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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 147 162
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +3
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 98 123 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.77% 1.36% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.69% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 32 69 58
10th Percentile £37,500 - £43,950
25th Percentile £45,375 £32,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £64,063 £67,500 £65,001
90th Percentile £78,375 £70,100 £72,500
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 4,811 7,284 4,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.75% 80.83% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,821 3,303 3,773
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,768
25th Percentile £32,125 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £52,000 £52,150
Median % change year-on-year -12.71% -0.29% +4.30%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +6 50 £55,000 +48.65% 37
West Midlands +36 48 £55,000 -8.33% 40
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 47 (47.96%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) CMS
2 3 (3.06%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.02%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.06%) Magento
2 3 (3.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (71.43%) Azure
2 64 (65.31%) AWS
3 47 (47.96%) GCP
4 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.12%) SaaS
5 4 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.08%) Figma
6 3 (3.06%) BigCommerce
7 2 (2.04%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.04%) Serverless
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.02%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.02%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (69.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 63 (64.29%) Bitbucket
1 63 (64.29%) Cucumber
1 63 (64.29%) GitLab
1 63 (64.29%) JIRA
1 63 (64.29%) Maven
1 63 (64.29%) Selenium
1 63 (64.29%) SonarQube
1 63 (64.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (6.12%) Git
3 5 (5.10%) webpack
4 3 (3.06%) Babel
5 2 (2.04%) NUnit
6 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.02%) JUnit
6 1 (1.02%) Mockito
6 1 (1.02%) Moq
6 1 (1.02%) MSTest
6 1 (1.02%) NSubstitute
6 1 (1.02%) Vite
General
1 75 (76.53%) Finance
2 67 (68.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (64.29%) Banking
4 19 (19.39%) Retail
5 16 (16.33%) Corporate Banking
5 16 (16.33%) Investment Banking
6 10 (10.20%) Social Skills
7 9 (9.18%) Law
8 3 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Electronics
10 1 (1.02%) Automotive
10 1 (1.02%) Games
10 1 (1.02%) iGaming
10 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (65.31%) Software Engineer
2 30 (30.61%) Developer
3 10 (10.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 7 (7.14%) React Developer
4 7 (7.14%) Senior
5 6 (6.12%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.10%) Lead
7 4 (4.08%) Digital Developer
7 4 (4.08%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 3 (3.06%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.06%) PHP Developer
8 3 (3.06%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 3 (3.06%) SaaS Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (88.78%) HTML
2 85 (86.73%) CSS
3 82 (83.67%) React
4 66 (67.35%) Redux
4 66 (67.35%) Spring
4 66 (67.35%) Spring Boot
5 64 (65.31%) JPA
6 63 (64.29%) Kafka
7 48 (48.98%) Hibernate
8 22 (22.45%) RESTful
9 21 (21.43%) HTML5
10 19 (19.39%) CSS3
10 19 (19.39%) Jest
10 19 (19.39%) REST
11 17 (17.35%) Sass
12 6 (6.12%) .NET
13 5 (5.10%) Node.js
14 4 (4.08%) AngularJS
15 3 (3.06%) SVG
15 3 (3.06%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 63 (64.29%) Enterprise Software
1 63 (64.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.06%) EPoS
2 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.06%) W3C
3 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.02%) Animation
4 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.02%) Mobile Games
4 1 (1.02%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Linux
2 2 (2.04%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (85.71%) Agile
2 76 (77.55%) DevOps
3 70 (71.43%) SDLC
3 70 (71.43%) Software Engineering
4 69 (70.41%) Full-Stack Development
5 68 (69.39%) CI/CD
6 67 (68.37%) Test Automation
7 65 (66.33%) Containerisation
7 65 (66.33%) Microservices
8 63 (64.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 54 (55.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (53.06%) Clean Code
11 48 (48.98%) TDD
12 27 (27.55%) User Experience
13 21 (21.43%) Mentoring
14 20 (20.41%) Responsive Web Design
15 16 (16.33%) Migration
15 16 (16.33%) Strategic Thinking
16 9 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
17 6 (6.12%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 93 (94.90%) JavaScript
2 68 (69.39%) SQL
3 67 (68.37%) Java
4 25 (25.51%) TypeScript
5 9 (9.18%) C#
6 3 (3.06%) Delphi
6 3 (3.06%) PHP
7 2 (2.04%) C++
7 2 (2.04%) Rust
8 1 (1.02%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (5.10%) Degree
2 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (65.31%) QA
2 23 (23.47%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (66.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (65.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 63 (64.29%) Solace
2 6 (6.12%) Guidewire
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.02%) Adobe
3 1 (1.02%) Foundry
3 1 (1.02%) Palantir