The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 125 134 221
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 79 84 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.238% 1.068% 0.245%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.340% 1.168% 0.267%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 70 20
Average daily rate £338 £308 £289
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.66% +6.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £227 £213 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £465 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.54% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
- +79.48%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Front-End Developer
London

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Front-End Developer Daily Rate Trend

Front-End Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Front-End Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Front-End Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Front-End Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Front-End Developer across the City of London region.

City of London Front-End Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 122 (93.85%) CSS
2 111 (85.38%) JavaScript
3 95 (73.08%) HTML5
4 83 (63.85%) CSS3
5 76 (58.46%) jQuery
5 76 (58.46%) HTML
6 28 (21.54%) TDD
7 26 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
7 26 (20.00%) PHP
8 24 (18.46%) BDD
9 23 (17.69%) OO
10 22 (16.92%) Scrum
11 21 (16.15%) E-Commerce
11 21 (16.15%) Node.js
12 20 (15.38%) Photoshop
13 18 (13.85%) Web Design
13 18 (13.85%) Ajax
14 15 (11.54%) MySQL
14 15 (11.54%) Git (software)
14 15 (11.54%) Underscore.js
14 15 (11.54%) Jenkins
15 14 (10.77%) Backbone.js
15 14 (10.77%) Java
15 14 (10.77%) Retail
16 12 (9.231%) JSON
16 12 (9.231%) Internet
17 11 (8.462%) MVC
17 11 (8.462%) JSP
18 10 (7.692%) Selenium
19 9 (6.923%) Responsive Web Design

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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
1 122 (93.85%) CSS
2 95 (73.08%) HTML5
3 83 (63.85%) CSS3
4 76 (58.46%) jQuery
4 76 (58.46%) HTML
5 21 (16.15%) Node.js
6 18 (13.85%) Ajax
7 15 (11.54%) Underscore.js
8 14 (10.77%) Backbone.js
9 12 (9.231%) JSON
10 11 (8.462%) JSP
11 9 (6.923%) XML
11 9 (6.923%) Flash
12 8 (6.154%) .NET
12 8 (6.154%) XHTML
13 7 (5.385%) Ember.js
13 7 (5.385%) LAMP
13 7 (5.385%) Web Services
14 6 (4.615%) JSF
14 6 (4.615%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 9 (6.923%) CMS
2 7 (5.385%) Apache
3 6 (4.615%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (4.615%) Amazon S3
3 6 (4.615%) Amazon AWS
3 6 (4.615%) Route 53
3 6 (4.615%) WordPress
4 5 (3.846%) Drupal
4 5 (3.846%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.769%) Confluence
5 1 (0.769%) Magento
5 1 (0.769%) Liferay
5 1 (0.769%) TYPO3
Applications
1 20 (15.38%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.077%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.538%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 6 (4.615%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.231%) Internet
2 4 (3.077%) HTTP
3 1 (0.769%) Broadband
3 1 (0.769%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.54%) MySQL
2 6 (4.615%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.615%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.615%) Redis
3 1 (0.769%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (0.769%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (11.54%) Git (software)
1 15 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.692%) Selenium
3 8 (6.154%) Dreamweaver
4 7 (5.385%) JUnit
5 6 (4.615%) JIRA
6 5 (3.846%) GitHub
6 5 (3.846%) Maven
6 5 (3.846%) Subversion
6 5 (3.846%) Eclipse
6 5 (3.846%) Ant
7 4 (3.077%) VisualAge
7 4 (3.077%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (3.077%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.308%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.538%) PhoneGap
10 1 (0.769%) Expression Blend
10 1 (0.769%) QUnit
10 1 (0.769%) NUnit
10 1 (0.769%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (10.77%) Retail
2 8 (6.154%) Banking
3 7 (5.385%) Finance
4 6 (4.615%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.615%) Marketing
5 3 (2.308%) Games
6 2 (1.538%) Front Office
6 2 (1.538%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.385%) Mobile App
1 7 (5.385%) Graphic Design
2 6 (4.615%) W3C
3 4 (3.077%) Digital Media
4 3 (2.308%) iPad
4 3 (2.308%) iPhone
4 3 (2.308%) Visualisation
5 2 (1.538%) IPTV
5 2 (1.538%) Open Source
6 1 (0.769%) Social Media
6 1 (0.769%) Online Games
6 1 (0.769%) RIA
6 1 (0.769%) Mobile Games
6 1 (0.769%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.538%) Linux
1 2 (1.538%) Android
1 2 (1.538%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.769%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.54%) TDD
2 26 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 24 (18.46%) BDD
4 23 (17.69%) OO
5 22 (16.92%) Scrum
6 21 (16.15%) E-Commerce
7 18 (13.85%) Web Design
8 11 (8.462%) MVC
9 9 (6.923%) Responsive Web Design
10 8 (6.154%) Web Development
10 8 (6.154%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (5.385%) Automated Testing
12 6 (4.615%) Security Testing
13 5 (3.846%) Multithreading
14 4 (3.077%) OOD
14 4 (3.077%) OOP
14 4 (3.077%) Software Engineering
14 4 (3.077%) Mobile Application Development
14 4 (3.077%) Unit Testing
15 3 (2.308%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 111 (85.38%) JavaScript
2 26 (20.00%) PHP
3 14 (10.77%) Java
4 6 (4.615%) Ruby
5 4 (3.077%) ActionScript
5 4 (3.077%) C#
6 3 (2.308%) Groovy
6 3 (2.308%) SQL
7 2 (1.538%) ActionScript 3.0
8 1 (0.769%) C-shell
8 1 (0.769%) Bash shell
8 1 (0.769%) PHP5
8 1 (0.769%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.769%) XAML
8 1 (0.769%) Python
8 1 (0.769%) Perl
8 1 (0.769%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (3.077%) Degree
2 2 (1.538%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.769%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.615%) WAI
2 2 (1.538%) QA
3 1 (0.769%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (6.154%) Oracle
2 6 (4.615%) Percona
3 4 (3.077%) IBM
3 4 (3.077%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.538%) Google
5 1 (0.769%) Facebook
5 1 (0.769%) Twitter
5 1 (0.769%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.769%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.769%) Zend
5 1 (0.769%) Perforce
5 1 (0.769%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.769%) Adobe
5 1 (0.769%) Sybase
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