Backends for Frontends Jobs

Backends for Frontends (BFF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Backends for Frontends skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Backends for Frontends over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 737 897 895
Rank change year-on-year +160 -2 +297
Permanent jobs citing Backends for Frontends 2 5 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.005% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.006% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £75,250 - -
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% +38.46%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £94,750 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,802 86,887 83,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 90.35% 82.78% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 28,617 59,650 53,551
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Backends for Frontends
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backends for Frontends as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backends for Frontends in the UK

Backends for Frontends
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backends for Frontends.

Salary trend for Backends for Frontends in the UK

Backends for Frontends
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backends for Frontends over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Backends for Frontends in the UK

Backends for Frontends
Top 3 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 July 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
England +151 2 £85,000 +13.33% 6
Work from Home +89 2 £85,000 - 5
London +83 2 £85,000 +13.33% 5

Backends for Frontends
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Insurtech
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG