Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) Jobs

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

The median Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) salary in the UK is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 881 875
Rank change year-on-year +181 -6 +259
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) 11 23 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.021% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.022% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 7 23 36
10th Percentile £26,550 £30,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -34.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £47,500 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £51,500 - £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -31.82% +37.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 50,341 104,123 84,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.94% 94.77% 91.19%
Number of salaries quoted 26,498 73,470 54,978
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,850 £38,603 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

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

Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 2025. 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
UK excluding London +187 11 £37,500 - 7
England +165 11 £37,500 - 8
Work from Home +145 7 £37,500 -41.18% 6
South West - 7 £37,500 -
Midlands +78 2 £45,000 -
North of England +72 2 £43,750 +22.38% 3
East Midlands +51 2 £45,000 -
Yorkshire +62 1 £32,500 -3.70%
North West +24 1 £55,000 +46.67% 2

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2025, Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web 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 Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer) in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) HTML
1 11 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 11 (100.00%) Web Development
2 10 (90.91%) CSS
3 8 (72.73%) PHP
4 7 (63.64%) WordPress
4 7 (63.64%) Front End Development
5 6 (54.55%) User Experience
5 6 (54.55%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (54.55%) Git
5 6 (54.55%) E-Commerce
6 5 (45.45%) Project Management
6 5 (45.45%) jQuery
6 5 (45.45%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
7 4 (36.36%) Stripe
7 4 (36.36%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 4 (36.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 4 (36.36%) Learning Management System
7 4 (36.36%) HTML5
7 4 (36.36%) Sass
7 4 (36.36%) LESS
7 4 (36.36%) Bootstrap
7 4 (36.36%) Responsive Web Design
7 4 (36.36%) Line Management
7 4 (36.36%) React
7 4 (36.36%) WCAG
7 4 (36.36%) CMS
7 4 (36.36%) Photoshop
7 4 (36.36%) Microsoft

Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web 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 7 (63.64%) WordPress
2 4 (36.36%) CMS
3 2 (18.18%) Drupal
4 1 (9.09%) Headless CMS
4 1 (9.09%) Joomla!
4 1 (9.09%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Photoshop
2 3 (27.27%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (18.18%) Adobe XD
3 2 (18.18%) Elementor
4 1 (9.09%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Stripe
2 3 (27.27%) Figma
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Cloudflare
3 2 (18.18%) Vercel
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) npm
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) gulp
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 5 (45.45%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) HTML
2 10 (90.91%) CSS
3 5 (45.45%) jQuery
4 4 (36.36%) Bootstrap
4 4 (36.36%) HTML5
4 4 (36.36%) LESS
4 4 (36.36%) React
4 4 (36.36%) Sass
5 3 (27.27%) CSS3
6 2 (18.18%) Ajax
6 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
6 2 (18.18%) Framer.js
6 2 (18.18%) REST
6 2 (18.18%) Vue
7 1 (9.09%) DOM
7 1 (9.09%) Flask
7 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
7 1 (9.09%) Kendo UI
7 1 (9.09%) Next.js
7 1 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Learning Management System
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Signage
2 1 (9.09%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Web Development
2 7 (63.64%) Front End Development
3 6 (54.55%) E-Commerce
3 6 (54.55%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (54.55%) User Experience
4 5 (45.45%) Project Management
5 4 (36.36%) Change Management
5 4 (36.36%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
5 4 (36.36%) Line Management
5 4 (36.36%) Responsive Web Design
5 4 (36.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) SEO
7 2 (18.18%) BDD
7 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
7 2 (18.18%) Kanban
7 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) TDD
8 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (72.73%) PHP
3 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (36.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Adobe
2 2 (18.18%) Netlify
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
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