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Frontend Developer CV: what employers ask for
Frontend roles are judged on what users experienced: speed, reliability, accessibility and how quickly the team could ship. Screeners look past framework names for proof that you built real interfaces, cared about quality and worked well with designers.
From real postings
We read 41 Frontend Developer job postings from 20 companies on 6 November 2026. The most named asks were React (31), TypeScript (27) and JavaScript (23). 24 postings stated years of experience; the middle value was 5.
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What a strong Frontend Developer CV looks like
Start here if you are editing a CV today. The evidence for each point follows below.
Section order, top to bottom
- HeaderName, email, phone, city, and one link: a live product you worked on, a portfolio, or a repository. Make sure it loads fast and works on a phone.
- SummaryTwo or three lines: your title, years of experience, your framework, and what you care about most, such as performance, accessibility or design systems.
- ExperienceMost recent first. Describe what users got, not which pages you built. Name the framework inside the bullet.
- SkillsShort and grouped: languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS), framework, testing, tooling. Lead with what the posting names.
- Projects or portfolioUseful early in a career. Each entry needs your part, the stack and one result, so the CV stands on its own without a click.
- EducationDegree, bootcamp or self-taught route, with dates. Keep it short once you have two or more years of work.
The summary
Name the framework the posting names, if it is yours, and one quality you are known for. Design systems, web performance and accessibility each came up in roughly one in four or five of the postings we read. Any of them makes a better second line than a list of libraries.
Frontend developer with five years of experience in React and TypeScript. I build accessible, fast interfaces and maintain the shared component library our product teams use.
Skills: show them, do not just list them
React was named in most postings, and TypeScript in about two in three. JavaScript alone is no longer enough if you write TypeScript, so say so. Vue and Angular appeared far less often in this sample, so if they are your main framework, make the transferable work clear. In every case, the framework belongs inside bullets that describe shipped interfaces, not only in a list.
Weak and strong bullets
Illustrative rewrites, not real candidates. Use your own work, and only numbers you can back up.
Weak: Built pages in React.
Stronger: Rebuilt the checkout in React and TypeScript, reducing JavaScript shipped by 40% and raising the Lighthouse performance score from 52 to 88.
Why it works: A named product area, the stack, and a measured change. Performance claims need the measurement.
Weak: Worked on accessibility.
Stronger: Fixed keyboard and screen-reader issues across 12 core components after an audit against WCAG 2.2 AA.
Why it works: Names the standard and the scope. "Worked on accessibility" could mean anything.
Weak: Maintained the component library.
Stronger: Maintained a shared component library used by five product teams, with Storybook docs and visual regression tests.
Why it works: Shows design-system work and its reach. Design systems were among the most named asks after the languages.
Weak: Ran A/B tests on the homepage.
Stronger: Built the variants for a pricing-page experiment with the growth team; the winning layout became the default.
Why it works: Experimentation came up in several postings. This shows your part in it without claiming the whole result.
What Frontend Developer job postings ask for
Counted from 41 real postings, not guessed. When you paste a posting into Resymetry, it checks each of these asks against your CV and marks it as shown, only listed, or missing.
| Skill or ask | Postings naming it | Only as nice to have |
|---|---|---|
| React | 31 of 41 | – |
| TypeScript | 27 of 41 | – |
| JavaScript | 23 of 41 | – |
| Cross-functional work | 11 of 41 | – |
| Design systems | 11 of 41 | – |
| Web performance | 10 of 41 | – |
| A/B testing / experimentation | 9 of 41 | – |
| Accessibility | 8 of 41 | – |
| Metrics / KPIs | 8 of 41 | – |
| Monitoring / observability | 8 of 40 | – |
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| Skill or ask | Postings naming it | Only as nice to have |
|---|---|---|
| HTML / CSS | 7 of 41 | – |
| Stakeholder management | 7 of 41 | – |
| Vue | 7 of 41 | – |
| GraphQL | 5 of 41 | – |
| LLMs / generative AI | 5 of 41 | 1 |
| Streaming | 5 of 41 | – |
| AI coding tools | 4 of 41 | – |
| Angular | 4 of 41 | – |
How we counted
On 6 November 2026 we read 41 live Frontend Developer postings from 20 companies, through their public job boards (Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby). A posting counted when its title matched the role. We took at most three per company, so no single employer sets the result.
A skill counts once per posting, when it is named outside the benefits and company boilerplate. Matching is by keyword, so read the numbers as “named in”, not “strictly required”. “Only as nice to have” means it appeared only under a heading such as “Nice to have” or “Bonus”. 21 of the 41 postings had such a heading, so that column is a floor.
By location on the posting: 28 US, 1 UK, 2 India, 10 elsewhere or remote. Most employers in the sample are technology companies, which skews the result towards their stacks.
Companies sampled: Affirm, Anduril, Brex, Coinbase, Databricks, Datadog, Epic Games, GitLab, Lyft, Okta, OpenAI, Ramp, Reddit, Relativity, Roblox, SpaceX, Squarespace, Stripe, Synthesia, Wealthfront.
The script that produced these numbers is scripts/role-postings.mjs in the Resymetry repository. It stores counts only, never the text of a posting.
What employers look for in a Frontend Developer CV
Screeners check these first. Each one should be visible in your job entries, not only in a skills list.
- Depth in the framework the posting names, usually React, Vue or Angular, backed by products you shipped with it.
- TypeScript used in production, not just listed.
- Performance work with results, such as Core Web Vitals, bundle size or load time improvements.
- Accessibility practice: semantic HTML, keyboard support and testing with assistive technology.
- Close work with design, including design systems or component libraries you built or maintained.
5 common Frontend Developer CV mistakes and how to fix them
Listing React, Vue, Angular and Svelte with equal weight.
Fix: Lead with the framework you know best and the posting asks for. Mention others briefly.
Writing "JavaScript" when you work in TypeScript.
Fix: Say TypeScript in your bullets. Postings named it separately, and a reader will not assume it.
No mention of accessibility or performance.
Fix: If you have done either, add one concrete example with the standard or the measurement.
A portfolio link with no context on the CV itself.
Fix: Name the product, your part in it and one result, so the CV stands on its own.
Describing pages you built instead of problems you solved.
Fix: Explain the user or business problem and how your interface changed it.
Starting from scratch, or the layout is the problem rather than the content? There are free ATS CV templates to start from.
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Frontend Developer CV questions
- What should a frontend developer CV include?
- A short summary naming your framework and strength, experience bullets about what users got, a grouped skills block, and one link to work you can show. Projects help if your jobs do not show frontend work yet.
- Should a frontend developer CV include a portfolio?
- A link helps if the work is real and loads well. But the CV must stand on its own: many reviewers never click. Put your part and a result for each project on the CV itself.
- Is TypeScript required for frontend jobs?
- Not always, but it was named in about two in three postings we read. If you use it, say so in your bullets. If you do not, it is worth learning on a real project before you apply widely.
- Is it worth mentioning accessibility on a frontend CV?
- Yes, if you have done it. Name the standard, such as WCAG 2.2 AA, and what you fixed. It is a clear way to stand out from CVs that only list frameworks.
- How do I show frontend performance work?
- Give the metric before and after: load time, bundle size or a Core Web Vitals score. Say what you changed to get there, such as code splitting or image handling.
- How do I write a frontend CV with no experience?
- Build one or two complete projects in the framework postings ask for, with TypeScript, tests and a live link. Describe each like a job entry: what it does, what you built, one result.