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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 497 460
Rank change year-on-year -7 -37 -121
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 292 197 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.40% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.44% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 248 161 333
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £90,750 £95,000 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 99,712 44,763 79,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.90% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 68,207 26,557 53,034
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +8 260 £65,000 +8.33% 91
UK excluding London +6 218 £57,500 +4.55% 54
North of England +9 99 £65,000 +8.33% 19
Work from Home -27 84 £55,000 -2.65% 37
North West +7 55 £57,500 -4.17% 12
London -54 55 £85,000 +13.33% 39
South East -7 44 £55,000 +25.71% 10
Yorkshire -5 28 £70,000 +86.67% 4
South West -43 27 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Midlands -20 20 £49,375 +9.72% 12
North East -43 16 £62,500 +2.88% 3
West Midlands -23 12 - - 6
East of England -27 11 £65,000 -13.33% 3
Northern Ireland - 10 £65,000 - 2
East Midlands -18 8 £49,375 +9.72% 6
Wales -53 7 £48,961 -34.72%

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 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.

1 261 (89.38%) Front End Development
2 114 (39.04%) React
3 111 (38.01%) TypeScript
4 110 (37.67%) JavaScript
5 48 (16.44%) CSS
6 46 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (15.41%) Agile
7 45 (15.41%) User Experience
8 43 (14.73%) AI
9 40 (13.70%) HTML
10 39 (13.36%) Accessibility
11 37 (12.67%) Mentoring
12 36 (12.33%) Performance Optimisation
13 35 (11.99%) DevOps
14 34 (11.64%) CI/CD
15 32 (10.96%) E-Commerce
15 32 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (10.27%) Git
17 29 (9.93%) Vue
18 28 (9.59%) Azure
19 27 (9.25%) Web Development
20 26 (8.90%) AWS
20 26 (8.90%) UX Design
21 25 (8.56%) Security Cleared
22 22 (7.53%) Node.js
23 21 (7.19%) Python
24 20 (6.85%) Scrum
25 19 (6.51%) Code Quality
25 19 (6.51%) REST
26 18 (6.16%) AngularJS

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 7 (2.40%) CMS
2 6 (2.05%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Blender
1 3 (1.03%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Magento
2 2 (0.68%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 28 (9.59%) Azure
2 26 (8.90%) AWS
3 12 (4.11%) Figma
4 10 (3.42%) SaaS
5 8 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.74%) GitHub
6 6 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (2.05%) npm
7 5 (1.71%) Vercel
8 4 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.68%) Contentful
10 2 (0.68%) Serverless
10 2 (0.68%) Supabase
10 2 (0.68%) Yarn
11 1 (0.34%) Algolia
11 1 (0.34%) Azure AI
11 1 (0.34%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.71%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.68%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 30 (10.27%) Git
2 13 (4.45%) Cypress.io
3 7 (2.40%) webpack
4 6 (2.05%) Vite
5 5 (1.71%) Storybook
6 4 (1.37%) JIRA
7 3 (1.03%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.68%) Babel
8 2 (0.68%) Gradle
8 2 (0.68%) gulp
8 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.68%) Xcode
9 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (11.30%) Social Skills
2 23 (7.88%) Finance
3 12 (4.11%) Retail
4 9 (3.08%) Marketing
4 9 (3.08%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.05%) Law
5 6 (2.05%) Legal
6 5 (1.71%) Banking
7 4 (1.37%) Front Office
8 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.68%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Automotive
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) iGaming
10 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (39.04%) React
2 48 (16.44%) CSS
3 40 (13.70%) HTML
4 29 (9.93%) Vue
5 22 (7.53%) Node.js
6 19 (6.51%) REST
7 18 (6.16%) AngularJS
7 18 (6.16%) React Native
8 16 (5.48%) Jest
8 16 (5.48%) Playwright
9 15 (5.14%) .NET
10 14 (4.79%) Tailwind CSS
11 13 (4.45%) Next.js
12 11 (3.77%) HTML5
12 11 (3.77%) RESTful
13 10 (3.42%) CSS3
13 10 (3.42%) Sass
14 9 (3.08%) WebSockets
15 8 (2.74%) GraphQL
15 8 (2.74%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.51%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.42%) IoT
3 10 (3.42%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.05%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.03%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.03%) PropTech
7 2 (0.68%) Animation
7 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.68%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.34%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.34%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.34%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (89.38%) Front End Development
2 46 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 45 (15.41%) Agile
3 45 (15.41%) User Experience
4 43 (14.73%) AI
5 37 (12.67%) Mentoring
6 36 (12.33%) Performance Optimisation
7 35 (11.99%) DevOps
8 34 (11.64%) CI/CD
9 32 (10.96%) E-Commerce
9 32 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (9.25%) Web Development
11 26 (8.90%) UX Design
12 20 (6.85%) Scrum
13 19 (6.51%) Code Quality
14 18 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (5.48%) Roadmaps
16 13 (4.45%) End-to-End Testing
16 13 (4.45%) Responsive Web Design
16 13 (4.45%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 111 (38.01%) TypeScript
2 110 (37.67%) JavaScript
3 21 (7.19%) Python
4 7 (2.40%) C#
5 6 (2.05%) PHP
6 5 (1.71%) Java
7 4 (1.37%) Dart
8 3 (1.03%) SQL
9 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (8.56%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.42%) Degree
4 8 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.36%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.14%) QA
3 8 (2.74%) WCAG
4 5 (1.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (2.40%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.03%) SAP
3 2 (0.68%) Adobe
4 1 (0.34%) OpenAI