Front End Development Contracts in Glasgow

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 69 75 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 10 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.25% 0.80% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.87% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £427 £405 £415
25th Percentile £454 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £509 £545 £472
90th Percentile £515 £571 £474
Scotland median daily rate £500 £480 £470
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.24% +4.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Glasgow

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in Glasgow

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) BlazeMeter
2 2 (20.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (20.00%) Google Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JUnit
2 2 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (20.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Core Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) CSS
2 5 (50.00%) HTML
3 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (40.00%) React
4 3 (30.00%) Node.js
4 3 (30.00%) Spring
5 2 (20.00%) Express.js
5 2 (20.00%) J2EE
5 2 (20.00%) Laravel
5 2 (20.00%) REST
5 2 (20.00%) Symfony
6 1 (10.00%) CSS3
6 1 (10.00%) HTML5
6 1 (10.00%) Redux
6 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Community of Practice
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) Micro Frontends
4 3 (30.00%) Operational Stability
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (20.00%) Content Management
5 2 (20.00%) OO
5 2 (20.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (30.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) PHP
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (30.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Adobe
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle