Front End Development Contracts in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 95 113 151
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 -10
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 21 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.29% 0.72% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.82% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 9
10th Percentile £400 £325 £419
25th Percentile £442 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £470
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.24% +4.33%
75th Percentile £531 £574 £480
90th Percentile £600 £588 £492
UK median daily rate £513 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.91% -0.48% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +12 10 £500 +32.45% 10
Glasgow +6 10 £500 +4.17% 8
Stirling - 1 £513 -
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 3 (14.29%) WordPress
2 2 (9.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (9.52%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 5 (23.81%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (23.81%) Google Analytics
2 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub
4 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 2 (9.52%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) JUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (9.52%) Storybook
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 5 (23.81%) Back Office
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (90.48%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Web Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Angular Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (9.52%) PHP Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Architect
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Core Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) CSS
2 8 (38.10%) AngularJS
2 8 (38.10%) HTML
3 7 (33.33%) React
4 6 (28.57%) Node.js
5 5 (23.81%) REST
6 4 (19.05%) RESTful
7 3 (14.29%) Express.js
7 3 (14.29%) Spring
7 3 (14.29%) Web Services
8 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
8 2 (9.52%) J2EE
8 2 (9.52%) Jest
8 2 (9.52%) Laravel
8 2 (9.52%) Symfony
8 2 (9.52%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (4.76%) .NET
9 1 (4.76%) CSS3
9 1 (4.76%) HTML5
9 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
4 6 (28.57%) Analytics
4 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (28.57%) Microservices
4 6 (28.57%) Web Development
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) Community of Practice
7 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 3 (14.29%) Micro Frontends
7 3 (14.29%) Operational Stability
7 3 (14.29%) Performance Testing
7 3 (14.29%) SDLC
7 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 10 (47.62%) TypeScript
3 4 (19.05%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) PHP
4 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (14.29%) PERC
2 3 (14.29%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Grafana
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Google
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 3 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) Adobe