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 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 378 400
Rank change year-on-year -87 +22 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 249 273 570
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.66% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.74% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 229 224 528
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,182 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £90,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%

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 78,032 36,833 87,501
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 89.60% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 50,099 23,287 65,490
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -82 221 £57,500 -11.54% 57
UK excluding London -55 166 £52,500 -4.55% 39
North of England -29 81 £57,500 +4.55% 20
Work from Home -28 71 £62,500 +4.17% 37
London -62 62 £85,000 +13.33% 23
South West -24 39 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Yorkshire -25 34 £48,686 -2.14% 3
North West -31 34 £62,500 +13.64% 11
South East -32 23 £52,500 -32.26% 7
North East -27 13 £59,000 +4.42% 6
West Midlands -16 8 £55,000 +12.82%
Scotland -20 8 £65,000 +36.84%
Midlands -55 8 £55,000 +15.79% 1
East of England -38 4 £75,000 +13.27%
Wales -26 3 £53,171 +18.16% 5

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

For the 6 months to 12 April 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.

1 219 (87.95%) Front End Development
2 107 (42.97%) JavaScript
3 103 (41.37%) React
4 79 (31.73%) TypeScript
5 65 (26.10%) CSS
6 61 (24.50%) User Experience
7 53 (21.29%) HTML
8 44 (17.67%) Agile
8 44 (17.67%) Git
9 40 (16.06%) Accessibility
10 34 (13.65%) UX Design
11 30 (12.05%) Vue
12 28 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
13 25 (10.04%) Node.js
14 24 (9.64%) Jest
15 22 (8.84%) CI/CD
15 22 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (8.84%) Web Development
16 21 (8.43%) DevOps
17 19 (7.63%) Azure
17 19 (7.63%) Mentoring
17 19 (7.63%) Responsive Web Design
17 19 (7.63%) SaaS
18 18 (7.23%) Security Cleared
19 16 (6.43%) E-Commerce
19 16 (6.43%) Performance Optimisation
19 16 (6.43%) RESTful
19 16 (6.43%) Tailwind CSS
20 15 (6.02%) HTML5
20 15 (6.02%) Sass

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 (2.01%) CMS
2 2 (0.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.63%) Azure
1 19 (7.63%) SaaS
2 14 (5.62%) AWS
3 11 (4.42%) GitHub
4 9 (3.61%) Figma
5 8 (3.21%) npm
6 6 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.20%) Serverless
9 2 (0.80%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (0.80%) Vercel
9 2 (0.80%) Yarn
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Algolia
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.40%) Miro
10 1 (0.40%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) MySQL
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (17.67%) Git
2 14 (5.62%) Cypress.io
3 13 (5.22%) webpack
4 8 (3.21%) JIRA
5 7 (2.81%) Vite
6 6 (2.41%) Babel
7 5 (2.01%) Storybook
7 5 (2.01%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.80%) gulp
10 1 (0.40%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.40%) GitLab
10 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.40%) Protractor
10 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (13.25%) Social Skills
2 16 (6.43%) Retail
3 10 (4.02%) Public Sector
4 9 (3.61%) Legal
5 8 (3.21%) Law
6 6 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.41%) Banking
6 6 (2.41%) Front Office
7 5 (2.01%) Finance
8 4 (1.61%) Marketing
9 2 (0.80%) Automotive
9 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Publishing
10 1 (0.40%) Games
10 1 (0.40%) iGaming
10 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (41.37%) React
2 65 (26.10%) CSS
3 53 (21.29%) HTML
4 30 (12.05%) Vue
5 25 (10.04%) Node.js
6 24 (9.64%) Jest
7 16 (6.43%) RESTful
7 16 (6.43%) Tailwind CSS
8 15 (6.02%) HTML5
8 15 (6.02%) Sass
9 14 (5.62%) AngularJS
10 13 (5.22%) CSS3
10 13 (5.22%) REST
11 10 (4.02%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.21%) Next.js
13 7 (2.81%) .NET
13 7 (2.81%) Flutter
13 7 (2.81%) Nuxt
13 7 (2.81%) React Native
13 7 (2.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.65%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (4.42%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.41%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.41%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.41%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.20%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.80%) Blog
9 2 (0.80%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.40%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.20%) Linux
2 2 (0.80%) Android
2 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (87.95%) Front End Development
2 61 (24.50%) User Experience
3 44 (17.67%) Agile
4 34 (13.65%) UX Design
5 28 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (8.84%) CI/CD
6 22 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (8.84%) Web Development
7 21 (8.43%) DevOps
8 19 (7.63%) Mentoring
8 19 (7.63%) Responsive Web Design
9 16 (6.43%) E-Commerce
9 16 (6.43%) Performance Optimisation
10 15 (6.02%) Software Engineering
11 14 (5.62%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (5.62%) Visualisation
12 13 (5.22%) AI
12 13 (5.22%) API Integration
12 13 (5.22%) Clean Code
12 13 (5.22%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 107 (42.97%) JavaScript
2 79 (31.73%) TypeScript
3 14 (5.62%) Python
4 7 (2.81%) C#
4 7 (2.81%) Java
5 6 (2.41%) PHP
6 5 (2.01%) SQL
7 4 (1.61%) Dart
8 2 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (7.23%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.02%) Degree
2 10 (4.02%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.81%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (16.06%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.61%) WCAG
3 6 (2.41%) QA
4 3 (1.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.20%) PERC
5 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.40%) Grafana
1 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (1.20%) Adobe
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.40%) SAP