Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
UK

The median 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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 785 756 551
Rank change year-on-year -29 -205 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 111 219 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.22% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.24% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 82 136 325
10th Percentile £46,400 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,938 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £106,563 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,875 £123,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +9.65% +3.64%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £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 Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

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

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -15 100 £75,000 - 24
UK excluding London -11 67 £70,000 +12.00% 11
Work from Home +12 51 £77,500 -6.06% 17
London +27 43 £90,000 -5.26% 13
North of England +46 19 £70,000 +7.69% 3
South West -14 19 £72,500 +11.54% 1
North West +16 17 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Scotland -54 10 £67,500 -3.57% 1
East of England +5 8 £77,500 +29.17% 3
Midlands +7 6 £60,000 -7.69% 1
West Midlands +8 5 £60,000 -7.69% 1
South East -12 5 £75,000 +20.00% 2
Yorkshire +88 2 £32,500 -23.53%
East Midlands -17 1 £55,000 +27.91%

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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 Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 82 (73.87%) TypeScript
2 80 (72.07%) React
3 70 (63.06%) JavaScript
4 61 (54.95%) Software Engineering
5 59 (53.15%) Node.js
6 57 (51.35%) Agile
7 47 (42.34%) User Experience
7 47 (42.34%) Front End Development
8 41 (36.94%) Finance
9 34 (30.63%) AWS
10 30 (27.03%) HTML
10 30 (27.03%) CSS
11 29 (26.13%) GCP
11 29 (26.13%) Fintech
11 29 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (25.23%) Redux
13 21 (18.92%) CI/CD
14 20 (18.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (18.02%) Accessibility
15 19 (17.12%) Jest
15 19 (17.12%) AngularJS
16 17 (15.32%) Vue
17 16 (14.41%) Continuous Delivery
17 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
17 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
18 15 (13.51%) Java
18 15 (13.51%) TDD
18 15 (13.51%) Full Stack Development
19 14 (12.61%) Apache Ignite
19 14 (12.61%) Performance Attribution

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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (12.61%) Apache
1 14 (12.61%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.21%) Confluence
3 2 (1.80%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.63%) AWS
2 29 (26.13%) GCP
3 11 (9.91%) SaaS
4 10 (9.01%) npm
5 7 (6.31%) Figma
6 5 (4.50%) Azure
6 5 (4.50%) ChatGPT
7 3 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.70%) Serverless
8 2 (1.80%) Firebase
8 2 (1.80%) GitHub
8 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.90%) Datadog
9 1 (0.90%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) HTTP
2 2 (1.80%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.61%) Apache Ignite
2 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.80%) MySQL
3 2 (1.80%) Redis
4 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Git
2 12 (10.81%) Storybook
3 9 (8.11%) Bitbucket
3 9 (8.11%) webpack
4 8 (7.21%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.21%) JIRA
5 7 (6.31%) gulp
6 5 (4.50%) GitLab
6 5 (4.50%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.80%) Appium
7 2 (1.80%) Crashlytics
7 2 (1.80%) Vite
8 1 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (36.94%) Finance
2 20 (18.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.61%) Front Office
5 10 (9.01%) Law
6 9 (8.11%) Financial Institution
6 9 (8.11%) Marketing
7 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (5.41%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.60%) Legal
10 3 (2.70%) Retail
11 1 (0.90%) Banking
11 1 (0.90%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (72.07%) React
2 59 (53.15%) Node.js
3 30 (27.03%) CSS
3 30 (27.03%) HTML
4 28 (25.23%) Redux
5 19 (17.12%) AngularJS
5 19 (17.12%) Jest
6 17 (15.32%) Vue
7 14 (12.61%) gRPC
7 14 (12.61%) Protocol Buffers
8 13 (11.71%) GraphQL
9 12 (10.81%) React Native
9 12 (10.81%) Sass
10 11 (9.91%) Next.js
10 11 (9.91%) REST
11 9 (8.11%) RESTful
12 6 (5.41%) Software Packaging
13 4 (3.60%) HTML5
13 4 (3.60%) Playwright
14 3 (2.70%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Fixed Income
2 12 (10.81%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (10.81%) Mobile App
3 9 (8.11%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.70%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.80%) Social Media
7 1 (0.90%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.60%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.80%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (54.95%) Software Engineering
2 57 (51.35%) Agile
3 47 (42.34%) Front End Development
3 47 (42.34%) User Experience
4 29 (26.13%) Fintech
4 29 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (18.92%) CI/CD
6 16 (14.41%) Continuous Delivery
6 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
7 15 (13.51%) Full Stack Development
7 15 (13.51%) TDD
8 14 (12.61%) Asset Management
8 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (12.61%) DevOps
8 14 (12.61%) Investment Management
8 14 (12.61%) Performance Attribution
9 13 (11.71%) Process Improvement
9 13 (11.71%) Unit Testing
10 12 (10.81%) Scrum
11 11 (9.91%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 82 (73.87%) TypeScript
2 70 (63.06%) JavaScript
3 15 (13.51%) Java
4 14 (12.61%) Python
5 6 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.80%) Go
6 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.80%) Ruby
6 2 (1.80%) Swift
7 1 (0.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (9.01%) Degree
2 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
2 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.02%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.41%) WCAG
3 3 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 14 (12.61%) Docker
2 6 (5.41%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) SCCM
2 5 (4.50%) Terraform
3 4 (3.60%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.70%) Consul
4 3 (2.70%) Packer
5 1 (0.90%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (8.11%) Google
2 8 (7.21%) Atlassian
2 8 (7.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.41%) Citrix
4 5 (4.50%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.80%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.90%) Spotify