The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Web Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the 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 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Web Developer
Rank 347 361 389
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Web Developer 40 57 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.182% 0.208% 0.144%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.197% 0.225% 0.155%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 41 22
Average daily rate £275 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £350 £288
% change year-on-year
-35.71% +21.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
Average hourly rate - £19.25 £55.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -65.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20276 25280 28359
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.19% 92.47% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13665 16302 18233
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 629 676
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Front-End Web Developer
England

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

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 London region.

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 London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

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 London region.

London Front-End Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Front-End Web 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 Web Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London +14 16 £238 -32.14%
Kingston Upon Thames - 2 £263 -
Surbiton - 1 £275 -
Front-End Web Developer
England

Front-End Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 84 (96.55%) CSS
2 83 (95.40%) JavaScript
3 61 (70.11%) jQuery
4 59 (67.82%) HTML
5 43 (49.43%) HTML5
6 31 (35.63%) CSS3
7 25 (28.74%) E-Commerce
8 18 (20.69%) Ajax
9 17 (19.54%) CMS
10 15 (17.24%) Web Development
11 14 (16.09%) XHTML
12 13 (14.94%) Photoshop
12 13 (14.94%) JSON
13 12 (13.79%) Java
14 11 (12.64%) .NET
15 10 (11.49%) MVC
15 10 (11.49%) Drupal
15 10 (11.49%) Content Management
16 9 (10.34%) SharePoint Server
16 9 (10.34%) BDD
16 9 (10.34%) EPiServer
16 9 (10.34%) Dreamweaver
16 9 (10.34%) Oracle
16 9 (10.34%) Web Services
16 9 (10.34%) XML
17 8 (9.195%) MySQL
17 8 (9.195%) TDD
17 8 (9.195%) Selenium
17 8 (9.195%) Digital Media
18 7 (8.046%) MongoDB

Front-End Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 84 (96.55%) CSS
2 61 (70.11%) jQuery
3 59 (67.82%) HTML
4 43 (49.43%) HTML5
5 31 (35.63%) CSS3
6 18 (20.69%) Ajax
7 14 (16.09%) XHTML
8 13 (14.94%) JSON
9 11 (12.64%) .NET
10 9 (10.34%) Web Services
10 9 (10.34%) XML
11 6 (6.897%) Flash
12 5 (5.747%) JSP
13 4 (4.598%) XSLT
13 4 (4.598%) RESTful
13 4 (4.598%) Semantic HTML
14 3 (3.448%) ASP
14 3 (3.448%) ASP.NET
15 2 (2.299%) Hibernate
15 2 (2.299%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 17 (19.54%) CMS
2 10 (11.49%) Drupal
3 9 (10.34%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (6.897%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (6.897%) Amazon S3
4 6 (6.897%) Amazon AWS
4 6 (6.897%) Route 53
5 5 (5.747%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.299%) WordPress
7 1 (1.149%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (14.94%) Photoshop
2 6 (6.897%) MS Office
3 3 (3.448%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (2.299%) Fireworks
4 2 (2.299%) MS Excel
5 1 (1.149%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 6 (6.897%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.897%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.195%) MySQL
2 7 (8.046%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.897%) Redis
3 6 (6.897%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.747%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.299%) Big Data
6 1 (1.149%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.149%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Dreamweaver
2 8 (9.195%) Selenium
3 6 (6.897%) Git (software)
3 6 (6.897%) Subversion
3 6 (6.897%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.448%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.299%) Trac
6 1 (1.149%) GitHub
6 1 (1.149%) Appcelerator Titanium
6 1 (1.149%) Firebug
6 1 (1.149%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.149%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.149%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.149%) JIRA
6 1 (1.149%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.149%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 7 (8.046%) Publishing
2 5 (5.747%) Banking
2 5 (5.747%) Marketing
3 4 (4.598%) Finance
3 4 (4.598%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.448%) Retail
4 3 (3.448%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.448%) Front Office
5 2 (2.299%) Games
6 1 (1.149%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.195%) Digital Media
2 4 (4.598%) W3C
2 4 (4.598%) Mathematics
2 4 (4.598%) Computer Science
2 4 (4.598%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.448%) Visualisation
3 3 (3.448%) Open Source
3 3 (3.448%) Social Media
3 3 (3.448%) Graphic Design
4 2 (2.299%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.149%) New Media
5 1 (1.149%) iPhone
5 1 (1.149%) Online Games
5 1 (1.149%) iPad
5 1 (1.149%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.299%) Android
1 2 (2.299%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.149%) Linux
2 1 (1.149%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.74%) E-Commerce
2 15 (17.24%) Web Development
3 10 (11.49%) MVC
3 10 (11.49%) Content Management
4 9 (10.34%) BDD
5 8 (9.195%) TDD
6 7 (8.046%) Scrum
7 6 (6.897%) OO
7 6 (6.897%) Security Testing
7 6 (6.897%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (6.897%) Automated Testing
8 5 (5.747%) Migration
9 4 (4.598%) Web Design
9 4 (4.598%) Mobile Application Development
10 3 (3.448%) Graceful Degradation
10 3 (3.448%) Progressive Enhancement
10 3 (3.448%) SEO
11 2 (2.299%) Project Management
11 2 (2.299%) Digital Marketing
11 2 (2.299%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 83 (95.40%) JavaScript
2 12 (13.79%) Java
3 7 (8.046%) PHP
4 4 (4.598%) Scala
5 3 (3.448%) Ruby
6 2 (2.299%) ActionScript
6 2 (2.299%) C#
7 1 (1.149%) Groovy
7 1 (1.149%) Clojure
7 1 (1.149%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (6.897%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.149%) WCAG
Vendors
1 9 (10.34%) EPiServer
1 9 (10.34%) Oracle
2 6 (6.897%) Percona
3 5 (5.747%) Adobe
4 2 (2.299%) Progress
4 2 (2.299%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.299%) Facebook
4 2 (2.299%) Twitter
5 1 (1.149%) Sencha
5 1 (1.149%) Perforce
5 1 (1.149%) VMware
London
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Rate: £250 - £300 per day
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