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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 135 61
Rank change year-on-year +73 -74 -6
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 17 28 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.30% 1.41% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 1.54% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 13
10th Percentile £61,850 - £48,000
25th Percentile £62,750 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,750 £68,250 £73,750
90th Percentile - £76,500 -
Scotland median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% - +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 669 1,822 777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.53% 91.51% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 263 561 591
10th Percentile £29,550 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Front End Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development 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 and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon MSK
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) BlazeMeter
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) MongoDB
1 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (23.53%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (17.65%) MySQL
3 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Maven
2 7 (41.18%) Git
2 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
3 6 (35.29%) JUnit
4 3 (17.65%) GitLab
4 3 (17.65%) Gradle
5 2 (11.76%) JIRA
5 2 (11.76%) Mockito
6 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
6 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
6 1 (5.88%) PyCharm
6 1 (5.88%) Selenium
6 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
6 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (52.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (29.41%) Banking
4 5 (29.41%) Law
5 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 10 (58.82%) Java Developer
2 10 (58.82%) Software Engineer
3 6 (35.29%) Senior
4 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) Java Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (23.53%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
5 4 (23.53%) Java Software Developer
5 4 (23.53%) React Developer
5 4 (23.53%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) React
2 12 (70.59%) AngularJS
2 12 (70.59%) Spring
3 8 (47.06%) Spring Boot
4 7 (41.18%) RESTful
5 5 (29.41%) CSS
5 5 (29.41%) HTML
6 4 (23.53%) .NET
6 4 (23.53%) .NET Core
6 4 (23.53%) Blazor
6 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
6 4 (23.53%) JPA
6 4 (23.53%) jQuery
6 4 (23.53%) Kafka
7 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (11.76%) Spring MVC
8 1 (5.88%) OAuth
8 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
8 1 (5.88%) Redux
8 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Agile
2 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 12 (70.59%) Software Engineering
4 11 (64.71%) Microservices
5 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
5 8 (47.06%) DevOps
6 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
7 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (35.29%) Scrum
7 6 (35.29%) TDD
7 6 (35.29%) Unit Testing
8 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (29.41%) SDLC
9 4 (23.53%) Application Security
9 4 (23.53%) Kanban
9 4 (23.53%) Micro Frontends
9 4 (23.53%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
2 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) C#
4 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.88%) C
5 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Dynatrace
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
1 4 (23.53%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Solace