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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 148 164
Rank change year-on-year -25 +16 +15
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 42 123 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.75% 1.39% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.71% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 35 70 59
10th Percentile £37,500 - £44,300
25th Percentile £49,000 £32,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,625 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,250 £70,000 £73,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -

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 4,748 7,187 4,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.95% 81.04% 92.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,011 3,247 3,598
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,375 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +4.80% -
75th Percentile £63,938 £66,250 £63,982
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +24 28 £58,000 -3.33% 42
East Midlands -28 14 £57,500 +64.29% 31
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 (7.14%) CMS
1 3 (7.14%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (7.14%) Magento
2 3 (7.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) Azure
2 9 (21.43%) SaaS
3 7 (16.67%) AWS
3 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.90%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (7.14%) BigCommerce
5 3 (7.14%) Figma
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.76%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.76%) Serverless
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.38%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Bitbucket
1 5 (11.90%) Cucumber
1 5 (11.90%) Git
1 5 (11.90%) GitLab
1 5 (11.90%) JIRA
1 5 (11.90%) Maven
1 5 (11.90%) Selenium
1 5 (11.90%) SonarQube
1 5 (11.90%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (11.90%) webpack
2 3 (7.14%) Babel
3 2 (4.76%) NUnit
4 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.38%) JUnit
4 1 (2.38%) Mockito
4 1 (2.38%) Moq
4 1 (2.38%) MSTest
4 1 (2.38%) NSubstitute
4 1 (2.38%) Vite
General
1 19 (45.24%) Finance
2 12 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 9 (21.43%) Law
5 8 (19.05%) Retail
6 5 (11.90%) Banking
6 5 (11.90%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (11.90%) Investment Banking
7 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (4.76%) Electronics
9 1 (2.38%) Games
9 1 (2.38%) iGaming
9 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (71.43%) Developer
2 10 (23.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 8 (19.05%) Lead
4 7 (16.67%) Senior
5 6 (14.29%) React Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Digital Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (7.14%) C# Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Lead Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.14%) PHP Symfony Developer
7 3 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (73.81%) HTML
2 28 (66.67%) CSS
3 27 (64.29%) React
4 12 (28.57%) RESTful
5 10 (23.81%) HTML5
6 8 (19.05%) CSS3
6 8 (19.05%) Node.js
6 8 (19.05%) Redux
6 8 (19.05%) REST
6 8 (19.05%) Spring
6 8 (19.05%) Spring Boot
7 7 (16.67%) .NET
7 7 (16.67%) Jest
8 6 (14.29%) JPA
8 6 (14.29%) Sass
9 5 (11.90%) Kafka
10 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
11 3 (7.14%) Playwright
11 3 (7.14%) SVG
11 3 (7.14%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) EPoS
2 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.14%) W3C
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) Agile
2 22 (52.38%) DevOps
3 15 (35.71%) User Experience
4 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 12 (28.57%) SDLC
5 12 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 11 (26.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
7 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (21.43%) Responsive Web Design
8 9 (21.43%) Test Automation
9 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (16.67%) Microservices
10 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 6 (14.29%) Scrum
11 5 (11.90%) Clean Code
11 5 (11.90%) Code Quality
11 5 (11.90%) CRM
11 5 (11.90%) Migration
11 5 (11.90%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 37 (88.10%) JavaScript
2 13 (30.95%) TypeScript
3 10 (23.81%) C#
3 10 (23.81%) SQL
4 9 (21.43%) Java
5 3 (7.14%) Delphi
5 3 (7.14%) PHP
6 2 (4.76%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) Rust
7 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) Accessibility
2 6 (14.29%) QA
3 3 (7.14%) GDPR
4 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Guidewire
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) Solace
4 1 (2.38%) Foundry
4 1 (2.38%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.38%) Palantir