Front End Development Jobs in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 184 243
Rank change year-on-year +47 +59 -158
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 143 174 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.11% 1.24% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 1.56% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 70 138 46
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,250 £38,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 6,162 11,128 8,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 90.93% 79.24% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,588 7,655 4,352
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Front End Development in the Midlands

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 June 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 13 June 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 +68 77 £40,000 -6.43% 34
West Midlands +9 66 £60,000 +26.32% 27
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 50 (34.97%) Confluence
2 12 (8.39%) CMS
3 8 (5.59%) WordPress
4 4 (2.80%) Headless CMS
5 3 (2.10%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (2.80%) Adobe XD
1 4 (2.80%) Sketch
2 1 (0.70%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 19 (13.29%) Shopify
2 8 (5.59%) Magento
3 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 76 (53.15%) Azure
2 71 (49.65%) AWS
3 48 (33.57%) GCP
4 12 (8.39%) GitHub
5 11 (7.69%) SaaS
6 8 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.59%) BigCommerce
6 8 (5.59%) Slack
6 8 (5.59%) Zapier
7 7 (4.90%) Figma
8 4 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.10%) Contentful
9 3 (2.10%) Serverless
10 2 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.70%) Algolia
11 1 (0.70%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.70%) npm
11 1 (0.70%) SonarCloud
11 1 (0.70%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (48.95%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.99%) MySQL
3 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.10%) Redis
5 2 (1.40%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 75 (52.45%) JIRA
2 66 (46.15%) SonarQube
3 64 (44.76%) Bitbucket
4 63 (44.06%) Cucumber
4 63 (44.06%) GitLab
4 63 (44.06%) Maven
4 63 (44.06%) Selenium
4 63 (44.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 25 (17.48%) Git
6 5 (3.50%) webpack
7 3 (2.10%) Mocha
8 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.40%) Vite
9 1 (0.70%) Babel
9 1 (0.70%) NUnit
9 1 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 80 (55.94%) Finance
2 70 (48.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (44.06%) Banking
4 29 (20.28%) Retail
5 25 (17.48%) Social Skills
6 16 (11.19%) Corporate Banking
6 16 (11.19%) Investment Banking
7 14 (9.79%) Law
8 8 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.10%) Automotive
11 2 (1.40%) Electronics
11 2 (1.40%) Games
12 1 (0.70%) iGaming
12 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 66 (46.15%) Developer
2 63 (44.06%) Software Engineer
3 21 (14.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 12 (8.39%) Senior
5 11 (7.69%) Lead
5 11 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 11 (7.69%) Software Developer
6 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (6.29%) Lead Developer
6 9 (6.29%) PHP Developer
6 9 (6.29%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 9 (6.29%) React Developer
6 9 (6.29%) Symfony Developer
7 8 (5.59%) Lead Software Developer
7 8 (5.59%) SaaS Developer
8 5 (3.50%) C# Software Developer
8 5 (3.50%) Designer
8 5 (3.50%) IT Development Manager
8 5 (3.50%) Lead C# Developer
8 5 (3.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (76.22%) HTML
2 103 (72.03%) CSS
3 98 (68.53%) React
4 64 (44.76%) Redux
5 63 (44.06%) JPA
5 63 (44.06%) Kafka
5 63 (44.06%) Spring
5 63 (44.06%) Spring Boot
6 47 (32.87%) Hibernate
7 25 (17.48%) RESTful
8 22 (15.38%) Jest
9 21 (14.69%) HTML5
10 19 (13.29%) REST
10 19 (13.29%) Sass
11 18 (12.59%) CSS3
12 16 (11.19%) Node.js
13 13 (9.09%) Laravel
14 9 (6.29%) AngularJS
14 9 (6.29%) Playwright
14 9 (6.29%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 63 (44.06%) Enterprise Software
1 63 (44.06%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.59%) EPoS
2 8 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.50%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.10%) Animation
5 3 (2.10%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.70%) Mobile Games
7 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.90%) Android
2 5 (3.50%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.10%) Linux
4 2 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (71.33%) Agile
2 85 (59.44%) DevOps
3 81 (56.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 79 (55.24%) CI/CD
5 78 (54.55%) SDLC
6 74 (51.75%) Software Engineering
7 73 (51.05%) Test Automation
8 69 (48.25%) Containerisation
9 67 (46.85%) Microservices
10 63 (44.06%) Performance Optimisation
11 54 (37.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (35.66%) Clean Code
13 48 (33.57%) TDD
14 45 (31.47%) User Experience
15 32 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (20.28%) Mentoring
17 26 (18.18%) Responsive Web Design
18 23 (16.08%) UX Design
19 21 (14.69%) E-Commerce
20 16 (11.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 112 (78.32%) JavaScript
2 76 (53.15%) Java
3 71 (49.65%) SQL
4 29 (20.28%) TypeScript
5 22 (15.38%) PHP
6 15 (10.49%) C#
7 12 (8.39%) Python
8 8 (5.59%) Delphi
9 2 (1.40%) C++
9 2 (1.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (12.59%) Degree
2 10 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.80%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (44.76%) QA
2 19 (13.29%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.50%) GDPR
3 5 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 70 (48.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (48.95%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.10%) Grafana
2 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (44.06%) Solace
2 8 (5.59%) Adobe
2 8 (5.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.59%) WooCommerce
3 6 (4.20%) Guidewire
3 6 (4.20%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle