Front End Development Jobs in Scotland

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 144 78
Rank change year-on-year -10 -66 -14
Permanent jobs citing Front End Development 145 77 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.16% 1.68% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.78% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 86 52 123
10th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £44,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,563 £68,750
90th Percentile - £110,000 £76,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.40% +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Front End Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,195 4,321 5,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.21% 94.32% 90.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 2,159 2,811
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,211 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -84 66 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Edinburgh +46 39 £60,000 +6.67% 4
Aberdeen - 26 £52,500 -
Dundee -8 7 £50,000 -31.03%
Aberdeenshire - 3 £40,000 -
West Lothian - 2 £52,500 -
Angus - 1 £65,000 -
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 (10.34%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (1.38%) CMS
2 2 (1.38%) JBoss
2 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.66%) Azure
2 11 (7.59%) AWS
3 7 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (2.76%) GCP
5 3 (2.07%) Google Play
5 3 (2.07%) SaaS
6 2 (1.38%) GitHub
6 2 (1.38%) PaaS
7 1 (0.69%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.83%) HTTP
1 7 (4.83%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
1 15 (10.34%) MongoDB
1 15 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.14%) Big Data
3 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (18.62%) Git
2 17 (11.72%) Jasmine
2 17 (11.72%) Karma Test Runner
3 15 (10.34%) Cucumber
3 15 (10.34%) Cypress.io
3 15 (10.34%) Visual Studio Code
4 7 (4.83%) webpack
5 5 (3.45%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.38%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.38%) Postman
7 1 (0.69%) JIRA
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 62 (42.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 47 (32.41%) Finance
3 34 (23.45%) Banking
4 31 (21.38%) Law
5 28 (19.31%) Social Skills
6 16 (11.03%) Private Banking
7 15 (10.34%) Investment Banking
8 9 (6.21%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.83%) Electronics
9 7 (4.83%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.83%) Marketing
9 7 (4.83%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.76%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Aviation
12 1 (0.69%) Games
12 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (72.41%) Developer
2 62 (42.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 57 (39.31%) Senior
4 44 (30.34%) Senior Developer
5 34 (23.45%) Software Engineer
6 25 (17.24%) React Developer
7 23 (15.86%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 21 (14.48%) Lead
8 21 (14.48%) Senior React Developer
8 21 (14.48%) Software Developer
9 18 (12.41%) Java Engineer
9 18 (12.41%) Java Software Engineer
9 18 (12.41%) Senior Software Developer
10 16 (11.03%) Lead Java Engineer
10 16 (11.03%) Lead Software Engineer
11 15 (10.34%) Full Stack Engineer
11 15 (10.34%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 13 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (6.21%) UI Developer
14 7 (4.83%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (53.10%) React
2 49 (33.79%) CSS
2 49 (33.79%) HTML
3 45 (31.03%) AngularJS
4 23 (15.86%) Sass
5 21 (14.48%) Spring
6 20 (13.79%) .NET
7 19 (13.10%) RESTful
8 18 (12.41%) ASP.NET Web API
8 18 (12.41%) jQuery
8 18 (12.41%) LESS
9 17 (11.72%) ASP.NET
9 17 (11.72%) Node.js
9 17 (11.72%) Spring Boot
9 17 (11.72%) Vue
10 15 (10.34%) ASP.NET MVC
10 15 (10.34%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 15 (10.34%) JDBC
10 15 (10.34%) Kafka
10 15 (10.34%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.59%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.34%) Private Cloud
3 9 (6.21%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.52%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.83%) Arduino
5 7 (4.83%) IoT
5 7 (4.83%) Raspberry Pi
6 5 (3.45%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.07%) iPhone
7 3 (2.07%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.38%) W3C
9 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.45%) Android
2 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (41.38%) Software Engineering
2 53 (36.55%) Agile
3 32 (22.07%) Test Automation
4 31 (21.38%) Computer Science
5 30 (20.69%) User Experience
6 29 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
7 24 (16.55%) DevOps
8 21 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (13.79%) CI/CD
10 18 (12.41%) TDD
11 17 (11.72%) UX Design
12 16 (11.03%) Asset Management
12 16 (11.03%) Investment Management
12 16 (11.03%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 16 (11.03%) Wealth Management
13 15 (10.34%) Continuous Deployment
13 15 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (10.34%) Epics
13 15 (10.34%) MVC
13 15 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (52.41%) JavaScript
2 49 (33.79%) TypeScript
3 26 (17.93%) Ruby
4 25 (17.24%) SQL
5 23 (15.86%) Java
6 20 (13.79%) C#
7 17 (11.72%) T-SQL
8 10 (6.90%) Python
9 5 (3.45%) GLSL
10 2 (1.38%) C++
10 2 (1.38%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.69%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (13.79%) Degree
2 13 (8.97%) SC Cleared
2 13 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.41%) Accessibility
2 15 (10.34%) WAI
3 4 (2.76%) QA
4 2 (1.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.83%) Firmware
2 2 (1.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (4.83%) NVIDIA
1 7 (4.83%) SAP
2 6 (4.14%) Google
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.38%) Oracle