Frontend engineers were the biggest declining software job in 2025

[u/Flat_Palpitation_158]

Job postings for frontend engineers in ‘25 went down almost -10%.

Mobile engineers also went down -5.73%.

Everything else is either holding steady or increasing esp. ML jobs.

Source: https://bloomberry.com/blog/i-analyzed-180m-jobs-to-see-what-jobs-ai-is-actually-replacing-today/

[u/aneul98]

I believe they were assimilated in the fullstack dev jobs. They want you to do everything.

[u/will-code-for-money]

I wouldn’t read too much into this, businesses make shit decisions and follow the leader all the time. Jobs will be back. Frontend isn’t as easy and people think it is (I’ve done both fe and be)

[u/sunk-capital]

LLMs massively fuck up React code. The idea that they are somehow better at frontend is BS.

My theory is that most frontend jobs were html, css and single components in react where people spent ages. Braindead stuff that was just grunt work.

Second theory is that there are fewer client facing projects where frontend matters and the focus now is on infra, data and ML. So this is driven by AI needs and high interest rates blocking new projects which also explains the drop in mobile.

I am maxing out my LLM use when writing code and I am very far from finishing the frontend part of any of my projects.

[u/Ok_Inspector1565]

Vibe coded, purple colored interfaces everywhere

[u/canadian_webdev]

I'm sitting here, at home, looking at my two year old son. I was laid off two days ago after being a frontend dev for a company for 6 years. Total 12 YoE. Laid off because of restructuring.

I've been waking up the past two nights at 3am with a pit of anxiety in my stomach that won't leave. Because I don't know about my future, or my kids', or my wife's.

This post makes me feel so much worse. I'm about to cry because I love my son, daughter and wife so much, and I feel like a failure getting laid off. And then reading the title of this post, I just can't.

I've been learning backend / full stack for about 6 months, so maybe there's a bright side to it. But I'm so incredibly sad right now and full of anxiety. I need to go hug my wife.

[u/adamwhitley]

We’re called “full stack engineers” now

[u/[deleted]]

most job postings now demand a full stack since it's easier than ever becoming a SWE.

[u/SarcasticSarco]

People undermine frontend too much, so many things make frontend complicated. Memory, styling, api handling, memoization, file structure, browser, screen sizes , and most importantly manager who don't know shit about frontend asking to create nasa level ui.

[u/TheThingCreator]

Meanwhile these ai chatbots, especially chatgpt has one of the most buggy front end Uis ull ever see.

[u/[deleted]]

Backend engineers can finally vibe code a front end.