Front End Development Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Front End Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 88 99
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +42
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 32 14 41
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.74% 0.98% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.11% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 25 9 41
10th Percentile £37,000 - £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £30,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -40.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £55,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £72,750 £75,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +41.18% -15.00% -2.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,473 1,263 1,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.23% 88.20% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 862 625 1,436
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Front End Development
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Front End Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in West Yorkshire

Front End Development
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Leeds +4 28 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Bradford - 4 £43,750 - 1
Front End Development
Yorkshire

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) CMS
1 2 (6.25%) Drupal
1 2 (6.25%) EPiServer
1 2 (6.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) AWS
2 12 (37.50%) Serverless
3 11 (34.38%) GitHub
4 7 (21.88%) SaaS
5 3 (9.38%) Azure
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Figma
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.25%) npm
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon Bedrock
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Grunt
2 2 (6.25%) gulp
2 2 (6.25%) Storybook
2 2 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 7 (21.88%) Finance
1 7 (21.88%) Financial Institution
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (87.50%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Python Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 7 (21.88%) Junior
4 7 (21.88%) Junior Developer
5 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
5 6 (18.75%) Software Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Junior Java Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Java Software Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (9.38%) Lead
8 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Digital Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Lead Python Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior
8 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Architect
9 1 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (50.00%) CSS
2 14 (43.75%) HTML
3 11 (34.38%) FastAPI
3 11 (34.38%) React
3 11 (34.38%) Vue
4 10 (31.25%) Django
4 10 (31.25%) Flask
5 7 (21.88%) Micronaut
6 6 (18.75%) .NET
7 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET
8 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (12.50%) RESTful
9 3 (9.38%) Next.js
10 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
10 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
10 2 (6.25%) AWS CDK
10 2 (6.25%) HTML5
10 2 (6.25%) Node.js
10 2 (6.25%) React Native
10 2 (6.25%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 19 (59.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (53.13%) Agile
3 17 (53.13%) OOP
4 14 (43.75%) OO
5 12 (37.50%) Design Patterns
5 12 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 10 (31.25%) Clean Code
6 10 (31.25%) Data Analysis
6 10 (31.25%) DevOps
7 9 (28.13%) API Testing
8 8 (25.00%) Logistics
9 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (21.88%) Fintech
9 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
11 5 (15.63%) Mathematics
11 5 (15.63%) Software Architecture
11 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
11 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) JavaScript
2 11 (34.38%) Python
3 8 (25.00%) SQL
4 7 (21.88%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.13%) OpenAI
1 1 (3.13%) Sage