As a front end dev, I&#x27;ve noticed the steady increase in job offers. Most of us had the benefit of growing with the technology. Its why when you see a group of Front End Devs, you&#x27;ll see a group of mostly early 30 somethings to 40 somethings, and not the usual crowd of young faces in other practices.<p>The biggest problem I see with Front End Development is the massive trove of tacit knowledge it takes. If you have a portfolio that goes more than a decade deep, a junior front end dev might run across a table based layout, or baffled by transparent gifs used to position. Or perhaps its a site made 7 years ago, and its locked on a 960 grid and the jr dev is throw by the &quot;Clearfixes&quot;, used to modern frame works that magically clear floats by psuedo elements, and doesn&#x27;t understand why her&#x2F;his grid isn&#x27;t working when she&#x2F;he forgets to manually clear the floats. It could be even a site that is 5 years old, and relies on wurfl to do user agent detects the baffling usage of user agents at all to detect mobile.<p>Anyhow, that&#x27;s just scraping the surface. My standing theory is Front End Development is only a few years away from being divided into more roles as the current bar for knowledge entry is getting to be almost unattainable.