Front End Development Contracts in Scotland

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 152 135
Rank change year-on-year +36 -17 -30
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 15 12 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.42% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.45% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 23
10th Percentile £325 £419 £413
25th Percentile £395 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +4.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £574 £480 £525
90th Percentile £588 £492 -
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Scotland

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Scotland

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Scotland

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in Scotland

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +6 7 £480 +6.67% 8
West Lothian - 4 £585 -
Edinburgh +36 2 £378 -21.15% 8
Front End Development
UK

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (40.00%) Git
3 5 (33.33%) JIRA
4 4 (26.67%) IntelliJ
4 4 (26.67%) Postman
5 3 (20.00%) webpack
6 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) React Developer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) React
2 10 (66.67%) CSS
3 9 (60.00%) Node.js
4 8 (53.33%) HTML
5 5 (33.33%) GraphQL
5 5 (33.33%) RESTful
6 4 (26.67%) Jest
6 4 (26.67%) Playwright
6 4 (26.67%) Redux
7 3 (20.00%) CSS3
7 3 (20.00%) HTML5
8 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
8 2 (13.33%) Next.js
9 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
9 1 (6.67%) Kafka
9 1 (6.67%) Kendo UI
9 1 (6.67%) REST
9 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.67%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Code Quality
2 4 (26.67%) Community of Practice
2 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (26.67%) User Experience
2 4 (26.67%) UX Design
3 3 (20.00%) Service Design
3 3 (20.00%) TDD
3 3 (20.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) CRM
4 2 (13.33%) Human-Centred Design
4 2 (13.33%) IT Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Google
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle