Front End Development Contracts in Cardiff

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Front End Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Front End Development over the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 30 28
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 3 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.53% 3.46% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 4.74% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £509 £478 -
25th Percentile £509 £511 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +25.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile £528 £550 £463
90th Percentile £529 £891 £466
South Wales median daily rate £520 £533 £450
% change year-on-year -2.39% +18.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Front End Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 190 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.29% 73.08% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 143 168
10th Percentile £227 £143 £188
25th Percentile £303 £210 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £554
90th Percentile £650 £598 £625
South Wales median daily rate £400 £431 £500
% change year-on-year -7.25% -13.75% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 7
10th Percentile £12.21 £15.10 £15.40
25th Percentile - £15.48 £19.13
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -17.47% +18.42%
75th Percentile £22.06 £24.92 £25.50
90th Percentile £24.20 £25.79 £26.20
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £25.18 £19.49
% change year-on-year -36.46% +29.19% -2.11%

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

Front End Development
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
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) Jest
1 3 (100.00%) Next.js
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Case Management
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft