Senior Front-End Developer Jobs

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

The median Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer) salary in the UK is £71,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 692 708 580
Rank change year-on-year +16 -128 -108
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 205 268 846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.26% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.28% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 155 180 319
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% +4.55%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Front-End Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer.

Salary trend for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +31 164 £72,500 -6.45% 38
UK excluding London +14 148 £67,500 -3.57% 34
Work from Home +78 119 £72,500 -6.45% 25
London +64 45 £75,000 -3.23% 9
South East +11 40 £85,000 +9.68% 7
South West +30 33 £57,500 -25.81% 5
North of England +52 29 £60,500 +0.83% 10
North West +20 26 £60,500 -3.20% 8
Scotland -44 23 £52,500 -27.59% 3
East of England -4 10 £71,500 -10.63% 3
Midlands +1 6 £65,000 +4.00% 2
Northern Ireland +34 4 - -
Yorkshire +87 3 - - 2
West Midlands +23 3 £65,000 -27.78% 1
Wales +3 3 - - 5
East Midlands -18 3 - - 1

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior Front-End 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 Senior Front-End Developer in the job title.

1 196 (95.61%) Front End Development
2 113 (55.12%) React
3 102 (49.76%) JavaScript
4 92 (44.88%) Agile
5 85 (41.46%) TypeScript
6 77 (37.56%) Node.js
7 73 (35.61%) AngularJS
8 72 (35.12%) CSS
9 69 (33.66%) HTML
10 66 (32.20%) Degree
11 56 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (25.37%) Social Skills
13 46 (22.44%) Azure
14 44 (21.46%) Express.js
15 42 (20.49%) DevOps
16 41 (20.00%) SC Cleared
16 41 (20.00%) Security Cleared
17 40 (19.51%) Actionable Insight
18 36 (17.56%) Git
19 34 (16.59%) User Experience
20 31 (15.12%) HTML5
21 30 (14.63%) Finance
22 29 (14.15%) Jest
23 28 (13.66%) Open Source
24 27 (13.17%) Cypress.io
25 26 (12.68%) AWS
25 26 (12.68%) PHP
26 25 (12.20%) Mentoring
27 24 (11.71%) Kubernetes
27 24 (11.71%) Vue

Senior Front-End 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 10 (4.88%) CMS
2 4 (1.95%) WordPress
3 2 (0.98%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.49%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Maya
2 2 (0.98%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Magento
1 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (22.44%) Azure
2 26 (12.68%) AWS
3 14 (6.83%) SaaS
4 8 (3.90%) npm
5 4 (1.95%) Figma
6 3 (1.46%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.98%) dbt
7 2 (0.98%) GCP
7 2 (0.98%) GitHub
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.98%) Metabase
2 2 (0.98%) MySQL
2 2 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.98%) Redis
3 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (17.56%) Git
2 27 (13.17%) Cypress.io
3 18 (8.78%) Selenium
4 13 (6.34%) Storybook
5 9 (4.39%) gulp
6 8 (3.90%) webpack
7 4 (1.95%) PostCSS
7 4 (1.95%) rollup.js
7 4 (1.95%) Vite
8 3 (1.46%) JIRA
9 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.98%) GitLab
10 1 (0.49%) Ant
10 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 52 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.63%) Finance
3 10 (4.88%) Games
4 9 (4.39%) Retail
5 4 (1.95%) Banking
5 4 (1.95%) Financial Institution
5 4 (1.95%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.98%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.49%) Automotive
8 1 (0.49%) Back Office
8 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (55.12%) React
2 77 (37.56%) Node.js
3 73 (35.61%) AngularJS
4 72 (35.12%) CSS
5 69 (33.66%) HTML
6 44 (21.46%) Express.js
7 31 (15.12%) HTML5
8 29 (14.15%) Jest
9 24 (11.71%) Vue
10 21 (10.24%) CSS3
11 20 (9.76%) Sass
12 19 (9.27%) Redux
13 16 (7.80%) Next.js
14 14 (6.83%) GraphQL
14 14 (6.83%) React Native
15 12 (5.85%) Tailwind CSS
16 9 (4.39%) RESTful
17 7 (3.41%) GatsbyJS
17 7 (3.41%) REST
17 7 (3.41%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.39%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (3.90%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.93%) Animation
3 6 (2.93%) Client/Server
4 5 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.95%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.46%) Hackathon
7 2 (0.98%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.98%) Social Media
7 2 (0.98%) Social Network
8 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.49%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.49%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.98%) Android
1 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (95.61%) Front End Development
2 92 (44.88%) Agile
3 56 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (20.49%) DevOps
5 40 (19.51%) Actionable Insight
6 34 (16.59%) User Experience
7 28 (13.66%) Open Source
8 25 (12.20%) Mentoring
9 24 (11.71%) Computer Science
10 23 (11.22%) Artificial Intelligence
11 20 (9.76%) E-Commerce
11 20 (9.76%) Propensity Modelling
11 20 (9.76%) UX Design
12 19 (9.27%) Software Engineering
13 15 (7.32%) Test Automation
14 14 (6.83%) CI/CD
14 14 (6.83%) TDD
14 14 (6.83%) Unit Testing
15 12 (5.85%) Web Development
16 11 (5.37%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 102 (49.76%) JavaScript
2 85 (41.46%) TypeScript
3 26 (12.68%) PHP
4 21 (10.24%) C#
5 10 (4.88%) Java
6 8 (3.90%) Python
7 5 (2.44%) SQL
8 3 (1.46%) Bash
8 3 (1.46%) Ruby
9 2 (0.98%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 66 (32.20%) Degree
2 41 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 41 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.78%) WCAG
2 4 (1.95%) QA
3 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (11.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (11.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (4.88%) Google
2 2 (0.98%) Adobe
2 2 (0.98%) F5
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.49%) Salesforce