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 £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 435 416
Rank change year-on-year -15 -19 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 298 228 563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.60% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 260 182 522
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £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 86,685 38,020 93,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 89.33% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57,629 21,313 68,696
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,620 £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 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.43%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -17 263 £60,000 -7.69% 36
UK excluding London +46 208 £55,000 - 30
North of England +27 103 £61,250 +9.87% 7
Work from Home -16 73 £65,000 +18.18% 20
London -55 64 £80,000 +6.67% 10
North West +8 43 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Yorkshire -13 41 £65,000 +85.71% 2
South West -43 34 £45,000 -7.69% 5
South East +3 30 £45,000 -18.18% 5
North East -30 19 £59,500 +2.15% 2
Midlands -39 17 £55,000 +22.22% 3
West Midlands -38 15 £55,000 +12.82% 2
East of England -26 10 £65,000 -1.83% 8
Northern Ireland - 6 £65,000 - 2
Scotland -3 5 £65,000 +23.81%
Wales -30 3 £53,171 -
East Midlands -37 2 £55,000 +22.22% 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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.

1 267 (89.60%) Front End Development
2 112 (37.58%) React
3 108 (36.24%) JavaScript
4 94 (31.54%) TypeScript
5 61 (20.47%) User Experience
6 51 (17.11%) CSS
7 41 (13.76%) HTML
8 37 (12.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (12.08%) UX Design
10 34 (11.41%) Agile
10 34 (11.41%) Git
11 32 (10.74%) Accessibility
11 32 (10.74%) DevOps
12 29 (9.73%) Vue
13 28 (9.40%) Web Development
14 27 (9.06%) E-Commerce
15 25 (8.39%) CI/CD
15 25 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (7.72%) Security Cleared
17 21 (7.05%) AI
17 21 (7.05%) Azure
17 21 (7.05%) Jest
17 21 (7.05%) Mentoring
18 20 (6.71%) AngularJS
18 20 (6.71%) Node.js
19 17 (5.70%) SaaS
20 16 (5.37%) Performance Optimisation
20 16 (5.37%) REST
21 14 (4.70%) .NET
21 14 (4.70%) AWS

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 (1.68%) CMS
2 2 (0.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Blender
1 2 (0.67%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 21 (7.05%) Azure
2 17 (5.70%) SaaS
3 14 (4.70%) AWS
3 14 (4.70%) Figma
4 9 (3.02%) GitHub
5 8 (2.68%) npm
6 5 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.34%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.67%) Serverless
8 2 (0.67%) Vercel
8 2 (0.67%) Yarn
9 1 (0.34%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.34%) Algolia
9 1 (0.34%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.34%) GCP
9 1 (0.34%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.68%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.67%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.34%) MySQL
4 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (11.41%) Git
2 12 (4.03%) Cypress.io
3 11 (3.69%) webpack
4 7 (2.35%) Vite
5 5 (1.68%) JIRA
5 5 (1.68%) Storybook
6 3 (1.01%) Babel
6 3 (1.01%) gulp
7 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.34%) GitLab
8 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (7.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (4.70%) Finance
3 13 (4.36%) Retail
4 10 (3.36%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.35%) Law
5 7 (2.35%) Legal
5 7 (2.35%) Marketing
6 6 (2.01%) Banking
6 6 (2.01%) Front Office
7 3 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Automotive
9 1 (0.34%) Games
9 1 (0.34%) iGaming
9 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (37.58%) React
2 51 (17.11%) CSS
3 41 (13.76%) HTML
4 29 (9.73%) Vue
5 21 (7.05%) Jest
6 20 (6.71%) AngularJS
6 20 (6.71%) Node.js
7 16 (5.37%) REST
8 14 (4.70%) .NET
9 13 (4.36%) HTML5
9 13 (4.36%) Sass
10 12 (4.03%) React Native
10 12 (4.03%) Tailwind CSS
11 11 (3.69%) CSS3
11 11 (3.69%) RESTful
12 8 (2.68%) Next.js
12 8 (2.68%) WebSockets
13 7 (2.35%) GraphQL
13 7 (2.35%) Playwright
14 6 (2.01%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.06%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (4.36%) Mobile App
3 8 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.01%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.01%) IoT
5 6 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.01%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.67%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.67%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.34%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.67%) Android
1 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (89.60%) Front End Development
2 61 (20.47%) User Experience
3 37 (12.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 36 (12.08%) UX Design
5 34 (11.41%) Agile
6 32 (10.74%) DevOps
7 28 (9.40%) Web Development
8 27 (9.06%) E-Commerce
9 25 (8.39%) CI/CD
9 25 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (7.05%) AI
10 21 (7.05%) Mentoring
11 16 (5.37%) Performance Optimisation
12 14 (4.70%) Data Visualisation
12 14 (4.70%) Responsive Web Design
12 14 (4.70%) Visualisation
13 13 (4.36%) CRM
13 13 (4.36%) Scrum
13 13 (4.36%) Software Engineering
14 12 (4.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 108 (36.24%) JavaScript
2 94 (31.54%) TypeScript
3 14 (4.70%) Python
4 9 (3.02%) C#
5 7 (2.35%) Java
6 6 (2.01%) PHP
7 4 (1.34%) Dart
7 4 (1.34%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (7.72%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.03%) Degree
2 12 (4.03%) DV Cleared
3 10 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.74%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.69%) WCAG
3 7 (2.35%) QA
4 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.34%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (1.34%) SAP
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.67%) Adobe