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 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 507 444
Rank change year-on-year -28 -63 -125
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 275 164 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.33% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.37% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 233 128 274
10th Percentile £42,696 £37,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,750 £95,000
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 105,368 44,470 74,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.69% 89.68% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72,550 26,183 45,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
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 9 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 9 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 -19 240 £65,000 +8.33% 83
UK excluding London +13 222 £65,000 +18.18% 40
North of England +10 103 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Work from Home -28 95 £69,305 +15.51% 38
North West +16 55 £69,305 +15.51% 6
South East -14 39 £60,000 +41.18% 11
London -79 31 £85,000 +13.33% 51
Midlands -31 30 £45,242 +6.45% 9
Yorkshire -23 28 £70,000 +86.67% 1
South West -55 22 £50,000 +5.26% 5
North East -46 20 £65,000 -22.39% 3
East Midlands -20 17 £45,000 +2.86% 1
West Midlands -29 13 £69,305 +73.26% 8
East of England -31 11 £65,000 +36.84% 1
Northern Ireland - 11 £65,000 - 4
Wales -70 6 £48,961 -34.72%

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 247 (89.82%) Front End Development
2 106 (38.55%) TypeScript
3 99 (36.00%) React
4 98 (35.64%) JavaScript
5 51 (18.55%) Agile
6 50 (18.18%) CSS
7 43 (15.64%) HTML
7 43 (15.64%) Mentoring
8 41 (14.91%) User Experience
9 40 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
10 39 (14.18%) Accessibility
10 39 (14.18%) AI
11 37 (13.45%) E-Commerce
12 36 (13.09%) CI/CD
13 34 (12.36%) Performance Optimisation
14 31 (11.27%) DevOps
15 29 (10.55%) AWS
16 27 (9.82%) Azure
16 27 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (9.82%) Node.js
16 27 (9.82%) Security Cleared
17 26 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (9.45%) Web Development
18 24 (8.73%) Git
19 23 (8.36%) UX Design
20 21 (7.64%) Vue
21 20 (7.27%) Code Quality
21 20 (7.27%) Python
22 18 (6.55%) Design Patterns
22 18 (6.55%) React Native

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 8 (2.91%) CMS
2 7 (2.55%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Blender
1 3 (1.09%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Magento
2 2 (0.73%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 29 (10.55%) AWS
2 27 (9.82%) Azure
3 9 (3.27%) Figma
4 8 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (2.91%) GitHub
4 8 (2.91%) SaaS
5 6 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (1.82%) Vercel
7 4 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.73%) Contentful
9 2 (0.73%) Serverless
9 2 (0.73%) Supabase
10 1 (0.36%) Algolia
10 1 (0.36%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.36%) GCP
10 1 (0.36%) npm
10 1 (0.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.82%) MongoDB
1 5 (1.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.73%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.36%) GIS
Development Applications
1 24 (8.73%) Git
2 10 (3.64%) Cypress.io
3 5 (1.82%) JIRA
3 5 (1.82%) Storybook
4 3 (1.09%) Babel
4 3 (1.09%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.73%) Gradle
5 2 (0.73%) gulp
5 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.73%) webpack
5 2 (0.73%) Xcode
6 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (11.27%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.36%) Finance
3 16 (5.82%) Public Sector
4 10 (3.64%) Marketing
4 10 (3.64%) Retail
5 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.09%) Banking
6 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.73%) Front Office
7 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.73%) Law
8 1 (0.36%) Automotive
8 1 (0.36%) Games
8 1 (0.36%) iGaming
8 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.36%) Legal
8 1 (0.36%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (36.00%) React
2 50 (18.18%) CSS
3 43 (15.64%) HTML
4 27 (9.82%) Node.js
5 21 (7.64%) Vue
6 18 (6.55%) React Native
7 16 (5.82%) AngularJS
8 15 (5.45%) Next.js
8 15 (5.45%) Playwright
9 14 (5.09%) REST
10 12 (4.36%) .NET
10 12 (4.36%) GraphQL
10 12 (4.36%) Jest
10 12 (4.36%) Tailwind CSS
11 9 (3.27%) Sass
12 8 (2.91%) Zustand
13 7 (2.55%) CSS3
13 7 (2.55%) HTML5
13 7 (2.55%) RESTful
13 7 (2.55%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (3.64%) IoT
4 9 (3.27%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.09%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.09%) PropTech
7 2 (0.73%) Animation
7 2 (0.73%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.73%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.36%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.36%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (89.82%) Front End Development
2 51 (18.55%) Agile
3 43 (15.64%) Mentoring
4 41 (14.91%) User Experience
5 40 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (14.18%) AI
7 37 (13.45%) E-Commerce
8 36 (13.09%) CI/CD
9 34 (12.36%) Performance Optimisation
10 31 (11.27%) DevOps
11 27 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (9.45%) Web Development
13 23 (8.36%) UX Design
14 20 (7.27%) Code Quality
15 18 (6.55%) Design Patterns
15 18 (6.55%) Roadmaps
16 17 (6.18%) Scrum
17 16 (5.82%) Technical Leadership
18 15 (5.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 106 (38.55%) TypeScript
2 98 (35.64%) JavaScript
3 20 (7.27%) Python
4 7 (2.55%) C#
5 5 (1.82%) PHP
6 4 (1.45%) Dart
6 4 (1.45%) SQL
7 1 (0.36%) Java
7 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (9.82%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.55%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.91%) Degree
3 8 (2.91%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.18%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.45%) QA
3 13 (4.73%) WCAG
4 5 (1.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.73%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (3.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.09%) SAP
3 2 (0.73%) Adobe
4 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle
4 1 (0.36%) OutSystems
4 1 (0.36%) Red Hat