The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 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 Manchester 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
Front-End Developer
Rank 69 81 64
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 4 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.428% 0.309% 0.472%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.458% 0.336% 0.501%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
Average daily rate £163 £250 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
-5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
- +79.48%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
873 1192 998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.37% 92.12% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 582 443
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 75 78
Average hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.10% +15.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.90 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £35.80 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Front-End Developer
North West

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Front-End Developer Daily Rate Trend

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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bolton - 1 £163 -
Oldham - 1 £163 -
Stockport - 1 £163 -
Front-End Developer
North West

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 12 (100.00%) CSS
2 11 (91.67%) HTML
2 11 (91.67%) CSS3
3 10 (83.33%) HTML5
3 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (50.00%) PHP
4 6 (50.00%) Photoshop
4 6 (50.00%) jQuery
5 4 (33.33%) Fireworks
5 4 (33.33%) MySQL
5 4 (33.33%) XHTML
6 3 (25.00%) Adobe
6 3 (25.00%) XSL
6 3 (25.00%) Apache
6 3 (25.00%) .NET
6 3 (25.00%) CMS
6 3 (25.00%) LAMP
6 3 (25.00%) Subversion
6 3 (25.00%) JSON
7 2 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
7 2 (16.67%) Web Services
7 2 (16.67%) Backbone.js
7 2 (16.67%) MooTools
7 2 (16.67%) Intranet
7 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
8 1 (8.333%) MS Office
8 1 (8.333%) Flash
8 1 (8.333%) JSP
8 1 (8.333%) W3C
8 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 12 (100.00%) CSS
2 11 (91.67%) HTML
2 11 (91.67%) CSS3
3 10 (83.33%) HTML5
4 6 (50.00%) jQuery
5 4 (33.33%) XHTML
6 3 (25.00%) XSL
6 3 (25.00%) .NET
6 3 (25.00%) LAMP
6 3 (25.00%) JSON
7 2 (16.67%) Web Services
7 2 (16.67%) Backbone.js
7 2 (16.67%) MooTools
7 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
8 1 (8.333%) Flash
8 1 (8.333%) JSP
8 1 (8.333%) Ajax
8 1 (8.333%) Sass
8 1 (8.333%) AngularJS
8 1 (8.333%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Apache
1 3 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (8.333%) WordPress
2 1 (8.333%) Joomla!
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (33.33%) Fireworks
3 1 (8.333%) MS Office
3 1 (8.333%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (8.333%) Mercurial
2 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) W3C
1 1 (8.333%) Taxonomies
1 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Android
1 1 (8.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
2 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
2 1 (8.333%) MVC
2 1 (8.333%) Scrum
2 1 (8.333%) Web Design
2 1 (8.333%) Time Management
2 1 (8.333%) Content Management
2 1 (8.333%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (8.333%) PHP5
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (8.333%) Microsoft