Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 608 777 755
Rank change year-on-year +169 -22 -192
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 102 110 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 88 81 138
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,000 £53,200
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,778 £87,500 £101,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,295 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.29% +12.00% +6.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 48,816 93,552 93,960
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.64% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,241 67,063 59,087
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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

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

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

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

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

Salary trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the UK

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. 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 +153 95 £72,500 -3.33% 112
Work from Home +191 72 £75,390 -2.72% 72
UK excluding London +174 60 £66,295 -5.29% 57
London +104 40 £88,805 +1.49% 80
North of England +73 22 £65,000 -7.14% 13
North West +6 18 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Midlands +53 11 £52,500 -12.50% 4
South East +110 8 £60,000 -20.00% 29
West Midlands +49 8 £52,500 -12.50% 4
South West +111 7 £85,253 +17.59% 1
Scotland +122 6 £85,253 +26.30% 4
East of England +47 6 £66,295 -14.46% 2
Yorkshire +62 4 £64,250 +97.69% 3
East Midlands +41 3 £72,500 +31.82%

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 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 Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 78 (76.47%) React
2 74 (72.55%) JavaScript
3 69 (67.65%) TypeScript
4 64 (62.75%) Software Engineering
5 48 (47.06%) Agile
6 46 (45.10%) User Experience
7 40 (39.22%) HTML
8 38 (37.25%) CSS
9 36 (35.29%) Finance
9 36 (35.29%) AWS
10 28 (27.45%) Node.js
10 28 (27.45%) Front End Development
11 25 (24.51%) GCP
11 25 (24.51%) Git
11 25 (24.51%) Artificial Intelligence
12 24 (23.53%) DevOps
13 23 (22.55%) AngularJS
13 23 (22.55%) CI/CD
14 22 (21.57%) C#
14 22 (21.57%) Jest
14 22 (21.57%) Full-Stack Development
15 21 (20.59%) Next.js
15 21 (20.59%) Banking
16 20 (19.61%) Redux
17 19 (18.63%) Accessibility
18 18 (17.65%) Microservices
18 18 (17.65%) webpack
19 17 (16.67%) .NET
19 17 (16.67%) UX Design
20 16 (15.69%) Python

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 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 3 (2.94%) Apache
1 3 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.96%) CMS
2 2 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.94%) Adobe XD
2 3 (2.94%) Sketch
3 1 (0.98%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.29%) AWS
2 25 (24.51%) GCP
3 15 (14.71%) Azure
4 13 (12.75%) SaaS
5 11 (10.78%) Figma
6 7 (6.86%) npm
7 5 (4.90%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (3.92%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.94%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.96%) Datadog
10 2 (1.96%) GitHub
10 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.96%) Yarn
11 1 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.98%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.98%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.98%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.90%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.94%) Apache Ignite
3 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.94%) Redis
4 2 (1.96%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.96%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.98%) MySQL
5 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (24.51%) Git
2 18 (17.65%) webpack
3 12 (11.76%) Cypress.io
4 10 (9.80%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 6 (5.88%) Storybook
5 6 (5.88%) Vite
6 5 (4.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (4.90%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.94%) MSTest
7 3 (2.94%) NUnit
7 3 (2.94%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.96%) Babel
8 2 (1.96%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.96%) JIRA
9 1 (0.98%) GitLab
9 1 (0.98%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 36 (35.29%) Finance
2 21 (20.59%) Banking
3 14 (13.73%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.76%) Law
5 11 (10.78%) Front Office
6 8 (7.84%) Games
7 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.94%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.96%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.98%) Advertising
10 1 (0.98%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (76.47%) React
2 40 (39.22%) HTML
3 38 (37.25%) CSS
4 28 (27.45%) Node.js
5 23 (22.55%) AngularJS
6 22 (21.57%) Jest
7 21 (20.59%) Next.js
8 20 (19.61%) Redux
9 17 (16.67%) .NET
10 14 (13.73%) RESTful
11 13 (12.75%) React Native
12 11 (10.78%) Enzyme
12 11 (10.78%) GraphQL
12 11 (10.78%) RxJS
13 10 (9.80%) NgRx
14 9 (8.82%) .NET Core
14 9 (8.82%) Svelte
15 7 (6.86%) .NET Framework
15 7 (6.86%) Entity Framework
15 7 (6.86%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.78%) Fixed Income
2 10 (9.80%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.84%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.90%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.90%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.92%) Legacy Code
6 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.94%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (2.94%) Derivative
7 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.94%) Equities
7 3 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.94%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.96%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.96%) IoT
8 2 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.92%) Linux
2 3 (2.94%) Android
2 3 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (62.75%) Software Engineering
2 48 (47.06%) Agile
3 46 (45.10%) User Experience
4 28 (27.45%) Front End Development
5 25 (24.51%) Artificial Intelligence
6 24 (23.53%) DevOps
7 23 (22.55%) CI/CD
8 22 (21.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (17.65%) Microservices
10 17 (16.67%) UX Design
11 16 (15.69%) Code Quality
12 14 (13.73%) Fintech
12 14 (13.73%) Micro Frontends
12 14 (13.73%) Test Automation
13 13 (12.75%) Mentoring
14 11 (10.78%) Containerisation
14 11 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (9.80%) Customer Experience
16 9 (8.82%) Conversational UI
16 9 (8.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 74 (72.55%) JavaScript
2 69 (67.65%) TypeScript
3 22 (21.57%) C#
4 16 (15.69%) Python
5 14 (13.73%) SQL
6 6 (5.88%) C++
7 5 (4.90%) Go
8 2 (1.96%) Java
8 2 (1.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (14.71%) Degree
2 6 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.98%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.63%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 12 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.96%) Grafana
2 2 (1.96%) Kibana
2 2 (1.96%) Terraform
3 1 (0.98%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (7.84%) Adobe
2 7 (6.86%) Telerik
3 6 (5.88%) PayPal
4 5 (4.90%) Google
5 4 (3.92%) Tealium
6 2 (1.96%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.98%) New Relic
7 1 (0.98%) OpenAI