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 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 478 442
Rank change year-on-year -47 -36 -117
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 280 194 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.39% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.43% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 236 155 301
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +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 103,220 44,750 77,447
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 89.79% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70,976 26,578 49,466
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 £75,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 2 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 2 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 -16 247 £65,000 +8.33% 79
UK excluding London +3 220 £65,000 +18.18% 43
North of England +15 102 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Work from Home -31 95 £69,305 +15.51% 38
North West +14 55 £69,305 +15.51% 6
South East -24 39 £60,000 +20.00% 8
London -74 39 £85,000 +13.33% 48
Midlands -30 29 £45,483 +7.02% 10
Yorkshire -23 28 £70,000 +86.67% 1
South West -56 23 £50,000 +5.26% 6
North East -41 19 £65,000 +4.84% 3
East Midlands -17 16 £45,242 +0.54% 5
West Midlands -27 13 £69,305 +70.07% 5
East of England -18 11 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Northern Ireland - 10 £65,000 - 7
Wales -68 6 £48,961 -34.72%

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 253 (90.36%) Front End Development
2 108 (38.57%) TypeScript
3 103 (36.79%) React
4 99 (35.36%) JavaScript
5 50 (17.86%) Agile
6 49 (17.50%) CSS
7 44 (15.71%) Mentoring
8 43 (15.36%) User Experience
9 42 (15.00%) HTML
10 41 (14.64%) Accessibility
11 40 (14.29%) AI
11 40 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 39 (13.93%) E-Commerce
13 35 (12.50%) CI/CD
13 35 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
14 31 (11.07%) DevOps
15 28 (10.00%) AWS
15 28 (10.00%) Node.js
16 27 (9.64%) Azure
16 27 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (9.29%) Security Cleared
17 26 (9.29%) UX Design
18 25 (8.93%) Git
18 25 (8.93%) Web Development
19 22 (7.86%) Vue
20 20 (7.14%) Code Quality
20 20 (7.14%) Python
21 18 (6.43%) React Native
22 17 (6.07%) Design Patterns

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 (2.86%) CMS
2 7 (2.50%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Blender
1 3 (1.07%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Magento
2 2 (0.71%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.00%) AWS
2 27 (9.64%) Azure
3 10 (3.57%) Figma
4 8 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (2.86%) GitHub
4 8 (2.86%) SaaS
5 6 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (1.79%) Vercel
7 4 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.07%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.71%) Contentful
9 2 (0.71%) npm
9 2 (0.71%) Serverless
9 2 (0.71%) Supabase
10 1 (0.36%) Algolia
10 1 (0.36%) Azure AI
10 1 (0.36%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.79%) MongoDB
1 5 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.71%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.36%) GIS
Development Applications
1 25 (8.93%) Git
2 10 (3.57%) Cypress.io
3 5 (1.79%) JIRA
3 5 (1.79%) Storybook
4 3 (1.07%) Babel
4 3 (1.07%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.71%) Gradle
5 2 (0.71%) gulp
5 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.71%) Vite
5 2 (0.71%) webpack
5 2 (0.71%) Xcode
6 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (11.07%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.21%) Finance
3 15 (5.36%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.64%) Retail
5 10 (3.57%) Marketing
6 6 (2.14%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.07%) Banking
7 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.71%) Front Office
8 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.71%) Law
8 2 (0.71%) Legal
8 2 (0.71%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.36%) Automotive
9 1 (0.36%) Games
9 1 (0.36%) iGaming
9 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (36.79%) React
2 49 (17.50%) CSS
3 42 (15.00%) HTML
4 28 (10.00%) Node.js
5 22 (7.86%) Vue
6 18 (6.43%) React Native
7 17 (6.07%) REST
8 15 (5.36%) AngularJS
8 15 (5.36%) Playwright
9 14 (5.00%) Next.js
10 12 (4.29%) .NET
10 12 (4.29%) Jest
10 12 (4.29%) Tailwind CSS
11 11 (3.93%) GraphQL
12 9 (3.21%) Sass
13 8 (2.86%) Zustand
14 7 (2.50%) CSS3
14 7 (2.50%) HTML5
14 7 (2.50%) RESTful
14 7 (2.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.43%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (6.07%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (3.57%) IoT
4 9 (3.21%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.43%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.07%) PropTech
7 2 (0.71%) Animation
7 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.71%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.36%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.36%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (90.36%) Front End Development
2 50 (17.86%) Agile
3 44 (15.71%) Mentoring
4 43 (15.36%) User Experience
5 40 (14.29%) AI
5 40 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 39 (13.93%) E-Commerce
7 35 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 35 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
8 31 (11.07%) DevOps
9 27 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (9.29%) UX Design
11 25 (8.93%) Web Development
12 20 (7.14%) Code Quality
13 17 (6.07%) Design Patterns
13 17 (6.07%) Roadmaps
13 17 (6.07%) Scrum
14 15 (5.36%) Responsive Web Design
14 15 (5.36%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 108 (38.57%) TypeScript
2 99 (35.36%) JavaScript
3 20 (7.14%) Python
4 7 (2.50%) C#
5 5 (1.79%) PHP
6 4 (1.43%) Dart
6 4 (1.43%) SQL
7 1 (0.36%) Java
7 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (9.29%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.07%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.86%) Degree
3 8 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.64%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.36%) QA
3 13 (4.64%) WCAG
4 5 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.71%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.07%) SAP
3 2 (0.71%) Adobe
4 1 (0.36%) OpenAI