The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Front-End Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Front-End Developer
Rank 192 216 -
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 7 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.110% 0.038% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.119% 0.042% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £475 £360 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.94% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £531 £348
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +52.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5876 7201 9157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.51% 91.48% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4326 5182 6677
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £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 136 179 197
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 £135.00 £41.25 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Front-End Developer
London

Senior Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Senior Front-End Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Front-End Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Senior Front-End Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Front-End Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Front-End Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Senior Front-End Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Front-End Developer in their job title.

1 8 (88.89%) HTML
1 8 (88.89%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 6 (66.67%) jQuery
3 6 (66.67%) HTML5
4 4 (44.44%) CSS3
4 4 (44.44%) PHP
5 3 (33.33%) Photoshop
5 3 (33.33%) Java
6 2 (22.22%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) JSP
6 2 (22.22%) Apache
6 2 (22.22%) Games
6 2 (22.22%) Backbone.js
6 2 (22.22%) HTTP
6 2 (22.22%) Spring
6 2 (22.22%) Marketing
6 2 (22.22%) Drupal
6 2 (22.22%) C#
7 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
7 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
7 1 (11.11%) Web Development
7 1 (11.11%) WPF
7 1 (11.11%) Maven
7 1 (11.11%) Project Management
7 1 (11.11%) Front Office
7 1 (11.11%) MVC
7 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
7 1 (11.11%) Telecoms

Senior Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Front-End Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (88.89%) HTML
1 8 (88.89%) CSS
2 6 (66.67%) jQuery
2 6 (66.67%) HTML5
3 4 (44.44%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) JSP
4 2 (22.22%) Backbone.js
4 2 (22.22%) Spring
5 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
5 1 (11.11%) WPF
5 1 (11.11%) Sass
5 1 (11.11%) LESS
5 1 (11.11%) Apache Wicket
5 1 (11.11%) XHTML
5 1 (11.11%) Servlets
5 1 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Drupal
2 1 (11.11%) WordPress
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Git (software)
1 1 (11.11%) NUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
1 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 1 (11.11%) Ant
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Games
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Front Office
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) Social Media
1 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (11.11%) Web Development
1 1 (11.11%) Project Management
1 1 (11.11%) MVC
1 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
1 1 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (11.11%) Web Design
1 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (11.11%) TDD
1 1 (11.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) PHP
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) Groovy
5 1 (11.11%) C-shell
5 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
5 1 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Facebook
1 1 (11.11%) Twitter
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Sybase
City, London
Skills that are required include: (x)HTML(5) CSS(3) Javascript JQuery Experience with other Javascript Libraries. Responsive Development Desirable skills would include OO Javascript, work with toolkits...
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Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013