Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) salary in the West Midlands is £48,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 204 244
Rank change year-on-year +14 +40 -117
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 10 46 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.64% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.68% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8 46 22
10th Percentile £36,775 £34,000 £42,050
25th Percentile £39,063 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £46,250 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -13.95% +2.38%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £59,375 £67,500 £93,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,992 6,812 5,981
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 94.09% 89.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 5,151 3,348
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the West Midlands

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the West Midlands

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the West Midlands

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +13 5 £50,000 +5.26% 8
Staffordshire +33 4 £44,500 -1.11% 4
Warwickshire -26 1 - -
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
England

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (60.00%) CSS
4 6 (60.00%) Git
5 5 (50.00%) HTML
5 5 (50.00%) AWS
5 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (50.00%) React
6 4 (40.00%) Azure
6 4 (40.00%) User Experience
6 4 (40.00%) Node.js
6 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (30.00%) Jest
7 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (30.00%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (30.00%) API Development
7 3 (30.00%) Vue
7 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (30.00%) Shopify
7 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (30.00%) Agile
8 2 (20.00%) Scrum
8 2 (20.00%) Web Development
8 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (20.00%) OWASP
8 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Shopify
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Algolia
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (10.00%) Figma
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) npm
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) SonarCloud
3 1 (10.00%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Mocha
2 2 (20.00%) Vite
2 2 (20.00%) webpack
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) CSS
2 5 (50.00%) HTML
2 5 (50.00%) React
3 4 (40.00%) Node.js
4 3 (30.00%) Jest
4 3 (30.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (30.00%) Vue
5 2 (20.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) Alpine.js
5 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (20.00%) CSS3
5 2 (20.00%) HTML5
5 2 (20.00%) Middleware
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (20.00%) Sass
6 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
6 1 (10.00%) Ionic Framework
6 1 (10.00%) jQuery
6 1 (10.00%) REST
6 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Front End Development
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) API Development
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) API Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (20.00%) OO
5 2 (20.00%) OOP
5 2 (20.00%) OWASP
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 2 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft