Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Jobs

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 to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 342 180
Rank change year-on-year -66 -162 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 602 1,012 3,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 1.00% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.09% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 525 695 1,616
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer).

Salary trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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 8 May 2024.

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Top 17 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 8 May 2024. 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 -85 496 £60,000 -4.00% 156
UK excluding London -64 444 £55,000 - 108
Work from Home -67 298 £57,500 -11.54% 83
London -67 138 £75,000 +7.14% 60
North of England -15 106 £50,000 - 40
South East -51 95 £60,000 +9.09% 17
North West +27 79 £52,500 -4.55% 24
Scotland -34 75 £55,000 -11.29% 8
South West -1 69 £50,000 -6.98% 15
Midlands +9 62 £42,500 -22.73% 13
West Midlands +30 45 £45,000 -14.29% 8
Yorkshire +8 26 £37,500 -10.71% 13
East of England -26 22 £71,500 -4.67% 8
East Midlands -26 17 £37,500 -31.82% 5
Wales -18 11 £80,000 +52.38% 7
Northern Ireland +25 4 - - 1
North East -11 1 £37,500 -21.05% 3

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 562 (93.36%) Front End Development
2 360 (59.80%) React
3 351 (58.31%) JavaScript
4 296 (49.17%) CSS
5 271 (45.02%) HTML
6 262 (43.52%) TypeScript
7 193 (32.06%) Agile
8 174 (28.90%) User Experience
9 171 (28.41%) AngularJS
10 140 (23.26%) Node.js
11 130 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
12 127 (21.10%) Git
13 124 (20.60%) Degree
14 121 (20.10%) Social Skills
15 105 (17.44%) HTML5
16 98 (16.28%) AWS
17 86 (14.29%) Finance
18 84 (13.95%) Azure
18 84 (13.95%) UX Design
18 84 (13.95%) Vue
19 81 (13.46%) CSS3
20 76 (12.62%) PHP
21 73 (12.13%) Software Engineering
21 73 (12.13%) Redux
22 69 (11.46%) Web Development
22 69 (11.46%) Computer Science
23 67 (11.13%) Sass
24 66 (10.96%) C#
25 65 (10.80%) Jest
26 63 (10.47%) Docker

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (7.31%) WordPress
2 34 (5.65%) CMS
3 12 (1.99%) Apache
3 12 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.83%) nginx
5 6 (1.00%) Ethereum
6 4 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.50%) Confluence
7 3 (0.50%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.33%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (2.82%) Adobe XD
2 9 (1.50%) Photoshop
3 6 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.66%) Maya
5 3 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (3.32%) Shopify
2 6 (1.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 98 (16.28%) AWS
2 84 (13.95%) Azure
3 35 (5.81%) SaaS
4 26 (4.32%) Figma
5 21 (3.49%) GCP
5 21 (3.49%) GitHub
6 19 (3.16%) npm
7 12 (1.99%) Google Analytics
8 8 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.00%) WeChat
10 3 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 3 (0.50%) BigCommerce
10 3 (0.50%) Google Ads
10 3 (0.50%) Google Play
10 3 (0.50%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.33%) dbt
11 2 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.33%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.50%) Internet
2 8 (1.33%) HTTP
3 7 (1.16%) OpenVPN
4 6 (1.00%) DNS
5 4 (0.66%) MQTT
6 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.16%) MySQL
2 12 (1.99%) Apache Ignite
2 12 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.50%) Redis
4 5 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.33%) Metabase
7 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.33%) Power BI
7 2 (0.33%) Power Query
7 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.33%) Tableau
8 1 (0.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 127 (21.10%) Git
2 49 (8.14%) Cypress.io
2 49 (8.14%) Selenium
3 29 (4.82%) webpack
4 17 (2.82%) Storybook
5 16 (2.66%) gulp
5 16 (2.66%) JIRA
6 14 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 13 (2.16%) Visual Studio
8 10 (1.66%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.16%) GitLab
10 6 (1.00%) ESLint
10 6 (1.00%) Grunt
11 5 (0.83%) PostCSS
12 4 (0.66%) Babel
12 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.66%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.66%) Vite
13 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.50%) Maven
General
1 121 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 86 (14.29%) Finance
3 25 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (4.15%) Marketing
4 24 (3.99%) Games
5 21 (3.49%) Retail
6 13 (2.16%) Advertising
6 13 (2.16%) Public Sector
7 12 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (1.99%) Front Office
8 11 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 11 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 11 (1.83%) Tech for Good
9 7 (1.16%) Banking
9 7 (1.16%) Electronics
9 7 (1.16%) Mandarin Language
9 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.83%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (59.80%) React
2 296 (49.17%) CSS
3 271 (45.02%) HTML
4 171 (28.41%) AngularJS
5 140 (23.26%) Node.js
6 105 (17.44%) HTML5
7 84 (13.95%) Vue
8 81 (13.46%) CSS3
9 73 (12.13%) Redux
10 67 (11.13%) Sass
11 65 (10.80%) Jest
12 51 (8.47%) Express.js
13 50 (8.31%) jQuery
14 47 (7.81%) GraphQL
15 45 (7.48%) Next.js
16 29 (4.82%) .NET
17 28 (4.65%) Tailwind CSS
18 27 (4.49%) React Native
18 27 (4.49%) RESTful
19 23 (3.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.98%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (4.32%) Mobile App
3 21 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.99%) Fixed Income
6 10 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (1.50%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.33%) Animation
9 7 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.16%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.16%) Social Media
10 6 (1.00%) Blockchain
10 6 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.00%) Web3
11 5 (0.83%) Hackathon
11 5 (0.83%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.66%) Arduino
12 4 (0.66%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.66%) IoT
12 4 (0.66%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.83%) Android
2 9 (1.50%) Linux
3 7 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.16%) CentOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (93.36%) Front End Development
2 193 (32.06%) Agile
3 174 (28.90%) User Experience
4 130 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (13.95%) UX Design
6 73 (12.13%) Software Engineering
7 69 (11.46%) Computer Science
7 69 (11.46%) Web Development
8 62 (10.30%) DevOps
9 56 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence
10 55 (9.14%) Full Stack Development
11 47 (7.81%) E-Commerce
12 44 (7.31%) Actionable Insight
13 42 (6.98%) CI/CD
13 42 (6.98%) Mentoring
14 36 (5.98%) Clean Code
14 36 (5.98%) Propensity Modelling
15 35 (5.81%) Unit Testing
16 34 (5.65%) Analytics
17 29 (4.82%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 351 (58.31%) JavaScript
2 262 (43.52%) TypeScript
3 76 (12.62%) PHP
4 66 (10.96%) C#
5 40 (6.64%) Python
6 34 (5.65%) Java
7 32 (5.32%) SQL
8 7 (1.16%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.83%) GLSL
11 3 (0.50%) Bash
11 3 (0.50%) Ruby
12 2 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.33%) JSX
12 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.33%) Lisp
13 1 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 124 (20.60%) Degree
2 50 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 47 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.31%) WCAG
2 25 (4.15%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.33%) QA
4 2 (0.33%) WAI
5 1 (0.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 63 (10.47%) Docker
2 4 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.17%) cPanel
2 1 (0.17%) Plesk
2 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (6.81%) Google
2 33 (5.48%) Adobe
3 22 (3.65%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.33%) DevExpress
5 7 (1.16%) SAP
5 7 (1.16%) WooCommerce
6 5 (0.83%) Xamarin
7 4 (0.66%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.50%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.33%) Apple
9 2 (0.33%) F5
9 2 (0.33%) Facebook
9 2 (0.33%) IBM
10 1 (0.17%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.17%) BT
10 1 (0.17%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.17%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.17%) Mitel
10 1 (0.17%) Salesforce