Front End Development Job Trends in the East Midlands

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Front End Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 66 94
Rank change year-on-year -65 +28 0
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 5 65 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.20% 2.89% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 3.28% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5 47 24
10th Percentile - - £36,400
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £35,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £59,375 £67,813
90th Percentile £64,500 £71,000 £77,375
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,004 1,981 1,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.65% 88.16% 87.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 837 1,175
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -4.63% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Front End Development
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Front End Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the East Midlands

Front End Development
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
Northamptonshire +5 2 £60,000 +51.90% 12
Nottinghamshire -24 2 £35,000 - 16
Leicestershire +2 1 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Babel
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Mockito
2 1 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (40.00%) Games
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
3 3 (60.00%) Node.js
3 3 (60.00%) REST
3 3 (60.00%) RESTful
4 2 (40.00%) Deno
4 2 (40.00%) Laravel
4 2 (40.00%) Redux
4 2 (40.00%) Spring
4 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (40.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (40.00%) Vue
4 2 (40.00%) Yii
5 1 (20.00%) .NET
5 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (20.00%) Jest
5 1 (20.00%) JPA
5 1 (20.00%) JSON
5 1 (20.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Business Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) CRUD
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) HubSpot