Front End Development Contracts in South Wales

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for Front End Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Front End Development over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 49 68
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 -15
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 8 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.36% 1.55% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 1.75% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 5
10th Percentile £466 £413 -
25th Percentile £510 £431 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £549 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +46.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £551 £594 £388
90th Percentile £1,004 £654 £440
Wales median daily rate £540 £550 £375
% change year-on-year -1.82% +46.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 457 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.24% 88.57% 83.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 350 558
10th Percentile £160 £190 £256
25th Percentile £352 £328 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.81% +8.61%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £495 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.06% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 28
10th Percentile £11.21 £16.37 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.46
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -23.62% +15.85%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £31.97
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £25.00
% change year-on-year +19.59% -24.74% +29.87%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in South Wales

Front End Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in South Wales

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in South Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in South Wales

Front End Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Front End Development in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Front End Development in South Wales

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front End Development within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +12 8 £540 +8.00% 10
Front End Development
Wales

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) GitHub
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Cypress.io
2 5 (62.50%) Storybook
3 2 (25.00%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full Stack PHP Developer
3 2 (25.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (12.50%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 1 (12.50%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Vue
2 5 (62.50%) Playwright
3 4 (50.00%) Laravel
4 2 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (75.00%) Project Management
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Objectives and Key Results
3 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Analytics
5 3 (37.50%) Data Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 1 (12.50%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) PHP
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft