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 £75,000 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 849 864 926
Rank change year-on-year +15 +62 -175
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 47 106 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41 45 74
10th Percentile £67,500 £60,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% +13.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 - £89,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% +15.38%

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 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 27 April 2024.

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

Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Top 12 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 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 +64 46 £75,000 -9.09% 14
UK excluding London +19 29 £72,500 +11.54% 6
Work from Home +74 23 £72,500 -14.71% 10
London +72 17 £85,000 -15.00% 9
South West +8 14 £72,500 -12.12%
North of England +54 9 £70,000 +7.69% 1
North West +16 9 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Midlands +9 3 £62,500 -3.85%
South East +29 2 £78,750 +26.00%
West Midlands +26 2 £70,000 +7.69%
East of England - 1 £77,500 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 35 (74.47%) TypeScript
1 35 (74.47%) React
2 30 (63.83%) Software Engineering
3 27 (57.45%) Node.js
4 25 (53.19%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (51.06%) JavaScript
6 22 (46.81%) User Experience
7 20 (42.55%) Agile
8 16 (34.04%) CSS
8 16 (34.04%) Continuous Delivery
9 15 (31.91%) HTML
9 15 (31.91%) Finance
9 15 (31.91%) Front End Development
10 13 (27.66%) Fintech
10 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
11 12 (25.53%) Java
11 12 (25.53%) AWS
11 12 (25.53%) GraphQL
12 11 (23.40%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (23.40%) End-to-End Testing
12 11 (23.40%) Test Automation
12 11 (23.40%) AngularJS
12 11 (23.40%) webpack
12 11 (23.40%) Docker
12 11 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (21.28%) Sass
13 10 (21.28%) SaaS
14 9 (19.15%) Time Management
14 9 (19.15%) Degree
14 9 (19.15%) Computer Science

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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) AWS
2 10 (21.28%) SaaS
3 9 (19.15%) GCP
3 9 (19.15%) npm
4 3 (6.38%) Azure
5 2 (4.26%) Firebase
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.13%) Figma
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (4.26%) MySQL
1 2 (4.26%) Redis
2 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) webpack
2 9 (19.15%) Storybook
3 3 (6.38%) Git
4 2 (4.26%) Crashlytics
General
1 15 (31.91%) Finance
2 9 (19.15%) Financial Institution
3 3 (6.38%) Marketing
4 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.26%) Law
4 2 (4.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.13%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (74.47%) React
2 27 (57.45%) Node.js
3 16 (34.04%) CSS
4 15 (31.91%) HTML
5 12 (25.53%) GraphQL
6 11 (23.40%) AngularJS
7 10 (21.28%) Sass
8 8 (17.02%) Redux
8 8 (17.02%) REST
9 6 (12.77%) RESTful
10 5 (10.64%) Next.js
11 4 (8.51%) React Native
12 2 (4.26%) Ruby on Rails
13 1 (2.13%) Tailwind CSS
13 1 (2.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (8.51%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Android
1 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (63.83%) Software Engineering
2 25 (53.19%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (46.81%) User Experience
4 20 (42.55%) Agile
5 16 (34.04%) Continuous Delivery
6 15 (31.91%) Front End Development
7 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
7 13 (27.66%) Fintech
8 11 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (23.40%) End-to-End Testing
8 11 (23.40%) Test Automation
9 9 (19.15%) Computer Science
9 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
9 9 (19.15%) Development Roadmap
9 9 (19.15%) Roadmaps
9 9 (19.15%) Self-Awareness
9 9 (19.15%) Time Management
9 9 (19.15%) Unit Testing
10 8 (17.02%) Architectural Patterns
10 8 (17.02%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (74.47%) TypeScript
2 24 (51.06%) JavaScript
3 12 (25.53%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
4 2 (4.26%) Ruby
4 2 (4.26%) Swift
5 1 (2.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) Accessibility
1 8 (17.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Google
2 2 (4.26%) Amplitude