Front End Development Jobs in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 230 66
Rank change year-on-year +82 -164 +2
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 101 42 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.39% 0.64% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.66% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 87 33 189
10th Percentile £32,100 £42,100 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% -2.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £61,725 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £71,300 £83,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +20.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,045 6,349 6,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.12% 96.80% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,551 3,275 4,766
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,725 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 +24 54 £47,500 -26.92% 12
Staffordshire -9 15 £52,500 +5.00% 5
Warwickshire - 9 £27,500 - 2
Worcestershire -11 6 £37,500 -31.82% 3
Dudley - 1 £42,500 -
Halesowen - 1 £50,000 -
Kingswinford - 1 £40,000 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £40,000 -
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 8 (7.92%) CMS
2 7 (6.93%) Headless CMS
3 6 (5.94%) Tuxedo
4 4 (3.96%) WordPress
5 1 (0.99%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.98%) Sketch
3 1 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.99%) InVision
3 1 (0.99%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Shopify
2 2 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.99%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.74%) AWS
2 11 (10.89%) Azure
3 6 (5.94%) GitHub
4 5 (4.95%) Figma
5 4 (3.96%) SaaS
6 3 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.97%) Serverless
7 2 (1.98%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.99%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.99%) Boomi
8 1 (0.99%) dbt
8 1 (0.99%) Miro
8 1 (0.99%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.87%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.91%) MySQL
2 9 (8.91%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (5.94%) Redis
4 1 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.99%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.99%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.99%) Power BI
4 1 (0.99%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (20.79%) Git
2 14 (13.86%) Cucumber
3 11 (10.89%) JIRA
4 9 (8.91%) Visual Studio
5 5 (4.95%) ESLint
6 4 (3.96%) IntelliJ
6 4 (3.96%) Selenium
7 2 (1.98%) gulp
8 1 (0.99%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (12.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Finance
3 11 (10.89%) Marketing
3 11 (10.89%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.90%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.93%) Retail
6 6 (5.94%) Automotive
6 6 (5.94%) Law
7 2 (1.98%) iGaming
8 1 (0.99%) Billing
8 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (81.19%) Developer
2 44 (43.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 16 (15.84%) Web Developer
4 12 (11.88%) UI Developer
4 12 (11.88%) UI/UX Developer
4 12 (11.88%) UX Developer
5 11 (10.89%) Senior
6 10 (9.90%) Lead
6 10 (9.90%) Software Developer
7 9 (8.91%) PHP Developer
8 8 (7.92%) Angular Developer
8 8 (7.92%) HTML CSS Developer
8 8 (7.92%) HTML Developer
8 8 (7.92%) JavaScript Developer
9 7 (6.93%) React Developer
9 7 (6.93%) Technical Leader
10 6 (5.94%) Full Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) PHP Web Developer
10 6 (5.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (55.45%) HTML
2 52 (51.49%) CSS
3 42 (41.58%) AngularJS
4 26 (25.74%) RESTful
5 25 (24.75%) React
6 19 (18.81%) .NET
7 16 (15.84%) Node.js
8 15 (14.85%) ASP.NET
9 14 (13.86%) jQuery
10 13 (12.87%) REST
11 12 (11.88%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (9.90%) .NET Core
12 10 (9.90%) Material Design
13 9 (8.91%) CSS3
13 9 (8.91%) Laravel
13 9 (8.91%) Sass
14 8 (7.92%) KnockoutJS
14 8 (7.92%) Next.js
14 8 (7.92%) NgRx
15 7 (6.93%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.92%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.98%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.99%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Windows
2 2 (1.98%) Linux
3 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.50%) User Experience
2 40 (39.60%) Agile
3 33 (32.67%) Full Stack Development
4 32 (31.68%) UX Design
5 31 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (26.73%) Web Development
7 25 (24.75%) Software Engineering
8 20 (19.80%) Computer Science
9 17 (16.83%) Mentoring
10 12 (11.88%) Logistics
11 11 (10.89%) Kanban
12 10 (9.90%) CI/CD
12 10 (9.90%) Scrum
13 9 (8.91%) Analytics
13 9 (8.91%) Clean Code
13 9 (8.91%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (7.92%) API Design
14 8 (7.92%) Coaching
14 8 (7.92%) SEO
15 7 (6.93%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (56.44%) JavaScript
2 37 (36.63%) TypeScript
3 26 (25.74%) C#
4 17 (16.83%) SQL
5 15 (14.85%) Java
6 13 (12.87%) PHP
7 12 (11.88%) T-SQL
8 10 (9.90%) Python
9 7 (6.93%) VB.NET
10 6 (5.94%) COBOL
10 6 (5.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 1 (0.99%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.99%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 16 (15.84%) Degree
2 8 (7.92%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.99%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.99%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) Accessibility
1 10 (9.90%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.92%) Docker
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.87%) Google
3 11 (10.89%) Adobe
4 8 (7.92%) DevExpress
5 6 (5.94%) Micro Focus
5 6 (5.94%) Oracle
6 5 (4.95%) Xamarin
7 2 (1.98%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.99%) Conga
8 1 (0.99%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.99%) Salesforce