Front End Development Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Front End Development (Client-Side Development)
South West > Wiltshire

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Front End Development 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.83% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £513 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £691 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £538 £625 £463
% change year-on-year -14.00% +35.14% +12.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 677 408 780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 80.02% 90.07% 82.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 272 573
10th Percentile £363 £308 £315
25th Percentile £450 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +4.17% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £663
90th Percentile £738 £688 £725
South West median daily rate £511 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -1.05% -1.73% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 16
10th Percentile £13.11 £18.62 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.45 £18.78 £14.54
Median hourly rate £21.01 £18.87 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% +21.59% -77.23%
75th Percentile £48.00 £29.15 £30.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £47.66 £52.13
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -9.39%

Front End Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Front End Development job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Front End Development
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Front End Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Front End Development in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Front End Development in Wiltshire

Front End Development
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Corsham - 6 £525 - 2
Chippenham - 1 £688 -
Front End Development
South West

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Figma
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (14.29%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
2 4 (57.14%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 2 (28.57%) SignalR
3 2 (28.57%) Vue
3 2 (28.57%) WebSockets
4 1 (14.29%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Content Writing
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GitOps
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Podman
2 1 (14.29%) Argo
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat