Backends for Frontends (BFF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Backends for Frontends skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backends for Frontends over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 905 920 1190
Rank change year-on-year +15 +270 -288
Permanent jobs citing Backends for Frontends 5 59 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.057% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.060% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 18
10th Percentile - £80,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £81,875 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -7.89% +46.15%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,875 £97,500
90th Percentile - £92,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £65,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backends for Frontends 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 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backends for Frontends as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backends for Frontends in the UK

Backends for Frontends
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backends for Frontends.

Salary trend for Backends for Frontends in the UK

Backends for Frontends
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backends for Frontends within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +49 5 £75,000 -14.29% 3
London +71 4 £75,000 -14.29% 2
Work from Home +69 4 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1

Backends for Frontends
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) XCTest
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (80.00%) Next.js
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 3 (60.00%) Celery
2 3 (60.00%) Django
2 3 (60.00%) Jest
2 3 (60.00%) Playwright
2 3 (60.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Pair Programming
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Domain Models
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Android Development
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) iOS Development
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DBS Check
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Consul
1 3 (60.00%) Packer
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cadence