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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 185 245
Rank change year-on-year +52 +60 -160
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 138 148 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.93% 1.23% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.50% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 63 126 53
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% +6.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £68,125 £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 6,552 9,841 8,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.69% 81.50% 96.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,621 7,188 4,423
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,374 £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 19 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 19 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 +52 80 £40,000 -3.03% 26
West Midlands +2 58 £60,000 +26.32% 30
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 51 (36.96%) Confluence
2 15 (10.87%) CMS
3 12 (8.70%) WordPress
4 4 (2.90%) Headless CMS
5 3 (2.17%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (2.90%) Adobe XD
1 4 (2.90%) Sketch
2 1 (0.72%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 20 (14.49%) Shopify
2 6 (4.35%) Magento
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 75 (54.35%) AWS
1 75 (54.35%) Azure
2 48 (34.78%) GCP
3 16 (11.59%) GitHub
4 11 (7.97%) Slack
4 11 (7.97%) Zapier
5 8 (5.80%) Figma
6 7 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.07%) SaaS
7 6 (4.35%) BigCommerce
8 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.90%) Serverless
10 3 (2.17%) Contentful
11 2 (1.45%) npm
12 1 (0.72%) Algolia
12 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.72%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (0.72%) SonarCloud
12 1 (0.72%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (49.28%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.14%) MySQL
3 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.90%) Redis
5 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 77 (55.80%) JIRA
2 67 (48.55%) SonarQube
3 64 (46.38%) Bitbucket
4 63 (45.65%) Cucumber
4 63 (45.65%) GitLab
4 63 (45.65%) Maven
4 63 (45.65%) Selenium
4 63 (45.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 29 (21.01%) Git
6 6 (4.35%) webpack
7 5 (3.62%) Mocha
8 3 (2.17%) Babel
9 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.45%) Vite
10 1 (0.72%) NUnit
10 1 (0.72%) Storybook
10 1 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 71 (51.45%) Finance
2 66 (47.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (45.65%) Banking
4 28 (20.29%) Retail
5 25 (18.12%) Social Skills
6 16 (11.59%) Corporate Banking
6 16 (11.59%) Investment Banking
7 10 (7.25%) Law
8 6 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.62%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.17%) Automotive
11 1 (0.72%) Electronics
11 1 (0.72%) Games
11 1 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (45.65%) Software Engineer
2 60 (43.48%) Developer
3 19 (13.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (6.52%) Software Developer
5 8 (5.80%) Lead
5 8 (5.80%) React Developer
5 8 (5.80%) Senior
6 7 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (5.07%) Lead Developer
6 7 (5.07%) PHP Developer
6 7 (5.07%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 7 (5.07%) Senior Developer
6 7 (5.07%) Symfony Developer
7 6 (4.35%) Backend Developer
7 6 (4.35%) Lead Software Developer
7 6 (4.35%) SaaS Developer
8 5 (3.62%) Designer
8 5 (3.62%) Development Manager
8 5 (3.62%) IT Development Manager
8 5 (3.62%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (74.64%) HTML
2 99 (71.74%) CSS
3 95 (68.84%) React
4 67 (48.55%) Redux
5 63 (45.65%) JPA
5 63 (45.65%) Kafka
5 63 (45.65%) Spring
5 63 (45.65%) Spring Boot
6 47 (34.06%) Hibernate
7 26 (18.84%) RESTful
8 24 (17.39%) Jest
9 21 (15.22%) HTML5
10 20 (14.49%) CSS3
11 18 (13.04%) REST
11 18 (13.04%) Sass
12 16 (11.59%) Laravel
13 13 (9.42%) Node.js
14 8 (5.80%) GraphQL
15 7 (5.07%) AngularJS
15 7 (5.07%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 63 (45.65%) Enterprise Software
1 63 (45.65%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.35%) EPoS
4 5 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.62%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.17%) Animation
5 3 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.17%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.45%) Legacy Code
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 (5.07%) Android
2 5 (3.62%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.45%) Linux
4 1 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (66.67%) Agile
2 82 (59.42%) Full-Stack Development
3 78 (56.52%) CI/CD
3 78 (56.52%) DevOps
4 74 (53.62%) SDLC
5 72 (52.17%) Software Engineering
6 71 (51.45%) Containerisation
7 70 (50.72%) Test Automation
8 68 (49.28%) Microservices
9 63 (45.65%) Performance Optimisation
10 50 (36.23%) Clean Code
10 50 (36.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (34.78%) TDD
12 45 (32.61%) User Experience
13 33 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (20.29%) Responsive Web Design
15 27 (19.57%) Mentoring
16 25 (18.12%) UX Design
17 22 (15.94%) E-Commerce
18 16 (11.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 104 (75.36%) JavaScript
2 79 (57.25%) Java
3 70 (50.72%) SQL
4 32 (23.19%) TypeScript
5 24 (17.39%) PHP
6 16 (11.59%) Python
7 11 (7.97%) C#
8 6 (4.35%) Delphi
9 1 (0.72%) C++
9 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (13.77%) Degree
2 12 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (46.38%) QA
2 20 (14.49%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.62%) GDPR
3 5 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 72 (52.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (52.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.90%) Grafana
2 4 (2.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (45.65%) Solace
2 11 (7.97%) WooCommerce
3 8 (5.80%) Adobe
4 7 (5.07%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.35%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.45%) Oracle