Front End Development Contracts in South Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 37 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 3 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.11% 2.45% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 3.14% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £509 £478 £423
25th Percentile £509 £511 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +15.19% +2.78%
75th Percentile £528 £550 £559
90th Percentile £529 £891 £614
Wales median daily rate £519 £533 £463
% change year-on-year -2.63% +15.19% +2.78%

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 241 287 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 88.93% 78.20% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 177 292
10th Percentile £190 £143 £186
25th Percentile £293 £210 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -12.50% -1.57%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £591
90th Percentile £625 £625 £650
Wales median daily rate £403 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -10.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 23
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.45 -
25th Percentile £14.23 £18.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.09 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -36.23% +28.73% -2.11%
75th Percentile £20.75 £48.19 £25.50
90th Percentile £23.39 £53.88 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £23.08 £19.49
% change year-on-year -11.18% +18.42% +8.28%

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
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 26 July 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 0 3 £520 -2.39% 6
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:

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