The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Front-End Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Developer
Rank 37 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 6 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.354% 0.949% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.449% 0.998% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 0
Average daily rate £263 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £261 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
- +79.48%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
414 601 455
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.45% 95.09% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 324 253
Average daily rate £340 £325 £341
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -4.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £183 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 27
Average hourly rate £16.25 £14.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Front-End Developer
West Midlands

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Front-End Developer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham Front-End Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Front-End Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Front-End Developer across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Front-End Developer Daily Rate Trend

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Front-End Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Front-End Developer in their job title.

1 17 (94.44%) CSS
2 14 (77.78%) HTML
2 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 8 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 8 (44.44%) .NET
4 6 (33.33%) HTML5
5 5 (27.78%) Semantic HTML
5 5 (27.78%) XHTML
5 5 (27.78%) Web Accessibility
5 5 (27.78%) jQuery
6 4 (22.22%) C#
6 4 (22.22%) CSS3
7 3 (16.67%) Ajax
7 3 (16.67%) JSON
7 3 (16.67%) CMS
8 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
8 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
8 2 (11.11%) W3C
9 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
9 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
9 1 (5.556%) Adobe
9 1 (5.556%) Dojo
9 1 (5.556%) YUI
9 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (5.556%) XML
9 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
9 1 (5.556%) UML
9 1 (5.556%) OO
9 1 (5.556%) Flash
9 1 (5.556%) Adobe Illustrator

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Front-End Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Front-End Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (94.44%) CSS
2 14 (77.78%) HTML
3 8 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 8 (44.44%) .NET
4 6 (33.33%) HTML5
5 5 (27.78%) Semantic HTML
5 5 (27.78%) XHTML
5 5 (27.78%) jQuery
6 4 (22.22%) CSS3
7 3 (16.67%) Ajax
7 3 (16.67%) JSON
8 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
8 1 (5.556%) Dojo
8 1 (5.556%) YUI
8 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (5.556%) XML
8 1 (5.556%) Flash
8 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.556%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Subversion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) W3C
2 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Web Accessibility
2 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
2 1 (5.556%) UML
2 1 (5.556%) OO
2 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 4 (22.22%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (5.556%) Adobe