Senior Front-End Developer Jobs

Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer)
UK

The median Senior Front-End Developer (Senior Client-Side Developer) salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 706 727 547
Rank change year-on-year +21 -180 -66
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 218 220 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.26% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 166 170 312
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,375 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,313 £58,750 £54,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £84,688 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £103,750 £94,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% +9.09%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Senior Front-End Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Front-End Developer in the UK

Senior Front-End Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 -3 171 £71,500 -4.67% 32
UK excluding London -16 165 £67,500 -3.57% 25
Work from Home +75 133 £71,500 -7.74% 12
London +12 42 £75,000 -3.23% 10
South East -8 42 £77,500 +10.71% 10
South West +4 36 £53,750 -28.33%
North of England +29 29 £60,000 - 5
North West -3 24 £60,000 - 2
Scotland -44 24 £52,500 -27.59% 1
Midlands -29 11 £70,000 +16.67% 3
East of England -23 10 £71,500 -10.63% 3
Wales +13 9 £50,000 -11.11% 2
East Midlands -31 8 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Yorkshire +63 5 £50,000 +0.50% 2
Northern Ireland +21 4 - - 1
West Midlands -10 3 £65,000 +8.33% 2

Senior Front-End Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Senior Front-End 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 Senior Front-End Developer in the job title.

1 206 (94.50%) Front End Development
2 119 (54.59%) React
3 112 (51.38%) JavaScript
4 88 (40.37%) TypeScript
5 86 (39.45%) Agile
6 79 (36.24%) CSS
7 78 (35.78%) AngularJS
8 76 (34.86%) Node.js
9 75 (34.40%) HTML
10 67 (30.73%) Degree
11 57 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (25.23%) Social Skills
13 51 (23.39%) Azure
14 45 (20.64%) DevOps
15 44 (20.18%) Express.js
16 42 (19.27%) SC Cleared
16 42 (19.27%) Security Cleared
17 40 (18.35%) Actionable Insight
18 36 (16.51%) Git
19 32 (14.68%) User Experience
20 30 (13.76%) Finance
21 29 (13.30%) Vue
22 28 (12.84%) Open Source
22 28 (12.84%) HTML5
23 25 (11.47%) Jest
23 25 (11.47%) Computer Science
24 24 (11.01%) PHP
24 24 (11.01%) Mentoring
25 23 (10.55%) AWS
26 22 (10.09%) Cypress.io

Senior Front-End 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 10 (4.59%) CMS
2 4 (1.83%) WordPress
3 2 (0.92%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.46%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Maya
2 2 (0.92%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Magento
1 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.39%) Azure
2 23 (10.55%) AWS
3 14 (6.42%) SaaS
4 5 (2.29%) npm
5 4 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.83%) Figma
6 3 (1.38%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.92%) dbt
7 2 (0.92%) GCP
7 2 (0.92%) GitHub
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.46%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.92%) Metabase
1 2 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (0.92%) Redis
1 2 (0.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.46%) MySQL
2 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (16.51%) Git
2 22 (10.09%) Cypress.io
3 16 (7.34%) Selenium
4 14 (6.42%) webpack
5 13 (5.96%) Storybook
6 8 (3.67%) gulp
7 3 (1.38%) JIRA
7 3 (1.38%) PostCSS
7 3 (1.38%) rollup.js
7 3 (1.38%) Vite
8 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
General
1 55 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.76%) Finance
3 9 (4.13%) Games
4 8 (3.67%) Retail
5 4 (1.83%) Banking
5 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
5 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.38%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.38%) Tech for Good
7 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.46%) Automotive
8 1 (0.46%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (54.59%) React
2 79 (36.24%) CSS
3 78 (35.78%) AngularJS
4 76 (34.86%) Node.js
5 75 (34.40%) HTML
6 44 (20.18%) Express.js
7 29 (13.30%) Vue
8 28 (12.84%) HTML5
9 25 (11.47%) Jest
10 20 (9.17%) Sass
11 19 (8.72%) CSS3
12 18 (8.26%) Redux
13 16 (7.34%) Next.js
14 14 (6.42%) GraphQL
14 14 (6.42%) React Native
15 10 (4.59%) jQuery
15 10 (4.59%) Tailwind CSS
16 8 (3.67%) REST
17 7 (3.21%) GatsbyJS
17 7 (3.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.67%) Mobile App
2 7 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (3.21%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.75%) Client/Server
4 5 (2.29%) Animation
4 5 (2.29%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.38%) Hackathon
7 2 (0.92%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.92%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.92%) Social Media
7 2 (0.92%) Social Network
8 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.92%) Android
1 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (94.50%) Front End Development
2 86 (39.45%) Agile
3 57 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (20.64%) DevOps
5 40 (18.35%) Actionable Insight
6 32 (14.68%) User Experience
7 28 (12.84%) Open Source
8 25 (11.47%) Computer Science
9 24 (11.01%) Mentoring
10 22 (10.09%) Propensity Modelling
11 20 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence
12 19 (8.72%) UX Design
12 19 (8.72%) Web Development
13 18 (8.26%) E-Commerce
14 14 (6.42%) CI/CD
14 14 (6.42%) Software Engineering
15 12 (5.50%) Unit Testing
16 11 (5.05%) Test Automation
17 10 (4.59%) Full Stack Development
17 10 (4.59%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (51.38%) JavaScript
2 88 (40.37%) TypeScript
3 24 (11.01%) PHP
4 19 (8.72%) C#
5 10 (4.59%) Java
6 7 (3.21%) Python
7 5 (2.29%) SQL
8 3 (1.38%) Bash
8 3 (1.38%) Ruby
9 2 (0.92%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 67 (30.73%) Degree
2 42 (19.27%) SC Cleared
2 42 (19.27%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.34%) WCAG
2 4 (1.83%) QA
3 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (9.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (9.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (4.59%) Google
2 2 (0.92%) Adobe
2 2 (0.92%) F5
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.46%) Salesforce