Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) Jobs

Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
UK

The median Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) salary in the UK is £38,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 880 941
Rank change year-on-year +208 +61 +147
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) 19 22 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.022% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.024% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 4 22 32
10th Percentile £26,400 £30,500 £37,050
25th Percentile £26,625 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £37,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -33.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £47,500 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - - £79,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,750 £37,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -31.82% +22.22%

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 46,967 93,227 95,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,330 66,890 59,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -
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 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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

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

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

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

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

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

Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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

Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +210 19 £38,750 +3.33% 5
England +170 17 £38,750 +3.33% 5
South West - 8 £28,500 - 3
Work from Home +175 7 - - 5
East of England +57 4 - -
North of England +88 3 £32,500 -9.09%
Yorkshire +74 3 £32,500 -3.70%
Midlands +65 2 £45,000 - 2
East Midlands +54 2 £45,000 - 1
Wales +36 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web 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 Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) in the job title.

1 18 (94.74%) Web Development
2 17 (89.47%) Front End Development
3 12 (63.16%) HTML
3 12 (63.16%) JavaScript
3 12 (63.16%) CSS
4 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
5 9 (47.37%) PHP
5 9 (47.37%) Git
6 8 (42.11%) WordPress
6 8 (42.11%) React
6 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
6 8 (42.11%) Project Management
6 8 (42.11%) Accessibility
6 8 (42.11%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (36.84%) Design Patterns
7 7 (36.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (36.84%) Stripe
7 7 (36.84%) User Experience
7 7 (36.84%) Vue
7 7 (36.84%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (36.84%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 7 (36.84%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (36.84%) Virtual Team
7 7 (36.84%) gRPC
7 7 (36.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 7 (36.84%) Marketing
7 7 (36.84%) ANSYS
7 7 (36.84%) Degree
7 7 (36.84%) WCAG
7 7 (36.84%) Mathematics

Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web 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 8 (42.11%) WordPress
2 1 (5.26%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) Joomla!
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Adobe XD
1 3 (15.79%) Photoshop
2 2 (10.53%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (5.26%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Computing
1 7 (36.84%) Stripe
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Figma
2 1 (5.26%) npm
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) gulp
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (36.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (36.84%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) CSS
1 12 (63.16%) HTML
2 8 (42.11%) React
3 7 (36.84%) AngularJS
3 7 (36.84%) gRPC
3 7 (36.84%) Vue
4 4 (21.05%) jQuery
5 2 (10.53%) Bootstrap
5 2 (10.53%) HTML5
6 1 (5.26%) CSS3
6 1 (5.26%) Django
6 1 (5.26%) DOM
6 1 (5.26%) Flask
6 1 (5.26%) Kendo UI
6 1 (5.26%) LESS
6 1 (5.26%) Node.js
6 1 (5.26%) REST
6 1 (5.26%) Sass
6 1 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Algorithms
1 7 (36.84%) Data Structures
1 7 (36.84%) Learning Management System
1 7 (36.84%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.26%) Digital Signage
2 1 (5.26%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Web Development
2 17 (89.47%) Front End Development
3 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
3 8 (42.11%) Project Management
4 7 (36.84%) Applied Mathematics
4 7 (36.84%) Change Management
4 7 (36.84%) Computer Science
4 7 (36.84%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 7 (36.84%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (36.84%) Design Patterns
4 7 (36.84%) Line Management
4 7 (36.84%) Mathematics
4 7 (36.84%) Microservices
4 7 (36.84%) OO
4 7 (36.84%) OOP
4 7 (36.84%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (36.84%) User Experience
4 7 (36.84%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (10.53%) Responsive Web Design
6 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) JavaScript
2 9 (47.37%) PHP
3 7 (36.84%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) Accessibility
2 7 (36.84%) QA
2 7 (36.84%) WCAG
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) ANSYS
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Adobe
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian