Front End Development Contracts in Edinburgh

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 69 104
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 +16
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 10 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.60% 0.37% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 0.42% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £384 £323 £440
25th Percentile £438 £338 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £378 £479
Median % change year-on-year +32.45% -21.15% +12.65%
75th Percentile £569 £418 £480
90th Percentile £600 £434 £509
Scotland median daily rate £500 £480 £470
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.24% +4.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Edinburgh

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Edinburgh

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Edinburgh

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (30.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Google Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Storybook
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Back Office
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Angular Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (10.00%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (30.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) Jest
3 2 (20.00%) Node.js
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) Express.js
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Web Development
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) SEO
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
6 1 (10.00%) API Development
6 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Fintech
6 1 (10.00%) Kanban
6 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) PERC
1 3 (30.00%) WCAG
2 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle