4.56%) Data Visualisation
12 14 (4.56%) Visualisation
13 13 (4.23%) Code Quality
13 13 (4.23%) Software Engineering
14 12 (3.91%) Analytics
14 12 (3.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 113 (36.81%) JavaScript
2 98 (31.92%) TypeScript
3 19 (6.19%) Python
4 8 (2.61%) C#
5 7 (2.28%) Java
6 6 (1.95%) PHP
7 4 (1.30%) Dart
7 4 (1.30%) SQL
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (7.17%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.91%) Degree
2 12 (3.91%) DV Cleared
3 9 (2.93%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.77%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.93%) QA
2 9 (2.93%) WCAG
3 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (1.30%) Microsoft
1 4 (1.30%) SAP
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe