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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 219 85
Rank change year-on-year -12 -134 -14
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 1,318 1,718 6,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.32% 1.73% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.81% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,093 1,159 3,025
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.40% +19.05%
75th Percentile £75,772 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £103,500 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% +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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 £96,250
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 18 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 18 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 -16 1,067 £60,000 -7.69% 406
UK excluding London +16 934 £52,500 -7.49% 275
Work from Home +9 663 £60,000 -7.69% 258
London -74 307 £77,500 +10.71% 187
North of England +56 261 £52,500 +5.00% 67
South East -42 163 £60,000 - 84
North West +31 154 £57,500 +4.55% 35
Midlands +59 148 £42,500 -22.73% 47
Scotland -4 145 £52,500 -12.50% 15
South West +15 123 £50,000 -4.76% 27
West Midlands +73 101 £47,500 -13.64% 32
Yorkshire +59 83 £45,000 - 26
East of England -31 53 £65,620 +4.99% 29
East Midlands +4 46 £41,250 -31.25% 15
North East +8 24 £52,500 +31.25% 7
Northern Ireland +20 21 £55,000 - 3
Wales -19 20 £70,000 +33.33% 5

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 72 (5.46%) CMS
2 55 (4.17%) WordPress
3 37 (2.81%) Tuxedo
4 20 (1.52%) Apache
5 18 (1.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 14 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.06%) Headless CMS
6 14 (1.06%) nginx
7 13 (0.99%) Confluence
8 12 (0.91%) JBoss
8 12 (0.91%) Red Hat Fuse
9 6 (0.46%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.46%) IIS
10 5 (0.38%) Kentico
10 5 (0.38%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.23%) SAS
11 3 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.15%) Drupal
13 1 (0.076%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (1.52%) Adobe XD
2 17 (1.29%) Photoshop
3 7 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.38%) 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 (0.23%) Sketch
7 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.15%) Notion
8 1 (0.076%) InVision
Business Applications
1 26 (1.97%) Shopify
2 8 (0.61%) Magento
3 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 281 (21.32%) AWS
2 261 (19.80%) Azure
3 86 (6.53%) SaaS
4 63 (4.78%) GCP
5 48 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (3.64%) Figma
6 38 (2.88%) GitHub
7 27 (2.05%) npm
8 19 (1.44%) Google Analytics
8 19 (1.44%) Serverless
9 16 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (0.68%) dbt
12 8 (0.61%) Firebase
12 8 (0.61%) Google Tag Manager
13 7 (0.53%) Amazon S3
13 7 (0.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.06%) HTTP
2 10 (0.76%) Internet
3 8 (0.61%) MQTT
4 7 (0.53%) DNS
4 7 (0.53%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.15%) SSH
7 1 (0.076%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 66 (5.01%) MySQL
3 61 (4.63%) Relational Database
4 43 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.28%) MongoDB
6 25 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (1.82%) NoSQL
8 23 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (1.52%) Redis
10 14 (1.06%) Apache Ignite
11 11 (0.83%) MS Access
12 10 (0.76%) Big Data
13 9 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.46%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.30%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.30%) Power BI
16 3 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
16 3 (0.23%) Event Store
16 3 (0.23%) GIS
16 3 (0.23%) Looker
Development Applications
1 253 (19.20%) Git
2 72 (5.46%) Cypress.io
3 49 (3.72%) Selenium
4 45 (3.41%) JIRA
5 38 (2.88%) webpack
6 37 (2.81%) Jenkins
7 30 (2.28%) Jasmine
8 29 (2.20%) gulp
8 29 (2.20%) Visual Studio
9 28 (2.12%) Cucumber
10 25 (1.90%) Bitbucket
11 23 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
12 22 (1.67%) Karma Test Runner
13 21 (1.59%) IntelliJ
14 20 (1.52%) Storybook
15 18 (1.37%) GitLab
16 13 (0.99%) Postman
17 9 (0.68%) Subversion
18 8 (0.61%) Grunt
18 8 (0.61%) Maven
General
1 300 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 201 (15.25%) Finance
3 88 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (6.37%) Marketing
5 68 (5.16%) Public Sector
6 67 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 61 (4.63%) Law
8 54 (4.10%) Retail
9 42 (3.19%) Manufacturing
10 40 (3.03%) Banking
11 27 (2.05%) Games
12 21 (1.59%) Tech for Good
13 20 (1.52%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.37%) Electronics
14 18 (1.37%) Front Office
15 17 (1.29%) Automotive
16 16 (1.21%) Investment Banking
16 16 (1.21%) Private Banking
17 15 (1.14%) Health Technology
18 14 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,023 (77.62%) Developer
2 562 (42.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 448 (33.99%) Senior
4 338 (25.64%) Senior Developer
5 196 (14.87%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 160 (12.14%) Lead
7 142 (10.77%) React Developer
8 117 (8.88%) Software Engineer
9 112 (8.50%) Full Stack Developer
10 94 (7.13%) Software Developer
11 74 (5.61%) Lead Developer
12 61 (4.63%) Senior React Developer
13 56 (4.25%) Web Developer
14 54 (4.10%) .NET Developer
15 51 (3.87%) PHP Developer
16 49 (3.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
17 46 (3.49%) Angular Developer
17 46 (3.49%) Senior Software Developer
18 45 (3.41%) UI Developer
19 44 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 616 (46.74%) CSS
2 599 (45.45%) React
3 592 (44.92%) HTML
4 310 (23.52%) AngularJS
5 256 (19.42%) Node.js
6 250 (18.97%) .NET
7 176 (13.35%) Vue
8 160 (12.14%) RESTful
9 142 (10.77%) HTML5
10 127 (9.64%) Sass
11 122 (9.26%) CSS3
12 107 (8.12%) jQuery
12 107 (8.12%) REST
13 104 (7.89%) .NET Core
14 86 (6.53%) ASP.NET
14 86 (6.53%) Jest
15 79 (5.99%) Redux
16 65 (4.93%) .NET Framework
17 63 (4.78%) Express.js
18 62 (4.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.59%) Greenfield Project
2 51 (3.87%) Mobile App
3 50 (3.79%) Onboarding
4 31 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.12%) Cloud Native
6 22 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 22 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.52%) Client/Server
8 15 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.14%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.06%) Blockchain
9 14 (1.06%) Fixed Income
10 13 (0.99%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.91%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.76%) Social Media
13 9 (0.68%) Animation
13 9 (0.68%) IoT
13 9 (0.68%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.68%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.61%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.49%) Linux
2 18 (1.37%) Android
3 12 (0.91%) Apple iOS
3 12 (0.91%) Windows
4 7 (0.53%) CentOS
5 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.076%) Unix
7 1 (0.076%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (34.37%) Agile
2 363 (27.54%) User Experience
3 318 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
4 288 (21.85%) Software Engineering
5 287 (21.78%) Full Stack Development
6 215 (16.31%) Computer Science
7 203 (15.40%) UX Design
8 194 (14.72%) DevOps
9 174 (13.20%) Mentoring
10 170 (12.90%) Web Development
11 139 (10.55%) CI/CD
12 122 (9.26%) E-Commerce
13 112 (8.50%) Continuous Integration
14 103 (7.81%) Test Automation
15 99 (7.51%) TDD
16 84 (6.37%) Artificial Intelligence
17 83 (6.30%) Microservices
18 81 (6.15%) MVC
19 78 (5.92%) Actionable Insight
20 76 (5.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 752 (57.06%) JavaScript
2 466 (35.36%) TypeScript
3 292 (22.15%) C#
4 211 (16.01%) SQL
5 200 (15.17%) Java
6 144 (10.93%) PHP
7 132 (10.02%) Python
8 46 (3.49%) T-SQL
9 42 (3.19%) COBOL
9 42 (3.19%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 38 (2.88%) Go
11 35 (2.66%) Ruby
12 16 (1.21%) VB.NET
13 11 (0.83%) C
14 9 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.53%) C++
15 7 (0.53%) Rust
15 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.38%) GLSL
17 4 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 259 (19.65%) Degree
2 115 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 100 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 99 (7.51%) SC Cleared
5 34 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 30 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.46%) HND
8 5 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.15%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.076%) CIPD
10 1 (0.076%) PhD
10 1 (0.076%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.076%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 53 (4.02%) WCAG
3 49 (3.72%) QA
4 17 (1.29%) WAI
5 9 (0.68%) GDPR
6 4 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.076%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.076%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.076%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 134 (10.17%) Docker
2 7 (0.53%) Firmware
3 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.23%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 78 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.91%) Terraform
3 7 (0.53%) Ansible
4 4 (0.30%) Rancher
5 1 (0.076%) Packer
5 1 (0.076%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (8.35%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.08%) Google
3 58 (4.40%) Adobe
4 46 (3.49%) Oracle
5 42 (3.19%) Micro Focus
6 18 (1.37%) SAP
7 11 (0.83%) WooCommerce
8 9 (0.68%) DevExpress
9 8 (0.61%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.61%) Facebook
10 7 (0.53%) NVIDIA
11 5 (0.38%) IBM
11 5 (0.38%) Xamarin
12 4 (0.30%) Mercator
12 4 (0.30%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.30%) VMware
13 3 (0.23%) OutSystems
13 3 (0.23%) Sybase
14 2 (0.15%) Apple
14 2 (0.15%) F5