Backends for Frontends Job Trends in the South West

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Backends for Frontends 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.020% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 - -
75th Percentile £79,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £81,250 -
% change year-on-year -4.62% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Backends for Frontends 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,675 3,683 3,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.60% 83.84% 92.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,488 1,911 3,022
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,439 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +1.28% +5.39%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Backends for Frontends
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Pipelines
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Guidewire