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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 110 175
Rank change year-on-year -112 +65 +62
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 35 133 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 2.36% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 2.76% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25 60 125
10th Percentile £42,125 £36,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,875 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +25.00% -21.82%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 9,309 4,825 10,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.78% 85.56% 79.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,618 2,874 6,649
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £49,329
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -1.68% -6.04%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -60 26 £61,250 +2.08% 9
East Midlands -71 9 £45,000 +2.86% 13
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 2 (5.71%) CMS
1 2 (5.71%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) SaaS
3 6 (17.14%) Azure
4 3 (8.57%) GCP
4 3 (8.57%) Google Ads
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Advertising
5 2 (5.71%) AWS IoT
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.71%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Figma
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) Subversion
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (22.86%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.57%) Advertising
4 3 (8.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (68.57%) Developer
2 13 (37.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 11 (31.43%) React Developer
4 10 (28.57%) Senior
5 7 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (20.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Lead
6 6 (17.14%) Software Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Senior React Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Designer
9 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) UX Designer
10 1 (2.86%) Configuration Specialist
10 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 1 (2.86%) JavaScript Developer
10 1 (2.86%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) React
2 9 (25.71%) REST
3 5 (14.29%) CSS
3 5 (14.29%) HTML
3 5 (14.29%) Playwright
4 3 (8.57%) .NET
4 3 (8.57%) RESTful
5 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.71%) Node.js
5 2 (5.71%) React Native
5 2 (5.71%) TanStack
6 1 (2.86%) Blazor
6 1 (2.86%) Flask
6 1 (2.86%) Material Design
6 1 (2.86%) Material-UI
6 1 (2.86%) Pandas
6 1 (2.86%) pytest
6 1 (2.86%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.86%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (5.71%) IoT
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) AI
2 13 (37.14%) CI/CD
3 12 (34.29%) Software Engineering
4 9 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 7 (20.00%) LLM
5 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (20.00%) Scrum
6 6 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (17.14%) Time Management
7 5 (14.29%) Agile
7 5 (14.29%) E-Commerce
7 5 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (14.29%) Microservices
7 5 (14.29%) Progressive Enhancement
7 5 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (11.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (37.14%) TypeScript
3 8 (22.86%) Go
4 3 (8.57%) C#
4 3 (8.57%) Python
4 3 (8.57%) SQL
5 2 (5.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Facebook
1 3 (8.57%) Google
1 3 (8.57%) Instagram
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
1 3 (8.57%) TikTok