Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Jobs

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 346 181
Rank change year-on-year -69 -165 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 601 970 3,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.98% 2.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.07% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 524 679 1,597
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%

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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Trend

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

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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 -63 496 £60,000 -4.00% 185
UK excluding London -59 444 £52,500 -4.55% 136
Work from Home -55 303 £57,500 -11.54% 137
London -69 137 £77,000 +10.00% 79
North of England -6 110 £50,000 -6.54% 39
South East -58 93 £60,000 +9.09% 43
North West +14 79 £55,000 -4.35% 17
Scotland -31 74 £55,000 -11.29% 5
South West +14 70 £50,000 -4.76% 16
Midlands +3 61 £42,000 -23.64% 17
West Midlands +33 44 £43,750 -16.67% 9
Yorkshire +6 30 £37,500 -11.76% 20
East of England -24 21 £71,500 -4.67% 10
East Midlands -19 17 £37,500 -37.50% 8
Wales -10 11 £80,000 +52.38% 5
Northern Ireland +21 4 - - 2
North East -11 1 £37,500 -6.25% 2

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Front-End Developer (Client-Side 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 Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 562 (93.51%) Front End Development
2 363 (60.40%) React
3 353 (58.74%) JavaScript
4 296 (49.25%) CSS
5 271 (45.09%) HTML
6 265 (44.09%) TypeScript
7 189 (31.45%) Agile
8 178 (29.62%) User Experience
9 169 (28.12%) AngularJS
10 140 (23.29%) Node.js
11 128 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
12 126 (20.97%) Git
13 124 (20.63%) Degree
14 121 (20.13%) Social Skills
15 103 (17.14%) HTML5
16 101 (16.81%) AWS
17 86 (14.31%) Finance
18 85 (14.14%) Azure
19 84 (13.98%) Vue
20 83 (13.81%) UX Design
21 80 (13.31%) CSS3
22 73 (12.15%) Redux
23 72 (11.98%) Software Engineering
24 71 (11.81%) PHP
25 69 (11.48%) Computer Science
26 68 (11.31%) Web Development
27 67 (11.15%) Sass
28 66 (10.98%) DevOps
29 65 (10.82%) C#
30 62 (10.32%) Docker

Front-End Developer (Client-Side 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 41 (6.82%) WordPress
2 35 (5.82%) CMS
3 14 (2.33%) Apache
3 14 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.83%) nginx
5 6 (1.00%) Ethereum
6 5 (0.83%) Confluence
7 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (2.66%) Adobe XD
2 9 (1.50%) Photoshop
3 6 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.67%) Maya
5 3 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (3.33%) Shopify
2 6 (1.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 101 (16.81%) AWS
2 85 (14.14%) Azure
3 34 (5.66%) SaaS
4 26 (4.33%) Figma
5 23 (3.83%) GCP
6 21 (3.49%) GitHub
7 19 (3.16%) npm
8 13 (2.16%) Google Analytics
9 10 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.00%) WeChat
11 4 (0.67%) Storyblok
12 3 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 3 (0.50%) BigCommerce
12 3 (0.50%) Google Ads
12 3 (0.50%) Google Play
12 3 (0.50%) Google Tag Manager
12 3 (0.50%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.50%) Internet
2 8 (1.33%) HTTP
3 7 (1.16%) OpenVPN
4 5 (0.83%) DNS
5 4 (0.67%) MQTT
6 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.33%) Apache Ignite
2 13 (2.16%) MySQL
3 12 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.50%) Redis
5 5 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.33%) Metabase
8 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.33%) Power BI
8 2 (0.33%) Power Query
8 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.33%) Tableau
9 1 (0.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 126 (20.97%) Git
2 46 (7.65%) Selenium
3 45 (7.49%) Cypress.io
4 29 (4.83%) webpack
5 17 (2.83%) gulp
5 17 (2.83%) JIRA
5 17 (2.83%) Storybook
6 14 (2.33%) Visual Studio
7 13 (2.16%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.83%) Jenkins
9 6 (1.00%) ESLint
9 6 (1.00%) GitLab
9 6 (1.00%) Grunt
10 5 (0.83%) PostCSS
11 4 (0.67%) Babel
11 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.67%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.67%) Vite
12 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.50%) Maven
General
1 121 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 86 (14.31%) Finance
3 28 (4.66%) Marketing
4 24 (3.99%) Games
4 24 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (3.33%) Retail
6 14 (2.33%) Front Office
7 13 (2.16%) Advertising
7 13 (2.16%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.83%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.83%) Tech for Good
10 7 (1.16%) Banking
10 7 (1.16%) Electronics
10 7 (1.16%) Health Technology
10 7 (1.16%) Mandarin Language
10 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (60.40%) React
2 296 (49.25%) CSS
3 271 (45.09%) HTML
4 169 (28.12%) AngularJS
5 140 (23.29%) Node.js
6 103 (17.14%) HTML5
7 84 (13.98%) Vue
8 80 (13.31%) CSS3
9 73 (12.15%) Redux
10 67 (11.15%) Sass
11 62 (10.32%) Jest
12 52 (8.65%) jQuery
13 51 (8.49%) Express.js
14 48 (7.99%) GraphQL
15 44 (7.32%) Next.js
16 31 (5.16%) .NET
17 30 (4.99%) Tailwind CSS
18 27 (4.49%) React Native
19 26 (4.33%) REST
20 25 (4.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.32%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (4.66%) Mobile App
3 20 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.66%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 10 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (1.50%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.33%) Animation
9 7 (1.16%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.16%) Social Media
9 7 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.00%) Blockchain
10 6 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.00%) Web3
11 5 (0.83%) Hackathon
11 5 (0.83%) Life Science
11 5 (0.83%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.67%) IoT
12 4 (0.67%) Raspberry Pi
12 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.83%) Android
2 9 (1.50%) Linux
3 7 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.16%) CentOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (93.51%) Front End Development
2 189 (31.45%) Agile
3 178 (29.62%) User Experience
4 128 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (13.81%) UX Design
6 72 (11.98%) Software Engineering
7 69 (11.48%) Computer Science
8 68 (11.31%) Web Development
9 66 (10.98%) DevOps
10 57 (9.48%) Full Stack Development
11 54 (8.99%) Artificial Intelligence
12 48 (7.99%) E-Commerce
13 44 (7.32%) Actionable Insight
14 42 (6.99%) CI/CD
14 42 (6.99%) Mentoring
15 36 (5.99%) Analytics
15 36 (5.99%) Clean Code
15 36 (5.99%) Unit Testing
16 34 (5.66%) Propensity Modelling
17 29 (4.83%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 353 (58.74%) JavaScript
2 265 (44.09%) TypeScript
3 71 (11.81%) PHP
4 65 (10.82%) C#
5 42 (6.99%) Python
6 33 (5.49%) Java
7 32 (5.32%) SQL
8 7 (1.16%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.83%) GLSL
11 3 (0.50%) Bash
11 3 (0.50%) JSX
11 3 (0.50%) Ruby
12 2 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.33%) Lisp
13 1 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 124 (20.63%) Degree
2 50 (8.32%) Security Cleared
3 47 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.17%) CIPD
8 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.82%) WCAG
2 25 (4.16%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.33%) QA
4 2 (0.33%) WAI
5 1 (0.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (10.32%) Docker
2 4 (0.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (6.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.17%) Plesk
2 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (6.82%) Google
2 32 (5.32%) Adobe
3 22 (3.66%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.33%) DevExpress
5 7 (1.16%) SAP
5 7 (1.16%) WooCommerce
6 5 (0.83%) Xamarin
7 4 (0.67%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.50%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.33%) Apple
9 2 (0.33%) F5
9 2 (0.33%) Facebook
9 2 (0.33%) IBM
10 1 (0.17%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.17%) BT
10 1 (0.17%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.17%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.17%) Mitel
10 1 (0.17%) Salesforce