Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Contracts in Scotland

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

The median Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) daily rate in Scotland is £511, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 120 160
Rank change year-on-year +10 +40 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) 6 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.41% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.43% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £501 £350 £431
25th Percentile £503 £394 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £465 £463
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% +0.54% +2.78%
75th Percentile £517 £540 £476
90th Percentile £518 £574 £476
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Scotland

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Scotland

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in Scotland

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
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 Developer (Client-Side Developer) 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
Glasgow +3 6 £511 +9.78% 2
Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
UK

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) Node.js
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (50.00%) Express.js
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) HTML5
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) CSS3
3 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) React
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) webpack

Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer) Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 3 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) MariaDB
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Node.js
2 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (50.00%) CSS3
3 3 (50.00%) Express.js
3 3 (50.00%) HTML5
3 3 (50.00%) React
3 3 (50.00%) Redux
3 3 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Service Management
2 3 (50.00%) SOLID
3 2 (33.33%) Service Design
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) UX Design
3 2 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle