💻 Web Developer in Wick, Highland

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About Wick

Wick is a town of around 7,000 people on the Caithness coast in the far north-east of Scotland, sitting at the mouth of the Wick River where it enters Wick Bay.

It was once the herring capital of Europe and the town's harbour, designed by Thomas Telford and expanded by the British Fisheries Society, is a reminder of the vast scale of the 19th-century herring industry. The Wick Heritage Museum tells this story in detail.

The town centre has a range of local shops, services and schools and serves as a base for the surrounding Caithness countryside, including the Castle of Old Wick and the dramatic clifftop stacks and geos of the Caithness coast.

Wick has its own airport with flights to Edinburgh and Aberdeen, a railway station on the Far North Line and road connections south via the A9 and A99. The town is also a gateway to the North Coast 500 touring route.

About Highland

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Highland is the largest council area in Scotland by land mass, covering more than 25,000 square kilometres from the Cairngorms in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west and from the Moray Firth northward to the tip of mainland Britain at Dunnet Head.

The region takes in an extraordinary range of landscapes — the Great Glen, Ben Nevis, Loch Ness, the Cairngorm plateau, the Flow Country peatlands of Caithness and Sutherland and hundreds of miles of rugged coastline dotted with fishing villages and sea lochs.

Inverness is the regional capital and the largest settlement, serving as the administrative, commercial and transport hub for the entire north of Scotland. Beyond Inverness, the population is thinly spread across market towns, crofting townships and remote communities connected by single-track roads and ferry services.

Despite its remoteness, Highland has a diverse economy built on tourism, whisky distilling, renewable energy, forestry, aquaculture and a growing digital sector enabled by improving broadband connectivity. The region's cultural identity is deeply rooted in Gaelic language and tradition, clan history and a strong sense of place that draws visitors and new residents alike.