Backends for Frontends Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 541 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Permanent jobs citing Backends for Frontends 11 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.003% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.003% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £68,950 - -
25th Percentile £69,250 £76,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £77,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% - -
75th Percentile £79,875 £78,750 -
90th Percentile £80,250 - -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £81,250 -
% change year-on-year -4.62% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,177 29,600 43,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 77.12% 90.56% 86.81%
Number of salaries quoted 21,089 13,401 32,975
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,030 £83,750 £77,757
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Backends for Frontends relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Backends for Frontends job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Backends for Frontends
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Backends for Frontends.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Backends for Frontends

Backends for Frontends
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backends for Frontends within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Yorkshire - 8 - - 6
North of England - 8 - - 6
South West - 3 £74,500 - 6
Backends for Frontends
UK

Backends for Frontends
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Pipelines
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (72.73%) Games
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Development Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Playwright
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) NestJS
2 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Mobile App
2 7 (63.64%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Android
1 7 (63.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 8 (72.73%) AI
3 8 (72.73%) Observability
3 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
4 7 (63.64%) Budgeting
4 7 (63.64%) Decision-Making
4 7 (63.64%) Incident Management
4 7 (63.64%) Mentoring
4 7 (63.64%) Project Management
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Micro Frontends
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Data Management
6 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Guidewire