Front End Development Jobs in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 145 138
Rank change year-on-year +45 -7 -67
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 50 150 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.75% 2.23% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.40% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 19 89 54
10th Percentile £38,750 £34,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £70,650 - £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,637 6,250 4,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.24% 92.80% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,346 2,418 2,230
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,499
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,369 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in Scotland.

Salary trend for Front End Development in Scotland

Front End Development
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Front End Development in Scotland

Front End Development
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +126 14 £52,500 +5.00% 13
Edinburgh -8 13 £50,500 -15.83% 10
Lanarkshire - 12 - - 2
Dundee +10 2 £52,500 +5.00%
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 6
Aberdeen +1 1 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Strathclyde - 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
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 21 (42.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.00%) Notion
1 1 (2.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 30 (60.00%) AWS
2 29 (58.00%) Azure
3 24 (48.00%) GCP
4 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.00%) GitHub
5 3 (6.00%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Figma
7 1 (2.00%) Google Ads
7 1 (2.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (44.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (6.00%) MySQL
3 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (48.00%) Maven
2 23 (46.00%) GitLab
3 21 (42.00%) Bitbucket
3 21 (42.00%) Cucumber
3 21 (42.00%) JIRA
3 21 (42.00%) Selenium
3 21 (42.00%) SonarQube
3 21 (42.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (10.00%) Git
4 5 (10.00%) JUnit
5 3 (6.00%) Gradle
5 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.00%) Mockito
7 1 (2.00%) ESLint
7 1 (2.00%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.00%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (2.00%) Mocha
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (2.00%) Vite
7 1 (2.00%) webpack
General
1 29 (58.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 24 (48.00%) Finance
3 21 (42.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Back Office
6 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 24 (48.00%) Developer
3 12 (24.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 12 (24.00%) Senior
4 9 (18.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (14.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Web Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Web Developer
8 2 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (82.00%) React
2 37 (74.00%) CSS
3 30 (60.00%) HTML
4 28 (56.00%) Spring
5 24 (48.00%) Hibernate
5 24 (48.00%) JPA
5 24 (48.00%) Spring Boot
6 23 (46.00%) Kafka
7 22 (44.00%) Redux
8 8 (16.00%) RESTful
9 7 (14.00%) AngularJS
10 6 (12.00%) REST
11 5 (10.00%) .NET
12 4 (8.00%) Next.js
13 3 (6.00%) .NET Core
13 3 (6.00%) React Native
13 3 (6.00%) WebSockets
14 2 (4.00%) HTML5
14 2 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
14 2 (4.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (44.00%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (42.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) Agile
2 32 (64.00%) CI/CD
3 31 (62.00%) DevOps
3 31 (62.00%) Microservices
3 31 (62.00%) Software Engineering
4 28 (56.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (54.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (52.00%) Containerisation
7 24 (48.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 24 (48.00%) SDLC
8 23 (46.00%) Clean Code
9 21 (42.00%) TDD
9 21 (42.00%) Test Automation
10 11 (22.00%) User Experience
11 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (10.00%) Unit Testing
11 5 (10.00%) Web Development
12 4 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
12 4 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
12 4 (8.00%) Micro Frontends
Programming Languages
1 37 (74.00%) JavaScript
2 30 (60.00%) Java
3 27 (54.00%) SQL
4 14 (28.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (54.00%) QA
System Software
1 28 (56.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (62.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (42.00%) Solace
2 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (6.00%) Splunk
3 1 (2.00%) Adobe
3 1 (2.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle