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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 116 187
Rank change year-on-year -107 +71 +34
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 41 134 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 2.34% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 2.75% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 27 61 86
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +20.00% -20.45%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £61,650
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £70,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & 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 9,824 4,869 8,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.92% 85.18% 78.02%
Number of salaries quoted 6,997 2,963 5,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%

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 1 August 2026.

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 1 August 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
West Midlands -64 30 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East Midlands -81 11 £45,000 - 18
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 4 (9.76%) CMS
1 4 (9.76%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 21 (51.22%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) SaaS
4 4 (9.76%) GCP
4 4 (9.76%) Google Ads
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Advertising
5 2 (4.88%) AWS IoT
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
1 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) MySQL
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Subversion
3 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.44%) NUnit
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Manufacturing
4 5 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (9.76%) Advertising
5 4 (9.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (73.17%) Developer
2 19 (46.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 17 (41.46%) React Developer
4 14 (34.15%) Senior
5 11 (26.83%) Senior Developer
5 11 (26.83%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 8 (19.51%) Lead
6 8 (19.51%) Senior React Developer
7 6 (14.63%) Software Developer
8 4 (9.76%) Software Engineer
9 3 (7.32%) E-Commerce Developer
9 3 (7.32%) Lead Developer
10 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
10 2 (4.88%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
11 1 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
11 1 (2.44%) CRM Specialist
11 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
11 1 (2.44%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (56.10%) React
2 13 (31.71%) REST
3 9 (21.95%) Playwright
4 5 (12.20%) CSS
4 5 (12.20%) HTML
5 4 (9.76%) GraphQL
5 4 (9.76%) RESTful
6 3 (7.32%) .NET
6 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.88%) Node.js
7 2 (4.88%) React Native
7 2 (4.88%) TanStack
8 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
8 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (2.44%) Flask
8 1 (2.44%) Material-UI
8 1 (2.44%) Pandas
8 1 (2.44%) pytest
8 1 (2.44%) Redux
8 1 (2.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.76%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (4.88%) IoT
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) CI/CD
2 17 (41.46%) AI
3 14 (34.15%) Software Engineering
4 11 (26.83%) Code Quality
4 11 (26.83%) LLM
4 11 (26.83%) Mentoring
4 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (26.83%) Scrum
5 10 (24.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (24.39%) Time Management
6 9 (21.95%) Agile
6 9 (21.95%) End-to-End Testing
6 9 (21.95%) Progressive Enhancement
6 9 (21.95%) Sprint Planning
7 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (19.51%) E-Commerce
7 8 (19.51%) SDLC
7 8 (19.51%) Technical Architecture
7 8 (19.51%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (14.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) TypeScript
2 18 (43.90%) JavaScript
3 9 (21.95%) Go
4 4 (9.76%) SQL
5 3 (7.32%) C#
5 3 (7.32%) Python
6 2 (4.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) QA
2 8 (19.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Facebook
1 4 (9.76%) Google
1 4 (9.76%) Instagram
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
1 4 (9.76%) TikTok