Front End Development Jobs in the West Midlands

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 153 222
Rank change year-on-year +14 +69 -150
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 55 107 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.34% 1.38% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.69% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 24 90 30
10th Percentile £40,200 £32,175 £41,950
25th Percentile £47,500 £34,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -15.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £66,875
90th Percentile - £70,700 £76,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,747 6,332 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.17% 81.48% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 4,654 3,182
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,605
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
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 West Midlands

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in the West Midlands

Front End Development
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Staffordshire +33 26 £70,000 +33.33% 8
Birmingham -2 10 £50,000 +5.26% 11
Worcestershire +25 5 £65,000 +73.33% 3
Warwickshire -4 4 - - 7
Herefordshire - 3 - -
Shropshire - 3 £60,000 - 6
Wolverhampton +21 1 £60,000 +50.00%
Coventry -5 1 - -
Front End Development
England

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 16 (29.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
2 1 (1.82%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Adobe XD
1 3 (5.45%) Sketch
2 2 (3.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Shopify
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 34 (61.82%) Azure
2 30 (54.55%) AWS
3 14 (25.45%) GCP
4 6 (10.91%) Figma
5 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.27%) GitHub
6 4 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.64%) Serverless
8 1 (1.82%) Algolia
8 1 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.82%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.82%) npm
8 1 (1.82%) SonarCloud
8 1 (1.82%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (49.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.45%) Redis
3 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (60.00%) JIRA
2 27 (49.09%) SonarQube
3 24 (43.64%) Bitbucket
3 24 (43.64%) Cucumber
3 24 (43.64%) GitLab
3 24 (43.64%) Maven
3 24 (43.64%) Selenium
3 24 (43.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (18.18%) Git
5 3 (5.45%) webpack
6 2 (3.64%) Mocha
6 2 (3.64%) Vite
7 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.82%) Subversion
General
1 28 (50.91%) Finance
2 27 (49.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (43.64%) Banking
4 14 (25.45%) Retail
5 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
6 11 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (20.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
8 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (5.45%) Automotive
9 2 (3.64%) Law
10 1 (1.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Software Engineer
2 20 (36.36%) Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (10.91%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) Designer
5 5 (9.09%) Development Manager
5 5 (9.09%) IT Development Manager
5 5 (9.09%) IT Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Backend Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Junior
7 3 (5.45%) Junior Designer
7 3 (5.45%) Junior UI/UX Designer
7 3 (5.45%) Junior UX Designer
7 3 (5.45%) React Developer
7 3 (5.45%) UI Designer
7 3 (5.45%) UI/UX Designer
7 3 (5.45%) UX Designer
8 2 (3.64%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (63.64%) CSS
2 33 (60.00%) HTML
2 33 (60.00%) React
3 24 (43.64%) JPA
3 24 (43.64%) Kafka
3 24 (43.64%) Redux
3 24 (43.64%) Spring
3 24 (43.64%) Spring Boot
4 17 (30.91%) RESTful
5 15 (27.27%) Jest
6 13 (23.64%) CSS3
6 13 (23.64%) Hibernate
6 13 (23.64%) HTML5
6 13 (23.64%) Sass
7 12 (21.82%) REST
8 9 (16.36%) Node.js
9 5 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 5 (9.09%) CodeIgniter
9 5 (9.09%) Laravel
10 4 (7.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (43.64%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (43.64%) Product Ownership
2 8 (14.55%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.09%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.45%) Animation
4 3 (5.45%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Android
2 5 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.64%) Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (67.27%) Agile
2 36 (65.45%) CI/CD
2 36 (65.45%) DevOps
3 29 (52.73%) Containerisation
3 29 (52.73%) SDLC
4 26 (47.27%) Microservices
5 25 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (45.45%) Software Engineering
5 25 (45.45%) Test Automation
6 24 (43.64%) Performance Optimisation
7 21 (38.18%) User Experience
8 18 (32.73%) Mentoring
9 16 (29.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (25.45%) Clean Code
10 14 (25.45%) TDD
11 13 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (21.82%) Responsive Web Design
13 11 (20.00%) Migration
13 11 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
14 7 (12.73%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 40 (72.73%) JavaScript
2 29 (52.73%) SQL
3 25 (45.45%) Java
4 18 (32.73%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.91%) PHP
6 4 (7.27%) C#
7 3 (5.45%) Python
8 1 (1.82%) C++
8 1 (1.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (45.45%) QA
2 14 (25.45%) Accessibility
3 5 (9.09%) GDPR
3 5 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (52.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Grafana
2 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) Solace
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) OpenAI
3 5 (9.09%) Adobe
4 2 (3.64%) Oracle