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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 145 148
Rank change year-on-year -49 +3 +58
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 31 109 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.39% 1.60% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.79% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 30 71 59
10th Percentile £32,500 - £43,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £66,375 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -

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 6,411 6,099 4,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.64% 89.53% 89.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,548 2,704 3,532
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
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 Midlands

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

Front End Development job vacancy trend 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 25 December 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 25 December 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
West Midlands +13 25 £55,000 -15.38% 62
East Midlands -67 6 £57,500 +64.29% 48
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.68%) CMS
1 3 (9.68%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) SaaS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (19.35%) Figma
3 5 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
5 3 (9.68%) AWS
5 3 (9.68%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.45%) Serverless
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.23%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) Babel
2 3 (9.68%) Visual Studio
2 3 (9.68%) webpack
3 2 (6.45%) NUnit
4 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
4 1 (3.23%) JUnit
4 1 (3.23%) Mockito
4 1 (3.23%) Moq
4 1 (3.23%) MSTest
4 1 (3.23%) NSubstitute
4 1 (3.23%) PHPUnit
4 1 (3.23%) Vite
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.45%) Games
4 2 (6.45%) Law
4 2 (6.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (80.65%) Developer
2 11 (35.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (22.58%) Blazor Developer
3 7 (22.58%) UX Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 4 (12.90%) React Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) Java Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Lead
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Developer
8 1 (3.23%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
8 1 (3.23%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) CSS
1 13 (41.94%) HTML
2 12 (38.71%) React
3 11 (35.48%) .NET
4 6 (19.35%) Node.js
5 5 (16.13%) RESTful
6 4 (12.90%) REST
7 3 (9.68%) Blazor
7 3 (9.68%) CSS3
7 3 (9.68%) HTML5
7 3 (9.68%) Laravel
7 3 (9.68%) Material Design
7 3 (9.68%) Redux
7 3 (9.68%) Spring
7 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
7 3 (9.68%) SVG
7 3 (9.68%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (9.68%) WebAssembly
8 2 (6.45%) Deno
8 2 (6.45%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
1 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (9.68%) W3C
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) CRM
2 12 (38.71%) User Experience
3 10 (32.26%) Agile
4 9 (29.03%) DevOps
4 9 (29.03%) UX Design
5 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
5 8 (25.81%) Data Integration
6 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (19.35%) AI
7 6 (19.35%) Responsive Web Design
7 6 (19.35%) Web Development
8 5 (16.13%) Clean Code
8 5 (16.13%) Customer Engagement
8 5 (16.13%) Customer Service
8 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (16.13%) SDLC
9 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
9 4 (12.90%) Scrum
10 3 (9.68%) Content Management
10 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) JavaScript
2 11 (35.48%) C#
3 8 (25.81%) SQL
4 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
5 4 (12.90%) Java
6 3 (9.68%) PHP
7 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.23%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.90%) WCAG
3 3 (9.68%) GDPR
4 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.23%) Foundry
3 1 (3.23%) HubSpot
3 1 (3.23%) Palantir
3 1 (3.23%) Zend