Front End Development Job Trends in Glasgow

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Front End Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 74 57
Rank change year-on-year 0 -17 -16
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 7 10 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.85% 1.04% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.20% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 11
10th Percentile - £46,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,250 £48,750 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £71,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% +33.96% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,750 £76,500 £64,375
90th Percentile - - £65,000
Scotland median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.77% +8.33% +9.09%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 697 836 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.69% 86.54% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 339 449 486
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,950 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Front End Development
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Front End Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Front End Development

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon EMR
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon MSK
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (42.86%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (42.86%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (57.14%) Law
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) .NET Software Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) C# Software Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (42.86%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 3 (42.86%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
3 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Java Software Developer
3 3 (42.86%) React Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) React
2 6 (85.71%) AngularJS
3 4 (57.14%) Spring
4 3 (42.86%) .NET
4 3 (42.86%) .NET Core
4 3 (42.86%) Blazor
4 3 (42.86%) HTML
4 3 (42.86%) jQuery
4 3 (42.86%) RESTful
4 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Application Security
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (42.86%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk