The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 24 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 Buckinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Developer
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.741% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.801% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £260 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.54% -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
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
749 913 1015
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.47% 93.55% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 393 383
Average daily rate £315 £318 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.78% -6.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £181 £165 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 67 109
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.06 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Front-End Developer
South East

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Front-End Developer Daily Rate Trend

Front-End Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Front-End Developer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
High Wycombe - 5 £260 -
Gerrards Cross - 1 - -
Front-End Developer
South East

Front-End Developer
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 9 (90.00%) CSS
2 8 (80.00%) HTML
2 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (60.00%) jQuery
4 5 (50.00%) JSON
4 5 (50.00%) REST
4 5 (50.00%) .NET
4 5 (50.00%) C#
4 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 5 (50.00%) Web Services
5 4 (40.00%) HTML5
6 3 (30.00%) CSS3
7 2 (20.00%) Java
8 1 (10.00%) ActionScript
8 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
8 1 (10.00%) MS Office
8 1 (10.00%) XML
8 1 (10.00%) Flash
8 1 (10.00%) XHTML
8 1 (10.00%) FTP
8 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
8 1 (10.00%) Adobe
8 1 (10.00%) Apache Flex
8 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
8 1 (10.00%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (10.00%) InDesign
8 1 (10.00%) Marketing

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 9 (90.00%) CSS
2 8 (80.00%) HTML
3 6 (60.00%) jQuery
4 5 (50.00%) JSON
4 5 (50.00%) REST
4 5 (50.00%) .NET
4 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 5 (50.00%) Web Services
5 4 (40.00%) HTML5
6 3 (30.00%) CSS3
7 1 (10.00%) XML
7 1 (10.00%) Flash
7 1 (10.00%) XHTML
7 1 (10.00%) Apache Flex
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (10.00%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) FTP
General
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) ActionScript
4 1 (10.00%) ActionScript 2.0
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe