Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Jobs in Edinburgh

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) salary in Edinburgh is £85,253 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 106 143
Rank change year-on-year +19 +37 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 6 7 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.65% 0.46% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.48% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile £73,886 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £76,727 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.30% -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £93,778 £70,000 -
90th Percentile - - £74,000
Scotland median annual salary £85,253 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +26.30% -3.57% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 851 1,458 2,032
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 95.86% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 419 1,029 1,208
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,950 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,047 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in Edinburgh

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) 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 permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) React
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
1 6 (100.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Tealium
2 4 (66.67%) Redux
2 4 (66.67%) Jest
2 4 (66.67%) Enzyme
2 4 (66.67%) webpack
2 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 4 (66.67%) Adobe Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) Google
2 4 (66.67%) Google Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Pair Programming
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) Adobe
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (33.33%) Azure

Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer) Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Adobe Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Google Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) webpack
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) React
2 4 (66.67%) Enzyme
2 4 (66.67%) Jest
2 4 (66.67%) Redux
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Pair Programming
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Adobe
1 4 (66.67%) Google
1 4 (66.67%) Tealium