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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 155 74
Rank change year-on-year -33 -81 +10
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 64 56 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.12% 1.48% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.54% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37 38 136
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £44,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £69,250
90th Percentile £73,886 £96,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -61 37 £54,000 -10.00% 1
Edinburgh +20 17 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Aberdeen - 6 £52,500 -
West Lothian - 2 £52,500 -
Dundee -5 1 - -
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 15 (23.44%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.38%) AWS
2 4 (6.25%) GCP
3 2 (3.13%) Contentful
4 1 (1.56%) Azure
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.56%) dbt
4 1 (1.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
1 1 (1.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.44%) Elasticsearch
1 15 (23.44%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.13%) GIS
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (23.44%) Cucumber
1 15 (23.44%) Cypress.io
2 8 (12.50%) Git
3 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.25%) webpack
4 2 (3.13%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.56%) JIRA
5 1 (1.56%) Postman
General
1 26 (40.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (32.81%) Finance
3 19 (29.69%) Banking
4 16 (25.00%) Law
5 15 (23.44%) Investment Banking
6 7 (10.94%) Social Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Legal
7 2 (3.13%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.56%) Electronics
8 1 (1.56%) Games
8 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.56%) Marketing
8 1 (1.56%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (54.69%) Developer
2 25 (39.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 19 (29.69%) Lead
3 19 (29.69%) Senior
4 18 (28.13%) Software Engineer
5 16 (25.00%) Java Engineer
5 16 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 16 (25.00%) Lead Java Engineer
5 16 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 16 (25.00%) Senior Developer
6 15 (23.44%) Full Stack Engineer
6 15 (23.44%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 10 (15.63%) React Developer
8 9 (14.06%) Senior React Developer
9 7 (10.94%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 6 (9.38%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (9.38%) Software Developer
11 3 (4.69%) Architect
11 3 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (67.19%) React
2 23 (35.94%) CSS
3 22 (34.38%) HTML
4 19 (29.69%) Spring
5 16 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 15 (23.44%) JDBC
6 15 (23.44%) Kafka
7 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
7 6 (9.38%) Vue
8 5 (7.81%) Next.js
9 3 (4.69%) Jest
9 3 (4.69%) Node.js
9 3 (4.69%) Redux
10 2 (3.13%) GatsbyJS
10 2 (3.13%) HTML5
10 2 (3.13%) React Native
10 2 (3.13%) Tailwind CSS
11 1 (1.56%) CSS3
11 1 (1.56%) Flask
11 1 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.44%) Private Cloud
2 10 (15.63%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (10.94%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.25%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.69%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (3.13%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.56%) Arduino
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.56%) IoT
7 1 (1.56%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Android
1 4 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Agile
2 26 (40.63%) Software Engineering
3 22 (34.38%) CI/CD
4 19 (29.69%) Full Stack Development
5 18 (28.13%) TDD
6 16 (25.00%) DevOps
6 16 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 15 (23.44%) ATDD
7 15 (23.44%) Continuous Deployment
7 15 (23.44%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (23.44%) Epics
7 15 (23.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (17.19%) User Experience
9 9 (14.06%) Computer Science
10 8 (12.50%) UX Design
11 6 (9.38%) Scrum
11 6 (9.38%) Web Development
12 5 (7.81%) Kanban
12 5 (7.81%) Line Management
12 5 (7.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.94%) JavaScript
2 23 (35.94%) Java
3 18 (28.13%) SQL
4 14 (21.88%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.38%) Ruby
6 3 (4.69%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.69%) Python
7 2 (3.13%) C#
7 2 (3.13%) C++
8 1 (1.56%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.56%) Swift
8 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.69%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.69%) Google
2 2 (3.13%) Netlify
3 1 (1.56%) NVIDIA
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle
3 1 (1.56%) SAP