Front End Development Contracts in Cardiff

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 38 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 8 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.74% 1.76% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 2.02% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £466 £413 -
25th Percentile £510 £419 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +33.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £388
90th Percentile £1,004 £619 £440
South Wales median daily rate £540 £549 £375
% change year-on-year -1.59% +46.33% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 163 297 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 76.17% 87.35% 81.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 235 332
10th Percentile £191 £201 £255
25th Percentile £376 £363 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £560 £574 £538
90th Percentile £643 £629 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.64 £13.45
25th Percentile £14.88 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.72 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -21.48% +14.42%
75th Percentile £35.88 £21.98 £23.75
90th Percentile £46.60 £24.38 £24.95
South Wales median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £23.75
% change year-on-year +25.03% -23.62% +18.75%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Front End Development in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Front End Development in Cardiff

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Cardiff over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Cardiff

Front End Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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