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 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 366 358
Rank change year-on-year -128 -8 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 175 377 556
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.74% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.80% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 156 214 514
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +10.35% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,125 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,125 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 58,910 47,011 69,257
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 91.97% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 36,785 24,356 54,349
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,750
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 £74,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -84 155 £59,000 -12.59% 88
UK excluding London -60 120 £55,000 -8.33% 75
Work from Home -40 66 £62,500 -7.41% 44
North of England -12 52 £59,000 +4.42% 39
London -45 37 £80,000 +3.23% 27
South East -6 26 £55,000 -29.03% 15
North West -8 21 £60,000 +9.09% 18
South West -8 18 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Yorkshire -14 18 £48,686 -27.33% 15
North East -15 13 £59,500 +2.15% 6
West Midlands +25 10 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Midlands +4 10 £55,000 -6.38% 3
Scotland -14 8 £65,000 +26.83% 4
East of England +4 4 £40,000 -39.59% 5
Wales -2 2 £52,500 +16.67% 2

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

For the 6 months to 5 February 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.

1 160 (91.43%) Front End Development
2 83 (47.43%) React
3 79 (45.14%) JavaScript
4 68 (38.86%) CSS
5 64 (36.57%) User Experience
6 62 (35.43%) Agile
7 60 (34.29%) HTML
8 52 (29.71%) TypeScript
9 47 (26.86%) Git
10 41 (23.43%) Accessibility
11 35 (20.00%) UX Design
12 31 (17.71%) CI/CD
13 30 (17.14%) Azure
13 30 (17.14%) Vue
14 23 (13.14%) Jest
14 23 (13.14%) Responsive Web Design
15 22 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (12.00%) Node.js
16 21 (12.00%) Wireframes
17 20 (11.43%) Mentoring
18 19 (10.86%) GitHub
19 18 (10.29%) Clean Code
19 18 (10.29%) REST
20 17 (9.71%) Security Cleared
21 16 (9.14%) AngularJS
21 16 (9.14%) API Integration
21 16 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
21 16 (9.14%) GraphQL
21 16 (9.14%) Software Engineering
22 15 (8.57%) Full-Stack Development

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 (2.86%) CMS
2 2 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) Drupal
3 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.57%) nginx
3 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.14%) Azure
2 19 (10.86%) GitHub
3 14 (8.00%) AWS
4 13 (7.43%) SaaS
5 9 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.43%) Figma
6 6 (3.43%) Miro
7 2 (1.14%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.14%) npm
8 1 (0.57%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.57%) DigitalOcean
8 1 (0.57%) GCP
8 1 (0.57%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.14%) MySQL
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 47 (26.86%) Git
2 13 (7.43%) webpack
3 12 (6.86%) Cypress.io
4 7 (4.00%) JIRA
4 7 (4.00%) Visual Studio
5 6 (3.43%) Axure RP
5 6 (3.43%) gulp
5 6 (3.43%) Storybook
6 5 (2.86%) Babel
6 5 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.71%) GitLab
7 3 (1.71%) Vite
8 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.57%) Maven
9 1 (0.57%) Protractor
9 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.29%) Retail
3 14 (8.00%) Finance
4 9 (5.14%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.86%) Legal
6 4 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.29%) Marketing
7 3 (1.71%) Law
8 2 (1.14%) Publishing
9 1 (0.57%) Automotive
9 1 (0.57%) Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Front Office
9 1 (0.57%) Games
9 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (47.43%) React
2 68 (38.86%) CSS
3 60 (34.29%) HTML
4 30 (17.14%) Vue
5 23 (13.14%) Jest
6 21 (12.00%) Node.js
7 18 (10.29%) REST
8 16 (9.14%) AngularJS
8 16 (9.14%) GraphQL
9 14 (8.00%) Next.js
10 13 (7.43%) RESTful
10 13 (7.43%) Tailwind CSS
11 12 (6.86%) .NET
11 12 (6.86%) Sass
12 10 (5.71%) HTML5
13 9 (5.14%) CSS3
13 9 (5.14%) Nuxt
14 8 (4.57%) JSON
15 7 (4.00%) Web Services
16 6 (3.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.57%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.14%) Blog
7 2 (1.14%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.57%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.57%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.43%) Android
1 6 (3.43%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.71%) Linux
3 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (91.43%) Front End Development
2 64 (36.57%) User Experience
3 62 (35.43%) Agile
4 35 (20.00%) UX Design
5 31 (17.71%) CI/CD
6 23 (13.14%) Responsive Web Design
7 22 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (12.00%) Wireframes
9 20 (11.43%) Mentoring
10 18 (10.29%) Clean Code
11 16 (9.14%) API Integration
11 16 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (9.14%) Software Engineering
12 15 (8.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (7.43%) DevOps
14 12 (6.86%) Web Development
15 11 (6.29%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
15 11 (6.29%) E-Commerce
16 9 (5.14%) Code Quality
16 9 (5.14%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 79 (45.14%) JavaScript
2 52 (29.71%) TypeScript
3 12 (6.86%) C#
4 7 (4.00%) Python
5 4 (2.29%) PHP
6 3 (1.71%) SQL
6 3 (1.71%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.14%) Java
7 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.14%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.57%) Degree
4 7 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.43%) Accessibility
2 13 (7.43%) QA
3 10 (5.71%) WCAG
4 6 (3.43%) GDPR
5 5 (2.86%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.57%) Grafana
1 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.71%) DevExpress
3 2 (1.14%) Adobe
4 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.57%) Concur
4 1 (0.57%) SAP