The first table below looks at the demand for the Front-End Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 19 June 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 Reading 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front-End Developer
Rank 43 75 74
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Front-End Developer 30 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 3.409% 0.521% 0.395%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.745% 0.566% 0.457%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 2
Average daily rate £255 £250 £281
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £374 £250 £316
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £275 £275
% change year-on-year
-4.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +66.66%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
801 1060 876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.09% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 370 393
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 51 39
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.38 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £27.50 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Front-End Developer
Berkshire

Front-End Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Front-End Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Front-End Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 26 (70.27%) CSS
2 25 (67.57%) HTML
3 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
3 22 (59.46%) HTML5
4 20 (54.05%) jQuery
5 13 (35.14%) CSS3
6 9 (24.32%) MVC
6 9 (24.32%) C#
7 7 (18.92%) XHTML
7 7 (18.92%) Finance
7 7 (18.92%) MVVM
7 7 (18.92%) Digital Media
7 7 (18.92%) KnockoutJS
7 7 (18.92%) Sass
8 6 (16.22%) Ajax
8 6 (16.22%) Photoshop
8 6 (16.22%) Java
9 5 (13.51%) .NET
9 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET
9 5 (13.51%) Dojo
9 5 (13.51%) Android
9 5 (13.51%) Jasmine
9 5 (13.51%) Razor View Engine
10 4 (10.81%) BDD
10 4 (10.81%) V-Model
10 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (10.81%) JSP
10 4 (10.81%) Adobe
11 3 (8.108%) XML
11 3 (8.108%) iPad

Front-End Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 26 (70.27%) CSS
2 25 (67.57%) HTML
3 22 (59.46%) HTML5
4 20 (54.05%) jQuery
5 13 (35.14%) CSS3
6 7 (18.92%) XHTML
6 7 (18.92%) KnockoutJS
6 7 (18.92%) Sass
7 6 (16.22%) Ajax
8 5 (13.51%) .NET
8 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET
8 5 (13.51%) Dojo
8 5 (13.51%) Razor View Engine
9 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (10.81%) JSP
10 3 (8.108%) XML
11 2 (5.405%) Apache CXF
11 2 (5.405%) Struts2
11 2 (5.405%) Spring
11 2 (5.405%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.703%) Apache
1 1 (2.703%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.703%) MS Office
2 1 (2.703%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.703%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.703%) FTP
1 1 (2.703%) HTTP
1 1 (2.703%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.703%) Internet
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Jasmine
2 2 (5.405%) Subversion
3 1 (2.703%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.703%) JUnit
3 1 (2.703%) Maven
3 1 (2.703%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (18.92%) Finance
2 2 (5.405%) Retail
3 1 (2.703%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Digital Media
2 3 (8.108%) iPad
3 1 (2.703%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Android
2 2 (5.405%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) MVC
2 7 (18.92%) MVVM
3 4 (10.81%) BDD
3 4 (10.81%) V-Model
4 2 (5.405%) Web Development
4 2 (5.405%) E-Commerce
4 2 (5.405%) OO
5 1 (2.703%) Scrum
5 1 (2.703%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (2.703%) TDD
5 1 (2.703%) System Testing
5 1 (2.703%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
2 9 (24.32%) C#
3 6 (16.22%) Java
4 1 (2.703%) PHP
4 1 (2.703%) SQL
4 1 (2.703%) ActionScript
4 1 (2.703%) ActionScript 2.0
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Adobe
2 1 (2.703%) Microsoft
Reading, Berkshire
Skills * Excellent HTML, XHTML, HTML5 * CSS2 & CSS3 programming skills * Developing cross-browser and cross-platform compatible solutions * Advanced JavaScript, JQuery, Modular Javascript programming skills The ideal Front End...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per day + Market Rates
Posted: 12 June 2013