The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 20 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 Hertfordshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Front-End Developer
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Front-End Developer 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.772% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.810% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
617 902 814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.22% 93.96% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 398 340
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £250 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 87 105
Average hourly rate £17.47 £22.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.59% +35.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.05 £11.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Front-End Developer
East of England

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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Senior Front-End Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) HTML5
1 6 (100.00%) CSS3
2 5 (83.33%) OO
2 5 (83.33%) Adobe
2 5 (83.33%) Photoshop
3 4 (66.67%) jQuery
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (50.00%) Android
4 3 (50.00%) iPhone
4 3 (50.00%) iPad
4 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 3 (50.00%) Windows
4 3 (50.00%) Blackberry
4 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (50.00%) Web Application Development
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Phone 8
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Phone
5 2 (33.33%) Fireworks
5 2 (33.33%) XHTML
5 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (33.33%) XML
5 2 (33.33%) XSLT
5 2 (33.33%) Axure RP
5 2 (33.33%) XPath
5 2 (33.33%) Ajax
5 2 (33.33%) Web Development

Senior Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) HTML5
1 6 (100.00%) CSS3
2 4 (66.67%) jQuery
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) XML
4 2 (33.33%) XSLT
4 2 (33.33%) XHTML
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Flex
5 1 (16.67%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (16.67%) Sass
5 1 (16.67%) LESS
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Photoshop
2 2 (33.33%) Fireworks
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Axure RP
2 1 (16.67%) Jasmine
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (50.00%) iPhone
1 3 (50.00%) iPad
2 1 (16.67%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Android
1 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Phone 8
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) OO
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (50.00%) Web Application Development
4 2 (33.33%) Web Development
4 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 1 (16.67%) MVC
5 1 (16.67%) Web Design
5 1 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) XPath
3 1 (16.67%) CoffeeScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Adobe