Front End Development Contract Job Trends in South Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Front End Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 33 40
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +14
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 5 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.42% 2.32% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.68% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile £266 £349 £399
25th Percentile £422 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +29.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £527 - £544
90th Percentile £529 - £556
Wales median daily rate £519 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -5.68% +29.41% -15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 283 298 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.17% 86.38% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 173 243
10th Percentile £206 £167 £163
25th Percentile £290 £213 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £413 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -5.71% -7.89%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £588
90th Percentile £609 £688 £650
Wales median daily rate £410 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 24
10th Percentile £13.08 £19.63 £17.30
25th Percentile £15.11 £20.12 £21.32
Median hourly rate £19.19 £25.36 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -24.33% -4.60% +33.21%
75th Percentile £25.53 £40.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £85.00 £48.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 £25.36 £26.58
% change year-on-year -28.31% -4.60% +33.51%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Front End Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Front End Development job vacancy trend in South Wales

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Front End Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Front End Development

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 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in South Wales

Front End Development
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Front End Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Front End Development

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 21 December 2025. 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 -7 4 £520 -5.45% 3
Rhondda Cynon Taff - 1 £175 -
Front End Development
Wales

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (60.00%) Jest
1 3 (60.00%) Next.js
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (20.00%) SCORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Case Management
1 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft