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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 362 390
Rank change year-on-year -108 +28 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 233 307 574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.73% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.80% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 213 237 530
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £94,750 £88,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

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 69,843 38,164 81,143
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.98% 90.31% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 44,555 23,016 61,790
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,408 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,263
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 21 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Top 15 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 21 March 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 -75 210 £58,500 -10.00% 66
UK excluding London -55 150 £52,500 -4.55% 47
North of England -34 72 £55,000 - 21
Work from Home -36 69 £62,500 +8.70% 44
London -62 63 £85,000 +9.68% 26
Yorkshire -18 31 £47,372 -4.78% 3
South West -25 30 £45,000 -18.18% 8
North West -24 29 £62,500 +13.64% 14
South East -21 28 £55,000 -29.03% 8
North East -22 12 £59,000 +4.42% 4
West Midlands -2 9 £55,000 +12.82% 3
Midlands -32 9 £55,000 +15.79% 5
Scotland -21 8 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Wales -25 2 £47,120 +4.71% 5
East of England -24 1 £80,000 +20.82%

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

For the 6 months to 21 March 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.

1 210 (90.13%) Front End Development
2 102 (43.78%) JavaScript
2 102 (43.78%) React
3 75 (32.19%) TypeScript
4 74 (31.76%) User Experience
5 71 (30.47%) CSS
6 62 (26.61%) HTML
7 57 (24.46%) Agile
8 51 (21.89%) Git
9 48 (20.60%) Accessibility
10 41 (17.60%) UX Design
11 34 (14.59%) Vue
12 27 (11.59%) CI/CD
13 26 (11.16%) Azure
14 25 (10.73%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (10.73%) Jest
14 25 (10.73%) Node.js
14 25 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (10.30%) Responsive Web Design
16 23 (9.87%) Mentoring
17 19 (8.15%) REST
18 18 (7.73%) RESTful
18 18 (7.73%) Security Cleared
19 17 (7.30%) AngularJS
19 17 (7.30%) DevOps
19 17 (7.30%) GitHub
19 17 (7.30%) Performance Optimisation
19 17 (7.30%) SaaS
20 16 (6.87%) API Integration
20 16 (6.87%) Cypress.io

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 (2.15%) CMS
2 2 (0.86%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.43%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.16%) Azure
2 17 (7.30%) GitHub
2 17 (7.30%) SaaS
3 12 (5.15%) AWS
4 9 (3.86%) Figma
5 8 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.43%) npm
6 5 (2.15%) Miro
7 3 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.29%) Serverless
8 2 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.86%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.86%) Vercel
8 2 (0.86%) Yarn
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.43%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.43%) GCP
9 1 (0.43%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.86%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.43%) MySQL
4 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (21.89%) Git
2 16 (6.87%) Cypress.io
2 16 (6.87%) webpack
3 9 (3.86%) JIRA
4 8 (3.43%) Vite
5 7 (3.00%) Babel
5 7 (3.00%) Visual Studio
6 5 (2.15%) Axure RP
6 5 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (1.72%) gulp
7 4 (1.72%) Storybook
8 1 (0.43%) GitLab
8 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.43%) Protractor
8 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (15.45%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.01%) Retail
3 11 (4.72%) Legal
4 10 (4.29%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.86%) Law
6 8 (3.43%) Finance
7 6 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.15%) Front Office
9 4 (1.72%) Banking
9 4 (1.72%) Marketing
10 2 (0.86%) Automotive
10 2 (0.86%) Games
10 2 (0.86%) Publishing
11 1 (0.43%) iGaming
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (43.78%) React
2 71 (30.47%) CSS
3 62 (26.61%) HTML
4 34 (14.59%) Vue
5 25 (10.73%) Jest
5 25 (10.73%) Node.js
6 19 (8.15%) REST
7 18 (7.73%) RESTful
8 17 (7.30%) AngularJS
9 16 (6.87%) HTML5
10 15 (6.44%) Tailwind CSS
11 14 (6.01%) CSS3
11 14 (6.01%) GraphQL
11 14 (6.01%) Sass
12 10 (4.29%) Next.js
13 9 (3.86%) .NET
13 9 (3.86%) Nuxt
14 8 (3.43%) JSON
15 7 (3.00%) WebSockets
16 6 (2.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.58%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (3.86%) Mobile App
2 9 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.58%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.58%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.15%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.86%) Blog
7 2 (0.86%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.43%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.29%) Android
1 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
1 3 (1.29%) Linux
2 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (90.13%) Front End Development
2 74 (31.76%) User Experience
3 57 (24.46%) Agile
4 41 (17.60%) UX Design
5 27 (11.59%) CI/CD
6 25 (10.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (10.30%) Responsive Web Design
8 23 (9.87%) Mentoring
9 17 (7.30%) DevOps
9 17 (7.30%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (6.87%) API Integration
10 16 (6.87%) E-Commerce
10 16 (6.87%) Web Development
11 15 (6.44%) Wireframes
12 14 (6.01%) Clean Code
12 14 (6.01%) Software Engineering
13 13 (5.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (5.15%) AI
15 11 (4.72%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 102 (43.78%) JavaScript
2 75 (32.19%) TypeScript
3 9 (3.86%) C#
4 7 (3.00%) Java
4 7 (3.00%) Python
5 5 (2.15%) PHP
6 4 (1.72%) SQL
7 2 (0.86%) Dart
7 2 (0.86%) Ruby
8 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (7.73%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.29%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.86%) Degree
4 7 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (20.60%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.72%) QA
2 11 (4.72%) WCAG
3 5 (2.15%) GDPR
3 5 (2.15%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.43%) Grafana
1 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (1.29%) Adobe
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.43%) SAP