Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs

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

The median Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in the UK is £77,890 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 849 886
Rank change year-on-year +198 +37 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 41 47 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.048% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.050% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 34 41 43
10th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £60,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,890 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £94,694 £85,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £92,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -11.86%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
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%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Top 10 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 Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +162 34 £75,000 - 29
Work from Home +200 28 £82,500 +13.79% 20
UK excluding London +204 24 £67,500 -6.90% 15
London +108 15 £90,000 +5.88% 19
North of England +85 9 £57,500 -17.86% 5
North West +31 8 £61,250 -12.50% 5
South East +113 6 £65,000 -17.46% 7
Scotland - 6 £85,253 - 2
South West +96 3 £65,000 -10.34%
Yorkshire - 1 £56,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 39 (95.12%) React
2 33 (80.49%) TypeScript
3 31 (75.61%) JavaScript
4 24 (58.54%) Software Engineering
5 21 (51.22%) Agile
5 21 (51.22%) User Experience
6 19 (46.34%) AWS
7 17 (41.46%) HTML
7 17 (41.46%) CSS
8 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
9 15 (36.59%) Finance
9 15 (36.59%) Next.js
10 12 (29.27%) Jest
11 11 (26.83%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (26.83%) Accessibility
12 10 (24.39%) Customer Experience
12 10 (24.39%) Node.js
12 10 (24.39%) Enzyme
12 10 (24.39%) DevOps
12 10 (24.39%) webpack
12 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
13 9 (21.95%) Svelte
13 9 (21.95%) Pair Programming
14 8 (19.51%) Banking
14 8 (19.51%) Git
14 8 (19.51%) UX Design
14 8 (19.51%) Redux
14 8 (19.51%) GCP
14 8 (19.51%) Code Quality
15 7 (17.07%) Containerisation

Senior 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:

Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Adobe XD
1 2 (4.88%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 19 (46.34%) AWS
2 8 (19.51%) GCP
3 6 (14.63%) SaaS
4 5 (12.20%) Adobe Analytics
4 5 (12.20%) Azure
5 4 (9.76%) Google Analytics
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (4.88%) Figma
7 1 (2.44%) Datadog
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) LoRaWAN
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) webpack
2 8 (19.51%) Git
3 6 (14.63%) Vite
4 5 (12.20%) Cypress.io
4 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.32%) Storybook
6 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.44%) Babel
7 1 (2.44%) GitLab
7 1 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 15 (36.59%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Banking
3 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Games
4 5 (12.20%) Law
5 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.88%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.44%) Advertising
6 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (95.12%) React
2 17 (41.46%) CSS
2 17 (41.46%) HTML
3 15 (36.59%) Next.js
4 12 (29.27%) Jest
5 10 (24.39%) Enzyme
5 10 (24.39%) Node.js
6 9 (21.95%) Svelte
7 8 (19.51%) Redux
8 6 (14.63%) GraphQL
9 5 (12.20%) OpenAPI
9 5 (12.20%) Parceljs
9 5 (12.20%) RESTful
9 5 (12.20%) Vue
9 5 (12.20%) WebAssembly
10 4 (9.76%) .NET
10 4 (9.76%) HTML5
10 4 (9.76%) React Native
11 3 (7.32%) CSS3
11 3 (7.32%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.76%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) IoT
3 2 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) Software Engineering
2 21 (51.22%) Agile
2 21 (51.22%) User Experience
3 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
4 11 (26.83%) Artificial Intelligence
5 10 (24.39%) Customer Experience
5 10 (24.39%) DevOps
6 9 (21.95%) Pair Programming
7 8 (19.51%) Code Quality
7 8 (19.51%) UX Design
8 7 (17.07%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.07%) Front End Development
8 7 (17.07%) Machine Learning
9 6 (14.63%) Generative AI
9 6 (14.63%) Micro Frontends
9 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (14.63%) TDD
10 5 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 5 (12.20%) LLM
10 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (80.49%) TypeScript
2 31 (75.61%) JavaScript
3 6 (14.63%) Python
4 5 (12.20%) Go
5 3 (7.32%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) PHP
6 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.44%) Degree
1 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Adobe
2 5 (12.20%) Google
3 4 (9.76%) Tealium
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) New Relic
4 1 (2.44%) Optimizely