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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 229 71
Rank change year-on-year +75 -158 +1
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 101 38 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.35% 0.61% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 0.63% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 87 29 180
10th Percentile £31,950 £42,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £61,725 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £71,300 £77,000 £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 6,170 6,062 7,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.43% 96.79% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,565 3,157 4,725
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 19 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 19 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 +22 52 £47,500 -24.00% 13
Staffordshire -10 15 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Warwickshire - 10 £32,000 - 3
Worcestershire -10 6 £37,500 -31.82% 1
Coventry - 1 £47,500 - 5
Dudley - 1 £42,500 - 1
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 3 (2.97%) WordPress
5 1 (0.99%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (8.91%) 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 25 (24.75%) AWS
2 12 (11.88%) 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 13 (12.87%) 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 12 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (10.89%) Finance
2 11 (10.89%) Marketing
2 11 (10.89%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.90%) Manufacturing
4 7 (6.93%) Retail
5 6 (5.94%) Automotive
5 6 (5.94%) Law
6 2 (1.98%) iGaming
7 1 (0.99%) Billing
7 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (81.19%) Developer
2 43 (42.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 16 (15.84%) Web Developer
4 13 (12.87%) UI Developer
4 13 (12.87%) UI/UX Developer
4 13 (12.87%) UX Developer
5 11 (10.89%) Senior
5 11 (10.89%) Software Developer
6 10 (9.90%) Lead
7 9 (8.91%) HTML CSS Developer
7 9 (8.91%) HTML Developer
7 9 (8.91%) JavaScript Developer
7 9 (8.91%) PHP Developer
8 7 (6.93%) Angular Developer
8 7 (6.93%) React Developer
8 7 (6.93%) Technical Leader
9 6 (5.94%) Full Stack Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) PHP Web Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (55.45%) HTML
2 52 (51.49%) CSS
3 41 (40.59%) AngularJS
4 26 (25.74%) RESTful
5 25 (24.75%) React
6 20 (19.80%) .NET
7 16 (15.84%) ASP.NET
7 16 (15.84%) Node.js
8 14 (13.86%) jQuery
9 13 (12.87%) REST
10 12 (11.88%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (9.90%) .NET Core
12 9 (8.91%) CSS3
12 9 (8.91%) Laravel
12 9 (8.91%) Material Design
12 9 (8.91%) Sass
13 8 (7.92%) KnockoutJS
14 7 (6.93%) Next.js
14 7 (6.93%) NgRx
14 7 (6.93%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.93%) 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
3 33 (32.67%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (30.69%) UX Design
5 27 (26.73%) Web Development
6 24 (23.76%) Software Engineering
7 20 (19.80%) Computer Science
8 17 (16.83%) Mentoring
9 12 (11.88%) Logistics
10 10 (9.90%) Analytics
10 10 (9.90%) CI/CD
10 10 (9.90%) Kanban
10 10 (9.90%) Scrum
11 9 (8.91%) Clean Code
11 9 (8.91%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.92%) API Design
12 8 (7.92%) Coaching
12 8 (7.92%) Microservices
13 7 (6.93%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 58 (57.43%) JavaScript
2 36 (35.64%) TypeScript
3 27 (26.73%) C#
4 18 (17.82%) SQL
5 14 (13.86%) Java
6 12 (11.88%) PHP
6 12 (11.88%) T-SQL
7 10 (9.90%) Python
8 8 (7.92%) VB.NET
9 6 (5.94%) COBOL
9 6 (5.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 1 (0.99%) Apex Code
10 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 12 (11.88%) Google
3 10 (9.90%) 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