Front End Development Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Front End Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 160 182
Rank change year-on-year +28 +22 -37
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 111 127 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.98% 1.26% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.60% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 40 68 55
10th Percentile £33,625 - £41,500
25th Percentile £40,313 £32,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £64,063 £69,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,375 £70,725 £73,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,806 7,941 5,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.73% 78.68% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,881 4,021 3,852
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,250 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the Midlands

Front End Development
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the Midlands

Front End Development
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
East Midlands +29 58 £45,000 -14.29% 21
West Midlands +28 53 £55,000 - 34
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 47 (42.34%) Confluence
2 3 (2.70%) CMS
2 3 (2.70%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Adobe XD
1 3 (2.70%) Sketch
2 2 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Magento
1 5 (4.50%) Shopify
2 4 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (64.86%) Azure
2 64 (57.66%) AWS
3 47 (42.34%) GCP
4 8 (7.21%) Figma
4 8 (7.21%) SaaS
5 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.50%) BigCommerce
7 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.80%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.80%) Serverless
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.90%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (63.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 63 (56.76%) Bitbucket
1 63 (56.76%) Cucumber
1 63 (56.76%) GitLab
1 63 (56.76%) JIRA
1 63 (56.76%) Maven
1 63 (56.76%) Selenium
1 63 (56.76%) SonarQube
1 63 (56.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (7.21%) Git
3 4 (3.60%) webpack
4 3 (2.70%) NUnit
5 2 (1.80%) Babel
6 1 (0.90%) JUnit
6 1 (0.90%) Mockito
6 1 (0.90%) Moq
6 1 (0.90%) MSTest
6 1 (0.90%) NSubstitute
General
1 80 (72.07%) Finance
2 67 (60.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (56.76%) Banking
4 23 (20.72%) Retail
5 16 (14.41%) Corporate Banking
5 16 (14.41%) Investment Banking
5 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
6 12 (10.81%) Law
7 5 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Automotive
9 2 (1.80%) Electronics
10 1 (0.90%) Games
10 1 (0.90%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 63 (56.76%) Software Engineer
2 40 (36.04%) Developer
3 10 (9.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (8.11%) React Developer
5 8 (7.21%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (6.31%) Java Developer
6 7 (6.31%) Lead
6 7 (6.31%) Senior
6 7 (6.31%) Software Developer
7 6 (5.41%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.50%) C# Developer
8 5 (4.50%) C# Software Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Designer
8 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Junior
8 5 (4.50%) Lead C# Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Lead Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Lead Software Developer
8 5 (4.50%) PHP Developer
8 5 (4.50%) PHP Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (83.78%) HTML
2 89 (80.18%) CSS
3 85 (76.58%) React
4 66 (59.46%) Redux
4 66 (59.46%) Spring
4 66 (59.46%) Spring Boot
5 64 (57.66%) JPA
6 63 (56.76%) Kafka
7 48 (43.24%) Hibernate
8 21 (18.92%) HTML5
8 21 (18.92%) RESTful
9 20 (18.02%) REST
10 19 (17.12%) CSS3
11 18 (16.22%) Jest
11 18 (16.22%) Sass
12 7 (6.31%) .NET
13 5 (4.50%) AngularJS
13 5 (4.50%) Node.js
13 5 (4.50%) Playwright
13 5 (4.50%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 63 (56.76%) Enterprise Software
1 63 (56.76%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.41%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.50%) EPoS
4 4 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.70%) Animation
5 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.70%) Video Editing
5 3 (2.70%) W3C
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Linux
2 2 (1.80%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.90%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (80.18%) Agile
2 77 (69.37%) DevOps
3 73 (65.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 72 (64.86%) SDLC
5 71 (63.96%) Software Engineering
6 69 (62.16%) CI/CD
6 69 (62.16%) Test Automation
7 66 (59.46%) Microservices
8 65 (58.56%) Containerisation
9 63 (56.76%) Performance Optimisation
10 55 (49.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (46.85%) Clean Code
12 48 (43.24%) TDD
13 30 (27.03%) User Experience
14 23 (20.72%) Mentoring
15 20 (18.02%) Responsive Web Design
16 16 (14.41%) Migration
16 16 (14.41%) Strategic Thinking
17 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
18 8 (7.21%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 95 (85.59%) JavaScript
2 70 (63.06%) Java
3 69 (62.16%) SQL
4 24 (21.62%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.71%) C#
6 5 (4.50%) Delphi
6 5 (4.50%) PHP
7 2 (1.80%) C++
7 2 (1.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) Degree
2 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.90%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (57.66%) QA
2 24 (21.62%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (58.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (57.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 63 (56.76%) Solace
2 7 (6.31%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.41%) Guidewire
4 5 (4.50%) Adobe