The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Web 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 Web Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Web Developer
Rank 185 201 238
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Web Developer 16 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.254% 0.154% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.275% 0.168% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 8
Average daily rate £238 £350 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.14% +33.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £265 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £350 £323
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £338 £300
% change year-on-year
-33.33% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5827 7127 9041
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.57% 91.61% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4285 5101 6595
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £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 138 180 188
Average hourly rate £19.44 £19.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.31% -2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Front-End Web Developer
London

Front-End Web Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Front-End Web Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Front-End Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Front-End Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

Front-End Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Front-End Web Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Front-End Web Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Front-End Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Front-End Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Front-End Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Front-End Web 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 Web Developer in their job title.

1 19 (100.00%) CSS
2 17 (89.47%) JavaScript
3 12 (63.16%) HTML5
4 11 (57.89%) jQuery
5 10 (52.63%) HTML
6 9 (47.37%) CSS3
7 6 (31.58%) Redis
7 6 (31.58%) Percona
7 6 (31.58%) Route 53
7 6 (31.58%) BDD
7 6 (31.58%) MongoDB
7 6 (31.58%) Selenium
7 6 (31.58%) Security Testing
7 6 (31.58%) Git (software)
7 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
7 6 (31.58%) Amazon AWS
7 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
7 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (31.58%) Internet
7 6 (31.58%) E-Commerce
7 6 (31.58%) Web Services
7 6 (31.58%) MySQL
7 6 (31.58%) Oracle
7 6 (31.58%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (31.58%) Scrum
7 6 (31.58%) TDD
7 6 (31.58%) Automated Testing
7 6 (31.58%) Ajax
7 6 (31.58%) JSON

Front-End Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Front-End Web 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 Web Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (100.00%) CSS
2 12 (63.16%) HTML5
3 11 (57.89%) jQuery
4 10 (52.63%) HTML
5 9 (47.37%) CSS3
6 6 (31.58%) Ajax
6 6 (31.58%) JSON
6 6 (31.58%) Web Services
7 4 (21.05%) Flash
8 1 (5.263%) XHTML
8 1 (5.263%) Dojo
8 1 (5.263%) .NET
8 1 (5.263%) ASP
8 1 (5.263%) Ember.js
Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
1 6 (31.58%) Amazon AWS
1 6 (31.58%) Route 53
2 1 (5.263%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.263%) Fireworks
2 1 (5.263%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) MySQL
1 6 (31.58%) MongoDB
1 6 (31.58%) Redis
1 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Selenium
1 6 (31.58%) Git (software)
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (5.263%) GitHub
General
1 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Banking
2 1 (5.263%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Graphic Design
1 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
2 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.263%) Streaming Video
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) E-Commerce
1 6 (31.58%) Scrum
1 6 (31.58%) Security Testing
1 6 (31.58%) BDD
1 6 (31.58%) TDD
1 6 (31.58%) Automated Testing
2 4 (21.05%) Web Design
3 2 (10.53%) MVC
3 2 (10.53%) Web Development
4 1 (5.263%) Graceful Degradation
4 1 (5.263%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.263%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
1 6 (31.58%) Percona
2 1 (5.263%) Perforce
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