Frontend Developer Jobs

A frontend developer builds the part of a web application people see and interact with. Day to day that means turning Figma designs into working interfaces, writing components in React, wiring them to back-end APIs, fixing layout bugs across browsers and screen sizes, reviewing colleagues' pull requests, and joining the daily standup. Most work runs in two-week sprints alongside designers, product managers and back-end engineers, so a fair share of the job is discussing tickets rather than writing code.

The stack is fairly settled. React appears on the majority of UK adverts, with Angular second and Vue third. Angular shows up mainly at banks, insurers and other large enterprises that adopted it years ago. TypeScript is now the default rather than a nice-to-have, and employers expect solid HTML, CSS and plain JavaScript underneath it. Tailwind CSS, Next.js, Vite and component libraries such as shadcn/ui come up often, along with Git, REST and GraphQL APIs, and a testing tool such as Jest or Playwright. Accessibility (WCAG) and page performance are now common hard requirements rather than bonus points, partly following the European Accessibility Act, which took effect on 28 June 2025.

Pay splits roughly into three bands. Juniors start around £24,000-£36,000, mid-level developers with two to four years' experience sit at about £40,000-£62,000, and seniors run from around £68,000 upward, with £90,000-plus realistic in London fintech. London tends to pay £12,000-£22,000 more than Manchester or Bristol at the same seniority. Fully remote roles exist but hybrid is now more common, usually two or three days in the office. Progression typically runs junior to mid to senior engineer, then forks into staff or principal on the technical side or engineering manager on the people side.