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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 67 80
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 13 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.74% 0.74% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 0.80% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £466 £459 £415
25th Percentile £472 £473 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +13.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £497 £556 £472
90th Percentile £499 £575 £474
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% +2.78%

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 696 747 847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.30% 92.22% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 491 592
10th Percentile £300 £275 £350
25th Percentile £392 £373 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -7.93% +7.42%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £585
90th Percentile £600 £619 £686
Scotland median daily rate £463 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -0.22% -2.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 34
10th Percentile £15.61 £11.85 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.71 £40.94 £13.88
Median % change year-on-year -51.86% +195.06% -62.93%
75th Percentile £23.86 £55.63 £22.50
90th Percentile £72.17 £70.00 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +2.41% +34.48% -61.26%

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

Front End Development
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 (15.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (15.38%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) BlazeMeter
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Adobe Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Google Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) MongoDB
1 7 (53.85%) NoSQL
2 5 (38.46%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (23.08%) MySQL
4 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (7.69%) MariaDB
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) JUnit
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (23.08%) Git
4 2 (15.38%) GitLab
4 2 (15.38%) Gradle
4 2 (15.38%) Maven
4 2 (15.38%) Mockito
4 2 (15.38%) webpack
General
1 5 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Core Java Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) CSS
1 10 (76.92%) React
2 8 (61.54%) AngularJS
3 7 (53.85%) Spring
4 5 (38.46%) HTML
5 4 (30.77%) RESTful
6 3 (23.08%) Node.js
7 2 (15.38%) CSS3
7 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
7 2 (15.38%) HTML5
7 2 (15.38%) J2EE
7 2 (15.38%) JPA
7 2 (15.38%) Kafka
7 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (15.38%) Redux
7 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
7 2 (15.38%) Spring MVC
8 1 (7.69%) .NET
8 1 (7.69%) Express.js
8 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
1 10 (76.92%) Microservices
2 9 (69.23%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (53.85%) Unit Testing
4 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (38.46%) Community of Practice
4 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning
4 5 (38.46%) Micro Frontends
4 5 (38.46%) Operational Stability
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Testing
4 5 (38.46%) SDLC
4 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
5 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
5 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) JavaScript
2 8 (61.54%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Grafana
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Dynatrace
1 5 (38.46%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe
2 2 (15.38%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle