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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 107 178
Rank change year-on-year -110 +71 +62
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 36 139 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 2.75% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 3.11% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27 66 139
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £59,875
90th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 8,711 4,476 11,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.54% 88.69% 78.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,107 2,564 7,752
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -54 29 £55,000 -8.33% 13
East Midlands -93 7 £45,000 +12.50% 11
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 1 (2.78%) CMS
1 1 (2.78%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) SaaS
3 6 (16.67%) Figma
3 6 (16.67%) GitHub
3 6 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
4 5 (13.89%) Azure
5 2 (5.56%) AWS IoT
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.56%) Serverless
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 5 (13.89%) Git
3 3 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 7 (19.44%) Finance
2 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (63.89%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (25.00%) React Developer
4 8 (22.22%) Designer
4 8 (22.22%) Senior
4 8 (22.22%) UX Designer
5 6 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (8.33%) Lead Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior React Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Configuration Specialist
8 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.78%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) React
2 8 (22.22%) REST
3 7 (19.44%) .NET
4 6 (16.67%) Blazor
4 6 (16.67%) Material Design
4 6 (16.67%) WebAssembly
5 4 (11.11%) CSS
5 4 (11.11%) HTML
5 4 (11.11%) Playwright
6 2 (5.56%) Node.js
6 2 (5.56%) React Native
6 2 (5.56%) RESTful
6 2 (5.56%) TanStack
7 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.78%) D3.js
7 1 (2.78%) Flask
7 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.78%) Material-UI
7 1 (2.78%) Pandas
7 1 (2.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) AI
2 10 (27.78%) User Experience
3 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (25.00%) CRM
3 9 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (25.00%) UX Design
4 8 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 6 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 6 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 6 (16.67%) Interaction Design
5 6 (16.67%) LLM
5 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
5 6 (16.67%) Scrum
5 6 (16.67%) User Stories
5 6 (16.67%) Wireframes
6 5 (13.89%) Agile
6 5 (13.89%) Time Management
7 4 (11.11%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) JavaScript
2 10 (27.78%) TypeScript
3 7 (19.44%) C#
4 5 (13.89%) Go
5 3 (8.33%) Java
5 3 (8.33%) Python
5 3 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (16.67%) WCAG
3 3 (8.33%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform