Front End Development Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Front End Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 5.77% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
West Wales median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36 11 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 69.23% 40.74% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 11 4
10th Percentile £374 - £230
25th Percentile £413 £185 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -2.56% +116.67%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £506
90th Percentile £526 £588 £518
West Wales median daily rate £465 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -2.11% -2.56% +116.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.75
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.42%
75th Percentile - - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median hourly rate £15.91 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -12.42%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Front End Development job vacancy trend in Swansea

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

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

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

Front End Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails Developer
1 2 (66.67%) UI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow