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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 181 237
Rank change year-on-year +46 +56 -154
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 139 149 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.97% 1.25% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.53% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 69 127 60
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £68,000 £75,000
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 6,481 9,735 8,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.77% 81.99% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,669 7,163 4,522
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +74 83 £40,000 -3.03% 27
West Midlands +16 56 £62,500 +31.58% 40
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 52 (37.41%) Confluence
2 16 (11.51%) CMS
3 13 (9.35%) WordPress
4 4 (2.88%) Headless CMS
5 3 (2.16%) Strapi
Applications
1 6 (4.32%) Sketch
2 5 (3.60%) Adobe XD
3 4 (2.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.44%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 21 (15.11%) Shopify
2 6 (4.32%) Magento
3 2 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 72 (51.80%) AWS
2 71 (51.08%) Azure
3 48 (34.53%) GCP
4 18 (12.95%) GitHub
5 12 (8.63%) Slack
5 12 (8.63%) Zapier
6 10 (7.19%) Figma
7 8 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.76%) SaaS
8 6 (4.32%) BigCommerce
8 6 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.60%) Serverless
10 4 (2.88%) npm
11 3 (2.16%) Contentful
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.44%) Yarn
13 1 (0.72%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (46.04%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.79%) MySQL
3 7 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.60%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.60%) Redis
5 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.44%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 73 (52.52%) JIRA
2 63 (45.32%) SonarQube
3 59 (42.45%) Bitbucket
4 58 (41.73%) Cucumber
4 58 (41.73%) GitLab
4 58 (41.73%) Maven
4 58 (41.73%) Selenium
4 58 (41.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 33 (23.74%) Git
6 7 (5.04%) webpack
7 6 (4.32%) Mocha
8 5 (3.60%) Babel
9 3 (2.16%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.44%) Storybook
10 2 (1.44%) Vite
11 1 (0.72%) NUnit
11 1 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 66 (47.48%) Finance
2 61 (43.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 58 (41.73%) Banking
4 26 (18.71%) Social Skills
5 23 (16.55%) Retail
6 11 (7.91%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (7.91%) Investment Banking
7 10 (7.19%) Law
8 6 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.16%) Automotive
10 2 (1.44%) Games
11 1 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (45.32%) Developer
2 58 (41.73%) Software Engineer
3 20 (14.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 12 (8.63%) Lead
5 9 (6.47%) Lead Developer
5 9 (6.47%) React Developer
5 9 (6.47%) Senior
5 9 (6.47%) Software Developer
6 8 (5.76%) Backend Developer
6 8 (5.76%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (5.04%) PHP Developer
7 7 (5.04%) PHP Symfony Developer
7 7 (5.04%) Symfony Developer
8 6 (4.32%) Lead Software Developer
8 6 (4.32%) SaaS Developer
8 6 (4.32%) Senior Backend Developer
9 5 (3.60%) Designer
9 5 (3.60%) IT Development Manager
9 5 (3.60%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (71.94%) HTML
2 96 (69.06%) CSS
3 93 (66.91%) React
4 65 (46.76%) Redux
5 58 (41.73%) JPA
5 58 (41.73%) Kafka
5 58 (41.73%) Spring
5 58 (41.73%) Spring Boot
6 47 (33.81%) Hibernate
7 25 (17.99%) RESTful
8 22 (15.83%) Jest
9 17 (12.23%) HTML5
9 17 (12.23%) Laravel
10 16 (11.51%) CSS3
11 15 (10.79%) Node.js
12 13 (9.35%) GraphQL
12 13 (9.35%) REST
12 13 (9.35%) Sass
13 8 (5.76%) OAuth
13 8 (5.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 58 (41.73%) Enterprise Software
1 58 (41.73%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.19%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.32%) EPoS
4 5 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.60%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.88%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.16%) Animation
6 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.16%) Video Editing
7 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.72%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.04%) Android
2 5 (3.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (64.75%) Agile
2 78 (56.12%) Full-Stack Development
3 75 (53.96%) DevOps
4 74 (53.24%) CI/CD
5 69 (49.64%) SDLC
6 67 (48.20%) Containerisation
6 67 (48.20%) Software Engineering
7 65 (46.76%) Microservices
7 65 (46.76%) Test Automation
8 58 (41.73%) Performance Optimisation
9 50 (35.97%) Clean Code
9 50 (35.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (34.53%) TDD
11 43 (30.94%) User Experience
12 35 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (20.14%) UX Design
14 25 (17.99%) Responsive Web Design
15 24 (17.27%) Mentoring
16 23 (16.55%) E-Commerce
17 16 (11.51%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 102 (73.38%) JavaScript
2 76 (54.68%) Java
3 67 (48.20%) SQL
4 29 (20.86%) TypeScript
5 25 (17.99%) PHP
6 19 (13.67%) Python
7 11 (7.91%) C#
8 6 (4.32%) Delphi
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (14.39%) Degree
2 13 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (42.45%) QA
2 16 (11.51%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.60%) GDPR
3 5 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 68 (48.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (49.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.60%) Grafana
2 5 (3.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (41.73%) Solace
2 12 (8.63%) WooCommerce
3 9 (6.47%) Adobe
4 8 (5.76%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.32%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.44%) Oracle