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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 796 744 548
Rank change year-on-year -52 -196 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 111 206 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.22% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.24% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 83 133 298
10th Percentile £46,800 £53,550 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £108,250 £151,000 £97,500
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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -55 101 £75,000 -6.25% 28
UK excluding London -27 67 £70,000 +12.00% 10
Work from Home -8 52 £77,500 -8.82% 14
London +22 43 £92,500 -13.95% 17
South West -15 20 £72,500 +11.54% 1
North of England +43 17 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North West +6 15 £70,000 +7.69% 4
East of England +2 10 £60,000 - 1
Scotland -62 9 £70,000 +16.67%
Midlands -11 6 £60,000 -7.69%
West Midlands -13 5 £60,000 -7.69%
South East -28 5 £75,000 +20.00% 4
Yorkshire +63 2 £32,500 -23.53%
East Midlands - 1 £55,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 84 (75.68%) TypeScript
2 80 (72.07%) React
3 75 (67.57%) JavaScript
4 63 (56.76%) Software Engineering
5 61 (54.95%) Node.js
6 55 (49.55%) Agile
7 53 (47.75%) Front End Development
8 48 (43.24%) User Experience
9 46 (41.44%) Finance
10 37 (33.33%) AWS
11 34 (30.63%) Fintech
12 31 (27.93%) Redux
13 30 (27.03%) GCP
13 30 (27.03%) HTML
13 30 (27.03%) CSS
14 25 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (19.82%) CI/CD
16 21 (18.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (18.92%) Full Stack Development
17 18 (16.22%) Apache Ignite
17 18 (16.22%) Performance Attribution
17 18 (16.22%) gRPC
17 18 (16.22%) Apache Airflow
17 18 (16.22%) Jest
17 18 (16.22%) Apache
17 18 (16.22%) Python
17 18 (16.22%) Front Office
17 18 (16.22%) Fixed Income
17 18 (16.22%) Asset Management
17 18 (16.22%) Investment Management

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 18 (16.22%) Apache
1 18 (16.22%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.21%) Confluence
3 2 (1.80%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 37 (33.33%) AWS
2 30 (27.03%) GCP
3 10 (9.01%) npm
3 10 (9.01%) SaaS
4 8 (7.21%) Figma
5 6 (5.41%) Azure
6 4 (3.60%) ChatGPT
7 3 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.70%) GitHub
7 3 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.70%) Serverless
8 2 (1.80%) Firebase
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 18 (16.22%) Apache Ignite
2 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.90%) MySQL
3 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Storybook
2 12 (10.81%) Git
3 9 (8.11%) Bitbucket
4 8 (7.21%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.21%) JIRA
5 7 (6.31%) gulp
5 7 (6.31%) webpack
6 5 (4.50%) Jasmine
7 3 (2.70%) GitLab
7 3 (2.70%) Vite
8 2 (1.80%) Appium
8 2 (1.80%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (41.44%) Finance
2 21 (18.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (16.22%) Front Office
4 17 (15.32%) Social Skills
5 11 (9.91%) Law
6 10 (9.01%) Marketing
7 9 (8.11%) Financial Institution
8 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (5.41%) Aerospace
10 4 (3.60%) Legal
11 2 (1.80%) Retail
12 1 (0.90%) Banking
12 1 (0.90%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.90%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (72.07%) React
2 61 (54.95%) Node.js
3 31 (27.93%) Redux
4 30 (27.03%) CSS
4 30 (27.03%) HTML
5 18 (16.22%) AngularJS
5 18 (16.22%) gRPC
5 18 (16.22%) Jest
5 18 (16.22%) Protocol Buffers
6 16 (14.41%) Vue
7 12 (10.81%) React Native
7 12 (10.81%) Sass
8 11 (9.91%) GraphQL
9 9 (8.11%) Next.js
9 9 (8.11%) REST
9 9 (8.11%) RESTful
10 6 (5.41%) HTML5
10 6 (5.41%) Playwright
10 6 (5.41%) Software Packaging
11 4 (3.60%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.22%) Fixed Income
2 12 (10.81%) Mobile App
3 10 (9.01%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (7.21%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.70%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.70%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.80%) Social Media
9 1 (0.90%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.60%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.80%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (56.76%) Software Engineering
2 55 (49.55%) Agile
3 53 (47.75%) Front End Development
4 48 (43.24%) User Experience
5 34 (30.63%) Fintech
6 25 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (19.82%) CI/CD
8 21 (18.92%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (16.22%) Asset Management
9 18 (16.22%) Investment Management
9 18 (16.22%) Performance Attribution
10 17 (15.32%) Continuous Delivery
11 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
12 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (12.61%) TDD
13 13 (11.71%) DevOps
13 13 (11.71%) Unit Testing
14 12 (10.81%) Scrum
15 11 (9.91%) Continuous Integration
15 11 (9.91%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 84 (75.68%) TypeScript
2 75 (67.57%) JavaScript
3 18 (16.22%) Python
4 17 (15.32%) Java
5 6 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.80%) Go
6 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.80%) Swift
7 1 (0.90%) Ruby
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 17 (15.32%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.60%) WCAG
3 3 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 15 (13.51%) Docker
2 6 (5.41%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) SCCM
2 4 (3.60%) Terraform
3 3 (2.70%) Consul
3 3 (2.70%) Packer
4 1 (0.90%) Grafana
4 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (7.21%) Atlassian
1 8 (7.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.31%) Google
3 6 (5.41%) Citrix
4 4 (3.60%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.80%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.90%) Spotify