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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 62 82
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +35
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Front End Development 7 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.09% 0.99% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.17% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 13
10th Percentile £419 £315 £388
25th Percentile £428 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £415 £470
Median % change year-on-year +15.96% -11.61% +3.19%
75th Percentile £575 £449 £480
90th Percentile £600 £463 £484
Scotland median daily rate £469 £445 £445
% change year-on-year +5.34% - -1.11%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 600 685 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.60% 84.88% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 369 668
10th Percentile £313 £206 £213
25th Percentile £413 £340 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £639 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 5
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -65.71% +196.28%
75th Percentile £39.40 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.38 £55.00 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £19.38 £19.18
% change year-on-year +3.12% +1.04% -3.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Front End Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 August 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) git-flow
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Storybook
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CDK
2 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) Jest
3 2 (28.57%) OAuth
3 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
3 2 (28.57%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) Spring MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Web Flow
3 2 (28.57%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (28.57%) Thymeleaf
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) MVC
4 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) API Development
5 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
5 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Google