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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 109 156
Rank change year-on-year +20 +47 -11
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 28 13 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.71% 0.61% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 0.69% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 8
10th Percentile £406 £305 £418
25th Percentile £472 £415 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £466
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.43% +3.56%
75th Percentile £528 £545 £479
90th Percentile £594 £566 £480
UK median daily rate £506 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.20% -4.76% -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 1,536 1,887 2,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.72% 88.10% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 1,158 1,767
10th Percentile £263 £219 £260
25th Percentile £375 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 92 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.18 £15.92 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +21.88% -57.25%
75th Percentile £24.66 £42.71 £50.74
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.75 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%

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

Front End Development
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 18 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 18 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
Glasgow +5 16 £500 -2.44% 8
Edinburgh +9 10 £500 +32.45% 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 (10.71%) WordPress
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (7.14%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (17.86%) BlazeMeter
3 5 (17.86%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (17.86%) Google Analytics
3 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.57%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (17.86%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (10.71%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 7 (25.00%) JUnit
3 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (10.71%) webpack
5 2 (7.14%) GitLab
5 2 (7.14%) Gradle
5 2 (7.14%) Maven
5 2 (7.14%) Mockito
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (7.14%) Storybook
General
1 12 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Back Office
2 5 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (92.86%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Web Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Angular Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Core Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Architect
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.57%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.57%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (60.71%) CSS
2 15 (53.57%) React
3 13 (46.43%) AngularJS
4 10 (35.71%) HTML
5 8 (28.57%) Node.js
5 8 (28.57%) RESTful
6 7 (25.00%) Spring
7 5 (17.86%) REST
8 3 (10.71%) CSS3
8 3 (10.71%) Express.js
8 3 (10.71%) HTML5
8 3 (10.71%) Redux
8 3 (10.71%) Web Services
9 2 (7.14%) .NET
9 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
9 2 (7.14%) J2EE
9 2 (7.14%) JPA
9 2 (7.14%) Kafka
9 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
9 2 (7.14%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 15 (53.57%) Agile
3 13 (46.43%) Microservices
4 10 (35.71%) DevOps
5 8 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 6 (21.43%) Analytics
7 6 (21.43%) Web Development
8 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (17.86%) Community of Practice
8 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
8 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning
8 5 (17.86%) Performance Testing
8 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.86%) SDLC
8 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) JavaScript
2 15 (53.57%) TypeScript
3 9 (32.14%) Java
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) C#
5 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Python
6 1 (3.57%) PHP
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.29%) WCAG
3 3 (10.71%) PERC
4 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.86%) Grafana
3 3 (10.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Google
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) Dynatrace
2 5 (17.86%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) Adobe
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft