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 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 705 731 571
Rank change year-on-year +26 -160 -97
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 207 255 878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.25% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.27% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 158 182 319
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +11.54% -
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 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% +9.09%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +34 164 £72,500 -3.33% 37
UK excluding London +5 151 £67,500 -3.57% 29
Work from Home +71 121 £72,500 -6.45% 25
London +59 44 £75,000 -1.64% 12
South East +5 40 £85,000 +9.68% 6
South West +1 35 £55,000 -29.03% 4
North of England +56 28 £60,250 +0.42% 9
North West +25 25 £60,250 -3.60% 7
Scotland -44 23 £52,500 -27.59% 2
East of England +2 10 £71,500 -10.63% 3
Midlands +8 6 £65,000 +4.00% 2
Wales +8 5 £75,000 +42.86% 4
Northern Ireland +27 4 - -
Yorkshire +91 3 - - 2
West Midlands +23 3 £65,000 -27.78% 1
East Midlands -17 3 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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.

1 198 (95.65%) Front End Development
2 115 (55.56%) React
3 104 (50.24%) JavaScript
4 92 (44.44%) Agile
5 87 (42.03%) TypeScript
6 78 (37.68%) Node.js
7 74 (35.75%) CSS
7 74 (35.75%) AngularJS
8 71 (34.30%) HTML
9 66 (31.88%) Degree
10 58 (28.02%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (25.60%) Social Skills
12 46 (22.22%) Azure
13 44 (21.26%) Express.js
14 41 (19.81%) DevOps
14 41 (19.81%) SC Cleared
14 41 (19.81%) Security Cleared
15 40 (19.32%) Actionable Insight
16 38 (18.36%) Git
17 34 (16.43%) User Experience
18 31 (14.98%) HTML5
19 30 (14.49%) Finance
20 29 (14.01%) Jest
21 28 (13.53%) Open Source
22 27 (13.04%) Cypress.io
23 26 (12.56%) PHP
24 25 (12.08%) AWS
24 25 (12.08%) Mentoring
25 24 (11.59%) Computer Science
26 23 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence

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 (4.83%) CMS
2 4 (1.93%) WordPress
3 2 (0.97%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Maya
2 2 (0.97%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Magento
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (22.22%) Azure
2 25 (12.08%) AWS
3 14 (6.76%) SaaS
4 8 (3.86%) npm
5 4 (1.93%) Figma
6 3 (1.45%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.97%) dbt
7 2 (0.97%) GCP
7 2 (0.97%) GitHub
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.97%) Metabase
2 2 (0.97%) MySQL
2 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.97%) Redis
3 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (18.36%) Git
2 27 (13.04%) Cypress.io
3 18 (8.70%) Selenium
4 13 (6.28%) Storybook
5 10 (4.83%) webpack
6 9 (4.35%) gulp
7 4 (1.93%) PostCSS
7 4 (1.93%) rollup.js
7 4 (1.93%) Vite
8 3 (1.45%) JIRA
9 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.97%) GitLab
10 1 (0.48%) Ant
10 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 53 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.49%) Finance
3 10 (4.83%) Games
4 8 (3.86%) Retail
5 4 (1.93%) Banking
5 4 (1.93%) Financial Institution
5 4 (1.93%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.97%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.97%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.48%) Automotive
8 1 (0.48%) Back Office
8 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (55.56%) React
2 78 (37.68%) Node.js
3 74 (35.75%) AngularJS
3 74 (35.75%) CSS
4 71 (34.30%) HTML
5 44 (21.26%) Express.js
6 31 (14.98%) HTML5
7 29 (14.01%) Jest
8 23 (11.11%) Vue
9 21 (10.14%) CSS3
10 20 (9.66%) Redux
10 20 (9.66%) Sass
11 16 (7.73%) Next.js
12 14 (6.76%) GraphQL
12 14 (6.76%) React Native
13 12 (5.80%) Tailwind CSS
14 9 (4.35%) RESTful
15 8 (3.86%) jQuery
16 7 (3.38%) REST
16 7 (3.38%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
1 8 (3.86%) Mobile App
2 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.90%) Animation
3 6 (2.90%) Client/Server
4 5 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.93%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.45%) Hackathon
7 2 (0.97%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.97%) Social Media
7 2 (0.97%) Social Network
8 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.48%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.48%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.97%) Android
1 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (95.65%) Front End Development
2 92 (44.44%) Agile
3 58 (28.02%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (19.81%) DevOps
5 40 (19.32%) Actionable Insight
6 34 (16.43%) User Experience
7 28 (13.53%) Open Source
8 25 (12.08%) Mentoring
9 24 (11.59%) Computer Science
10 23 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 20 (9.66%) Propensity Modelling
11 20 (9.66%) UX Design
12 19 (9.18%) E-Commerce
13 18 (8.70%) Software Engineering
14 15 (7.25%) Test Automation
14 15 (7.25%) Web Development
15 14 (6.76%) CI/CD
15 14 (6.76%) Unit Testing
16 12 (5.80%) TDD
17 11 (5.31%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 104 (50.24%) JavaScript
2 87 (42.03%) TypeScript
3 26 (12.56%) PHP
4 21 (10.14%) C#
5 10 (4.83%) Java
6 8 (3.86%) Python
7 5 (2.42%) SQL
8 3 (1.45%) Bash
8 3 (1.45%) Ruby
9 2 (0.97%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 66 (31.88%) Degree
2 41 (19.81%) SC Cleared
2 41 (19.81%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.70%) WCAG
2 4 (1.93%) QA
3 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (4.83%) Google
2 2 (0.97%) Adobe
2 2 (0.97%) F5
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.48%) Salesforce