The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 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 East of England 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 Developer
Rank 82 94 111
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 33 35 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.532% 1.188% 0.799%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.639% 1.263% 0.841%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 7
Average daily rate £350 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £285 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £375 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £265 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.88% -11.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £39.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.26 £19.50
% change year-on-year
+28.39% +39.79%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2013 2772 2497
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.45% 94.06% 95.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1031 1306 1087
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 279 329
Average hourly rate £23.50 £26.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.61% +26.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.75 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.90 £42.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Front-End Developer
England

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Front-End Developer Hourly 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hertfordshire -4 19 £388 +19.23%
Cambridgeshire +14 7 £350 +16.66%
Essex - 5 £215 -
Norfolk +5 2 £270 -
Front-End Developer
England

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 71 (95.95%) CSS
2 70 (94.59%) JavaScript
3 49 (66.22%) jQuery
4 45 (60.81%) HTML5
5 41 (55.41%) CSS3
6 38 (51.35%) HTML
7 25 (33.78%) PHP
8 22 (29.73%) Drupal
9 21 (28.38%) XHTML
10 20 (27.03%) TDD
11 17 (22.97%) Ajax
12 15 (20.27%) E-Commerce
12 15 (20.27%) JSP
13 13 (17.57%) Photoshop
14 12 (16.22%) Java
14 12 (16.22%) OO
15 10 (13.51%) XML
15 10 (13.51%) Finance
15 10 (13.51%) Content Management
16 9 (12.16%) W3C
16 9 (12.16%) Semantic HTML
16 9 (12.16%) Retail
16 9 (12.16%) JSTL
17 8 (10.81%) JSON
17 8 (10.81%) Adobe
17 8 (10.81%) Web Development
18 7 (9.459%) MVC
18 7 (9.459%) .NET
18 7 (9.459%) C#
19 6 (8.108%) ASP.NET

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 71 (95.95%) CSS
2 49 (66.22%) jQuery
3 45 (60.81%) HTML5
4 41 (55.41%) CSS3
5 38 (51.35%) HTML
6 21 (28.38%) XHTML
7 17 (22.97%) Ajax
8 15 (20.27%) JSP
9 10 (13.51%) XML
10 9 (12.16%) JSTL
10 9 (12.16%) Semantic HTML
11 8 (10.81%) JSON
12 7 (9.459%) .NET
13 6 (8.108%) XSLT
13 6 (8.108%) ASP.NET
14 5 (6.757%) REST
15 3 (4.054%) ASP.NET MVC
15 3 (4.054%) Underscore.js
15 3 (4.054%) Sass
15 3 (4.054%) LESS
Application Platforms
1 22 (29.73%) Drupal
2 5 (6.757%) CMS
3 2 (2.703%) WordPress
4 1 (1.351%) IIS
4 1 (1.351%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Photoshop
2 4 (5.405%) Fireworks
3 1 (1.351%) GIMP
3 1 (1.351%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 2 (2.703%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.351%) MySQL
1 1 (1.351%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.054%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.703%) Axure RP
3 1 (1.351%) PhoneGap
3 1 (1.351%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 1 (1.351%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.351%) Selenium
3 1 (1.351%) Git (software)
General
1 10 (13.51%) Finance
2 9 (12.16%) Retail
3 5 (6.757%) Publishing
3 5 (6.757%) Games
4 3 (4.054%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.054%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.703%) Marketing
6 1 (1.351%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.351%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) W3C
2 3 (4.054%) Blackberry
2 3 (4.054%) iPhone
2 3 (4.054%) Semantic Web
2 3 (4.054%) iPad
3 1 (1.351%) Tandem
3 1 (1.351%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.351%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.405%) Linux
1 4 (5.405%) Android
1 4 (5.405%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.054%) Windows Phone 8
2 3 (4.054%) Windows Phone
2 3 (4.054%) Windows
3 2 (2.703%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.03%) TDD
2 15 (20.27%) E-Commerce
3 12 (16.22%) OO
4 10 (13.51%) Content Management
5 8 (10.81%) Web Development
6 7 (9.459%) MVC
7 6 (8.108%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (6.757%) Responsive Web Design
8 5 (6.757%) Web Design
8 5 (6.757%) Unit Testing
9 4 (5.405%) SEO
9 4 (5.405%) Waterfall
10 3 (4.054%) Build Automation
10 3 (4.054%) Web Application Development
11 2 (2.703%) Analytics
11 2 (2.703%) BDD
11 2 (2.703%) OOP
11 2 (2.703%) RDF
11 2 (2.703%) Image Processing
11 2 (2.703%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 70 (94.59%) JavaScript
2 25 (33.78%) PHP
3 12 (16.22%) Java
4 7 (9.459%) C#
5 3 (4.054%) PowerHouse
5 3 (4.054%) XPath
6 2 (2.703%) SPARQL
6 2 (2.703%) SQL
7 1 (1.351%) Python
7 1 (1.351%) XQuery
7 1 (1.351%) Ruby
7 1 (1.351%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.351%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) Adobe
2 3 (4.054%) Google
3 2 (2.703%) Mercator
3 2 (2.703%) FatWire
3 2 (2.703%) Omniture
4 1 (1.351%) Sencha
4 1 (1.351%) Microsoft
Witham, Essex
Job Title: Contract Front End Web Developer Location: Witham, Essex Rate £230 to £250 per day Duration: 6 months with possible extensions Skills: XHTML, JavaScript, jQuery, XSLT, XML,...
Coburg Banks IT
Rate: £230 - £250 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013