Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 217 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 -135 -13
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 1,345 1,800 6,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 1.77% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.85% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,107 1,201 3,067
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +1.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £75,772 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development.

Salary trend for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the UK

Front End Development
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 8 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 -18 1,088 £60,000 -7.69% 305
UK excluding London +13 954 £52,500 -5.41% 203
Work from Home +1 666 £60,000 -4.00% 175
London -68 315 £77,500 +10.71% 123
North of England +52 262 £51,250 +2.50% 69
South East -44 169 £60,000 +4.35% 26
North West +36 158 £55,000 - 41
Midlands +67 150 £42,500 -22.73% 34
Scotland -3 149 £52,500 -12.50% 21
South West +14 126 £50,000 -9.09% 22
West Midlands +71 102 £47,500 -13.64% 24
Yorkshire +53 80 £45,000 - 22
East of England -34 54 £71,500 +15.79% 23
East Midlands -5 47 £41,250 -25.00% 10
North East +11 24 £52,500 +10.53% 8
Northern Ireland +30 23 £55,000 - 3
Wales -22 21 £70,000 +36.59% 7

Front End Development
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 73 (5.43%) CMS
2 58 (4.31%) WordPress
3 37 (2.75%) Tuxedo
4 28 (2.08%) JBoss
4 28 (2.08%) Red Hat Fuse
5 18 (1.34%) Apache
5 18 (1.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 15 (1.12%) Headless CMS
7 14 (1.04%) nginx
8 12 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
9 11 (0.82%) Confluence
10 8 (0.59%) IIS
11 6 (0.45%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.37%) Kentico
12 5 (0.37%) SharePoint
12 5 (0.37%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.22%) SAS
14 2 (0.15%) Drupal
15 1 (0.074%) Moodle
15 1 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (1.56%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.26%) Photoshop
3 7 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.30%) Maya
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.22%) Sketch
7 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) Notion
8 1 (0.074%) InVision
Business Applications
1 26 (1.93%) Shopify
2 8 (0.59%) Magento
3 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.074%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 281 (20.89%) AWS
2 262 (19.48%) Azure
3 88 (6.54%) SaaS
4 62 (4.61%) GCP
5 49 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (3.57%) Figma
7 39 (2.90%) GitHub
8 27 (2.01%) npm
9 19 (1.41%) Serverless
10 18 (1.34%) Google Analytics
11 16 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (0.67%) dbt
14 8 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (0.59%) Firebase
15 7 (0.52%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (0.52%) Google Tag Manager
16 6 (0.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.04%) HTTP
2 10 (0.74%) Internet
3 8 (0.59%) DNS
3 8 (0.59%) MQTT
4 7 (0.52%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.15%) SSH
7 1 (0.074%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (7.43%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.91%) MySQL
3 60 (4.46%) Relational Database
4 44 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (2.30%) MongoDB
6 26 (1.93%) NoSQL
7 25 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (1.56%) Redis
10 12 (0.89%) Apache Ignite
11 11 (0.82%) MS Access
12 10 (0.74%) Big Data
13 9 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.45%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.37%) DynamoDB
16 4 (0.30%) Power BI
17 3 (0.22%) Event Store
17 3 (0.22%) GIS
17 3 (0.22%) Looker
17 3 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 256 (19.03%) Git
2 76 (5.65%) Cypress.io
3 52 (3.87%) Selenium
4 44 (3.27%) JIRA
5 38 (2.83%) IntelliJ
6 37 (2.75%) webpack
7 36 (2.68%) Jenkins
8 29 (2.16%) Cucumber
8 29 (2.16%) Jasmine
9 28 (2.08%) gulp
9 28 (2.08%) Visual Studio
10 25 (1.86%) Bitbucket
11 23 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
12 22 (1.64%) Karma Test Runner
13 20 (1.49%) Storybook
14 19 (1.41%) GitLab
15 13 (0.97%) Postman
16 9 (0.67%) Subversion
17 8 (0.59%) Eclipse
17 8 (0.59%) Maven
General
1 300 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 201 (14.94%) Finance
3 91 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (6.10%) Public Sector
5 81 (6.02%) Marketing
6 68 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (4.68%) Law
8 55 (4.09%) Retail
9 42 (3.12%) Manufacturing
10 39 (2.90%) Banking
11 27 (2.01%) Games
12 22 (1.64%) Tech for Good
13 20 (1.49%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.34%) Electronics
15 17 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.19%) Automotive
16 16 (1.19%) Front Office
16 16 (1.19%) Private Banking
