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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 710 718
Rank change year-on-year +92 +8 -150
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 72 206 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.22% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 70 157 182
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.38% +11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £68,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.55% -1.79% +21.74%

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 48,283 93,229 94,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,442 66,845 59,589
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £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%

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 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Top 14 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 6 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 +80 67 £66,250 -8.62% 38
London +111 35 £67,500 -10.00% 19
UK excluding London +93 35 £58,750 -14.55% 28
Work from Home +60 24 £65,000 -10.34% 29
North of England +49 12 £53,750 -10.79% 10
South East +68 10 £77,500 -8.82% 6
North West -1 10 £52,500 -12.86% 7
South West +81 5 £65,000 +15.56% 3
Scotland +104 4 £52,500 - 1
Midlands +51 2 £45,000 -30.77% 6
East of England +38 2 £70,000 -2.10% 1
North East - 2 £55,750 - 3
West Midlands +48 1 £52,500 -19.23% 4
East Midlands +42 1 £37,500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, 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 66 (91.67%) Front End Development
2 51 (70.83%) JavaScript
3 47 (65.28%) CSS
4 46 (63.89%) React
5 45 (62.50%) HTML
6 41 (56.94%) Agile
7 34 (47.22%) TypeScript
8 30 (41.67%) Finance
9 24 (33.33%) User Experience
10 21 (29.17%) C#
11 18 (25.00%) QA
11 18 (25.00%) Vue
11 18 (25.00%) Next.js
12 17 (23.61%) Social Skills
13 16 (22.22%) Mentoring
14 15 (20.83%) AWS
14 15 (20.83%) Git
14 15 (20.83%) .NET
15 14 (19.44%) E-Commerce
16 13 (18.06%) AngularJS
16 13 (18.06%) Code Quality
17 12 (16.67%) Jest
17 12 (16.67%) Azure
17 12 (16.67%) PHP
17 12 (16.67%) UX Design
18 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
18 11 (15.28%) Computer Science
18 11 (15.28%) Degree
19 10 (13.89%) Software Engineering
19 10 (13.89%) Cypress.io

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 5 (6.94%) CMS
1 5 (6.94%) Liferay
2 3 (4.17%) WordPress
3 2 (2.78%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.39%) Confluence
4 1 (1.39%) nginx
4 1 (1.39%) Strapi
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Adobe XD
1 3 (4.17%) Sketch
1 3 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.83%) AWS
2 12 (16.67%) Azure
3 8 (11.11%) Figma
4 6 (8.33%) GCP
4 6 (8.33%) SaaS
5 5 (6.94%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.17%) Asana
6 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.39%) Algolia
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.39%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.39%) Contentful
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.39%) npm
7 1 (1.39%) PaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Serverless
7 1 (1.39%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) MySQL
2 2 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) Git
2 10 (13.89%) Cypress.io
3 6 (8.33%) Selenium
4 5 (6.94%) JIRA
5 4 (5.56%) webpack
6 3 (4.17%) Babel
7 2 (2.78%) Mocha
7 2 (2.78%) rollup.js
7 2 (2.78%) Vite
8 1 (1.39%) gulp
8 1 (1.39%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.39%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.39%) Protractor
General
1 30 (41.67%) Finance
2 17 (23.61%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Games
4 4 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Cantonese Language
6 1 (1.39%) Electronics
6 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.39%) Legal
6 1 (1.39%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (65.28%) CSS
2 46 (63.89%) React
3 45 (62.50%) HTML
4 18 (25.00%) Next.js
4 18 (25.00%) Vue
5 15 (20.83%) .NET
6 13 (18.06%) AngularJS
7 12 (16.67%) Jest
8 9 (12.50%) HTML5
8 9 (12.50%) Sass
9 8 (11.11%) CSS3
10 7 (9.72%) Node.js
11 6 (8.33%) jQuery
11 6 (8.33%) LAMP
12 4 (5.56%) Bootstrap
12 4 (5.56%) GraphQL
12 4 (5.56%) Redux
12 4 (5.56%) RESTful
13 3 (4.17%) React Native
13 3 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.17%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.78%) Cybercrime
4 2 (2.78%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.78%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.39%) Derivative
5 1 (1.39%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Android
1 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (91.67%) Front End Development
2 41 (56.94%) Agile
3 24 (33.33%) User Experience
4 16 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 14 (19.44%) E-Commerce
6 13 (18.06%) Code Quality
7 12 (16.67%) UX Design
8 11 (15.28%) Computer Science
8 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
9 10 (13.89%) Software Engineering
10 9 (12.50%) B2C
11 8 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (11.11%) Wireframes
12 7 (9.72%) Fintech
13 6 (8.33%) CI/CD
13 6 (8.33%) OOP
13 6 (8.33%) Project Delivery
13 6 (8.33%) Propensity Modelling
13 6 (8.33%) Regression Testing
13 6 (8.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 51 (70.83%) JavaScript
2 34 (47.22%) TypeScript
3 21 (29.17%) C#
4 12 (16.67%) PHP
5 1 (1.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Degree
2 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (25.00%) QA
2 10 (13.89%) Accessibility
3 8 (11.11%) WCAG
4 5 (6.94%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Docker
2 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) Adobe
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.17%) Twitter
4 1 (1.39%) Apple
4 1 (1.39%) Spotify