17 14 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,033 (76.80%) Developer
2 562 (41.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 472 (35.09%) Senior
4 344 (25.58%) Senior Developer
5 198 (14.72%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 163 (12.12%) Lead
7 142 (10.56%) React Developer
8 133 (9.89%) Software Engineer
9 110 (8.18%) Full Stack Developer
10 96 (7.14%) Software Developer
11 77 (5.72%) Lead Developer
12 62 (4.61%) Senior React Developer
12 62 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 57 (4.24%) Web Developer
14 51 (3.79%) .NET Developer
14 51 (3.79%) PHP Developer
15 50 (3.72%) Java Engineer
16 48 (3.57%) Angular Developer
17 46 (3.42%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 46 (3.42%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 614 (45.65%) CSS
2 603 (44.83%) React
3 593 (44.09%) HTML
4 330 (24.54%) AngularJS
5 253 (18.81%) Node.js
6 250 (18.59%) .NET
7 177 (13.16%) Vue
8 176 (13.09%) RESTful
9 142 (10.56%) HTML5
10 125 (9.29%) Sass
11 122 (9.07%) REST
12 121 (9.00%) CSS3
13 106 (7.88%) .NET Core
14 105 (7.81%) jQuery
15 88 (6.54%) Jest
16 84 (6.25%) ASP.NET
17 77 (5.72%) Redux
18 73 (5.43%) Web Services
19 70 (5.20%) Spring
20 68 (5.06%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.51%) Greenfield Project
2 48 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 47 (3.49%) Mobile App
4 30 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 23 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.49%) Client/Server
8 15 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.12%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.04%) Blockchain
10 13 (0.97%) Public Cloud
11 12 (0.89%) Fixed Income
12 10 (0.74%) Social Media
13 9 (0.67%) Animation
13 9 (0.67%) IoT
13 9 (0.67%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.42%) Linux
2 16 (1.19%) Android
3 12 (0.89%) Windows
4 10 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.52%) CentOS
6 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.074%) Unix
8 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (35.46%) Agile
2 379 (28.18%) User Experience
3 335 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
4 306 (22.75%) Software Engineering
5 283 (21.04%) Full Stack Development
6 223 (16.58%) UX Design
7 219 (16.28%) Computer Science
8 192 (14.28%) Mentoring
9 191 (14.20%) DevOps
10 173 (12.86%) Web Development
11 136 (10.11%) CI/CD
12 123 (9.14%) E-Commerce
13 111 (8.25%) Continuous Integration
14 104 (7.73%) Test Automation
15 100 (7.43%) TDD
16 94 (6.99%) Actionable Insight
17 86 (6.39%) Artificial Intelligence
17 86 (6.39%) Microservices
18 77 (5.72%) MVC
19 76 (5.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 753 (55.99%) JavaScript
2 468 (34.80%) TypeScript
3 297 (22.08%) C#
4 217 (16.13%) SQL
5 215 (15.99%) Java
6 149 (11.08%) PHP
7 133 (9.89%) Python
8 47 (3.49%) T-SQL
9 42 (3.12%) COBOL
9 42 (3.12%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 37 (2.75%) Go
10 37 (2.75%) Ruby
11 16 (1.19%) VB.NET
12 11 (0.82%) C
13 8 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.52%) C++
14 7 (0.52%) Rust
14 7 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.37%) GLSL
16 4 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 261 (19.41%) Degree
2 128 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 114 (8.48%) SC Cleared
4 99 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.60%) Master's Degree
6 27 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.45%) HND
8 5 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.15%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.074%) PhD
11 1 (0.074%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.074%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (8.48%) Accessibility
2 57 (4.24%) WCAG
3 50 (3.72%) QA
4 17 (1.26%) WAI
5 9 (0.67%) GDPR
6 4 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.074%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.074%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.074%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 138 (10.26%) Docker
2 7 (0.52%) Firmware
3 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 82 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.89%) Terraform
3 7 (0.52%) Ansible
4 4 (0.30%) Rancher
5 1 (0.074%) cPanel
5 1 (0.074%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.074%) Grafana
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.074%) Packer
5 1 (0.074%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.074%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (8.25%) Microsoft
2 68 (5.06%) Google
3 59 (4.39%) Adobe
4 48 (3.57%) Oracle
5 42 (3.12%) Micro Focus
6 18 (1.34%) SAP
7 11 (0.82%) WooCommerce
8 9 (0.67%) DevExpress
9 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.59%) Facebook
10 7 (0.52%) NVIDIA
11 6 (0.45%) IBM
12 5 (0.37%) Xamarin
13 4 (0.30%) Mercator
13 4 (0.30%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.30%) VMware
14 3 (0.22%) OutSystems
14 3 (0.22%) Sybase
15 2 (0.15%) Apple
15 2 (0.15%) F5